1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,500 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 2 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:13,039 Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. 3 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,539 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 4 00:00:17,539 --> 00:00:22,699 Authored by Sheikh Musa bin Rashid al-Azimi. 5 00:00:22,699 --> 00:00:24,829 May Allah preserve him. 6 00:00:24,829 --> 00:00:36,250 The service of the family of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, to the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 7 00:00:36,250 --> 00:00:40,750 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with them both, used to 8 00:00:40,750 --> 00:00:45,750 spend the night with the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and his father 9 00:00:45,750 --> 00:00:48,750 during the period they were in the cave. 10 00:00:48,750 --> 00:00:51,750 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said: 11 00:00:51,750 --> 00:00:55,250 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr would spend the night with them, 12 00:00:55,250 --> 00:00:59,250 and he was a sharp, intelligent, and quick-witted youth. 13 00:00:59,250 --> 00:01:02,250 "Sharp" means possessing keen insight and intelligence. 14 00:01:02,250 --> 00:01:06,750 "Quick-witted" means he had a good capacity for understanding and retaining what he heard. 15 00:01:06,750 --> 00:01:09,750 He would leave them at the break of dawn, 16 00:01:09,750 --> 00:01:13,750 and arrive in Makkah among the Quraysh by morning, as if he had spent the night there. 17 00:01:13,750 --> 00:01:18,250 He would not hear of any plot they were devising without committing it to memory, 18 00:01:18,250 --> 00:01:23,250 until he could bring them the news of it when the darkness of night fell. 19 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:29,799 The shepherding of 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah, may Allah be pleased with him. 20 00:01:29,799 --> 00:01:32,799 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said: 21 00:01:33,299 --> 00:01:36,299 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah, 22 00:01:36,299 --> 00:01:39,799 the freed slave of Abu Bakr, would graze a herd of milch sheep for them. 23 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:44,859 He would bring them back to them when the first part of the night had passed, 24 00:01:44,859 --> 00:01:47,359 and they would spend the night with fresh milk, 25 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:50,859 which was the milk of their herd and their evening drink. 26 00:01:50,859 --> 00:01:55,359 Then 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah would drive the sheep away at the first light of dawn. 27 00:01:55,359 --> 00:01:58,359 "Drive" means he would call out to his sheep. 28 00:01:58,359 --> 00:02:03,359 We did this every night during those three nights. 29 00:02:03,359 --> 00:02:05,359 Ibn Ishaq said: 30 00:02:05,359 --> 00:02:09,360 Whenever 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr, may Allah be pleased with them both, 31 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,860 left them in the morning to go to Makkah, 32 00:02:11,860 --> 00:02:15,860 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah would follow his tracks with the sheep 33 00:02:15,860 --> 00:02:17,860 until he had covered them, 34 00:02:17,860 --> 00:02:22,430 meaning he would trample and erase his footprints. 35 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:27,590 Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, bringing food to them. 36 00:02:27,590 --> 00:02:30,590 Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, said: 37 00:02:30,590 --> 00:02:34,590 I prepared the provisions for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 38 00:02:34,590 --> 00:02:36,590 in the house of Abu Bakr 39 00:02:36,590 --> 00:02:39,590 when he intended to migrate to Madinah. 40 00:02:39,590 --> 00:02:43,090 The "provisions" (sufrah) refers to the food a traveler takes with him, 41 00:02:43,090 --> 00:02:46,590 usually carried in a circular leather bag. 42 00:02:46,590 --> 00:02:48,090 She said: 43 00:02:48,090 --> 00:02:53,090 We could not find anything to tie the food bag or the water skin with. 44 00:02:53,090 --> 00:02:56,090 So I said to Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, 45 00:02:56,090 --> 00:03:01,090 "By Allah, I find nothing to tie them with except my waistband (nitaq)." 46 00:03:01,090 --> 00:03:05,090 The "waistband" is what a woman uses to cinch her waist, 47 00:03:05,090 --> 00:03:08,280 to keep her garment raised from the ground. 48 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,280 He said, "Tear it into two pieces and tie them," 49 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,280 using one for the water skin, 50 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,280 and the other for the food bag. 51 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,780 So I did. 52 00:03:16,780 --> 00:03:20,379 That is why she was called "Dhat al-Nitaqayn" (She of the Two Waistbands). 53 00:03:20,379 --> 00:03:23,379 In another narration in Sahih Muslim, 54 00:03:23,379 --> 00:03:26,379 Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, said: 55 00:03:26,379 --> 00:03:29,379 "I am, by Allah, Dhat al-Nitaqayn. 56 00:03:29,379 --> 00:03:31,379 As for one of them, 57 00:03:31,379 --> 00:03:36,379 I used it to lift the food of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 58 00:03:36,379 --> 00:03:40,379 and the food of Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, away from the animals. 59 00:03:40,379 --> 00:03:42,379 As for the other, 60 00:03:42,379 --> 00:03:46,539 it was the woman's waistband, which she cannot do without." 61 00:03:46,539 --> 00:03:48,539 Imam al-Nawawi said: 62 00:03:48,539 --> 00:03:51,539 The most correct view is that she was named that 63 00:03:51,539 --> 00:03:54,539 because she tore her single waistband into two halves, 64 00:03:54,539 --> 00:03:57,539 making one of them a small waistband 65 00:03:57,539 --> 00:03:59,539 and being content with it, 66 00:03:59,539 --> 00:04:02,539 and using the other for the provisions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, 67 00:04:02,539 --> 00:04:05,539 and Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, 68 00:04:05,539 --> 00:04:09,539 just as she explicitly stated in this hadith here. 69 00:04:09,539 --> 00:04:14,020 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 70 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:21,019 If the longing of the worlds for some of them grows long, 71 00:04:21,019 --> 00:04:27,240 the longing for you, O Messenger of Allah, has no bounds. 72 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:33,819 May Allah send blessings upon you as long as the call to prayer is raised, 73 00:04:33,819 --> 00:04:42,970 and lips move with the remainder of the remembrance.