Yasir Khan – Weekly Seerah Session – The Era Of Madinah
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, wa salatu wa
salamu ala Sayyid al-Anbiya nabiyyina Muhammad wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in.
Alhamdulillah, last week we covered in the seerah
of the Prophet ﷺ the events that led
to Badr and then what happened during Badr.
As we've explained that Badr was one of
the most important incidents that has happened in
the Islamic history because it basically brought the
Muslims to be on the map and it
brought the Muslims a political identity.
People were now thinking that, okay, it's not
just this random group that we think that
they're here, maybe they'll be existing, maybe they
won't be existing, but actually it's in actual
power right now.
And as we said that the Prophet ﷺ
didn't just jump into this thing, it took
them almost 15 years for this event to
happen.
A lot of times we Muslims, whenever we
advocate for something or we start something, we
like for it to show immediate results.
And one of the things that we see
in the sunnah of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala is that you're not going to see
immediate results.
You have to wait, you have to be
patient, and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants
to see if you're really true in your
desire and your seeking of what is the
truth.
And so we see over here that the
Muslims are, for 15 years, they could easily
have been, by now, give up that really,
how are we going to get any victory
at this point.
But because they were patient and because of
all of that, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
brought them the victory.
And one thing to realize is that the
people who participated in the battle of Badr
are such people that when Jibreel ﷺ came
and asked the Prophet ﷺ that, you know,
how are the people who participated in Badr?
And the Prophet ﷺ said that those are
the best people amongst us.
Those are the best people amongst us.
Then Jibreel ﷺ said that actually the angels
who participated in Badr, those are the best
angels amongst us.
And so we see that the people of
Badr had such a tremendous virtue that so
many times they would, you know, if there
was any type of mistake done from them
or anything like that, the Prophet ﷺ would
forgive them because of them participating in Badr.
And one of the famous incidents is that
of Hatib ibn Balta.
This was a companion of the Prophet ﷺ
who actually, in the later years, wrote a
letter to the Quraysh informing them of the
plan of the Prophet ﷺ.
And when the Prophet ﷺ found out about
this, this is a major act, right?
A major act against the Muslims.
But even then the Prophet ﷺ forgave him
because he said that these are people of
Badr, which means that Allah ﷻ has already
forgiven them.
And one thing for us to focus on
over here is why did Allah ﷻ give
them such a high stance?
And that is because their tawakkul, their reliance
on Allah ﷻ was such that even though
they were, you know, technically not ready, they
were not prepared, but when the call came
out, they were ready, they did not back
out, and they showed their reliance on Allah,
their tawakkul on Allah, and their yaqeen and
their faith in Allah ﷻ.
We see that the Quraysh, they're coming with
so many numbers.
But the Muslims have small numbers, but even
then they're winning.
Now, from the Quraysh, how many people came
to fight?
About 1,000 or so people came to
fight.
Of them, how many people passed away?
How many people died?
About 70 people passed away.
The Muslims were about 300 in number.
And how many passed away from them?
About 15 of them passed away.
70 of the kuffar of the Quraysh, they
passed away.
Another 70 were taken as prisoners of war.
And the concept of prisoners of war was
something very common then.
The way it would work in the Arabian,
you know, culture, if you would have a
fight, whichever side would win, they would capture
whoever's from the other side, and they would
take them, and they would turn into slaves
and all that.
Or they would be killed.
So, there was a whole bunch of people,
including the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ, who
is Abbas ﷺ, including the son-in-law
of the Prophet ﷺ.
They're all taken as prisoners of war.
Now, this is the first time all of
this is happening, where first you're seeing people
are dying in the path of Allah.
So, the whole concept of what to do
with the shaheed.
Do we wash their body?
Do we bury them?
What do we do with them?
So, the concept of shuhada, the concept of
shaheed, this is something new.
The concept of spoils of war.
We just won this battle.
We have all this wealth that just came
to us.
What do we do with that?
We just got all these prisoners of war.
What do we do with that?
So, even though the battle ended, it had
a lot of different lessons for the Muslims.
And one of the major things was that
when it came to it, the Prophet ﷺ
did not just say that, okay, we won,
but now it's time to just go.
No.
He waited right there and then, and he
said, let's stay here in the place of
Badr, so that this way we can have
confidence that we won the battle.
The other side is the one that retreated.
They're the ones that left.
That's the one thing that will be established.
The next thing is that when it comes
to the martyrs, the shuhada of the Muslims,
as a shaheed, the body is not washed.
And the clothes are not changed.
Why?
Because in Qiyamah, in the Day of Judgment,
the martyrs will come and their blood is
going to be smelling like musk.
And so therefore, they are not washed.
