Yusha Evans – Zubayr ibn al-Awwam The Promissed Ones Series
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We'll be talking about Abu Abdullah al-Jubeir
ibn al-Awwam, another one of the great
companions of the Prophet ﷺ.
Another one that's, of course, all of these
on this list are on my short list.
Al-Jubeir ibn al-Awwam is one of
those ones who I have true love for
and also another one that we'll be talking
about next week or the week after, inshaAllah.
And then once we finish this series, I
have to, we are going to start talking
about some different companions, but I'm also going
to talk with Iman Majid because he's doing
Heroes of Islam, correct Abu?
He's doing Heroes of Islam and I want
to make sure that we don't conflict with
what we're talking about, inshaAllah.
I will try to restrict what I'm doing
to the companions and the ta'di'in, inshaAllah,
and the scholars of Islam.
One series we have will be on the
imna of this ummah.
We will go deeply into the story of
Imam Abu Ahmed, Imam Al-Shafi'i, Imam
Abu Hanifa, and Imam Majid, inshaAllah, and then
their students because the only reason we have
what we have from them is their students.
So we will go deeper into that, inshaAllah,
but I will confer with Imam Majid to
make sure that we don't conflict and say
the same thing over again, inshaAllah.
His name was Ibn Khuwaybid, Ibn Asad, Ibn
Abdul Uzza, which we know was a name
that the Meccans gave themselves after the gods
of the Quraysh.
Ibn Qusay, Ibn Qilad.
Qilad, by the way, do any of you
know what Qilad signifies?
It's an old Arab tribe.
It's a very, very old Arab tribe of
the Quraysh, and actually my son was named,
my oldest son is named Qilad.
His name is Qilad, but in English it's
Caleb.
A lot of people are like, why are
you named Caleb?
Two reasons.
It's an old Arab tribe.
Number two, if you read the story of
Yusha Ibn Nun, Yusha Ibn Nun, who was
the successor to Musa Alayhi Salaam, he's also
mentioned in the Qur'an.
He's the boy with the fish.
How many of you know that story?
He lost the fish.
That's Yusha Ibn Nun.
Yusha Ibn Nun, if you study not only
the Old Testament, but historical documents, the same
way that Musa had Harun, Yusha Ibn Nun
learned from him, and he had someone who
he had as a companion who was very
close to him, and his name was Qilad.
That was his name.
More English, Caleb.
So, since the fact that I was named
Yusha, I decided to name my firstborn Caleb.
It does not mean dog.
I've had some Arab brothers go, why did
you name your son Caleb?
I said, no, I didn't name him Caleb.
I named him Qilad.
And there's some brothers that do know that.
Yeah, that's an old name of an Arab
tribe.
And it was also the name of the
companion of Yusha Ibn Nun, who stood next
to him when he conquered Jerusalem.
Because we know that Musa never made it
back.
Musa died in the wilderness, correct?
But Yusha afterwards was the one who conquered
Jerusalem from the giants of the time.
They were known as giants.
But he was the only prophet we also
know that Allah stopped time for him.
He was about to win the battle.
This is just a side note, by the
way.
He was about to win the battle, and
the sun was about to set.
It was past the time of Asr.
And he looked at the sun and said,
you and I both answer to the same
Rabb, stay where you are.
And the sun stayed exactly where it was
in the sky until he won the battle,
and then the sun set.
Just a really quick side note, inshaAllah.
His mother was Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib, the
messenger of Allah's ﷺ aunt, who joined Islam.
Al-Zubayr was amongst the early Muslims.
If you've noticed that a lot of the
Ashr Mubashireen were amongst the early Muslims.
Because to accept Islam at that time, to
accept Islam at that time was very difficult.
It was very difficult.
You were going to be subjected to hardships
and difficulties.
It's like becoming a Muslim in the south
in a Christian family.
You know what I mean?
Like you're going to accept difficulties.
I deal with a lot of new Muslims
who are going back to families who are
not going to be nice to them.
