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 --> 00:00:21.160 I am one of the Muhajirun (Emigrant) Companions. 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.160 I am a Hashimi Qurayshi. 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:28.160 I was known for my eloquence and the sharpness of my retorts. 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:30.160 No one could stand against me in debate. 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:34.189 Furthermore, I was a scholar of genealogy. 00:00:34.189 --> 00:00:38.189 I was the most knowledgeable of the Quraysh regarding their lineages and historical days. 00:00:38.189 --> 00:00:44.189 I was one of four people to whom the people would turn to arbitrate their disputes regarding lineage. 00:00:44.189 --> 00:00:49.259 I am the cousin of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the son of Abu Talib. 00:00:49.259 --> 00:00:53.350 The Prophet, peace be upon him, said to me: 00:00:53.350 --> 00:00:55.350 "O Abu Yazid, 00:00:55.350 --> 00:00:58.350 I love you with two loves: 00:00:58.350 --> 00:01:00.350 A love for your kinship to me, 00:01:00.350 --> 00:01:04.349 And a love for the love Abu Talib had for you." 00:01:04.349 --> 00:01:09.670 Indeed, my father, Abu Talib, loved me very much. 00:01:09.670 --> 00:01:12.670 He would not equate any of his other children with me, 00:01:12.670 --> 00:01:14.670 Let alone anyone else. 00:01:14.670 --> 00:01:16.700 Evidence of this is 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:19.700 That when the Quraysh faced poverty, 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:22.700 The Prophet, peace be upon him, 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:26.700 And my uncle al-'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, came to my father, 00:01:26.700 --> 00:01:28.700 This was before the Prophetic mission, 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:33.700 And asked him to take charge of some of his children to lighten his burden. 00:01:33.700 --> 00:01:37.700 My father agreed on the condition that they leave me with him, 00:01:37.700 --> 00:01:41.700 And they could take whichever of his other children they wished, besides me. 00:01:41.700 --> 00:01:45.829 So my uncle al-'Abbas took my brother Ja'far, may Allah be pleased with him, 00:01:45.829 --> 00:01:51.829 And the Prophet, peace be upon him, took my brother 'Ali, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:01:53.730 --> 00:01:59.730 I was one of those who inherited from their Muslim relatives who migrated to Medina. 00:01:59.730 --> 00:02:04.730 For I inherited the house of the Prophet, peace be upon him, in Mecca, 00:02:04.730 --> 00:02:06.730 And the houses of the Banu Hashim. 00:02:06.730 --> 00:02:11.759 I was among those from the Banu Hashim responsible for providing water to the pilgrims. 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:15.759 I was one of the three who organized the registers of stipends (diwan) 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.759 For the Caliph of the Muslims, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:26.400 I organized the people in them according to their tribes and lineages. 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.400 I witnessed the Battle of Badr with the polytheists, 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.400 And some of the Muslims took me captive. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:36.400 They tied me and my uncle al-'Abbas together with a single rope, 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:39.400 So we were called "the two bound together." 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:43.400 I had no wealth to ransom myself, 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.460 So my uncle al-'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, ransomed me. 00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:50.460 Then Allah the Exalted revealed regarding us His saying: 00:02:50.460 --> 00:02:54.460 "O Prophet, 00:02:54.460 --> 00:03:00.460 Say to whoever is in your hands of the captives, 00:03:00.460 --> 00:03:05.460 “O Prophet! Say unto those captives who are in your hands: If Allah knoweth any good in your hearts He will give you better than that which hath been taken from you, and will forgive you. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (8:70) 00:03:05.460 --> 00:03:08.460 If Allah knows [any] good in your hearts, He will give you [something] better than what was taken from you." 00:03:08.460 --> 00:03:13.689 “O Prophet! Say unto those captives who are in your hands: If Allah knoweth any good in your hearts He will give you better than that which hath been taken from you, and will forgive you. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” (8:70) 00:03:13.689 --> 00:03:16.689 If He knows any good in your hearts, He will give you better. 00:03:16.689 --> 00:03:29.710 [The text is incomplete here]. 00:03:29.710 --> 00:03:31.990 I am the eldest of my brothers. 00:03:31.990 --> 00:03:35.189 I am ten years older than Ja'far, 00:03:35.189 --> 00:03:38.189 And twenty years older than 'Ali. 00:03:38.189 --> 00:03:43.189 Yet, I was the last of them to embrace Islam, 00:03:43.189 --> 00:03:44.610 And the last of them to die. 00:03:44.610 --> 00:03:47.610 I embraced Islam after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, 00:03:47.610 --> 00:03:51.810 And I migrated to Medina in the first year of the eighth year after the Hijrah. 00:03:52.110 --> 00:03:54.310 I participated in the Battle of Mu'tah, 00:03:54.810 --> 00:04:00.509 And I was among those who stood firm with the Prophet, peace be upon him, at the Battle of Hunayn. 00:04:01.180 --> 00:04:07.080 My death overtook me at the end of the reign of Mu'awiyah, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:04:07.930 --> 00:04:09.330 So, who am I? 00:04:22.189 --> 00:04:26.189 The next episode will be released, if Allah wills.