WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:13.039 Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:17.539 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 00:00:17.539 --> 00:00:22.699 Authored by Sheikh Musa bin Rashid al-Azimi. 00:00:22.699 --> 00:00:24.829 May Allah preserve him. 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. 00:00:36.250 --> 00:00:40.750 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with them both, used to 00:00:40.750 --> 00:00:45.750 spend the night with the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and his father 00:00:45.750 --> 00:00:48.750 during the period they were in the cave. 00:00:48.750 --> 00:00:51.750 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said: 00:00:51.750 --> 00:00:55.250 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr would spend the night with them, 00:00:55.250 --> 00:00:59.250 and he was a sharp, intelligent, and quick-witted youth. 00:00:59.250 --> 00:01:02.250 "Sharp" means possessing keen insight and intelligence. 00:01:02.250 --> 00:01:06.750 "Quick-witted" means he had a good capacity for understanding and retaining what he heard. 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:09.750 He would leave them at the break of dawn, 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. 00:01:13.750 --> 00:01:18.250 He would not hear of any plot they were devising without committing it to memory, 00:01:18.250 --> 00:01:23.250 until he could bring them the news of it when the darkness of night fell. 00:01:23.250 --> 00:01:29.799 The shepherding of 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.799 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said: 00:01:33.299 --> 00:01:36.299 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah, 00:01:36.299 --> 00:01:39.799 the freed slave of Abu Bakr, would graze a herd of milch sheep for them. 00:01:39.799 --> 00:01:44.859 He would bring them back to them when the first part of the night had passed, 00:01:44.859 --> 00:01:47.359 and they would spend the night with fresh milk, 00:01:47.359 --> 00:01:50.859 which was the milk of their herd and their evening drink. 00:01:50.859 --> 00:01:55.359 Then 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah would drive the sheep away at the first light of dawn. 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:58.359 "Drive" means he would call out to his sheep. 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:03.359 We did this every night during those three nights. 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:05.359 Ibn Ishaq said: 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:09.360 Whenever 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr, may Allah be pleased with them both, 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.860 left them in the morning to go to Makkah, 00:02:11.860 --> 00:02:15.860 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah would follow his tracks with the sheep 00:02:15.860 --> 00:02:17.860 until he had covered them, 00:02:17.860 --> 00:02:22.430 meaning he would trample and erase his footprints. 00:02:22.430 --> 00:02:27.590 Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, bringing food to them. 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:30.590 Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, said: 00:02:30.590 --> 00:02:34.590 I prepared the provisions for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 00:02:34.590 --> 00:02:36.590 in the house of Abu Bakr 00:02:36.590 --> 00:02:39.590 when he intended to migrate to Madinah. 00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:43.090 The "provisions" (sufrah) refers to the food a traveler takes with him, 00:02:43.090 --> 00:02:46.590 usually carried in a circular leather bag. 00:02:46.590 --> 00:02:48.090 She said: 00:02:48.090 --> 00:02:53.090 We could not find anything to tie the food bag or the water skin with. 00:02:53.090 --> 00:02:56.090 So I said to Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, 00:02:56.090 --> 00:03:01.090 "By Allah, I find nothing to tie them with except my waistband (nitaq)." 00:03:01.090 --> 00:03:05.090 The "waistband" is what a woman uses to cinch her waist, 00:03:05.090 --> 00:03:08.280 to keep her garment raised from the ground. 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.280 He said, "Tear it into two pieces and tie them," 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.280 using one for the water skin, 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.280 and the other for the food bag. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:16.780 So I did. 00:03:16.780 --> 00:03:20.379 That is why she was called "Dhat al-Nitaqayn" (She of the Two Waistbands). 00:03:20.379 --> 00:03:23.379 In another narration in Sahih Muslim, 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:26.379 Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, said: 00:03:26.379 --> 00:03:29.379 "I am, by Allah, Dhat al-Nitaqayn. 00:03:29.379 --> 00:03:31.379 As for one of them, 00:03:31.379 --> 00:03:36.379 I used it to lift the food of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 00:03:36.379 --> 00:03:40.379 and the food of Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, away from the animals. 00:03:40.379 --> 00:03:42.379 As for the other, 00:03:42.379 --> 00:03:46.539 it was the woman's waistband, which she cannot do without." 00:03:46.539 --> 00:03:48.539 Imam al-Nawawi said: 00:03:48.539 --> 00:03:51.539 The most correct view is that she was named that 00:03:51.539 --> 00:03:54.539 because she tore her single waistband into two halves, 00:03:54.539 --> 00:03:57.539 making one of them a small waistband 00:03:57.539 --> 00:03:59.539 and being content with it, 00:03:59.539 --> 00:04:02.539 and using the other for the provisions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, 00:04:02.539 --> 00:04:05.539 and Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, 00:04:05.539 --> 00:04:09.539 just as she explicitly stated in this hadith here. 00:04:09.539 --> 00:04:14.020 A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah). 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:21.019 If the longing of the worlds for some of them grows long, 00:04:21.019 --> 00:04:27.240 the longing for you, O Messenger of Allah, has no bounds. 00:04:27.240 --> 00:04:33.819 May Allah send blessings upon you as long as the call to prayer is raised, 00:04:33.819 --> 00:04:42.970 and lips move with the remainder of the remembrance.