Umm Jamaal ud-Din – Umm Salamah – A Most Inspirational Mother
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The importance of learning one's name for a story of OomsGenerationah is discussed, including the first migration of believers to the Islam after the revelation came to them, the second migration of believers to Mak sharna, and the split of the population of the United Kingdom after the second migration of the Prophet universal message to Al Hay Boulevard. The importance of women in Islam is emphasized, including their roles in protecting deeds and balancing their time between their spouse and children. The speaker also highlights the importance of seeking counsel and being confident in one's decisions to avoid mistakes.
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Assalamu Alaikum my dear sisters. Amazing to see
you all. Alhamdulillah. May God bless you all.
You're up and illuminate your faces with the
Noorabi
Before I begin, I want to ask you
all a question and that is who can
tell me Omsalena's real name?
Not her real name, but her actual name,
not just her Punya name.
So it's actually in
Vince Abi Womaya.
Alright? So just keep that in mind. Her
actual name is Hind Vince Abi Womaya.
But my dear sisters, one of the reasons
I find the story of Unsalama
so inspirational
is because SubhanAllah
not only
did she become considered from amongst
the top 13 for a half of Al
Medina, from amongst the companions,
but she also became from the top 2
narrators of hadith from amongst women after Aisha
And my dear sister, she did all that
despite she was even a mother of 4
children as well
So that's why her story in particular, you
know, really resonates
with myself,
personally, because
what many of you may not know about
me is, you know, one of the reasons
my journey to seeking knowledge and getting my
formal qualifications in sharia took me around about
25 years to attain
was besides the fact of obviously coming from
a revert background, Australian, all those things,
you know, alongside studying for my degree in
Arabic, my degree in Turcan,
you know, Usul,
getting my jazz read, all of those qualifications,
you know, SubhanAllah, I was focusing also on
raising my 5 children as well, you know,
like Anyone here who's got kids knows what
that takes, especially if you want to bring
them up upon the Islamic Tarabiya.
And, you know, especially if you want to
teach them the Quran and have the rock
to be from Hafidilah Quran inshallah, right? My
dear sisters,
so I think that that is one of
the most important lessons that we can actually
learn from the story of Oomsalomah in particular
that, you know, especially for us as women
and especially for us if we're mothers,
to realise that, you know, no matter how
busy you are, we all can make time
for seeking knowledge inshallah, even if it's a
little bit you do each day, but we
can all find that time as long as
we make that our priority.
And that's what it all comes down to,
making seeking knowledge your priority.
So my dear sisters, Oomsana was one of
the most
prominent wives of the prophets salallahu alaihi
wasalam and she was actually
from amongst the first women to embrace al
Islam, in the very early days of
Islam. And
she, SubhanAllah,
is one of She grew old upon Islam,
you know? And in fact, SubhanAllah,
she was the last of the wives of
the prophet, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasan, to pass away
and she she did up until over 80
years of age
Prady Allahu Anha Wa Barha.
She was from a noble family
from Guraish, the Mapuzoun tribe
and so before Islam, even before Islam, she
had all the noble characteristics
from being
one of the noble families of Quraysh, you
know, they had known the noble characteristics despite,
you know, being upon, you know, yes, they
were upon but they still had noble characteristics
like bravery, like honor,
like generosity,
things like that, right?
And she was known for her high up
love even before Islam, and she was known
for her her level of wisdom and intelligence
as well, right? And just to give some
context to the kind of family she's from,
like, hardly even one need is the son
of her uncles. This is what we're talking
about. We're talking about valour, it's about courage,
bravery, all of those
amazing characteristics.
So Wamsayong was still a young woman when
she
first married,
and she married a man by the name
of Abdulai,
Bin Abdul Asad,
who became known as the
prophet,
breastfeeding.
Okay, so the same woman who breastfed the
prophet, Sosanam, also breastfed
Abu Salama.
And,
you know, SubhanAllah, Abu Sanema and Sanema, they
were deeply in love, you know, they lived
a very peaceful, happy life.