And they're buried exactly where they have passed
away.
So the Prophet ﷺ is teaching them all
of this.
So this is what's going on with the
Muslims.
Now, this is probably one of the happiest
days of the Prophet ﷺ's life.
Why?
Because finally Islam got victory.
And not just victory, but the biggest enemies
of Islam, the people who have tortured the
Prophet ﷺ for over a decade, they're all
dead.
And they were all thrown, 70 people, they
were all thrown into one well.
And now this is the time for the
Prophet ﷺ, he started to call them by
name.
O Abu Jahl, O Utbah, O Shaybah, what
is your place right now?
He even tells, he's talking to the well,
and he's saying that, you know, what has
Allah ﷻ done to you?
Did you find the promise of Allah to
be true?
Because for indeed we found the promise of
Allah to be true.
What was the promise of Allah for those
people who are patient?
That they will get victory or no?
They will get victory.
Did the Muslims get victory today or no?
The promise of Allah is fulfilled.
What did Allah promise the mushrikeen?
The people who die without the kalima, the
enemies of Islam, that they're going to be
burning in the fire.
So the Prophet ﷺ is asking them, he
said, did you find the promise of Allah
ﷻ today to be true?
Umar ﷺ who comes to the Prophet ﷺ,
and says, O Prophet of Allah, you're speaking
to the dead, dead, do they hear us?
And so at this, the Prophet ﷺ is
like, O Umar, just the way you guys
can hear, they can hear, they cannot respond
to us, but they can hear.
Right?
Now there's a whole big debate on this
theological debate on whether the dead can hear
or the dead cannot hear, but we have
this hadith that says that the Prophet ﷺ
did speak, there are other narrations that say
that you cannot speak to the dead and
all of that as well.
The point is not that, the point is
the seerah of it, that all of those
people, that they were the enemies of the
Prophet ﷺ, they took on every single propaganda,
every single chance to harm the Prophet ﷺ,
today they are meeting, they've met their end,
and they're over there.
Now there are two different camps, the Muslim
camp and the mushrik camp.
The mushrikeen, they run back to Mecca, and
they are in this stage of like awe,
they don't know what just happened, all their
leaders passed away, everybody passed away, they are
defeated in a way that they have never
imagined that this would be done.
The Muslims are going back, they're rejoicing, they're
happy.
Zayd ibn Harithah, he goes to Medina, and
he starts to say, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,
and the Muslims are hearing that, wow, the
Muslims are victorious.
And subhanAllah, you look at this, that even
though this is probably the most proud day
for the Prophet ﷺ, even then, Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala tested the Prophet ﷺ.
As he's entering into Medina, he finds out
that his daughter Ruqayya passed away.
Even at this time, Uthman radhiAllahu anhu, he's
burying her in the Baqir, and he's dusting
off his hands, and this is the time
for them to rejoice and to be happy.
But even then, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is testing the Prophet ﷺ.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is making him
an example for us.
That it doesn't matter how much we ever
go through, he's gone through more than us.
So his daughter has passed away.
Now he's left with this situation of what
should he do with the prisoners of war.
And some people like Uthman radhiAllahu anhu, he's
like, kill them all.
And Abu Bakr radhiAllahu anhu is like, oh
Prophet of Allah, this is your family.
These are your people.
Don't kill them.
Let's have a thing with them.
Let's put ransom on them.
And those people who cannot pay, let them
teach the people in Medina who do not
know how to read and learn.
And this is the encouragement of education in
our deen.
That the Prophet ﷺ, even in situation like
this, what is he doing?
He's looking for opportunity of education for the
people of Medina.
And he's saying that for every person, every
prisoner of war, he is to teach ten
people.
He is to teach ten people.
And other people are bringing their wealth and
everything.
And as the wealth come in, the Prophet
ﷺ is going through some things.
And one of the things that he sees
is he sees the necklace of Khadijah radhiAllahu
anhu.
And he's shocked to see this.
Then he finds out that this is the
necklace that was given to his daughter Zainab
radhiAllahu anhu.
And his daughter Zainab radhiAllahu anhu, her son
Aas, he is taken as a prisoner of
war.
So she sent the necklace to free him.
The Prophet ﷺ began to have tears in
his eyes.
He said, You can have this, but when
you go back, please send my daughter back
to me.
And so as Zainab radhiAllahu anhu comes back,
and it's a long story, but when she's
coming back, one of the Meccans go, and
he's trying to stop the camel.
As he's stopping the camel, the camel picks
up his legs, and Zainab radhiAllahu anhu, she
falls 15 feet from, she falls from the
camel, and she was pregnant at that time,
and she had miscarriage.
