Yaser Birjas – The Hadith Of Abu Sufyan And Hercules
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The speaker discusses the story of the prophet Muhammad salallahu alaihi wa sallam, which involved a caravan being sent to Yemen during peace talks with the Hercules. The story involves a man named bossy who had a dream of becoming a Muslim and being safe, but found some Arabs who did not believe in Islam. The speaker describes the situation where bossy asked them questions about their kinship and commandments, and they discuss the uproar in the court. The conversation then shifts to a discussion between two Christian leaders about their faith and how it can enhance their credibility.
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Being truthful
and truthfulness.
Hadith number 56, which is a very famous
hadith. It's a long hadith in Sal Bukhari
and Muslim,
but he just took one part of it.
We can explain a little bit of it,
insha Allahu Ta'ala. The hadith is known as
hadith Abu Sufyan in
his meeting with the Hercules when he went
to Hashem.
So just to give you the we read
the hadith and we explained the story insha'Allah.
So Abu Sufyan,
in the story with with Hercules, he says,
In the discussion with him, the Hercules, he
asked him,
he asked Abu Sufyan
about the teachings of the prophet Muhammad salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. What exactly does he teach
you?
Abu Sufyan says, I said,
You worship Allah alone and no one else
with him, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
And leave aside what your forefathers have said
about worshiping other than Allah.
He orders us to pray,
and being truthful,
chastity and modesty,
and strengthen the ties of their kinship. Rur
Bukhari Muslim.
So that's the story of the Imam al
Bukhari, rahimullah, I mean,
An Nawawi, he chose to put it in
this hadith.
The story behind it because if you remember
when the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he signed
a treaty between
him in Medina and the people of Mecca.
So the Meccans,
they took advantage of that treaty because they've
been exhausted financially throughout the years of the
war.
So they were they were never able to
recover from that in the trade towards Assam.
They were able to go to Yemen,
so they have half of their trade being
cut off completely.
The trade during the the the summertime to
go to Assam.
So now they took advantage of that, and
now it's time for them to recover and
try their best. So they had a huge
caravan
led by the chief of Makkah himself Abu
Sufyan,
and they went to a sham.
During the same time, the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam also took advantage of that peace treaty,
and he started sending his invitations to the
leaders of the world to Islam.
So he sent a letter to the Hercules
in Isham, the one in Egypt, in Yemen,
in Persia.
So he sent to the major,
areas around him, invite him to Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
It coincided that at the time of the
arrival of the letter of the prophet
to the Hercules in Hashem,
Abu Sufyan was coming in there with his
caravan around that same time.
So what was in the letter the prophet
said to Hercules?
The prophet
said, bismillah rahmanirrahim
in the name of Allah
says, Muhammad
Rasoolallah,
Hirakal,
the the king of the of the Romans.
You become Muslim,
and you will be safe.
Allah will give you double the reward for
being a Muslim and for also being faithful,
because he was known to be a religious
man.
He was famous to be a religious man
on his own, of course, Yani Way. And
he used to read in the book, like
he's looking for these signs and looking for
these,
the sign of the return of of the
the final prophet. He believed in that stuff.
So when this arrived, the letter, he was
surprised and shocked. Like, he knew the prophet
was gonna be coming out, but he never
thought it was gonna be from the Arab.
So he
asked, I had in my dream, because he
had in his dream
that the king the king he said the
king of the circumcised
will take his kingdom away from him.
And he thought they were the Jewish people.
But then he said to the people, he
says, could you ask if these are Arabs?
They do that? And they went in the
marketplace, found some Arabs, said, hey man, come
over here.
So they they they checked him and they
said, yeah, they do circumcise.
So he said, find me somebody who knows
this man who sent me this letter.
So they asked around,
and they told him that they kept telling
him, this is the closest
family kin that you can find, and it
all went to Abu Sufyan.
This is his kinship.
So they brought up Abu Sufyan. Abu Sufyan
for the first time, he's shocked
that the king of the area is calling
him.
So he came with the with the group
from the from, from Quraish,
and as they arrived in the court,
the king was sitting there, and you can
imagine now the the the the sight and
the scene around Abu Sufyan.
He looked at the king and all the
guards and all the generals and all the
bishops, and you can imagine now.
So Abu Sufyan, he asked him through the
translation. He said, tell him who is the
closest person to him in terms of kinship?
They said he said, that would be me,
Abu Sufyan. He said, okay. Come forward.