I've dealt with one sister, maybe last year,
who literally was kicked out of her house
for accepting Islam.
And her family used to actually dump dead
pig carcasses on her front door because of
her acceptance of Islam.
But Allah ﷻ had guided her.
She's a strong Muslim now, married with children,
alhamdulillah.
But this is the reason why you see
a lot of these early Muslims were given
favor by Allah ﷻ.
Because later on, right, later on in Medina,
accepting Islam, I'm not saying it was an
easy thing.
Allah guided people to Islam.
But you were a part of the Muslim
community.
You had support.
You had protection.
You had all of these things.
But in the early days of Mecca, to
accept Islam meant that you went against family.
You went against tribe.
You went against your entire culture.
You went against your entire culture.
Just like I had a debate with a
brother.
This is just another small side note.
I had a debate with a brother in
2020, right, during the pandemic.
When there were the riots happening in Minnesota.
How many remember all of that?
Remember the riots in Minnesota?
I was living there at the time.
They burnt down much of the city.
I live on the outskirts of Minnesota just
like I live on the outskirts of here.
I like to stay as far away from
cities as I can.
But I made a statement online because there
was a video that came out of one
of the protests where there were some of
our sisters out there.
And I made a statement that this is
unbecoming of a Muslim sister, right?
This is unbecoming of our daughters to be
put out in this because, number one, they're
out there being very flamboyant, very loud.
The police arrest them.
They're going to put their hands on them.
They might take them to prison, search them.
This is just something I would never have
for my daughter.
Oh, my God.
Because of the simple fact of the color
of my skin, apparently I was not allowed
to make that statement.
I was not allowed.
And I was lit up on Twitter.
For those of you who are too young
to know how Twitter can get, I was
lit on fire on Twitter.
And I had a couple of conversations with
a couple of brothers because I'm not the
type of person to argue online.
I don't do it.
I just don't.
I'll message you personally, right?
So there's a couple of big personalities within
the African-American community in America.
May Allah bless them.
But I reached out to them, and I
tried to explain to them this fact, that
they're like, you don't understand oppression.
You don't understand what it's like to be
disliked.
You don't understand what it's like to be
hated.
I said, look, where I'm from, some of
the people I grew up around, if I
were to come out clear as a Muslim,
and these were the old days, right?
Like where it was the Wild West.
I said, if they lined us up, do
you know who they would hang first?
If they line the Muslims up, and I
was part of that, do you know who
they would put the rope around his neck
first?
Me.
Because I'm a traitor.
I was literally called a traitor.
I was literally called so many things because
I left my way of life and left
my religion.
So I was like, yes, I understand.
This is what the companions of the Prophet
ﷺ were doing.
They were leaving.
They were traitors to their family.
They were traitors to their religion.
They were traitors to their culture.
And this is why Allah ﷻ praised them
so heavily and why you see many of
the ones who were promised paradise be from
amongst the early Muslims.
Finally, we came to a good agreement, alhamdulillah,
but I had to explain that to them.
Like, look, they'll string me up before they
strung you up simply because I became something
that I should have never been.
I am a traitor.
But that's fine.
He became a Muslim at the age of,
does anybody know?
Eight.
He became a Muslim at the age of
eight years old.
For those of you who have children, know
how much intellect an eight-year-old has
to have to understand this concept and accept
religion.
Another one that accepted the religion at that
early age who was also promised paradise is
Ali ibn Abi Talib.
It's said that he was either seven or
eight years old when he accepted Islam.
So, al-Zubair ibn al-Awwam, radi Allahu
anhu, accepted Islam at the age of eight.
Some say that he was 16.
I looked deeply into that.
If you look at his life and his
death, it's more sound that he accepted Islam
at the age of either eight or nine
years old.
His uncle returned him with, excuse me, his
uncle tortured him with smoke to force him
to leave Islam, but he did not.
And there's a longer story where al-Zubair
says that his uncle locked him in a
room and filled it with smoke.