And the messenger of Allah would come and
visit them. This is before being a prophet,
of course. You know, he would he would
come and visit them
because obviously, it's his brother, right? It's his
brother through breastfeeding, so he had that close
relationship
with,
al Salamah.
And so therefore, obviously, al Salamah only knew
of the high
character of the prophet, peace be upon him,
his sincerity. She knew his good qualities as
a person even before
al Wahi was sent down to him, even
before the revelation was sent down to him
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
And so this is why when the Wahi
was sent
was Al Salama
through the dawah of baq radiya lamu Anhu
and his wife, Al Salama,
embraced Islam along with
him And that's why Wunsallamah actually is from
the very first women to embrace Islam after
Khadija and after the daughters of the prophet
Sohu Muhammad salam, subhanAllah That's how early she
was already, you know, embracing Islam
So when Salama lived with her husband,
Abu Sadamah, and, you know, don't look through
all the hardships of the early days of
Islam.
You know,
everything that these villagers used to do to
them, and obviously they also had certain members
of the family who would make things extra
difficult on them. Like, they had members of
their family like, what even,
what even and Mokirah
and Mahzumi,
right, these are their relatives and he would
make things extra difficult
So that's why in the affinity after the
revelation came to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
the situation had become quite severe on the
believers, and this is why the messenger of
Allah ordered the believers,
like whoever was not able to bear, you
know, it was difficult for them to, you
know, the circumstances of Makkah was difficult,
he ordered them to do Hijra
to Al Habersha.
And so the first group of believers set
off to Al Habersha
and in that group was very small. The
first group to go to Al Habersha was
very small, talking about only 11 or 13
of men, and we're talking about only 4
women in that first group. And who's amongst
that group? Omsalah.
And also amongst that small group is Othman
ibn Affan and his wife, Ruqayah,
the daughter of the Prophet Surah Alaihi Wasallam
So all of Salamah stays with, you know,
habasha with her husband, Abu Salima
they stay there for a few months, you
know, insecurity
of a haversha.
But of course, their hearts are longing for
Mecca, like, that's their homeland. They wish to
go back to their homeland in safety, SubhanAllah.
And
during that time, they'll hear of various, you
know, that he knew of people converting to
Islam. Just imagine how beautiful beautiful that would
be, you know, hearing about different personalities who
are embracing Islam.
And from those personalities,
at one time, they heard Omar and Hamza
have embraced Islam.
And so they started to think that the
situation must have, you know, really improved in
Makkah. So
they made a decision to go back to
Makkar thinking that things had improved.
But unfortunately,
when they got there, they found that actually,
it was it was as bad as ever.
And so
that's when more more of the Sahaba actually
ended up doing hijrah to Al Hadashah, and
now another group returns to Al Hadashah again
in Salamok in that group.
I'm talking about now about 83 men and
18 women. Then what happens is that happens
is that after the first pledge that the
prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam does with some of
the A'uls and Haaz right, you are the
tribes
in Al Medina, right?
Al Ussalayman makes up his mind to perform
hijra
once more to a Medina because that's become
the land of safety now, and it's they've
become Muslim
and so it's a land of safety for
them now. So now Olsalom
mentions to us
about that second migration that she makes with
Abu Sadamal to Anadina
and how, you know, Abu Salama, you know,
setting up the the mount for me. He
lifted me onto the mount and he placed
my small my small son, which by now
she has the sun salama, right,
onto my lap
and he began to set off towards Makkah
pulling the camel
behind him.
And this was about this was about a
year before the Prophet sort of long lesson
had migrated to Ahmadine himself.
So now ul Salama and Abu Salama are
setting off as, you know, Wuhadjiwun22
to Makkah
for the sake of the loss of Kandahar,
but then what happens is as they start
setting out,
the tribe of Aung Sanima
saw them,
Beni Mazon,
and so so she says that they came
after them,
and they basically said to them or they
said to Aung Sangha as for you, we
have no control over you. But as for
her, we will not let her go off
with you. We're not gonna let her go
and do vibrations to a Medina with you.
