Yaser Birjas – The Hadith Of Abu Sufyan And Hercules

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?

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