Filled it with smoke and said, I will
not allow you to be out of here.
I will not release you until you relinquish
Islam.
And he refused, and his uncle refused to
kill him.
Like he wanted to push him, but he
wouldn't kill him.
He migrated to Abyssinia both times, and he
did not miss any battle with the messenger
of Allah.
I've said this a few times.
They migrated to Abyssinia twice.
Why?
Remember, by the way, I don't ask rhetoricals.
Why was there two immigrations to Abyssinia?
The first time they escaped torture.
Why did they come back?
Yeah, there was some misinformation that was sent
to Abyssinia that Mecca had accepted Islam.
And there were a large number of Muslims
who came back.
And when they came back, they realized that
the situation was quite different.
Musa ibn Umair was actually one of them.
But Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam was one of
them, and he also then went back.
So the ones that came had to go
back because they realized that not only had
Mecca not accepted Islam, it was actually worse.
It was actually a worse situation than when
they left.
So they migrated back to Abyssinia.
And one of the—and I'll check with Imam
Majid and make sure it's not in his
list.
Another story I will talk about is those
immigrations to Abyssinia and the story of Najashi.
The story of Najashi, which is not very
much well told, but he is a big
part of this religion.
He's a big part of the seerah of
the Prophet ﷺ.
Because we know that he was so beloved
by the Prophet that the Prophet ﷺ made
Salat al-Janaza in absence for him.
When he heard about his death in Medina,
he made Salat al-Janaza for him.
He was the first to unsheathe a sword
for the sake of Allah ﷻ on the
day of al-Badr.
If you remember the day of Badr, if
you remember what happened on the day of
Badr, the first thing that they said was,
send us your best warriors and we'll send
you our best warriors.
That was kind of like the battle of—it's
been like that for thousands of years by
the way.
Send us some of your best and we'll
send us some of our best.
I'm not gonna give you all the names
of whom the Prophet ﷺ sent, but Zubayr
ibn al-Awwam was one of them and
we've already talked about Ali ibn Abi Talib,
he was one of them.
All of them struck down their enemies, but
Zubayr ibn al-Awwam was the first to
pull his sword on the day of Badr.
And that is an honorable feat because they
were really, really outnumbered.
He had a yellow band on his hand
and he was in the right wing.
The angels descended in the same order.
He stood firm with the Messenger of Allah
ﷺ on the day of Uhud and he
pledged to put his life on the line
in the defense of the Prophet ﷺ.
He was a fair-skinned and tall.
It is also said that he was neither
too tall nor was he too short.
So he was of a good stature.
His body was relatively light.
It is also said that he was dark
-skinned with thick bodily hair and light facial
hair.
His children.
We also know that they all had a
lot of children.
This is the list.
He had Abdullah, Urwah, Al-Mundhir, Asim, Al
-Muhajir, Fadijah, Al-Kubra, Um Al-Hasan, and
Aisha.
Their mother was Asma bint Abi Bakr.
So the daughter of Abu Bakr as-Sadiq
ﷺ.
He also had Khalid, Amr, Habiba, Saudah, and
Hind.
Their mother is Um Khalid whose name was
Um Khalid bint Sa'id bint Al-As.
He also had Mus'ab, Hamza, and Ramla
from Rabab bint Anif bint Ubaid.
He had Ubaid and Jafar from Zainab.
He had Zainab and Um Khuthum bint Uqba
ibn al-Muyayt.
He also had Khadijah al-Subara from Halal
bint Qais.
Abu'l Aswad said about Al-Zubair.
He said, Al-Zubair ibn al-Alwam joined
Islam at the age of eight, and he
migrated to the city of the Prophet at
the age of 18.
His uncle used to hang Al-Zubair inside
of a straw mat and light fire beneath
him while saying, return to your disbelief.
We just talked about that.
That was his story.
That's how he would hang him in a
room, light straw under him, and try to
get him to leave Islam.
But Al-Zubair said, I will never disbelieve.
I will never disbelieve.