And so what they do is they seize
the camel that Al Usanimal is riding
and then again taking her back to Mecca
and left Abu Sanima by himself.
Now, when the child of Abu Sanima, to
make things more complicated,
Maazam, who's the tribe of Anupusena has taken
her, he's she's also taken her son with
her. Right?
And so Bani Ma'am, who's
the tribe of Musalema,
they they saw that their son because that's
considered their son as well, you know, from
their tribe because it's the the dad. The
dad is, you know, from their tribe. Right?
So they come to her and say they
come to her tribe and say, as for
your daughter, you've taken her, right, you have
the right over her, but we will not
lead our son amongst
you. Right?
So now they came and took away all
sat and the son from her.
So this is how her whole family
ends up becoming completely split apart by disbelievers.
And so Abu Sanema is forced to do
an Hijra to an Adina by himself,
and Abu Sanema is dead, detained
in Mecca. You know, she's not able to
leave, and how can she even leave without
leaving behind her small son?
So she says, you know, to Panama in
federations, they separated between me and my husband,
orations, they separated between me and my husband
and my son.
She was so heartbroken because she she had
that absolute love for our husband and obviously
her son.
And she said that to the panel, I
used to go every day after Fajapriya
and I would sit in a certain place
in Maca,
and I would cry and my tears would
not stop until that evening came.
That's what she would do every single day
and no doubt she was making samzid duaat
to a lots of pandala crying
duaat beseeching him, yar ra ra ra
ra Help me out of my situation, yar
ra You know, take
me out of this trial, Your Honour. And
so, pardon me, if you believe she stayed
like this for about a year, so this
was the test she was going through and
again, remind ourselves that because a lot of
people think I'm I I do my best
this
I and look at their tests. They had
huge tests upon a month.
So we can only imagine how hard this
test was for Sadimar.
But as we know, Allah Subhanallah
never forgets his aliyah who are close to
him.
And this is how even though Allah might
test you with a great trial and a
great misfortune,
but his rahman is always surrounding you as
long as you are a believer and you
maintain your connection with Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.
As Allah tells us in the Quran,
Sayyidya Ano Allahu by Darussi
that Allah will
bring
after the hardship
become the ease Allah will facilitate
and bring the ease after the hardship. It's
just we always have to have hope and
alarm, never lose hope and alarm despite how
difficult our situation might be.
So she says to Colonel, one day while
I was sitting there crying,
a man from my tribe passed me and
he saw me in that state, and he
felt so sorry for me. He ended up
going
to my tribe and telling them, you know,
why are you treating her like this? Let
it go with her husband.
You know, why why are you putting her
through this?
And so Shapanakola had a little bit of
her from that,
her tribe then allowed her to leave, and
if Bani Asad came and returned her son
back to her,
so to come, Allah, this is how Allah
guided
that man, you know, to act upon her
behalf, and this was this was the answer
to her daughter. This was her way of
coming out of her trial. So she sets
off to Medina
all alone her young son, and imagine that,
like, you know how far it is? Has
anyone caught the bus?
Anyone gone for Umrah or Hajj and caught
the bus,
you know, from an adina to Macau?
You know, it takes at least, depending on
your
speed, about 3 hours at least. But imagine
going by a camel all the way there.
Right? And so imagine her setting off. She's
never been there before.
She's on an unknown path, an unfamiliar
in the middle of a desert,
but look at the bravery because she has
that tawakul I'm Allah as Allah tells us
wamehia tawat
They really believed in these verses. They didn't
just read them, they didn't just recite
They actually believed in and acted upon them.
That's the big difference, SubhanAllah.
So SubhanAllah, she says that she hadn't wished
to verify just a few miles out of
Makkah when
a few miles out of Mecca
when a man there happened to notice that
she's alone, trapped with his small son,
and so he said to her, wallahi, I'm
not there. You go by yourself.
And so, SubhanAllah, this is how Allah
sent this man to help her to reach,
Madinah's safety. And he actually came and took
the reins of her camel and guided her
all the way there.
