Omar Suleiman – The Firsts – Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab – Ra The Quiet Brother Of Omar
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Who can remember the very first...
first that we spoke about in this entire
series?
So we're on episode 145 or 146.
Who was the very first person that we
spoke about?
Anybody know?
A man with a single nation, very good.
What's his name though?
A man who will be standing on the
Day of Judgment as an Ummah by himself.
Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl.
Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu was the very first person that we
actually spoke about.
And this was the man that recognized the
truth even before the Prophet ﷺ and who
Allah guided in so many different ways.
And the Prophet ﷺ mentioned that on the
Day of Judgment he would be standing as
an Ummah all by himself because he died
before the Prophet ﷺ received revelation.
While he was waiting for the revelation.
And he is, if anyone remembers, he is
the cousin of Umar Ibn Al-Khattab radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu.
Zayd Ibn Amr Ibn Nufayl, Umar Ibn Al
-Khattab Ibn Nufayl.
Umar radiAllahu anhu's father Al-Khattab used to
torture Zayd because Zayd was talking about the
oneness of God, was speaking against the idols,
was speaking against the evil practices in Mecca
at the time.
Okay, so it was a Zayd.
And then of course somewhere along the way
we had Zayd Ibn Haritha, we had Zayd
Ibn Thabit.
There are other Zayds that we did not
even cover.
But the Zayd that we're covering tonight subhanAllah
has to be the most lost Zayd of
them all.
And that is Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab Ibn
Nufayl radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab Ibn Nufayl radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu.
The older brother of Umar Ibn Al-Khattab
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Now subhanAllah when you talk about someone being
overshadowed, if you were to take a group
of Muslims and sample them randomly and say
who's your favorite sahabi, usually the majority of
them will say Umar Ibn Al-Khattab radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu.
His personality is literally larger than life.
As soon as you mention his name in
the story of the Prophet ﷺ or in
the story of another companion, everyone starts to
smile because they know it's going to be
interesting and amazing.
Because his personality was so large, his voice
was booming.
When he spoke radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he
shook literally the road.
The shaitan would not be on the same
road as Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
The barber who was cutting Umar's hair and
Umar radiAllahu anhu just opened his mouth and
the man faints from the strength of his
voice, the boom of the voice of Umar
radiAllahu anhu.
That's the man Umar radiAllahu anhu and that's
not even speaking about his virtues and what
he represents.
He's a larger than life personality.
Imagine being his brother, right?
And talk about getting lost and overshadowed and
people not knowing anything about you and the
history books glossing over you.
On top of that, one thing subhanAllah that's
very interesting and I happen to have one
brother, I know a lot of people have,
you know, siblings that look like them, that
are somewhat like them but they're the opposite
of them in terms of personality, there are
all types of differences.
People make assumptions because you came from the
same womb and you look the same that
you might be the same.
And in reality subhanAllah, Allah has given us
ashkhas, Allah has given us unique personalities, unique
qualities for which we all have a path
back to Him.
What if I told you that this one
Ibn al-Khattab other than Umar ibn al
-Khattab was one of the most quiet human
beings around the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam.
It's like, wait, what?
How is that possible?
The sahabi that we're talking about today is
a victim of his silence in that sense.
Zayd ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,
the scholars refer to him as the silent
giant because he doesn't open his mouth radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu even though he's the brother
of Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
So what's the story of this man and
how do we create this world around someone
who's so quiet to understand his personality and
understand his virtues?
And he is a man of legendary virtue
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Let's first and foremost just take a step
back and talk about Umar radiAllahu anhu's family.
Umar radiAllahu anhu has two sisters that we
know of.
We know of Fatima bint al-Khattab radiAllahu
anha and she is an amazing woman, one
of the first that we covered as well.
The wife of Sa'id ibn Zayd radiAllahu
anhu, Sa'id ibn Zayd ibn Amr al
-Nufayr who of course was the reason for
Umar radiAllahu anhu to read the Quran and
to embrace Islam.
She was married to Sa'id ibn Zayd.
So Umar has a sister named Fatima and
he has another sister named Safiyyah bint al
-Khattab.
And she is married to a great companion
by the name of Qudama ibn Mad'un
radiAllahu anhu.
So Umar radiAllahu anhu is married to Zaynab
bint Mad'un.
Fatima bint al-Khattab married to his sister,
married to Sa'id ibn Zayd, one of
the other ten promised paradise.
Then you have Safiyyah bint al-Khattab who
is married to Qudama ibn Mad'un.
So Umar and his sister married from the
same family, the siblings of the famous Uthman
ibn Mad'un radiAllahu anhu.
And then you get to his brothers.
Now he has one brother who's a half
-brother from his mom who never became Muslim
or at least we don't know of him
ever embracing Islam.
He may or may not have become Muslim.
Most historians say he did not become a
Muslim and he's not the son of al
-Khattab, he's Umar's brother through his mother.
He's Umar's brother through his mother and his
name is Uthman ibn Hakim.
Uthman ibn Hakim, the half-brother of Umar
radiAllahu anhu through his mother.
And the reason why we even know about
this brother is because there's a famous ruling
of fiqh, a famous ruling of jurisprudence that
we extract from the relationship of Umar and
this man and his brother that Umar radiAllahu
anhu gifted him a hulla, gifted him a
suit after Islam.
When he was in al-Madinah, Umar radiAllahu
anhu still kept a good relationship with this
brother and gifted his brother a suit.
Perhaps that he could soften his heart or
to maintain the ties of kinship.
And so the books of fiqh will mention
the permissibility and in fact the encouragement to
be good to your non-Muslim family.
And so that's why we learn about Uthman
ibn Hakim, the brother of Umar radiAllahu anhu
through his mother.
But there is only one other ibn al
-Khattab and it's this man that we're talking
about today.
And he is to Umar like Harun is
to Musa.
He's one year older than Umar radiAllahu anhu.
And subhanAllah, it just so happens that the
Prophet ﷺ likened Umar radiAllahu anhu to Musa
a.s. He said, in my ummah, if
there's anyone that resembles Musa a.s., it's
Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
And Musa has his brother Harun a.s.
who's a lot softer than him, right?
Who, mahboobun fi qawmihi, who's beloved to his
people.