Abu'l Aswad Muhammad ibn Abdul Rahman ibn
Nawaf conveyed that Al-Zubair became a Muslim
after Abu Bakr, and he was the fourth
or the fifth person male to become a
Muslim.
He was one of the first ten to
become a Muslim at the time of the
Prophet ﷺ.
Abdullah ibn al-Zubair narrated that his father
said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned both
his parents to me on the day of
Uhud.
Ubaidullah ibn al-Zubair said during the Battle
of the Trench, the Battle of Ahzab, the
Battle of Khanda, however you want to call
it.
Umar ibn Abu Salma and I were in
the fort where the Messenger of Allah ﷺ's
women were barricaded along with Al-Hasan.
You can still see some of the little
forts that were built on the day of
Ahzab if you do ziyarah to what is
known as Masjid al-Sabah.
How many of you have been to Masjid
al-Sabah?
You've seen the little forts that are set
up on the hill, right?
Those forts were to protect certain very important
people to the Prophet ﷺ, and some of
that was his family members and his wives
because it was very hard to get to
them.
So he was protecting them along with Hasan,
the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib.
We carried each other alternatively.
When he carried me, I recognized my father
as he passed towards Banu Qurayza.
He was battling with the Messenger of Allah
ﷺ in the Battle of the Trench.
And when the Messenger ﷺ said, who will
go to Banu Qurayza and fight them?
When you passed towards Banu Qurayza, he said,
O my son, by Allah, Allah's Messenger mentioned
for me both his parents.
I said, let my father and mother, meaning
that the Prophet ﷺ is mentioning both of
the parents of al-Zubayr ibn al-Arwan
to him.
And what was his response?
His response of many companions, let my mother
and father both be sacrificed for you.
Let my mother and father both be sacrificed
for you, O Prophet of Allah.
This is what it meant by they loved
him more than they loved themselves.
Because the person to whom we should have
the most love after Allah and His Messenger
are our parents.
Our parents, we love them, we love them
dearly.
But the companions would also say many times,
may my mother and father be sacrificed for
you.
That was to show him ﷺ that they
love no one on this earth.
No one on this earth after Allah more
than him.
And this is narrated in Bukhari and Muslim.
Jabir ibn Abdullah r.a said on the
day of the Battle of the Trench, the
Prophet ﷺ wanted somebody from amongst the people
to volunteer to do a scout.
Al-Zubayr volunteered.
He demanded the same again.
And then al-Zubayr volunteered again.
He repeated the same third time.
And al-Zubayr volunteered once more.
And then the Prophet ﷺ said, every Prophet
has a Hawari, a disciple.
As we know that Allah speaks about the
disciples of Egypt, Isa as the Hawariyoon.
He said, every disciple has, every Prophet has
a Hawari.
Allah sends every...
We see this, if you look back in
the stories of the Anbiya, Allah always would
send with them a Hawari.
Always he had Musa and Halun, Yabush and
Caleb.
It goes on and on and on and
on and on.
He said, every Prophet was sent with a
Hawari, and my Hawari is al-Zubayr.
My Hawari is al-Zubayr.
And this is narrated also in Bukhari and
Muslim.
Sadiq ibn al-Musayyib said, the first to
unsheathe his sword for the sake of Allah.
That means the first ever, ever in the
history of this religion to pull out a
sword for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala was al-Zubayr ibn al-Rawan.
While he was in Mecca, he heard his
voice saying the Prophet ﷺ was killed.
So he came out bare chested, wearing no
robes, holding a sword unsheathed.
And the Prophet met him face to face
and said, what is the matter with you,
al-Zubayr?
Excuse me, this is another story about him
in Mecca.
I forgot about this story.
He did pull out his sword in Mecca
as well.
And the Prophet ﷺ approached him and asked
him, what are you doing?
You know, like calm down.
We've not been given permission to fight.
Put your sword away.
He said, I heard that you were killed.
He does it.
He's like, I heard you were killed.