And later on, this man became Muslim, subhanahu
wa. He wasn't even Muslim at that point,
but he became Muslim later on and unsanam
said, wallahi,
I never saw a man
from amongst the Arabs more generous
than this man of man ibn Baha.
Nights and he was walking all the way
guiding her, soparangama
So finally, Oksalama
reaches Medina safely
and you can just imagine a woman she's
been away from her husband her love of
her life all of these you know she's
only young still too, maybe how young she
would have been right
And for a whole year, she's been separated
from her husband
and her, you know, and and she's been
crying this whole time.
And now finally after all this, she reaches
where her husband is finally at handlily, and
the family is united and on top of
that,
bay she's also completed her hijrah for the
sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala her second
hijrah
for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Imagine how heavy is that in the scale
of Allah, especially in that
that hijrah that was commanded
from Allah and his Messenger so Allah and
Wahe wa sallam
So this is how after all these years
of hard times and trials and persecutions,
she began to live her life
in peace and security
in Anadina. You know, surrounded by the believers
now, right? No only having to face
the persecution of the disbelievers
And this also reminds us of the ayah
in the Quran
that whoever fears Allah has taqo of Allah
Subhanata Allah will find a way after
them So in that ayah, I was teaching
us how to find the way out about
trials. You have to adopt taqwa as your
code of life and get close to Allah
in your trials, and then Allah will facilitate
the way out for you.
And he will provide you in ways you
could never have imagined
So SubhanAllah there in Medina
she would invest with more children
along with so along with her son, Sonah,
she has 3 more children She has Omar,
she has Dura and she has
Zayna So 2 boys and 2 girls
And so she began to focus on, you
know, raising her children
uponi man and belief in Allah subhanahu and
his messenger,
so long while he was saying.
Then what happens is the 2nd year of
the hijra comes,
and the call came to the believers
to go after the battle of Badr.
So Oostadneh, of course, you know, she helps
her husband
prepare for battle
and go out as a Mujani for the
sake of Allah's word.
And that's despite her love. She has that
love for him, no doubt.
But she was completely
pleased
for her husband
Umragu al Islam along with the prophet Sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
And this I just want to focus and
reflect on this for a moment that this
was the the sincere feeling of sacrifice
that the companions
had for whatever
is for Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the
Ummah of Al Islam
That's something I feel with the growth of
materialism and secularism and all those things, a
lot of people just don't I'm not having
that feeling anymore, so parliament of those things,
a lot of people just don't I'm not
having that feeling anymore. So panel may not
protect us from taking that away from us
and keep us steadfast, okay? That's what we
need to be
reflecting on these stories very deeply and looking
at
where we are and where they were, Subhan
Allah.
Right? So then the next year comes,
which is obviously the 3rd year of the
Hidra,
or after the Hidra,
And
then the disbelievers come to avenge,
take, you know, take revenge
for those who've been killed in the Battle
of Badr.
And so again the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
commands the believers to prepare for the battle
of Uhud
and again insalama helps her husband to prepare
just as she had done previously for that
battle, right? Now as you know, most people,
many of you may know that in that
battle battle, that was a very, very yeah.
That was a very fierce battle.
And so there wasn't really any of the
companions who were not wounded in that battle.
And
from those who were seriously wounded in that
battle was Abu Salama. He was very
wounded in that battle, and his wounds were
bleeding profusely
from from his wounds.
Boys, he's
the body was, you know, profusely,
coming here, reading
from his wounds.
So the Panama,
Wamsayana
begins to nurse him. Right? Wamsayana begins to
nurse him. She begins to look after him
for months on
on end. And you can again, here we
go again. Like, here's another trial for her.
Her whole story is full of trials. It
doesn't end. Right? So you can imagine the
trial that Nsaanam was going through, you know,
spending so many months having to nurse her
husband who's very ill and of course, she's
so worried about
him. She's still nursing her youngest child, Zaynab.
Right?
And she's still trying to look after her
small children. She had all these small children.
And sadly, despite all of her efforts and
her diet and all of those things,
Abba Sadamal just kept getting sicker and sicker
and more and more weak.