He plays the gentle side to his people
when Musa a.s. becomes frustrated with his
people.
And in this situation, very similar dynamic.
The brother of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,
one year older than him, is someone who
doesn't have that booming personality of Umar ibn
al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, but he's
one year older than Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
And Imam al-Zahabi, rahimahullah, introduces him with
the following title.
السيد الشهيد المجاهد التقي أبو عبد الرحمن القراشي
العدوي أخو أمير المؤمنين عمر بن الخطاب He
is a Sayyid, our master, a Shaheed, the
martyr, المجاهد, the warrior, التقي, a man of
legendary piety.
أبو عبد الرحمن, the father of عبد الرحمن,
القراشي العدوي from Quraysh, from Banu Adi, like
his brother Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, أخو
أمير المؤمنين عمر بن الخطاب رadiAllahu ta'ala
anhu, the brother of the commander of the
believers, عمر بن الخطاب رadiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So his name is Zayd ibn al-Khattab
ibn Nufayr.
We talked about Zayd ibn Amr ibn Nufayr.
Some of the scholars mentioned that this Zayd
that we're talking about today is named after
that Zayd.
May Allah be pleased with him and be
pleased with them all, subhanAllah.
So this Zayd is named after that Zayd,
and he indeed is an increase in the
beauty of this family.
And because he's the only brother of Umar
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu through al-Khattab, then
you can assume that he had a very
difficult childhood because al-Khattab was famous for
what?
What was he famous for?
It's okay, you guys can guess.
What is al-Khattab famous for?
Abuse.
Horrible father.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu hated him.
He used to beat his son so badly.
Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu literally would say,
I didn't want to become like my father.
SubhanAllah, there's a lesson in trauma here, right?
That all he remembered al-Khattab with, Umar
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu remembered his father with
was bad qualities.
The bad quality of abuse and beating him
and mistreating him.
And he wanted to be the opposite of
his father.
And subhanAllah, we see that Umar radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu was the best father that you
can imagine to his own kids, right?
But that means that necessarily, Zayd being the
older brother of Umar, he ate that as
well, right?
Being the firstborn of al-Khattab, definitely incurred
in the process much abuse and a very
difficult childhood.
How is he described?
كان أسلم من أخيه عمر وأسلم قبله.
He was one year older than Umar radiAllahu
ta'ala anhu and he became Muslim a
year before Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So it gets very interesting.
He became Muslim before Umar.
سبق أخيه إلى الإسلام.
Which is really crazy subhanAllah when you think
about it, right?
The quiet muhajireen around the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi
wa sallam.
He looked exactly like Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu in his physical stature except that he
had a darker complexion radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So he had a dark complexion and he's
described as كان طويلً بائن الطول.
He was awkwardly tall.
Huge human being.
Physical stature was imposing.
If Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is tall
think of him as being the same height
or perhaps even taller because in every biography
of him his height was so imposing that
when he was far away with the people
he was the only one that you knew
was approaching.
So you think about the physical meaning of
that, right?
If a group of people are approaching from
afar the only person you could tell from
them all was Zayd ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu.
But with that, his height, with his posture,
with his position, he's extremely quiet.
An imposing physical presence, extremely quiet.
And subhanAllah, one thing about him that's really
interesting, you only hear his voice in battle.
Like the narrations about him, the only time
he seems to open his mouth radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu is in the battlefield.
The person that I could liken him to
in this regard is the brother of Anas
ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, Al-Bara
'a ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, right?
Remember Anas radiAllahu anhu, this prolific hadith narrator,
Al-Bara'a radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, throw
me in the battlefield, right?
And he doesn't talk much.
So he's the silent brother of Umar radiAllahu
anhu, looks like Umar, slightly darker complexion, the
same physical imposing presence, but a very quiet
man, who does as the Prophet ﷺ says.
Listen to these manaqib, listen to these virtues.
He became Muslim before Umar, he made hijrah
before Umar, he died shaheed before Umar.
May Allah be pleased with them both.
So his virtues are incredible.
On top of that, he was the pride
of Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu.
What do I mean by that?
You don't see a man praising his brother
the way that Umar praises Zayd.
And we're going to talk about that.
So his entire biography is almost narrated by
the way that Umar radiAllahu anhu praised his
brother.
Like you don't know who he is.
He's a victim of his silence as we
said in terms of the documentation of the
history books.
But Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu praises Zayd
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in a way that
demonstrates that he envied his silent righteousness.
Remember Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, would regret
often.
He'd regret if he spoke, right?
And he would say that, I wish I
could be a quiet believer that enters the
gathering and leaves the gathering and no one
notices that he is there.
And that is one of the praiseworthy personalities
that the Prophet ﷺ mentions.
Not everyone who gets into Jannah has to
be that leader.
In fact, sometimes we overpraise the profile of
a leader.
Most of Ahlul Jannah don't fit that profile
of on the front lines and speaking and
loud and making your presence known.
The Prophet ﷺ mentions the person who enters
the gathering and leaves unnoticed.
SubhanAllah, Salim, pure from the sins of the
gathering, doesn't open their mouth to backbite, doesn't
get on anybody's bad side, just puts their
head down and worships Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala until the time they leave this world.
That is a profile of a person of
Jannah.
And Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu fits this
profile.
So again, he became Muslim a whole year
before Umar.
He made hijrah before Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu and he was martyred before Umar bin
Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So we start to create the world around
him now in Al-Madinah based upon these
things around him.
And you have to do that because of
how quiet he is radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So first and foremost, when he came to
Madinah, the Prophet ﷺ tended to pair people
off with Sahaba in Madinah, Ansar that had
similar dispositions.
It's from the hikmah of the Prophet ﷺ,
the wisdom of the Prophet ﷺ that you
often can find that the Muhajir and the
Ansari and the Muakha and the Brotherhood have
the same type of personality.
So the Prophet ﷺ paired him off with
a man by the name of Ma'an
ibn Adi.
Ma'an ibn Adi al-Ansari radiAllahu ta
'ala anhu.
And Ma'an ibn Adi, very similar personality.
Quiet, warrior in the battlefield, someone who follows
and obeys the Prophet ﷺ in all things,
doesn't really say much.