And after a little bit, she passes away
as well.
The Prophet ﷺ had four children, four daughters,
and of them, three of them passed away
in his lifetime.
So any type of pain that you could
imagine, he's gone through it.
He's gone through it.
And so this is the situation over there.
The Muslims are happy.
The Muslims are rejoicing that finally our situation
is, alhamdulillah, getting better.
Now there's three camps.
The Quraysh, they're in absolute shock.
They don't know what just happened.
They're like, we used to have these gatherings
where our elders used to gather and talk
and discuss things, and that's not happening.
Up till now, there's the two groups, three
groups in Madinah.
The Muslims, they're rejoicing.
The head of the Munafiqun, Abdullah bin Ubay
bin Saloon, he till now was hopeful that
the Muslims will just be wiped out soon,
they're going to be ended, and as soon
as they're ended, I'm going to become the
king over here.
So he's still hopeful for that.
But now, this is the first time that
this happens against them and he loses all
his hopes.
So the Munafiqun are kind of calming down
and they're like, actually, I don't think we
could be so hopeful anymore because this is
now a legitimate power.
The Jews, they become very agitated.
And they start to say, oh, you guys
are thinking that you guys are winners in
war?
You guys are fighting Quraysh.
The Quraysh don't know anything about war.
If you guys were to fight us, we
will show you this, we will show you
what a war is.
And they start to show that true hatred
that they kept in their hearts, now it's
starting to show.
Because they're seeing that the Muslims are becoming
victorious and they cannot handle that anymore.
So now we're going to start to see
in the next years that we go through
very clear enmity of the Quraysh coming and
they're going to start to propagate against the
Prophet ﷺ, start to plan assassinations and everything.
Over there in Mecca, the situation is so
bad that they're thinking what to do.
And one time Safwan ibn Umayyah, first of
all, how did it happen when one of
the first haythaman, one of the first soldiers
go back from the battle of Badr and
he tells the people of Mecca what happened,
he started to name names, Abu Jahl, Umayyah,
Shaybah, Umayyah, all of them are killed.
People are like, I think this guy became
crazy.
I think he's crazy, he doesn't know what
he's talking about.
How is this possible that all the leaders
just passed away?
It's not possible.
And so one of them tells him, he's
like, you know what, I think he's crazy,
just ask him about Safwan.
Where is Safwan?
Because Safwan didn't go for a fight, but
he says ask him about Safwan to see
if Safwan is killed or not.
If he says Safwan is killed, then this
guy is crazy, he doesn't know what he's
talking about.
He tells him, he's like, where is Safwan?
He's like, oh Safwan, he's okay, he's sitting
somewhere over there, but his father and his
brother, they're both killed.
So the people realized, they're like, oh my
God, this is done.
Actually, he's saying the truth.
Abu Sufyan, he goes, he sees Abu Lahab.
Remember, Abu Lahab didn't go.
Abu Lahab sent Al-Asib Nawail on his
behalf.
So Abu Lahab asked, he's like, what happened?
And when Abu Sufyan starts to mention the
story of what happened, he says, wallahi, you
can't blame our people because they had some
power from the sky that we could not
overcome.
This was like something we've never seen in
our life.
And one of the slaves of Abbas radiallahu
anhu, he gets so happy, he's like, these
are the angels that the Prophet ﷺ spoke
about.
And so he says this, and Abu Lahab
gets so upset that he starts beating him
up and beating him up so much that
he was about to kill him.
And then his, Abbas radiallahu anhu's wife comes
and says that, oh, this is what you
do?
That Abbas is gone, you're going to do
this to his household?
So he calms down, and after a little
bit, Abu Lahab is afflicted with some type
of sickness.
A sickness was there's worm coming out of
his body, and Abu Lahab passes away as
well.
Now really all the leaders, the first generation
of leaders, they're all gone.
Now it's the next one left.
The next one is left, for example, the
son of Umayyah is left.
The son of Umayyah is Safwan.
Safwan one day is sitting down, very depressed,
looking down, and another person by the name
of Umayr ibn Wahab, he goes by.
They're like, what happened?
He's like, you know, it's just there's no
more life left in Makkah.
All the elders passed away.
There's nobody gathering, there's no talk, nothing.
How did this happen to us?
And Umayr ibn Wahab is like, yeah, I
just, this Muhammad, what he's done to us
is just too much.
He's like, is there nothing we can do?
And Umayr is like, Wallahi, if I didn't
have my debt, I would have gone, and
I would have taken care of Muhammad today.
And Safwan is like, really?
Now remember, Safwan's father was Umayyah, who was
the master of Bilal.
This was the family who used to torture
Bilal.
Right?
And so his father is dead.
