WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.360 Pause. 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:12.140 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures. 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:16.140 A new challenge: Who am I? 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:25.670 I am one of the Companions, from the nobility of Banu Tamim and the leaders of Banu Mujashi'. 00:00:25.670 --> 00:00:29.960 During the Age of Ignorance (Jahiliyyah), I used to ransom infant girls destined to be buried alive. 00:00:29.960 --> 00:00:35.990 These were the daughters whose fathers intended to bury them alive. 00:00:35.990 --> 00:00:39.149 Out of fear of shame and poverty. 00:00:39.149 --> 00:00:42.149 I am the grandfather of the poet al-Farazdaq. 00:00:42.149 --> 00:00:45.149 He used to boast of me, saying: 00:00:45.149 --> 00:00:51.149 "And the grandfather who prevented the burying of daughters and saved the buried one, so she was not buried." 00:00:51.149 --> 00:00:56.240 I came to the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.270 He presented Islam to me, and I accepted it. 00:01:00.270 --> 00:01:04.269 He taught me verses from the Qur'an. 00:01:05.269 --> 00:01:10.340 “And whoso doeth good an atom's weight will see it then,” (99:7) 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:13.500 I said, "That is enough for me, that is enough for me." 00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:16.560 Then I said, "O Messenger of Allah, 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:19.560 I performed certain deeds during the Age of Ignorance. 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:22.560 Is there any reward for me in them?" 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.560 He asked, "What did you do?" 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:30.560 I said, "I lost two pregnant she-camels. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:33.560 I went out searching for them on a camel of mine. 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.560 I saw two tents in an open expanse of land. 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.560 I headed toward them. 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.560 I found an old man in one of them. 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:47.560 I asked, 'Have you seen two pregnant she-camels?' 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.560 He said, 'Yes, we have found your camels.' 00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:55.780 While he was speaking to me and I to him, 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:58.780 a woman called out to him from the other tent, 00:01:58.780 --> 00:02:01.780 'She has given birth! She has given birth!' 00:02:01.780 --> 00:02:04.780 He asked, 'What did she give birth to?' 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:07.780 She replied, 'A girl.' 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:10.909 He said, 'Then bury her.' 00:02:10.909 --> 00:02:14.039 I said to him, 'Do not bury her. 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:17.039 I will buy her life from you. 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:19.039 Do not kill her.' 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:22.229 He asked, 'What will you buy her with?' 00:02:22.229 --> 00:02:28.300 I said, 'I will buy her from you with these two she-camels and their offspring.' 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:33.419 He said, 'And add to that this camel you are riding.' 00:02:33.419 --> 00:02:35.490 I said, 'Yes.' 00:02:35.490 --> 00:02:38.490 'But on the condition that you send a messenger with me. 00:02:38.490 --> 00:02:41.490 When I reach my family, 00:02:41.490 --> 00:02:44.490 I will send the camel back to you with the messenger.' 00:02:44.490 --> 00:02:46.490 He agreed. 00:02:46.490 --> 00:02:48.580 When I reached my family, 00:02:48.580 --> 00:02:51.580 I sent the camel back to him. 00:02:51.580 --> 00:02:53.740 When night fell, 00:02:53.740 --> 00:02:56.740 I reflected on myself and said, 00:02:56.740 --> 00:02:59.740 'This is truly a noble deed, 00:02:59.740 --> 00:03:02.740 one that no one among the Arabs has preceded me in.' 00:03:02.740 --> 00:03:05.740 From then on, I would not hear of a newborn girl 00:03:05.740 --> 00:03:08.740 without ransoming her before she could be buried. 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:11.840 This continued until Islam appeared. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:15.840 I had saved three hundred and sixty girls, 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:22.000 buying each one of them with two pregnant she-camels and a camel. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.129 Is there any reward for me in that?" 00:03:25.129 --> 00:03:28.349 The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied, 00:03:28.349 --> 00:03:31.349 "This is a form of righteousness. 00:03:31.349 --> 00:03:36.349 You have its reward, since Allah has favored you with Islam." 00:03:36.349 --> 00:03:41.280 One day, I asked the Prophet, peace be upon him, 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.280 and said, "O Messenger of Allah, 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.280 sometimes I have surplus food. 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:52.280 I set it aside for the people and the wayfarer. 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.280 Whom should I begin with?" 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.599 The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.599 "Your mother and your father, 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.599 your sister and your brother, 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:03.599 then your closest relatives, then the next closest." 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.240 So, who am I?