And subhanAllah, the only narration that you find
from Ma'an, it's a beautiful one that's
worth mentioning here, is at the time of
the death of the Prophet ﷺ.
Remember Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu standing up
in the masjid, holding his sword, ready to
kill someone for saying the Prophet ﷺ was
dead because of his emotion.
Ma'an ibn Adi, like his brother Zayd,
Ma'an radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he saw
the people crying.
And he too of course was devastated, just
like all of the companions.
And when the people said, لَيْتَنَا مِتْنَا قَبْلَهُ
ﷺ We wish we died before the Prophet
ﷺ.
نَخْشَ أَن نَفْتَتِنَا بَعْدَهُ Because we're afraid of
the fitna that will come to us after
the death of the Prophet ﷺ.
Ma'an radiAllahu anhu said, لَكِنِّي وَاللَّهِ مَا
أُحِبُّ أَنِّي مِتْتُ قَبْلَهُ Very interesting.
He said, I actually don't wish that I
died before him.
حَتَّى أُصَدِّقَهُ مَيِّتًا كَمَا صَدَّقْتُهُ حَيًّا So I
can believe in him when he's dead ﷺ
the way I believed in him when he
was alive.
Almost like projecting the fitna that's going to
happen after the death of the Prophet ﷺ
which is a huge fitna.
A lot of people left Islam after the
death of the Prophet ﷺ.
There's no sugarcoating it.
Tens and thousands of people left Islam after
the death of the Prophet ﷺ and fell
into these weird schisms of false prophets or
returning to enmity with the Muslims.
And he's saying, I want the reward, the
ajr of believing in the Prophet ﷺ after
he passed away the way I believed in
the Prophet ﷺ while he was still alive.
So this is the brother of Zayd ibn
Khattab in Medina and he's going to be
at the hip with Ma'an for the
rest of his life.
رضي الله تعالى عنهما His wife, he marries
Habibah bint Abi Amr the sister of Hamdala.
May Allah be pleased with them.
Hamdala رضي الله تعالى عنه is the one
who dies shaheed and he's called Ghaseel al
-Malaika.
The angels washed his body as he was
a martyr on the day of Uhud.
That is his brother-in-law.
Okay, so he marries Habibah bint Abi Amr
رضي الله تعالى عنها who is the sister
of Hamdala and the daughter of one of
the great enemies of the Prophet ﷺ because
the father, Abi Amr was one of the
staunch opponents of the Prophet ﷺ.
So what does he do now?
How do you start to see Zayd رضي
الله تعالى عنه in these battles?
In every battle wherever you saw the Prophet
ﷺ you saw Zayd.
You looked anywhere where the Prophet ﷺ was
Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه was close to
him.
He was a talented horseman.
He's one of the few people who never
fled the side of the Prophet ﷺ even
on the day of Uhud.
So on the day of Uhud it's a
small group of people that after Khalid رضي
الله تعالى عنه who attacked the Muslims from
behind rushed to the side of the Prophet
ﷺ.
Zayd is one of those blessed people who
was with the Prophet ﷺ in Badr who
was next to the Prophet ﷺ in Uhud
who was with the Prophet ﷺ in Khandaq.
And so he was digging next to the
Prophet ﷺ near the Prophet ﷺ who was
with the Prophet ﷺ on the day of
Bay'at al-Ridwan the pledge that was
taken under the tree where Allah ﷻ mentions
that he was pleased with those people and
never really makes his presence known except through
that action.
So he's always with the Prophet ﷺ.
So all of the virtues of serving in
that battle or in those battles and being
next to the Prophet ﷺ Zayd ibn al
-Khattab رضي الله تعالى عنه has that position.
On the day of Badr Umar ibn al
-Khattab رضي الله تعالى عنه remembered he recalled
an incident with his brother.
So Umar رضي الله تعالى عنه said that
I saw him on the day of Badr
and he was fighting without armor.
He wasn't wearing a coat of armor.
He was just going through the battlefield and
fighting.
So I went to my brother and I
took off my armor and I said, ألبس
درعي I said, wear my armor.
And Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه responded to
me and he says إني أريد من الشهادة
ما تريد I seek martyrdom in the same
way that you seek martyrdom.
Like you know what you're saying and I
know what I'm saying.
I seek martyrdom the way that you seek
martyrdom in this battle.
So Umar رضي الله تعالى عنه said So
I left it in the battlefield and we
both fought side by side on the day
of Badr without our armor, without our shields.
And of course Allah سبحانه وتعالى granted them
victory.
Which shows you by the way سبحان الله
that their ferociousness in battle and their desire
to be counted amongst the shahada with Allah
سبحانه وتعالى to be counted amongst the martyrs
did not lead them to like slacken in
their fighting, right?
Or to you know to just wish for
someone to hurry up and strike them so
they could die.
I mean they won multiple battles in this
fashion.
But Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه was a
man who said I'm a man who seeks
shahada the same way that you seek shahada
Ya Umar.
And the only narration that we have from
Zaid ibn al-Khattab outside of the battlefield
is on Hajjatul Wada'a the farewell hajj
with the Prophet ﷺ where he narrated that
the Prophet ﷺ said that you should take
care of those whom Allah سبحانه وتعالى has
entrusted you with.
You should feed them of what you feed
yourselves and you should clothe them with what
you clothe yourselves.
So the Prophet ﷺ talking about the treatment
of the mamluk the treatment of the slave
in society and the goodness that they should
be treated with.
Zaid رضي الله عنه narrates just that hadith
from the Prophet ﷺ and it's narrated from
his nephew Abdullah ibn Umar رضي الله تعالى
عنه.
So let's go to where he really shines
in this regard since he doesn't talk much.
You just have the prototype of someone that's
with the Prophet ﷺ all the time.
Every sahabi that we're going to cover from
here on out intersects with the battle of
Yamamah or Aam al-Wafud or the year
of delegation because we've spoken so much about
Musaylim al-Kaddhab and the fitna of the
false prophets that it gives you an idea
of how terrible this fitna actually was.
So the battle of Yamamah takes place in
Mabi' al-Awwal of the 12th year.
We are of course in Mabi' al-Awwal
in this year right now.
