1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:03,459 Pause. 2 00:00:03,459 --> 00:00:08,460 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the noble figures. 3 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:16,460 Solve this riddle: Who am I? 4 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:23,789 I am one of the Companions from the Ansar. 5 00:00:23,789 --> 00:00:27,789 I am the master of the Qur'an reciters and the experts in the laws of inheritance. 6 00:00:27,789 --> 00:00:29,949 I am the mufti of Medina. 7 00:00:29,949 --> 00:00:34,950 I embraced Islam as soon as the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, arrived in Medina. 8 00:00:34,950 --> 00:00:39,590 I was eleven years old at the time. 9 00:00:39,590 --> 00:00:44,590 My people from the Banu al-Najjar brought me to the Prophet, peace be upon him. 10 00:00:44,590 --> 00:00:46,590 They said to him: 11 00:00:46,590 --> 00:00:51,590 "This boy has memorized seventeen surahs of the Qur'an." 12 00:00:51,590 --> 00:00:53,590 "Listen to him." 13 00:00:53,590 --> 00:00:56,590 He listened to me and was pleased with my recitation. 14 00:00:56,590 --> 00:00:58,590 Then he said to me: 15 00:00:58,590 --> 00:01:01,590 "Learn the writing of the Jews for me." 16 00:01:01,590 --> 00:01:04,590 "For I do not trust them with my writing." 17 00:01:04,590 --> 00:01:07,590 So I learned the Jewish language. 18 00:01:07,590 --> 00:01:11,590 I mastered it in reading and writing. 19 00:01:11,590 --> 00:01:13,590 In fifteen days. 20 00:01:13,590 --> 00:01:15,620 Then he said to me: 21 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:17,620 "Learn Syriac." 22 00:01:17,620 --> 00:01:21,620 So I learned it in seventeen days. 23 00:01:21,620 --> 00:01:26,620 This impressed the Prophet, peace be upon him. 24 00:01:26,620 --> 00:01:28,620 Thereafter, I came to be called: 25 00:01:28,620 --> 00:01:33,620 The translator for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 26 00:01:33,620 --> 00:01:35,620 I learned the laws of inheritance. 27 00:01:35,620 --> 00:01:39,620 To the point that the Prophet, peace be upon him, testified for me: 28 00:01:39,620 --> 00:01:43,620 That I am the most knowledgeable of this Ummah regarding the laws of inheritance. 29 00:01:43,620 --> 00:01:50,260 During the Wars of Apostasy after the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him, 30 00:01:50,260 --> 00:01:55,260 And after a group of the people of the Qur'an were killed in the Battle of Yamama, 31 00:01:55,260 --> 00:02:01,260 Umar Ibn al-Khattab came to the Caliph of the Muslims, Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with them both. 32 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:04,260 He suggested to him that the Qur'an be compiled. 33 00:02:04,260 --> 00:02:08,259 Before death could overtake the remaining reciters. 34 00:02:08,259 --> 00:02:12,259 This weighed heavily upon Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him. 35 00:02:12,259 --> 00:02:14,259 He sought guidance from his Lord. 36 00:02:14,259 --> 00:02:16,259 And he consulted the Companions. 37 00:02:16,259 --> 00:02:19,259 Then, when he resolved to compile the Qur'an, 38 00:02:19,259 --> 00:02:21,259 He summoned me and said: 39 00:02:21,259 --> 00:02:24,259 "You are a young, intelligent man." 40 00:02:24,259 --> 00:02:26,259 "We do not suspect you of anything." 41 00:02:26,259 --> 00:02:31,259 "You used to write the revelation for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him." 42 00:02:31,259 --> 00:02:34,259 "So, track down the Qur'an and compile it." 43 00:02:34,259 --> 00:02:36,259 I said: 44 00:02:36,259 --> 00:02:42,259 "How can you do something that the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, did not do?" 45 00:02:42,259 --> 00:02:43,259 He replied: 46 00:02:43,259 --> 00:02:46,259 "By Allah, it is a good deed." 47 00:02:46,259 --> 00:02:49,259 Abu Bakr continued to urge me, 48 00:02:49,259 --> 00:02:52,259 Until Allah opened my heart to it. 49 00:02:53,259 --> 00:02:58,259 By Allah, if they had tasked me with moving a mountain from its place, 50 00:02:58,259 --> 00:03:02,259 It would have been easier for me than what they ordered me to do. 51 00:03:02,259 --> 00:03:08,490 So I began tracking down its verses from parchment, shoulder blades, and the hearts of men. 52 00:03:08,490 --> 00:03:11,490 Until I completed the task. 53 00:03:11,490 --> 00:03:19,159 After the expansion of the Islamic conquests during the era of the Caliph Uthman Ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, 54 00:03:19,159 --> 00:03:22,159 And the people differed in their recitations, 55 00:03:22,159 --> 00:03:28,159 The Caliph ordered me to compile the Qur'an once more into a single recitation. 56 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:34,159 It was the final recitation that I heard from the Prophet, peace be upon him, 57 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:39,159 During the final review with Gabriel, peace be upon him. 58 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:41,159 So I did. 59 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:44,159 And I attained the honor of compiling it once again. 60 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:46,289 So, who am I? 61 00:03:53,819 --> 00:03:56,819 I will provide the correct answer in the comments. 62 00:03:56,819 --> 00:04:01,819 When the next episode is released, if Allah wills. 63 00:04:01,819 --> 00:04:06,860 The best of generations in their stance and example. 64 00:04:06,860 --> 00:04:11,860 They followed the Messenger in all he strove for or said. 65 00:04:11,860 --> 00:04:16,860 They were here, watering our lives like rain clouds. 66 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:21,860 They have departed, yet their memory remains exalted among us. 67 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:26,860 They left and cast a question into the conscience. 68 00:04:26,860 --> 00:04:31,860 Is there a star like them that has risen and shone? 69 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:36,860 They filled life with pride through their deeds. 70 00:04:36,860 --> 00:04:42,860 And the world of mankind flourished in their grace.