I whip the sword out.
I'm ready to go.
He said, what were you going to do
with it?
He's like, okay, even if I was killed,
what are you going to do?
You're whipping out your sword.
What did you think was going to be
the outcome of this?
He said, by Allah, I wanted to slay
whomever I met of the disbelievers.
Whomever I met.
Whomever I met that put you into this
tragedy, I wanted to put them to the
sword.
Thereupon the Prophet ﷺ made du'a for
him.
Allah made du'a.
He made du'a for him.
Amr ibn Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr said,
al-Zubayr fought with the Prophet ﷺ at
the first time when he was only 12
years old.
He fought in the battle with the Prophet
ﷺ at the first time when he was
only 12 years old.
Again, I don't know how accurate this is
based on the times and the accounts.
But this is coming from this is coming
from Imam ibn al-Jawzi.
This is his take on this from Imam
ibn al-Jawzi.
And it does not come from anybody else,
this narration.
It comes, it's a sole narration from al
-Dahabi, al-Dahabi, insha'Allah.
And he used to charge at the infidels.
Now he said that al-Zubayr had 12
,000 slaves who collected du'a owed to
him, not a single dirham which ever entered
into his house.
He always donated, meaning that he had large
number of property, a large number of slaves.
This was known back then, slaves then were
not slaves now.
So when we mention slaves, we always have
to make the understanding that slaves at the
time of the Prophet ﷺ were not the
modern idea of slavery.
The Prophet ﷺ had specific rules even for
slaves at his time.
He made sure, he said, your slaves must
eat the food you eat.
They must be clothed with the food that
you're clothed with.
You must treat them with respect.
We know one time that one of the
companions slapped one of his slaves and she
came and complained to the Prophet ﷺ.
We know this is the very famous one,
right?
He asked her, where is Allah?
She pointed up, he looked at him, he
said, she's a Muslim, free her.
And also one of the greatest acts in
Islam at that time, we don't have modern
slavery like we do now, back then, but
trust me, slavery still exists.
For those of you who don't know, you're
not really tuned into the world.
Slavery still exists, it just doesn't exist with
people in chains and bondage or slaves to
a lot of things.
But one of the greatest acts was to
free a slave.
It is also considered one of the rulings
in Islam that if you violate certain principles
of the religion that one of the things
that you can do to pay kafiyah for
it or expiation for it is to free
a slave.
So the whole goal was to end slavery.
The whole goal of the Prophet ﷺ was
to end slavery.
But part of that understanding was that, let's
say, and some people have asked me this,
okay, so if that's the case, why didn't
the Prophet ﷺ just abolish slavery?
Because then you would have thousands and thousands
and thousands of people who had nothing.
Who had nothing.
No home, no job, no food, no clothes,
no nothing.
It would have made very little sense.
They were supposed to be treated well, but
to free them was the best thing.
And then to give them jobs, et cetera,
so on and so forth.
But he would have all of these slaves
bring dues to him, but not a single
one of them, and it's the same thing
we talked about last time.
Not a single one of those dirhams would
stay with him overnight.
He would distribute them all.
The companions were very very conscious about sleeping
with wealth in their accounts.
Because they knew, as I said last week,
that that did not belong to them.
But when they donated it for the sake
of Allah, it belonged to them.
It was theirs, they owned it.
This is what one of my first scholars
told me, Shaykh Muhammad Zakiruddin Sharfi, may Allah
ﷻ grant him the highest ranks of Jannah.
He used to tell me that, Yusha, the
money you keep belongs to you.
The money you spend to eat belongs to
you.
The money you spend on clothes belongs to
you.
The money you donate to Allah ﷻ, it
belongs to you, meaning that you've used it
here.
He said, but the money you give to
Allah ﷻ belongs to you in the next
life.
You'll see it again.
The money you spend here is gone.
That's it.
If you ate a good meal, it was
a good meal.
It's gone.
If you bought a nice shirt, it's gone.
If you bought a nice hat, you better
enjoy it.