So it takes place in Mabi' al-Awwal
the 12th year after Hijrah.
Zayd ibn al-Khattab رضي الله تعالى عنه
is commissioned to go out in the war
against the apostates حروب الردة by Abu Bakr
al-Siddiq رضي الله تعالى عنه.
So he goes and he is actually the
first one who was holding the banner of
the Muslims.
And of course that denotes a very special
place amongst the companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
فكانت راية المسلمين معه يوم اليمامة as the
scholars narrate.
He is the flag bearer of the Muslims
on that day of Yamamah.
And this was the fitna that was so
severe that more companions were killed in this
day than any other incident amongst all of
the incidents that took place.
Over 600 sahaba were going to be martyred
in this particular battle.
So you can find multiple sahaba that are
going to be martyred on the day of
Yamamah.
So he is the one who is holding
the banner on the day of Yamamah.
Now Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه gives
us a very interesting narration about the man
that Zaid will kill on the day of
Yamamah.
The man that Zaid will kill on the
day of Yamamah to start off the battle.
Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه says كنت
يوما عند النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم في
راهة That I was once sitting with the
Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم with a group.
So we're in Al-Madinah and we're sitting
as a group around the Prophet صلى الله
عليه وسلم.
معنى الرجال ابن عنفوة الرجال ابن عنفوة not
الرجال الرجال ابن عنفوة If you haven't heard
his name, there's a reason why.
So we are with this man named الرجال
ابن عنفوة And the Prophet صلى الله عليه
وسلم says to this group of Sahaba which
shows you SubhanAllah never be too sure of
yourself.
He says صلى الله عليه وسلم إِنَّ فِيكُمْ
لَرَجُلًا ضِرْصُهُ فِي النَّارِ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أُحُدٍ That
one of you, one of you who is
sitting here, your tooth, your molar tooth in
hellfire is the size of Jabal Uhud.
This is very rare.
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم talking to
a group of Sahaba and saying one of
you is going to go to * and
your molar tooth will be bigger than Mount
Uhud in hellfire.
Why?
Because the bodies are bigger in hellfire.
The punishment is felt more as a result
of that.
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى protect us.
Allahumma ameen.
So if you look at Jabal Uhud with
all of its size, think about that hadith
of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
Your tooth would be the size of Uhud
in hellfire.
So naturally, Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه
says that as we were sitting around, all
of us were worried that it could be
that person.
Shows you, subhanAllah, that idea of not feeling
safe from fitnah.
That Allah سبحانه وتعالى could test you at
any moment and Allah عز و جل could
expose something about you in the process.
And we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for حسن
الختام.
Allahumma ameen.
So Abu Huraira رضي الله تعالى عنه says,
I was counting the sahaba amongst us that
day, and one by one they were dying.
Until he says, it was just me and
this man.
Al-Rajal ibn Anfuwa.
And he says, Al-Rajal ibn Anfuwa was
someone who used to read the Qur'an
at night.
Someone who was deeply pious and who appeared
to be a very close man to the
Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
But then he said, when the Prophet صلى
الله عليه وسلم died, he left Islam and
he went and he joined Musaylim al-Kaddhab.
And that was a fitnah for the Muslims.
SubhanAllah, why?
Because this man could have been like Abu
Musa al-Ash'ari and some of those
other, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, those young sahaba
who memorized the Qur'an.
May Allah protect us.
This man left Islam.
So Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه said, Alhamdulillah,
it's not me.
Imagine, Abu Huraira was like, we were five
or six, everyone died, and it was just
us two.
And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said,
one of us is going to *.
And this man left Islam and he went
and he joined Musaylim al-Kaddhab.
And he says, his fitnah was harder on
the Muslims in Musaylimah.
Why?
Because Musaylimah, everyone knew he was an idiot.
Everyone knew he was a liar.
His people were moved by his fitnah.
Banu Hanifa were moved by his fitnah.
Because there was clearly a tribal, you know,
aim here.
But As-Sahabi الرجال ibn Anfuwa As-Sahabi,
to leave Islam, As-Sahabi who knew the
Quran, to leave Islam and to go join
the likes of Musaylimah, it was a fitnah
for us.
It was a fitnah for the companions of
the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.
So he says, as we went out to
fight Musaylimah, Zaid ibn Al-Khattab رضي الله
تعالى عنه was looking for him.
So Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه, his ghira
for the deen, the way he felt, his
honor for the religion.
Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه wanted to find
him.
And it just so happened that before the
battle even flamed, Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه
came into a duel with Al-Rajal.
And Al-Rajal supposedly, you know, Musaylimah did
his, when I say these people were weird,
you have to understand they're very weird.
He did like a ruqya on him, some
sort of, he read on him and blew
on him in a way that no one's
going to be able to hurt him.
So when Zaid ibn Al-Khattab killed him
to start the battle, it actually had a
huge impact on demoralizing the troops of Musaylimah.
These are the little things in history that
you don't pay attention to.
So Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه killed him
in the duel.
And then as the battle started and the
Muslims were hugely, hugely overwhelmed in terms of
numbers and forces and weaponry and tricks in
the battle of Yamam.
As the battle started, Zaid رضي الله تعالى
عنه never stopped moving forward.
He never stopped moving forward until he ended
up في نحر العدو, right in the middle
of the army.
And Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه was shouting
out while he was holding the banner.
أما الرجال فلا رجال As for the men,
where are the men?
Where are the men?
So he's pushing the Sahaba to move forward.
He doesn't like that some people are moving
backwards because Musaylimah had all sorts of military
preparations and an army that's 10 times the
size of the Muslims.
And they're shooting them with, you know, from
catapults, they've got the hadeeqah, the garden of
Musaylimah which is behind this huge fortress.
It's not an easy battle.
And so some of the Muslims are hesitant.
And Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه, the only
time you hear his voice is in battle.
أما الرجال فلا رجال And then Zaid رضي
الله عنه even gets frustrated at some point.
So you can almost, you can hear the
Umar in him.
The Umar رضي الله عنه in him when
Umar رضي الله عنه would be frustrated over
people's hesitation towards the sunnah.
Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه says, اللهم إني
أعتذر إليك من فرار أصحابي Oh Allah, I
seek forgiveness from you from the fleeing of
my companions.
