WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:12.140 Pause and identify this Companion, scholar, and prominent figure. 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:16.140 A new challenge: Who am I? 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:22.000 I am a Companion from the youth of the Ansar. 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:28.190 I embraced Islam when Mus'ab ibn 'Umayr, may Allah be pleased with him, arrived in Medina. 00:00:28.190 --> 00:00:33.189 I was frequently in the company of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in Medina. 00:00:33.189 --> 00:00:36.189 Ever since his migration there. 00:00:36.189 --> 00:00:41.189 As for my father, he was known during the Age of Ignorance as "the Monk." 00:00:41.189 --> 00:00:45.189 He used to speak of the Resurrection and the religion of the Hanifiyyah. 00:00:45.189 --> 00:00:49.219 But when the Prophet, peace be upon him, was sent, 00:00:49.219 --> 00:00:54.219 envy overcame him, and he did not respond to his call. 00:00:54.219 --> 00:00:58.219 Instead, he showed him hostility and left Medina. 00:00:58.219 --> 00:01:02.219 He even fought against the Muslims at the Battle of Uhud alongside the Quraysh. 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:08.219 So the Prophet, peace be upon him, renamed him "the Corrupt" instead of "the Monk." 00:01:08.219 --> 00:01:15.150 In the third year after the Hijrah, I married a noble female Companion. 00:01:15.150 --> 00:01:21.150 Her name was Jamilah bint 'Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul, may Allah be pleased with her. 00:01:21.150 --> 00:01:27.310 I consummated the marriage with her on the night preceding the Battle of Uhud. 00:01:27.310 --> 00:01:32.310 I had asked the Prophet, peace be upon him, for permission to spend the night with her, 00:01:32.310 --> 00:01:34.310 and he granted it to me. 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:36.310 When I prayed the dawn prayer, 00:01:36.310 --> 00:01:41.310 I set out, intending to join the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:01:41.310 --> 00:01:44.310 But my wife, Jamilah, held me back, 00:01:44.310 --> 00:01:46.310 so I returned and stayed with her. 00:01:46.310 --> 00:01:48.310 I had marital relations with her. 00:01:48.310 --> 00:01:51.310 When I heard the caller for Jihad, 00:01:51.310 --> 00:01:53.310 I wanted to leave, 00:01:53.310 --> 00:01:56.310 but she sent for four of her people 00:01:56.310 --> 00:01:59.310 to bear witness that I had consummated the marriage with her. 00:02:00.310 --> 00:02:04.310 Then I left and joined the ranks of the Muslim army. 00:02:04.310 --> 00:02:06.310 When the fighting began 00:02:06.310 --> 00:02:08.310 and the two sides clashed, 00:02:08.310 --> 00:02:12.310 I encountered Abu Sufyan ibn Harb during the battle. 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:14.310 We exchanged blows with our swords, 00:02:14.310 --> 00:02:18.310 and I struck him a blow that brought him down. 00:02:18.310 --> 00:02:21.310 As I stood over him with my sword to kill him, 00:02:21.310 --> 00:02:24.310 Shaddad ibn al-Aswad saw me, 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:28.310 threw his spear at my back, and killed me. 00:02:28.310 --> 00:02:31.629 After the battle ended, 00:02:31.629 --> 00:02:34.629 the Prophet, peace be upon him, saw me 00:02:34.629 --> 00:02:38.629 while the angels were washing me between the heavens and the earth 00:02:38.629 --> 00:02:42.629 with rainwater in silver basins. 00:02:42.629 --> 00:02:45.659 The Prophet, peace be upon him, said, 00:02:45.659 --> 00:02:48.659 "Ask his wife about that." 00:02:48.659 --> 00:02:50.659 So they asked her, 00:02:50.659 --> 00:02:54.659 and she said, "When he heard the caller for Jihad, 00:02:54.659 --> 00:02:57.860 he left me while he was in a state of major ritual impurity (janabah)." 00:02:57.860 --> 00:02:59.860 She was then asked 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:01.860 why she had called witnesses to our intimacy. 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:03.860 She replied, 00:03:03.860 --> 00:03:06.860 "I saw as if the sky had opened up, 00:03:06.860 --> 00:03:10.860 my husband entered it, and then it closed." 00:03:10.860 --> 00:03:13.860 "I said, 'This is martyrdom,' 00:03:13.860 --> 00:03:16.860 so I bore witness that he had consummated the marriage with me 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:19.919 so that I would not be accused." 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:23.919 They mentioned this to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.919 and he said, 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:29.110 "That is he whom the angels have washed." 00:03:29.110 --> 00:03:33.110 They later found me among the slain, with my head dripping with water, 00:03:33.110 --> 00:03:36.110 even though there was no water nearby. 00:03:36.110 --> 00:03:39.110 Thus, I became known as "the one washed by the angels." 00:03:39.110 --> 00:03:43.039 The tribes of the Ansar boasted, 00:03:43.039 --> 00:03:45.039 the Aws and the Khazraj. 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.039 The Aws said, 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:49.039 "Among us is the one washed by the angels," 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:51.039 referring to me. 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:55.039 "And among us is he for whom the Throne of the Most Merciful shook," 00:03:55.039 --> 00:03:57.039 Sa'd ibn Mu'adh. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.039 "And among us is he whom the bees protected," 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.039 'Asim ibn Thabit. 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.039 "And among us is he whose testimony was accepted 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.039 as equal to the testimony of two men," 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:08.039 Khuzaymah ibn Thabit. 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:10.039 The Khazrajis said, 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.039 "Among us are four who memorized the Qur'an 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:17.040 during the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.040 and no one else collected it as they did: 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:21.100 Zayd ibn Thabit, 00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:23.100 Abu Zayd, 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:25.100 Ubayy ibn Ka'b, 00:04:25.100 --> 00:04:27.100 and Mu'adh ibn Jabal," 00:04:27.100 --> 00:04:30.490 may Allah be pleased with them all. 00:04:30.490 --> 00:04:36.389 So, who am I? 00:04:36.389 --> 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