And and SubhanAllah, during that time, it's so
beautiful to hear these,
these different narrations. But during that time,
Wamsalom said to her husband,
Abu Wamsalom, I have heard the prophet, Sallallahu
alaihi wasalam, say that there's no woman who
her husband passes away and he's one of
the people of Jannah
and she doesn't marry anybody after him, but
Allah will unite them together in Jannah.
So let's make a promise to one another
that
neither of us will marry after the death
of each other.
And so that's when I think about Abhisattva
to her, SubhanAllah,
he says to her, will you a baby?
When I die, I want you to remarry.
And then he not only says that, he
goes next dua for her and says to
her, oh Allah,
bless on Salama
with a man after me who is better
than me and who will never hurt her
or cause her to feel sad ever.
SubhanAllah.
And then and on on another day, and
for sure, through this period when he was,
you know, going through this
time of her nursing him,
Oongsama, Oongsama,
I have heard the prophet say
that there is no Muslim
who misfortune
befalls them
and may say
Accept that Allah will give them what is
better for them
and so this is how our Usalama was
teaching Osama and preparing
her
for what he thought was going to happen
because he could feel in his body that
he's just getting weaker and weaker,
more and more sick
And he knew what was going to happen
was going to break the heart of that
pure believing woman who was so, she had
such a pure love towards him, SubhanAllah
And so then,
in the 4th year of the hijrah, our
Musallamah,
he ended up passing away.
And so, Musallamah and those who were around
him, of course, they started to cry.
That's a human response.
Right?
The only advice the messenger of Allah gave
them, he told them
do not
say that which is good and do not
make dua except for that which is good,
for verily the angels' sake amin
to whatever you say at the time when
a person's soul is taken.
So that's what we have to remember. It's
okay to cry when someone passes away,
but just remember not to say except for
that which is good and make du'a in
divested ways because that's when your du'a is
answered and the angels say amen.
So then, unsanima
remembered
how her husband had made Dua for loss
of handata
to provide her with a man who's better
than
than himself.
So she's asking herself the question,
what also is better than Abu Salima,
the first of households to make hijrah for
the sake of Allah, you know, a man
who's gone out for jihad
with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in Badr,
in Uphwad and other
battles. But she remembered the words that her
husband had taught her to say
from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
and so she said those words
Verily
to Allah we belong
and to allow me return.
Your Allah, give me the reward for my
misfortune.
And grant me that is just better than
it.
And so kind of when we see how
Allahu Ta'ala answered the dua of Abu Sanima
that he had made for Sanima and how
Allah
blessed her with the best
husband anybody could ever make du'art for, subhanAllah.
A husband who would never
of a false witness in Jawa Allah Subhallahu
Alaihi Wasallam himself.
And Khan's narrates to us in a Habibi
Muslim that when the prophet salallahu alaihi wasalam
said someone to propose to her,
she told them, tell the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam
that I am old.
And not only that, I'm a woman who
gets jealous and I have children. What would
you want in me? Look at all these,
look at all these defects, you know, that
she could see in herself.
You know,
because when Amulsaena has, you know, passed had
passed away, she was already about 35 years
of age, and, like, you aren't okay, 35
in our time, that's not very old.
But in those times, as you can understand,
life spans, generally speaking,
like, you get to 35, like, you were,
like, mashaAllah. You know, that was amazing, few
to 35. Like, life stays very different.
But anyway, the point is,
she's been left as a widow, 4 kids
to raise.
And not only that, she's still breastfeeding her
youngest baby.
So the prophet said
to her, as for being old, I'm older
than you.
And as for your children, they are under
the care of Allah and his
messenger.
And as for your statement that you have
jealousy, I will make dua
or I make dua to Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala to remove remove your jealousy
she accepted the proposal,
and it's related that her oldest son, Salima,
was the one who married his mother to
the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So this is how Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. SubhanAllah
became
Ummunmi Nhi
Salama, the wife of the prophet Sallallahu alaihi
wasallam.
The wife of the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam
in his life and in the Alhira, Allahu
Akbar.