وأبرأ إليك مما جاء به مسيلمة ومحكم اليمامة
And I free myself from the evil of
what Musaylimah and Muhakkama who is one of
his disciples of Yemamah have called to.
I free myself from them.
So Zaid is frustrated with the pace of
the Muslims and he's saying, Oh Allah, I
seek forgiveness from you for their fleeing and
I declare myself innocent of the evil of
Musaylimah and Muhakkama.
As he goes forward, he enters into, if
you go back and you actually listen to
Al-Bara'a ibn Malik رضي الله تعالى
عنه Remember Al-Bara'a was literally catapulted
into Hadiqah Musaylimah, into the garden of Musaylimah,
right?
He got that close to Musaylimah Al-Kaddhab
and Zaid رضي الله تعالى عنه was killed
and the Raya, the banner fell from his
hand.
And after the banner fell from his hand,
Salim Mawla Abu Hudhayfa رضي الله تعالى عنه
picked up the banner and Salim رضي الله
تعالى عنه was killed.
And if you go back, subhanAllah, the way
the companions fell, Salim and Abu Hudhayfa, the
two best friends, may Allah be pleased with
them, the two best friends of the companions
were laying next to each other in the
battlefield.
Zaid رضي الله عنه, guess who he was
laying next to in the battlefield?
Ma'in ibn Adi رضي الله عنه His
brother from the Ansar who said, I don't
want to die before the Prophet ﷺ because
I want to prove myself to Allah سبحانه
وتعالى that I believe in him when he
was alive ﷺ and I believe in him
once again after he died ﷺ.
And so Zaid and Ma'in were next
to each other and Salim and Abu Hudhayfa
were next to each other and they were
the two flag bearers of the Muslims that
day.
Now subhanAllah, the story becomes more profound in
lessons and grief, lessons and grief.
So Zaid, you could summarize this whole story,
the quiet older brother of Umar ibn al
-Khattab who became Muslim before him, who made
hijrah before him, who was a shaheed before
him, may Allah be pleased with them.
But the story actually gets very interesting and
profound when you look at the grief then.
When the soldiers were coming back to Medina,
the news had reached Medina that the Muslims
won, that Khalid رضي الله عنه had gained
victory but after a difficult battle.
So the messenger had already reached Medina to
let Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه know that
the sahaba won the battle.
But the messenger told him that hundreds of
sahaba were killed.
So I want you to actually think of
the scene in Al-Madinah where all the
families of the sahaba are coming out and
waiting to see who made it back.
It's a very difficult moment to actually try
to think about, you know, like it's not
Uhud.
It's the first experience that they really have
like this.
It's not Uhud where it all happened in
Medina.
It happened all the way in Najd, modern
day Riyadh, right?
And all the families are out there, mothers,
fathers, spouses, children, waiting to see who made
it back.
And we said that the description of Zayd
رضي الله عنه was what?
That he was so awkwardly tall that from
a distance you only would see him.
And so Umar رضي الله عنه was out
there and he was nervously pacing over Zayd.
He wants to see his brother Zayd.
Now subhanAllah something very interesting here about Umar.
Umar's son Abdullah was one of those people
that went out to fight.
But Umar was more nervously pacing over Zayd.
So he was pacing, waiting for the news.
And then when they came back, Umar رضي
الله عنه as he saw the group approaching
and he didn't see Zayd, Umar رضي الله
عنه immediately fell into grief.
Like he knows he's about to get that
news.
So as Ibn Hajar رحمه الله says, فلما
أُوتِ عُمَرُ قَتْلَهُ حَزِنَ حُزْنًا شَدِيدًا He fell
into grief.
He started to cry.
And subhanAllah you find this conversation with him
and his son.
Abdullah Ibn Umar رحمه الله May Allah be
pleased with them both.
Abdullah comes to his father, almost ashamed that
I let my uncle die.
I didn't do enough to save my uncle.
So he says to Abdullah Ibn Umar رحمه
الله and this shows you again a human
side of them but still it shows you
the virtue or what Zayd meant to Umar.
This man who's virtually unknown in the books.
Umar رضي الله عنه when he sees his
son Abdullah رضي الله تعالى عنه he's not
embracing him and celebrating.
He looks to him and he says, أَلَا
هَلَكْتَ قَبْلَ زَيْدٍ هَلَكَ زَيْدٌ وَأَنْتَ حَيٌّ How
could you not have died before Zayd?
Zayd was killed and you're still alive and
he even tells him أصرف وجهك عني Don't
let me see your face.
Like I'm upset with you for not doing
more.
You know the virtue of Zayd.
You know who he is, your uncle Zayd.
وَالْعَمْسِنُ وَالْوَالَدُ As the Prophet ﷺ said, the
paternal uncle is like your father.
How could you let Zayd be killed?
How could you not stand up and defend
him when the enemies came towards him?
And Abdullah Ibn Umar رضي الله عنه says
to his father, he says, يا أبتي Oh
my father, قَدْ حَرَسْتُ عَلَىٰ ذَلِكَ أَنْ يَكُونَ
He said, look, I actually was hoping that
I would be a shaheed before him.
وَلَكِنْ نَفْسِهِ تَأَخَرَتْ فَأَكْرَمَهُ اللَّهُ بِالشَّهَادَةِ He said,
but my nafs, my self, my lower self,
it pulled me back a bit.
But as for my uncle Zayd, he never
stopped going forward.
So Allah honored him with shahada and he
didn't grant me that honor.
SubhanAllah.
So think of the grief of Umar رضي
الله عنه over Zayd رضي الله عنه, his
older brother, the quiet older brother, to the
point that he's telling his son, I don't
want to see you because you should have
stood up and protected your uncle.
Why didn't you protect your uncle?
And the way Abdullah and we know how
righteous Abdullah Ibn Umar رضي الله عنه is.
The copy of Umar رضي الله عنه, the
man who loved the Prophet ﷺ, he says,
no one kept the pace of Zayd in
the battle of Yamama.
Listen to what Umar says.
Umar رضي الله عنه said, رحم الله أخي
زيد سبقني إلى الحسنيين أسلم قبلي واستشهد قبلي.
May Allah have mercy on my brother Zayd.