And he sent everybody else behind him. And
he asked the people behind him, he says,
I'm gonna ask this man a few question
about this man who claims to be a
If he tells a lie, I need you
to tell me. Otherwise,
you'll all be liable for this. So Abu
Sufyan, he said, I swear to god, I
was prepared to give every possible lie every
lie possible about Muhammad the moment,
except I felt ashamed.
I will be ashamed if I would lie
about him, that the people will say that
I was lying.
So, subhanAllah,
a non believer,
a protest,
and he hates lying.
Imagine some Muslims today somehow lying. It's just
like a way to get out of
whatever. They think it's okay for them.
And here, this non believing man, he says,
no. No. No. I'm not gonna lie.
Like, what a shame to a a lie
to be attributed to someone like Abu Sufyan.
So he asked him a few questions.
How do you know this man? How close
is he to you? Did he ever call
for this kingdom before? Did he happen from
any his ancestors, anybody who was a king
that he maybe is calling his, you know,
for the kingdom of his ancestors. So he
asked him many questions.
And among the question that he asked,
is these questions. He says, what is he
exactly ordering you to do? What what are
his commandments?
And that was the answer of Abusufyan.
He said,
well, he call he's calling us to worship
Allah, 1 one god alone, and not associate
any partners with him. He command us to
pray to God. He command us to be
truthful to God and to people. He asked
us to be modest and stay just, and
he asked us to maintain the ties of
kinship.
And
it was a long discussion, and at the
end of the the Hercules, he explained to
Abusafyan
why he asked all these questions.
So he told him, you know, I asked
you who follows him. He said the the
Arad, I mean, the the poor people. He
said that's the the true followers of the
of the prophets,
the poor usually. I ask you if they
live his faith. He said no one lives
his faith after, you know, they believe. So
this is exactly when the sweetness of faith
enters their heart. And I asked about this,
I asked about that, I asked about that.
Then he said to him,
if what you saw what you said to
me is true,
what you said is true,
is one day, he is gonna tie he's
gonna take and occupy
this the the spot this this this actually
the space under my feet. Like, he's gonna
take this land.
And suddenly, he's Abu Sufyan, he said, suddenly
an uproar
in the court. They start arguing among themselves,
and then they just kinda tried taking us
out of the court there and just
as we're working outside of the palace, looking
at each other.
And Abu Sufyan, he was so shocked,
And he told his his people, he says,
look what happens here.
The king of the blondies, he said. The
king of the blondies is so scared of
him.
Like, to this to this level, Mohammed's kingdom
has become so strong. He's basically saying,
even the king of Banil Asfar, the yellow
people, the blond as they call them, they're
like the king of the blond is so
scared of him.
And then he said, I knew since then
that the time was coming.
Imam al Bukhayr
continuing the story afterwards from his own accord,
he says,
and this king afterwards, he wanted to test
the people around him
and the strength of their faith.
So he calls the closest amongst them to
him. And he started negotiating with them, telling
them what do you guys think?
Shouldn't we listen to him and follow this
this prophet?
I mean, if we do, we gain both,
the reward of this world and also
the reward for the hereafter.
But his people didn't even wanna entertain the
idea, and they start running towards the gates
saying that, you know what? This is blasphemy.
But they found all the gates to be
locked and closed. He said, come over here.
I was just testing the strength of your
faith. Now that you are, I'm okay with
that too. And then Imam Bukar kept saying
that as the Muslims are advancing into the
north, this king started retreating, retreating, retreating until
they
were expelled completely from the Levant, Asham, into
Turkey, more than Turkey and even beyond.
And then he said that was the last
thing we've heard from this king.
As if Imam Abu Ghayr
commented with Imam Abu Hajar on the commentary
of the hadith, he says,
kindly Imam Abu Khair Islam. Like, as if
Imam Abu Khaira was hoping
that those words of,
the king
were indication
that he believed before he died.
But Allahu Ta'ala, we have no confirmation
of that. The point from the story here,
he said was so and he commands you
to be truthful. So my dear brothers and
sisters,
being truthful as you can see,
subhanAllah, it's a quality
that even even,
the non believers recognize the value of being
truthful.
And here we're talking about conversation between someone
who worships
the the idols,
another who,
we are a Christian,
and they both
understood the value of being truthful.
And, of course, in in Islam,
enhances that as well too.
Making that being truthful to Allah first and
before anything is more important than anything else,
and then being truthful to the people. So
make sure whatever that you say, it should
be true
Any questions?
May?