WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:03.459 Pause. 00:00:03.459 --> 00:00:08.460 Get to know the Companions and the scholars of the highest rank. 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.460 A new challenge: Who am I? 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:25.699 I am one of the Companions, a freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:00:25.699 --> 00:00:29.920 I was the person closest to him and the one who stayed by his side the most. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:37.920 I was from the people of Yemen, but a tribe raided us, took me captive, and sold me in the market. 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:43.020 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, bought me and set me free. 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:51.020 He said, "If you wish, you may join your people, or if you wish, you may be one of us, the people of the household." 00:00:51.020 --> 00:00:54.020 I chose to remain with him. 00:00:54.020 --> 00:01:02.020 I was with him in travel and at home, never leaving his side until the day he passed away, peace be upon him. 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:09.040 I loved the Prophet, peace be upon him, deeply and could barely endure being away from him. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:14.069 One day, I came to him, and my complexion had changed and my body had grown thin. 00:01:14.069 --> 00:01:17.069 The sadness was visible on my face. 00:01:17.069 --> 00:01:21.069 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said to me: 00:01:21.069 --> 00:01:24.069 "What has changed your complexion? What has afflicted you?" 00:01:24.069 --> 00:01:27.069 I said, "O Messenger of Allah, 00:01:27.069 --> 00:01:30.069 I am neither in pain nor ill, 00:01:30.069 --> 00:01:34.069 but when I do not see you, I yearn for you, 00:01:34.069 --> 00:01:39.069 and I feel a profound sense of loneliness until I meet you again. 00:01:39.069 --> 00:01:44.140 Then I remembered the Hereafter and feared that I would not see you there, 00:01:44.140 --> 00:01:48.200 because I know that you will be raised with the prophets, 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.200 and even if I were to enter Paradise, 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:55.200 I would be in a station lower than yours, 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.200 and if I were not to enter Paradise, 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.390 then that would mean I would never see you at all." 00:02:01.390 --> 00:02:04.390 So Allah the Exalted revealed His saying: 00:02:04.390 --> 00:02:14.389 “Whoso obeyeth Allah and the messenger, they are with those unto whom Allah hath shown favour, of the prophets and the saints and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of company are they!” (4:69) 00:02:14.389 --> 00:02:22.389 “Whoso obeyeth Allah and the messenger, they are with those unto whom Allah hath shown favour, of the prophets and the saints and the martyrs and the righteous. The best of company are they!” (4:69) 00:02:22.389 --> 00:02:27.419 "And excellent are those as companions." 00:02:27.419 --> 00:02:33.129 I was overjoyed by this verse, and my soul found peace. 00:02:33.129 --> 00:02:38.090 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, once said: 00:02:38.090 --> 00:02:42.090 "Who will guarantee to me that they will not ask people for anything, 00:02:42.090 --> 00:02:45.090 and I will guarantee them Paradise?" 00:02:45.090 --> 00:02:48.090 I said, "I will, O Messenger of Allah." 00:02:48.090 --> 00:02:51.090 From then on, I would not ask anyone for anything, 00:02:51.090 --> 00:02:55.090 to the point that if my whip were to fall while I was riding, 00:02:55.090 --> 00:02:59.090 I would dismount, pick it up, and then mount again, 00:02:59.090 --> 00:03:02.090 never asking anyone to hand it to me, 00:03:02.090 --> 00:03:07.090 in fulfillment of my pledge to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:03:07.090 --> 00:03:09.219 So, who am I? 00:03:17.009 --> 00:03:20.009 How can you provide the correct answer in the comments? 00:03:20.009 --> 00:03:25.009 Upon the release of the next episode, if Allah wills. 00:03:25.009 --> 00:03:29.419 The best of generations in their stances and examples. 00:03:29.419 --> 00:03:33.419 Following the Messenger whether he hastened or...