Because once it's gone, it's gone.
But the money you give to Allah ﷻ
belongs to Allah ﷻ and it will be
held for you on the Day of Judgment.
Juwairiyah said that Az-Zubair sold a house
for 600,000 dirhams.
So he was told, O Abu Abdullah, you
have been duped.
You have been duped.
Somebody told you, you've been duped.
You've been tricked into this.
He said, no, by Allah ﷻ.
You must know that I was not duped.
I did it for the sake of Allah
ﷻ.
He sold it for a very cheap price
for the sake of Allah ﷻ.
Ali ibn Zaid said, I was informed by
those who saw Az-Zubair that he had
eye-like wounds in his chest from sword
stabs and arrows and piercings from standing beside
the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the battlefield.
Qais ibn Abu Hazm narrated that Az-Zubair
said, whoever amongst you could attain a harvest
of good deeds, he should do so.
Whoever amongst you can harvest good deeds in
this life, he should do so.
Brothers and sisters, we are planting seeds in
this life.
We're planting a harvest.
That harvest might not ever grow in this
life.
Sometimes the seeds we plant are not harvested
in the next life.
The Prophet ﷺ said, that if you have
a seed in your hand and you're about
to plant it and you were to see
that the day of judgment were about to
start, what did he say to do?
He said, plant it.
What does it matter?
Is it gonna grow?
No.
But it will grow in the next life.
Why?
Because I've told you, it doesn't matter where
you go in life.
It matters where you intended to go.
Allah will judge you on where you intended
to be.
Not where you make it.
Because where you make it is up to
Him.
Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
But if your intention was to get to
a certain place, let's say you gave money
to build a masjid in Indonesia.
And for some reason, that masjid never got
built.
Allah will reward you as if the masjid
was built.
As if people prayed in it, etc, so
on and so forth.
Allah rewards the intent, not the end result
of the act.
Al-Zubayr was killed as the companion we
talked about last week.
Who did we talk about last week?
Falha.
Al-Zubayr was killed in the same battle
of Thamd.
He was killed in the battle of Al
-Jamal.
Battle of the Camel.
Fighting beside Ali ibn Abi Talib رضي الله
عنه.
These men were true.
They were true because they understood the standing
by...
I'll talk to you about this battle one
day.
We are going to have a discussion on
this.
Standing beside Ali on that day was obeying
the orders of the Prophet ﷺ.
Because he commanded, he commanded everyone after him
to look after his family.
He commanded them to look after his family.
His family was part of him.
They were him.
They were part and parcel to the sunnah
of the Prophet ﷺ.
I told you there's an authentic narration.
He said, I leave behind you two things.
The Qur'an and my family.
Follow them and you will not go astray.
So they knew that standing by the family
of the Prophet ﷺ, Ali ibn Abi Talib
on that day was the right thing to
do.
He died on the battle of the Camel
at the age of 75.
This is one there's no question about his
age.
75.
Anybody in here 75?
No?
75?
Imagine standing on the battlefield today at 75.
He stood on the battlefield at 75 years
old.
There was no cut off they couldn't.
As long as they could walk, they were
there.
As long as they could move, they were
there.
If they could pick up a sword, they
put it in their hands.
So al-Zubair ibn al-Rawam at the
age of 75 years old stood beside Ali
at a time of great turmoil and he
lost his life in the battle of Camel.
He was killed by ibn Jamruz.
Zir stated ibn Jamruz requested permission to enter
upon Ali while I was with him.
So Ali said, give the killer of the
son of Safiyyah the glad tidings of health.
He said, give the killer of the son
of Safiyyah the glad tidings of health.
Then Ali said, I heard the messenger of
Allah ﷺ say, every prophet has a disciple
and my disciple was Zubair.
So when the man who killed him after
the battle asked to come and talk to
Ali, look at the response of Ali.
He said, go and tell him, tell him,
give him the glad tidings.
I've given the tidings that the killer of
the son of Safiyyah, the tidings of health.