So unsalana and her 4 children, of course,
they moved into the household of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and of course, the messenger of Allah began
to care and ask for unsallam and her
4 children
and to bring them up like his own
children.
And you can only imagine, we can only
just try to imagine
the amazing
example
would have been to the children of unsalom.
We know that. We see from the Hadith.
So this was a huge blessing upon Musa
Allahu alaihi wasalam for her children to grow
up in the household of the prophet Sallallahu
alaihi wasalam and one of the amazing things
which we'll come to is her children ended
up also growing up to become
teachers and scholars of the woman themselves.
Now because
the prophets of Allah had made that dua
to remove the feeling of jealousy from her
heart,
she never had, you know, refined ul Salma
never held any bad feelings in her heart
due to that dua.
And that's why the sooner that she come
into the household of the Prophet's sort of
long and a certain, you see the other
wives used to always feel safe with her,
they used to come and consult her and,
you know, take her advice. Never felt never
felt threatened to come along.
Now one of the virtues of unsalema
is that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala rewarded her
for her righteousness
and her piety
through the prophet Sallallahu Wa Salam
by sending down verses of the Quran to
be recited until Yom Kiyama
while the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was in
her house.
And I just wanna mention that this is
this shows you the high status of Salama
because the only other wife who Allah chose
to send down verses to the prophet Surah
Allah and was saying while the messenger of
Allah was in her house was Aisha radiAllahu
anha.
From the ayat that was sent down to
Salama
was that which was narrated in
in the Hadith Natiruliy
in which unsalemah
asks the messenger of Allah, You Rasool Allah,
I don't hear any mention about women who
make hijab. Like, when I when I listen
to the Quran,
I don't hear any mention about women who
made hijra, and she was the woman who
made hijra, right? And subhanAllah, we see how
allah
sends down these verses in Al Imran
in which Allahu Ta'ala says
in these verses
tells us how Allahu Ta'ala had answered the,
respondents
to those
early wuhajid and wuhajirat
and told them that Allah does not waste
the reward of any of them
whether they are male or female,
that both of you are from each other
and that those who have made hijrah
and who have been exiled from their
homes and have been harmed in the path
of Allah and
have fought for the sake of Allah and
been killed,
you know, in the path of Allah to
Panzada,
that Allah will expiate their sins for them,
and he will enter them into
the into the gardens
under which rivers flow. And this is a
reward from Allah Subhanthada,
and there is no way and reward that's
from Allah Subhan Tada. Right? It's the wah
that's from Allah.
And we consider that, you can look at
that area, pretty much that is the description
of Ousanamah's life and her sacrifice along with
her husband's Ousanamah as well, right?
So one of the things a lot of
people don't know about Usenamah
is that she was from
the very few and then who participated in
she had,
along with the prophets that are long with
the son of and the believers.
I'll just go through this as fast as
I can, but she participated
in Bani Mustadat, which was in the 5th
year of the Hidra.
She was also present at the treaty of
Hudaydiyah in the 6th of the Hidra.
She also went out to the Bay battle
of Haybah with the prophet
in the 7th year of the Hidra, and
she also went out with the prophet
in the 8th year of the hijra
and the battle of Qunay in the 8th
year of the hijra as well. And even
though, of course, she wouldn't have participated
in the actual fighting, that wasn't her main
role, right, in going after those battles,
but she shared in the effort
of supporting,
you know, supporting the battle white, for example,
carrying water
to go to a thirsty, treating the injured,
you know, whenever she was needed, she would
be there to assist the men in battle
in whichever way she was able.
So all of this shows you how the
women in Islam,
they have a share. You have to realize,
women in Islam,
they have a share in all of the
affairs of Din.
We we have a share in the affairs
of deen, my dear sisters, along with the
men. But it's just that our role is
different. Allah has given us a different role
due to our different nature
and that's why Allah's panda for example,
relieved a woman from the obligation
of of fighting in jihad and didn't make
it possible to her like a man.
Women
should be rewarded
for doing that just like any of the
male
Mujahideen.