He beat me to the two good things,
to the two beautiful things.
He became Muslim before me and he was
granted shahada before me.
As if you can remember that conversation between
them in Badr where Umar is trying to
give him an armor and Zayd is saying,
I'm seeking the same thing that you're seeking.
Get it away from me.
And Umar knew that the bushra of shahada,
the glad tidings of shahada was there for
him because the Prophet ﷺ told him on
that day when Uhud shook, أثبت يا أحد,
be firm أحد because you have upon you
a prophet, a Siddiq أبو بكر وشهدين and
two martyrs Umar and Uthman.
So Umar رضي الله عنه would say, رحم
الله أخي زيد May Allah have mercy on
my brother Zayd.
He beat me to Islam and he beat
me to shahada.
And another narration, رحم الله أخي زيد May
Allah have mercy on my brother Zayd.
Everything I tried to do, he did it
first.
سبقني إلى الإسلام وسبقني إلى الهجرة وسبقني إلى
الجهاد في سبيل الله.
SubhanAllah.
May Allah have mercy on my brother Zayd.
He beat me to Islam, he beat me
to the hijrah, and he beat me to
that martyrdom.
Go on.
And this is where the story gets even
richer.
Umar رضي الله عنه was that man who
you don't really associate grieving over the dead
with.
Right, like he's not the type that you
would expect great grief over the dead.
In the sense that, in fact, Umar رضي
الله عنه condemned a woman who was crying
at the death of her husband because he
thought crying was haram.
Right?
And then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
hadith, of course, overcame where the Prophet صلى
الله عليه وسلم باند النياحة which was wailing
to tear the clothes and to smack yourself
and to scream.
But not the tears.
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not
condemn the crying, did not condemn the tears.
Umar رضي الله عنه thought at first it
was haram to cry.
So he's not someone that you associate grief
over the dead.
However, the description of Umar رضي الله عنه
is that he did not grieve over anyone
the way he grieved over his brother Zayd.
And in fact, he would never stop talking
about him.
He would never stop missing him.
And Umar رضي الله عنه has a beautiful
line, كان يقول So he used to say
on a regular basis.
He used to say, ما هبّت الصباء إلا
وأنا أجد ريح زيد.
The wind does not blow from the east
except I can smell the scent of Zayd.
وإني لأجد ريح يوسف.
I can smell Yusuf عليه السلام.
Right?
When Yaqub said that about his father, Umar
رضي الله عنه was saying, I still smell
Zayd.
Every day when the wind blows, I smell
him.
I smell my brother Zayd رضي الله عنه
وأرضاه.
So beautiful, so powerful.
Because if a man like Umar رضي الله
عنه can grieve that way, what does it
tell us about our situation?
And you say, well, how come he didn't
grieve this way over someone else or this
person or this person?
SubhanAllah.
There's something between these two brothers and there's
something about the virtue and the righteousness of
Zayd رضي الله عنها in this regard.
And it shows you as the ulema mention
as well, the permissibility, right, of remembering.
And the fact that he remembered for years
and years to come despite his righteousness shows
you subhanAllah that a deep connection truly can
carry something supernatural.
Remember Umar رضي الله عنه was the one
who said يا سارية الجبل.
He felt an army approaching a group of
people from far away.
And so some of the ulema say it
could be from the miracles of Umar رضي
الله عنه, the karamat of Umar.
That Umar رضي الله عنه actually kept the
scent of Zayd رضي الله عنه.
And of course, many people subhanAllah, they describe
remembering the scent of their loved ones.
And may Allah سبحانه وتعالى gather us all
with our loved ones فى الفردوس الأعلى.
Allahumma ameen.
It continues.
Story of grieving over Zayd and we learn
about Zayd through the grief of Umar رضي
الله عنه.
May Allah be pleased with them.
Ahmed ibn Ammar العبد he narrates from his
father who narrates from his grandfather.
He says, صليت مع عمر بن الخطاب رضي
الله تعالى عنه الصبح.
That I once prayed Salatul Fajr with Umar
بن الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه.
So he says, فلما انقضى من صلاته when
he finished his prayer إذا هو برجل قصير
أعور.
He saw a man who was short and
he had one eye basically.
That's the description of him in this regard.
So Umar رضي الله عنه said, من هذا?
Who is this man?
So they said, متمم بن نويره متمم بن
نويره رضي الله تعالى عنه.
And Mutammim is the brother of Malik بن
نويره who Khalid رضي الله تعالى عنه was
blamed for being too quick to kill that
tribe.
Right, because he assumed them to have apostated.
So Mutammim is the brother of Malik بن
نويره and Malik بن نويره is a character
that we really don't know what his state
was when he died.
We know Khalid رضي الله عنه was blamed
for being too quick, right, in marching with
the army.
But we don't know much about him.
But Mutammim is a good Muslim.
And Mutammim missed his brother a lot.
So Mutammim used to author, Umar رضي الله
عنه asked, ما شأنه?
What's his situation?
So Mutammim authors poetry about his brother all
day long.
He misses Malik بن نويره and he's a
poet.
So he writes poetry about how much he
misses him.
So Umar بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه says
to Mutammim بن نويره, ما أشد ما لقيت
على أخيك من الحزن?
Like what incredible grief you have over your
brother.
What happened to you as a result of
that grief?
SubhanAllah, he says, كانت عيني هذه قد ذهبت.
So he points to the eye that's no
longer there.
Now, whether it's there, whether it's defective, or
he went blind in that eye, all of
it could be implied.
But the point is, he can't see out
of one eye.
And he says that my sadness literally caused
me to lose sight in one eye وأشار
إليها and he pointed to it.
قال فبكيت بالصحيحة He said, so I cried
with the good eye.
And he said, وكثرة البكاء that the amount
of crying that I did with the good
eye, it basically watered العين الذاهبة It watered
the eye that is gone.
Like he's basically saying that I cry so
much out of the good eye that I
have that it kind of, it nurtures the
other eye.
I mean, he's using poetry again.
He's a very poetic man.
But he's conveying to عمر رضي الله عنه
that I'm in deep pain.
And عمر رضي الله تعالى عنه said, إن
هذا الحزن شديد He says that this grief
is indeed severe.