He will burn for it.
Because I heard the prophet ﷺ that every
prophet has a disciple and the disciple of
the prophet ﷺ was Zubair.
They were different.
And Ali, if you study the life of
Ali, he held no forms.
He never held his tongue.
He stood firm all the time.
Abdullah ibn al-Zubair, رضي الله عنهما, said
on the day of the camel, who is
Abdullah ibn al-Zubair?
His son.
We just talked about this, right?
One of his sons.
He said, he kept asking me regarding his
debt.
Look at this, 75 years old, on the
battlefield.
What is he asking his son about?
What about my debts?
Do I owe anything?
Debts are major in Islam.
If you owe a debt and you die
with it, you are held accountable for it.
So he's asking his son, what about my
debts?
If you are unable to pay any of
it, seek help from my master.
By Allah.
I did not understand what he meant.
He's saying he's a master.
What are you talking about?
He said, I did not understand what he
meant until I asked, O father, who is
your master?
You run the show.
Who is your master?
He said, who did he say?
Anybody know?
He said, Allah.
He said, ask my master.
If you can't find the resources to settle
my debt, ask my master.
And he said, father, who is your master?
He said, my master is Allah.
Ask Allah to settle my debts for me.
Whenever I face difficulty in repaying a debt
of his, I used to say, O al
-Zubair's master, settle his debts.
So he would settle it for me.
Allah does not leave those who put their
dependence on Him in despair.
Ever.
Ever.
Never does Allah leave those who put their
affairs in His hands without.
One of my earliest teachers used to say,
a hand that is outstretched for Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala never returns empty.
Hands that are outstretched depending only on Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala never return empty.
Remember that, brothers and sisters.
They never return empty.
The debt he had was that a man
would come to him with money to entrust
it to him and al-Zubair would say,
No, it's a debt because I am afraid
that I might lose it.
It wasn't even a real debt.
A man would come to him and say,
Safeguard money from me.
And he would consider that a debt.
Because he said, if I lose it, if
something happens to it, I owe it to
you.
So he used to consider that as a
debt.
He calculated the debt that he had and
found it to be 2,000,000 2
,000,000 and 200,000 dirhams.
2,000,000 and 200,000 dirhams.
However, he was killed without leaving behind one
single dinar or dirham except for two land
estates.
So I sold them and began repaying the
debt.
The children of al-Zubair radiallahu anhum said,
Divide our inheritance among us.
I, Isa Abdullah, said, No.
By Allah, not until I publicly call out
during the season of Hajj for four consecutive
years.
Meaning that he would go to Hajj for
four consecutive years and say, If there is
anyone who is owed a debt by al
-Zubair, come and claim it.
He held on to that money.
He said, I will not give none of
it until I have cleared his debt because
he made me promise him.
And he would say, Whoever al-Zubair has
a debt with, come forward and we will
repay it.
He kept doing that every season and after
four years, he distributed the inheritance amongst his
children.
Al-Zubair had four wives alive upon his
death.
Each one got 1,200,000 dirhams.
His total fortune after the calculation of his
death was 50,200,000 dirhams.
And this is related exclusively by al-Bukhari.
These men were different.
Different.
And I'm going to end with this lesson.
Their concern was where?
Where was their concern?
This life or the next?
Their concern was the next life.
When your concern is the next life, Allah
takes care of you in this one.
Allah sorts this one out for you.
Their concern was the next life.
Allah owns this world.
He owns this universe.
He owns everything in it.
They knew that if their concern was the
akhirah, Allah will sort out this life for
them.
They did not worry about those things.
But the Prophet ﷺ said, when your concern
becomes only this, you lose this and you
lose the next.
So that is our lesson for today.
InshaAllahu ta'ala.
Make your concerns about the affairs of the
hereafter.
Leave your affairs of this world to Allah.
And I promise you, you will never find
that Allah will abandon you.
Because Allah has promised, He does not abandon
those who put their reliance and their trust