So this is how women in the
understood the obligation
of living for the deen and being ready
to sacrifice and defend the deen when you're
called to do
that. Now
in one of the famous incidents
involving Hulsana that many of you would have
heard about is that happened during the
Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. Right? And
the Sahaba were all ready to do umrah.
They were in their nihrong.
They set out excited to do Umrah, but
they were prevented by Quraysh.
So the prophets had no longer signed the
treaty between Lemelson's
and the Quraysh.
And then he went out to companions
and told them to shave their heads,
you know, and to, you know, to cut
their hair, and to exit from Ihram, and
none of them moved to do it. None
of them moved and responded because they were
waiting, they were very, very upset.
They were very, very upset because they had
it they had, you know, they were longing
to go back to Makkah
and to do their Umrah,
and now they've been prevented by Quraysh, and
they they were thinking that perhaps Allah will
send them an ayah,
you know,
telling us something different.
So the prophet,
says, goes into unsalemah
where she was staying,
and he confides in her, and he consults
with her, right,
and tells her what's happened, how he ordered
them to do something and they haven't responded
to the young salamah.
So that's what she says to him, and
this shows you her high level of wisdom
and intelligence,
she says to them says to him,
go out go out to them. Do not
speak to any of them.
Call your lover to shave your hair
and order for your camel to be slaughtered
and don't say anything to anyone.
And so the prophet, sir, Allah went out,
he called for his barber to, you know,
shave his hair. He ordered for his sacrificial
animal, which we only had to sacrifice, you
know, the the hadi, but if you don't,
you go for a one rock. Anyway,
so and then when the companions saw that
they, you know, when they saw the messenger
followed doing that, they all stood up and
began
shaving each other's hair and
sacrificing the sacrificial animals, right?
Now
from the benefits of this hadith as mentioned
by Ibn Hajar Radiallam,
Rahim Allah,
he said it shows the virtue of seeking
counsel
to consult other other people in making decisions.
Like, that's something he can courage his land.
You're making a big decision,
seek counsel with other believers, and he says,
even Hajdu says, even if it means a
husband
seeking advice from his wife.
Right?
Because, you know, sometimes men are told, don't
seek advice from your wife, for example, you
know?
Also, SubhanAllah, it teaches us that
when a person practices what they preach,
that has far more impact
than
than what you say, as we know. Right?
And that's why when the Sahaba saw the
messenger of Allah
of
Allah acting upon what he had told them
to do,
that that's what made them move and go
ahead and start, you know, implementing what he
had told them. And
thirdly, Ibn Hajus says that it shows the
high intelligence,
the high level of intelligence and wisdom and
the problem solving ability that unsalemah had and
that this is a quality that unsalemah shared
with Khadija and Bari alonghua and house, is
they had a similarity in
that. Now one of the most amazing things
about Wunsalama
is despite the fact
despite the fact that she was only
for about 6 years,
in those 6 years,
she gained a huge amount of knowledge.
Right, she gained a huge amount of knowledge
to the level that she became the most
prominent
foreheart of the Nadina.
And that's why after the prophet sort of
long Nislam passed away,
the companions
used to send to ask her
for fatawa
on various matters like divorce or breastfeeding or
other matters of ones
that
are
connected
a
level
is a level she reached, and, you know,
when her people knowledge counted the book I
have,
from amongst the companions, they found there were
13 in number
from males and females,
and among them was Oomsalma.
So this was despite the fact
that she was a busy mother who was
very focused on bringing up her children upon
the sanitabia
and,
you know, all the other things she was
doing, subhanAllah, her role
as Umar al Bineen,
subhanAllah, the wife of the prophet, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. And one thing this does show
us
is that she had that ability
to be able to balance her time
between her husband
and her children and her seeking of knowledge,
her time for a baddie and also her
time for serving the woman.
And subhanAllah,
I just want to also mention that she
ended up becoming the 2nd racist narrator of
Hadith after Aisha.
Altogether,
she directed
378 hadiths of the
prophet And there are certain Hadiths that she
narrated to us that nobody else has narrated,
subhanAllah.
That shows
that in fact, she's almost like a historian
of the sunnah concerning the events of the
Messenger of Allah,
Surah Allah Nesam's life.