ما يحزن هكذا أحد على هالكه So he
goes on to say that this type of
حزن is so difficult on a person that
it could literally do away with a person.
And then عمر رضي الله عنه says, يرحم
الله أخي زيت May Allah have mercy on
my brother زيت.
إني لأحزب أني لو كنت أقدر على أن
أقول الشعر لبكيته كما بكيت أخاك SubhanAllah.
He said, I think that if I could
come up with the words of poetry, the
way that you come up with words of
poetry about your brother, that I would cry
for him in the same way that you
cry for him.
You imagine عمر رضي الله عنه saying that?
Like that's how much this man who cried
himself blind, عمر رضي الله عنه was saying,
I think if I had the words that
you have, I would cry myself blind over
زيت.
And then متمم says to عمر رضي الله
عنه, قال لو أن أخي مات على ما
مات عليه أخوك ما رثيته He said, but
if my brother died the way that your
brother died, I would not be grieving him.
And عمر رضي الله عنه said, ما عزان
أحد عن أخي مثل ما عزان به متمم
No one gave me more happiness and peace
over the death of my brother than متمم
when he said that.
Like he had to remind me, your brother
died شهيد.
Right?
You're grieving over your brother, but your brother
died شهيد.
So you shouldn't feel that type of pain.
Basically saying that my pain over my brother
is also not knowing what became of him
in the hereafter.
It's not just missing him in this world,
but it's also what may have become of
him in the hereafter.
And عمر رضي الله عنه is saying, no
one gave me more peace of mind than
that man, than متمم when he said that
to me.
Because I realized الحمد لله my brother died
شهيد.
SubhanAllah, this is a lesson for us in
the people of Gaza as well.
May Allah عز و جل accept them all
as شهداء.
That we hate what we're seeing and we
can cry over the grief that we feel
over them while still being at peace over
what we know that Allah will do with
them.
That it's not the same as someone who
just loses their loved one to a gruesome
accident.
That there is that peace of heart and
that peace of mind and knowing that these
are people that Allah سبحانه و تعالى loves
and that Allah سبحانه و تعالى will take
care of.
May Allah عز و جل accept them all
as شهداء.
اللهم آمين.
But there is another dimension.
عمر رضي الله عنه one day is in
المدينة and someone points out a man to
him.
And he says, يا أمير المؤمنين you know
who that man is?
Who can guess?
What do you all think?
That's the guy that killed your brother.
He's Muslim now.
سبحان الله.
Like you talk about layer upon layer upon
layer, all this grief, all this pain and
the people point to him and they say
that that is أبا مريم الحنفي.
He's the one that killed your brother on
the day of Yamama.
تاب إلى الله و رجع.
He repented to Allah سبحانه و تعالى and
he came back and he's here in المدينة.
This is a whole another dimension here.
عمر رضي الله عنه is the خليفة right
now.
He could say you come here, smack him,
chop off his head.
I mean like think about what do you
think a ruler back in that day would
do like in the 7th century would do,
right?
Even just the tribalism that people used to
have.
Do away with him, right?
Or at least punch him in the face,
spit on him, curse him.
And this is عمر رضي الله عنه.
There's no lack of strength here.
But the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم mentions
that strength is not a person who can
overcome the other.
الذي يملك نفسه عند الغضب but the one
who controls himself in anger.
عمر رضي الله عنه goes up to him
and he says وَيْحَكَ Woe to you.
لَقَدْ قَتَلْتَ لِي أَخَنْ You have killed a
brother of mine.
مَا هَبَّتِ الصَّدَاءِ إِلَّا ذَكَرْتُهُ The wind does
not blow except that I remember him.
Woe to you.
What pain you caused me.
SubhanAllah.
This is like a deja vu of what
we said last week with Tulayha رضي الله
عنه and عمر رضي الله عنه confronted him
in hajj.
The one who killed Akasha, right?
Kills noble sahaba.
But here this is his brother.
It's personal.
And عمر رضي الله عنه grieves over his
brother like he doesn't grieve over anyone else.
And what do you think the response of
Abu Maryam and Hanafi was?
Same response Tulayha gave.
قَالَ يَأْمِرُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ O commander of the believers.
أَكْرَمَهُ اللَّهُ بِيَدِي وَلَمْ يُهِنِّي بِيَدِهِ He said,
O commander of the believers, Allah honored him
through my hand and Allah did not disgrace
me through his hand.
And عمر رضي الله عنه, I mean, it's
not the most satisfying answer, right?
Like, but he's saying to him at the
end of the day, again, your brother died
shaheed.
And Allah honored him and I just happened
to be the hand in that qadr of
Allah سبحانه وتعالى.
Allah gave him the position that he was
seeking anyway.
But Allah did not disgrace me with his
hand.
عمر رضي الله عنه wants to ask him
now questions about Yamama.
So he says to him, كَمْ تَرَى الْمُسْلِمِينَ
قَتَلُوا مِنكُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ How many people do you
think the Muslims killed from amongst you on
the day of Yamama?
قَالَ أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعْ مِئَاتِ يَزِيدُونَ قَلِيلً He said
about 1400 and maybe a little bit more.
عمر رضي الله عنه said, بِئْسَ الْقَتْلَةِ What
evil people they are, what losers they are
to have died that day and to be
killed by the likes of Zayd and Al
-Baraa and Abu Dujana and Salim.
Like what horrible people they are.
Just like قَتْلَانَا فِي الْجَنَّ وَقَتْلَاكُمْ فِي النَّارِ
Our dead are in Paradise and your dead
are in Hellfire.
عمر رضي الله عنه was still looking at
him and he's kind of talking to him
like you're from the enemy.
So he says بِئْسَ الْقَتْلَةِ And Abu Maryam
says to him, الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي أَبْقَانِ حَتَّى
رَجَعْتُ إِلَى الدِّينِ الَّذِي رَضِيَ لِنَبِيهِ صلى الله
عليه وسلم وللمسلمين Abu Maryam said, الحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ
Allah let me live until He guided me
back to the religion that He was pleased
with for His Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
and for the Muslims.
And عمر رضي الله عنه found closure in
that he felt he was sincere.
And you want to know how it goes?