He's like, really?
You think you could, if I was to
take care of your debt, will you go
and kill him?
He's like, yeah.
He's like, okay, you know what?
I'll take care of your family.
Everything I get for my family, I'll get
for your family.
I will take care of them just like
mine.
And whatever debt you have, I'll take care
of them completely.
He's like, really?
You'll do that?
He's like, yeah.
He's like, with the condition that you go
and kill the Prophet.
So Umayr ibn Wahhab, he goes, and he
takes a sword, and he poisons the sword.
When you poison the sword, you don't need
to kill a person.
You don't need to chop off his head.
You just need one incision.
Because then the blood will go into, the
poison will go into the blood supply, and
the person will be killed automatically.
And so he goes, and he poisons the
sword, and he gets ready, and he goes
to Medina.
Now this is the gloomy, depressive state in
Mecca.
And you go to Medina, and everybody's happy,
sitting down about how everything happened in Medina,
how everything happened in Badr.
And one day there's a group sitting down
with Umar r.a, and they're talking.
And he comes, Umayr ibn Wahhab.
As soon as Umar's saying, he says, هذا
عدو الله, this enemy of Allah.
ما جاء إلا لشرّن.
He didn't come except for something bad, except
for something evil.
Umar r.a had Firasah.
So he's very thin, he's like, you guys
watch out, make sure that he doesn't go
anywhere.
He goes to the Prophet ﷺ, and he
said, O Prophet of Allah, Umayr ibn Wahhab
has come, and he has come for no
good.
And so he goes, and the Prophet ﷺ
is like, tell him to bring him.
He goes and holds him by the collar,
and he brings him to the Prophet ﷺ.
He says, Umar is here.
Prophet ﷺ is like, leave him.
Why are you holding him from the collar?
And he leaves him, but he's still standing
next to him.
He's like, Umar, you could back off, you
could go back now.
And the Prophet ﷺ starts to tell Umayr,
he's like, what did you come for?
He's like, I came because my son is
a prisoner, so I came to give the
ransom and to take my son.
This was the excuse that he came with.
The Prophet ﷺ is like, really, is that
what you came for?
He's like, yeah, yeah, wallahi, that's the only
thing that I came for.
I just came to just take my son.
The Prophet ﷺ is like, so why do
you have the sword on?
He's like, oh, this sword, you know, has
this sword ever done any good to us?
It's only done bad to us.
It's just here just for the sake of
it.
He's like, really?
He's like, come close.
Came close.
And he says, and he's like, what was
your conversation with Safwan like?
And now, Umayr ibn Wahhab is so shocked,
because there was nobody except them two who
heard of this conversation.
Nobody.
And they made a deal that they will
not let anybody know.
And he left so nobody could have come
before him.
He's like, what was your conversation with Safwan?
And as soon as he heard that, he's
like, ash'hadu an la ilaha illallah.
Immediately he, what?
He accepted Islam.
And Umayr radiallahu anhu was like, wallahi, maa
kana ala wajhi al-ardi abghada ilayya minhum.
He says, wallahi, there wasn't anyone who was
more hated by me than him on this
earth.
waqad saara ahabba ilayya min ahad al-abna
'i.
And today he became more beloved to me
than one of my kids.
This was what you call love for the
sake of Allah and hate for the sake
of Allah.
So long as he was not a Muslim,
so long as he was an enemy of
Islam, he was the enemy of Umayr radiallahu
anhu.
As soon as he left that and became
the friend of Islam and accepted Islam, that's
it.
Prophet ﷺ said that, Umayr radiallahu anhu was
like, that's it, he's now my friend.
So this was the dilemma, this was the
situation that was going on.
Now, as I said, the situation is going
to unfold because Badr happened in second year
and Uhud happened in third year.
It's one year left.
And now you can tell there's going to
be a lot of things going on.
This rage, this revenge, right?
All of this is going on in the
minds of the Quraysh of what to do.
And inshallah, we will continue with that next
week.
But the minimum we learn from this lesson
is to love for the sake of Allah,
is to hate for the sake of Allah,
is to have faith, is to have patience,
knowing that the Prophet ﷺ, it took him
15 years to see the first major victory.
But he never lost hope.
And even in that, he was afflicted with
such pain that his daughter passed away.
So it does not matter what we go
through.
Know that the Prophet ﷺ has gone through
more.
And also know that going through some type
of pain does not mean Allah does not
like you, does not mean that Allah hates
you.
It just means that Allah is testing you.
And the more you test, the higher your
grade goes.
The more you test, the higher your grade
goes.
So it just means more opportunities for you.
May Allah ﷻ give us the ability to
understand Waqf-e-Jaman.