So my dear sister, suddenly gone for about
53 years
after the passing of her beloved husband,
the messenger of Allah, salallahu alayhi wasalam,
and she made the most of all of
the days of her life. Right?
Transmitting all of the money that she had
learned to others,
answering the tower, devoting herself to her private
worship,
and she raised her children upon the best
until
she raised them to become amongst some of
the most knowledgeable in our Umnah.
In particular, I want to mention about her
daughter, Zainab Bint
Abi Salama, Salama who became considered
from amongst the most
knowledgeable women of her time
as stated by many scholars
and she herself became a faqihah and a
wuhadika in her own right
who narrated at least 24 hadiths
from the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi
Wasallam. So as I said, unsalehi maddis on
and she was, from the very last of
the companions, to pass away,
and she was the last of his wife
to pass away.
And after passing of the prophet, so long
as Saddam, she remained in her house
as he had ordered her, and she actually
never went out and involved her in any
of the later convicts that happened between the
Muslims But that doesn't mean that she wasn't
always
concerned in overlooking the affairs of the ummah,
and that's why you find many times you
would write letters
in order to advise certain individuals
or to try to solve problems and disputes
that happened
between the Muslims after the passing of the
prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
So this is how she remained until the
time of her death came in the year
around the year of the 61 after the
Hijra.
And it's said that what happened was that
when the very tragic news came to her
about the killing of Hussein
Binani, and as we know, he was killed
on Ashura in Muharram.
So
when that news reached her of the killing
of the grandson of the prophet, salAllahu alaihi
wa sallam, and you can imagine
the grandsons of the prophet salAllahu alaihi wa
sallam to her would be like her own
grandsons. I mean, she's the wife of the
prophet
right?
So when she heard that, you know, she's
really old, but imagine an 84 year old
woman hearing this news, right?
And so all she was saying was what
have they done?
What have they done?
And it said that, you know, she was
crying so much that she ended up slumping
over and just became silent, like, she couldn't
speak anymore
due to her sadness.
And just a few days later, she passed
away. And as I said, she was about
84 years of age by then.
So SubhanAllah, Abu Huraira was the one who
read who led her funeral prayer,
and they carried her pious body to Adlamir
to be buried along with the rest of
the wives of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam
To my dear sisters, have I said, she
was the last of the wives of the
prophet SAW Alai Wa Salam to lead this
life
But look at all that she achieved in
her life and the level of her deeds
Amuhaajira
for the sake of Allah Someone who did,
he drew twice for the sake of Allah
Amujahidah
Someone who went out for battles, subhanAllah, for
the sake of Allah
A prominent Fapeha,
a narrator of Hadith,
an advisor
to the Ummah a woman renowned for her
knowledge and internet,
a most pious and devoted
mother and wife,
a woman who understood
her true purpose in this dunya
You know, she understood that this life is
so very short
and all you're going to be taking from
this world in the end is the deeds
that you did for the sake of Allah
with sincerity
and then after all that, it's either the
Jannah or the
fire. It may not give us all Jannah
and protect us from the fire.
And that's why my thesis is I just
want to finish up by saying that
these
are the true role models
and examples
that we should be striving to emulate,
you know, in our character, in our actions,
in our deeds,
instead of, you know, these influences
that we are surrounded with
in this time we're living in, who all
they do
is remind us of dunya and running after
the worldly life.
May Allah protect us from that, Yawr binarabin,
and I ask Allahu Ta'ala to
unite us
in
Jannah with
mumineen,
salamamun
mumineen
Aisha waniallahu anha and the
and the other Alaihi Wasallam May Allahu Ta'ala
make us for those who will meet with
the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam at his hold,
at his water tank which is water is
whiter than milk and its taste is sweeter
than honey and its vessels are more numerous
than the stars in the sky and we
ask Allah to Allah that it will follow
the prophet prophets So Allahu alayhi salam eachujannah
along with the Anbiyaq, the prophets,
along with the Siddeepi and the sincere believers,
along with the shuhadaq,