That Ibn Abd al-Barr actually narrates that
عمر رضي الله عنه appointed him as a
judge in Basra, as a qadi in Basra.
Not only did he not penalize him or
hurt him, even though he loved Zayd رضي
الله عنه but he felt him to be
sincere in his tawbah and he still has
the best interests of the Muslims at heart.
And so عمر رضي الله عنه appoints him
as a judge.
Some of the scholars debated with Ibn Abd
al-Barr's assessment.
They said it was another Abu Maryam al
-Hanafi that عمر رضي الله عنه appointed.
So that's another discussion all together.
So you see another dimension here of the
justice of Sayyiduna عمر رضي الله عنه that
we praise so much.
Now who was left behind from Zayd رضي
الله عنه?
This amazing luminary, the silent giant Zayd رضي
الله عنه.
He had two kids, عبد الرحمن and أسما.
As for أسما رضي الله عنها, we don't
know anything about her.
As for عبد الرحمن, عبد الرحمن was six
years old when the Prophet ﷺ passed away.
So technically he's a companion too.
عبد الرحمن بن زيد رضي الله عنه.
And he became a hadith narrator.
And عمر رضي الله عنه raised عبد الرحمن
with his own kids.
So عبد الرحمن بن زيد was raised with
عبد الله بن عمر and with أسما and
with the rest of the children of عمر
الخطاب رضي الله عنه.
And again that idea بالعمس والوالد, the uncle
is like the father.
That عمر رضي الله عنه truly assumed a
position like a father to him.
And one of the most beautiful narrations that
I found from عبد الرحمن that's narrated in
al-Isabah, عبد الرحمن بن زيد, he says
كنت أنا وعاصم بن وعمر بن الخطاب في
البحر.
That عاصم and I were swimming in the
ocean.
And he said that this was a time
of عمر or حج.
So we were in إحرام.
So it would have been along the coast
on their way to Mecca that they were
swimming in the ocean.
قال يغيب رأسي وأغيب رأسه.
He was dipping my head into the water
and I was dipping his head into the
water.
Gives you another dimension.
وعمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه ينظر بالساحل.
And عمر رضي الله عنه was watching from
the shore.
عمر taking the kids out to swim.
It's the closest thing that you get to
that human moment of his nephew, of his
beloved brother who he loved so much.
And it shows you that side of these
companions and these great people that you can
imagine عاصم and عبد الرحمن that they were
dipping their heads into the water and playing
together.
And عمر رضي الله عنه watching them as
they did so.
However, another interesting fact is that عبد الرحمن
actually says my name was actually محمد.
So my father named me محمد.
But he said one time there was a
man that got mad at me.
And so he started to insult me with
the name محمد.
So he started to say, فعل الله بك
يا محمد وفعل وفعل.
So he's yelling at me and he's using
the name محمد.
So عمر رضي الله عنه says, يابن زيد
ادنو.
Come here, oh son of Zaid.
He says, ألا أرى رسول الله صلى الله
عليه وسلم أو قال محمد يسببك.
I can't stand to see the name of
the Prophet ﷺ insulted because of you.
So he says, والله لا تدع محمدا ما
دمت حيا.
You're not going to be called محمد anymore.
وسماه عبد الرحمن.
I'm going to call you عبد الرحمن instead.
Because I don't like seeing people insult the
name of محمد.
And the Prophet ﷺ received that on account
of you.
And so he actually named him عبد الرحمن.
And this was common of course because عمر
رضي الله عنه is the narrator of the
hadith.
أحب الأسماء إلى الله.
The two most beloved names to Allah are
عبد الرحمن and عبد الله.
And عمر رضي الله عنه named three of
his kids عبد الرحمن.
So he just added his nephew to عبد
الرحمن as well.
And عبد الرحمن عبد الزيد lived a long
life.
And he died in the life of عبد
الله بن عمر رضي الله عنه.
And عبد الله بن عمر was actually the
one, his cousin, who washed him, who shrouded
him, who buried him, and who led his
janazah.
And what an amazing honor that actually is.
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى be pleased with them
all.
So we get back to زيد رضي الله
عنه.
In the short entry, it's literally less than
a page of سيرة علامة النبولاء لإمام الذهبي
رحمه الله.
He mentions him and his فضيلة and his
virtue of being من شهداء اليمامة.
And as I said, we're going to talk
about the martyrs of يمامة.
And he starts to list out the names
of the people that have been killed in
يمامة.
And they were over 600 companions.
And there's a note on his grave in
this regard.
So subhanAllah, it's actually, I've never had the
chance to visit.
But if any of you are ever in
Riyadh, this graveyard is actually there, شهداء الصحابة.
The شهداء from the صحابة, the battle of
يمامة, 600 companions.
Of course, they used to build domes and
they used to build, you know, huge structures
on top of some of the graves of
the صحابة, right?
زيد رضي الله تعالى عنه, what you'll note
in the history books is they say that
he had the largest قبة.
If you remember when we talked about عباس
رضي الله عنه, we actually showed a picture
of it.
So زيد رضي الله عنه had the largest
structure built on his grave in معركة يمامة,
in the battle of يمامة.
So when people would come to visit, his
grave was the one that stood out.
And of course, that's not the case anymore.
And if you could just put this picture,
I don't know why this picture made me
very emotional, subhanAllah.
That's the grave of زيد رضي الله تعالى
عنه.
I'm looking at that and I'm thinking to
myself, subhanAllah, where is this man going to
be standing in terms of the people who
enter into Jannah?
If Abu Bakr and Umar, may Allah be
pleased with them, will be entering with the
Prophet ﷺ to his sides, where is زيد
رضي الله تعالى عنه, the quiet brother of
Umar رضي الله عنه?
Umar testifies was more virtuous than him.
And that tells you something that it's not
about the structures on the grave, it's about
the station with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the
position on the Day of Judgment and entering
into Al-Jannah.
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى be pleased with him
and may Allah سبحانه وتعالى accept him رضي
الله عنه وعن أخي.
May Allah be pleased with his brother أمير
المؤمنين عمر الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه.
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى gather us with them
all with our beloved Prophet ﷺ في الفردوس
الأعلى.
اللهم آمين.