WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:03.459 Pause. 00:00:03.459 --> 00:00:08.460 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the noble figures. 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.460 Solve this riddle: Who am I? 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:23.789 I am one of the Companions from the Ansar. 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. 00:00:27.789 --> 00:00:29.949 I am the mufti of Medina. 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. 00:00:34.950 --> 00:00:39.590 I was eleven years old at the time. 00:00:39.590 --> 00:00:44.590 My people from the Banu al-Najjar brought me to the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:00:44.590 --> 00:00:46.590 They said to him: 00:00:46.590 --> 00:00:51.590 "This boy has memorized seventeen surahs of the Qur'an." 00:00:51.590 --> 00:00:53.590 "Listen to him." 00:00:53.590 --> 00:00:56.590 He listened to me and was pleased with my recitation. 00:00:56.590 --> 00:00:58.590 Then he said to me: 00:00:58.590 --> 00:01:01.590 "Learn the writing of the Jews for me." 00:01:01.590 --> 00:01:04.590 "For I do not trust them with my writing." 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:07.590 So I learned the Jewish language. 00:01:07.590 --> 00:01:11.590 I mastered it in reading and writing. 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:13.590 In fifteen days. 00:01:13.590 --> 00:01:15.620 Then he said to me: 00:01:15.620 --> 00:01:17.620 "Learn Syriac." 00:01:17.620 --> 00:01:21.620 So I learned it in seventeen days. 00:01:21.620 --> 00:01:26.620 This impressed the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:01:26.620 --> 00:01:28.620 Thereafter, I came to be called: 00:01:28.620 --> 00:01:33.620 The translator for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:35.620 I learned the laws of inheritance. 00:01:35.620 --> 00:01:39.620 To the point that the Prophet, peace be upon him, testified for me: 00:01:39.620 --> 00:01:43.620 That I am the most knowledgeable of this Ummah regarding the laws of inheritance. 00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:50.260 During the Wars of Apostasy after the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him, 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, 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. 00:02:01.260 --> 00:02:04.260 He suggested to him that the Qur'an be compiled. 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:08.259 Before death could overtake the remaining reciters. 00:02:08.259 --> 00:02:12.259 This weighed heavily upon Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:02:12.259 --> 00:02:14.259 He sought guidance from his Lord. 00:02:14.259 --> 00:02:16.259 And he consulted the Companions. 00:02:16.259 --> 00:02:19.259 Then, when he resolved to compile the Qur'an, 00:02:19.259 --> 00:02:21.259 He summoned me and said: 00:02:21.259 --> 00:02:24.259 "You are a young, intelligent man." 00:02:24.259 --> 00:02:26.259 "We do not suspect you of anything." 00:02:26.259 --> 00:02:31.259 "You used to write the revelation for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him." 00:02:31.259 --> 00:02:34.259 "So, track down the Qur'an and compile it." 00:02:34.259 --> 00:02:36.259 I said: 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?" 00:02:42.259 --> 00:02:43.259 He replied: 00:02:43.259 --> 00:02:46.259 "By Allah, it is a good deed." 00:02:46.259 --> 00:02:49.259 Abu Bakr continued to urge me, 00:02:49.259 --> 00:02:52.259 Until Allah opened my heart to it. 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:58.259 By Allah, if they had tasked me with moving a mountain from its place, 00:02:58.259 --> 00:03:02.259 It would have been easier for me than what they ordered me to do. 00:03:02.259 --> 00:03:08.490 So I began tracking down its verses from parchment, shoulder blades, and the hearts of men. 00:03:08.490 --> 00:03:11.490 Until I completed the task. 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, 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:22.159 And the people differed in their recitations, 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:28.159 The Caliph ordered me to compile the Qur'an once more into a single recitation. 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:34.159 It was the final recitation that I heard from the Prophet, peace be upon him, 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:39.159 During the final review with Gabriel, peace be upon him. 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:41.159 So I did. 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:44.159 And I attained the honor of compiling it once again. 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.289 So, who am I? 00:03:53.819 --> 00:03:56.819 I will provide the correct answer in the comments. 00:03:56.819 --> 00:04:01.819 When the next episode is released, if Allah wills. 00:04:01.819 --> 00:04:06.860 The best of generations in their stance and example. 00:04:06.860 --> 00:04:11.860 They followed the Messenger in all he strove for or said. 00:04:11.860 --> 00:04:16.860 They were here, watering our lives like rain clouds. 00:04:16.860 --> 00:04:21.860 They have departed, yet their memory remains exalted among us. 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:26.860 They left and cast a question into the conscience. 00:04:26.860 --> 00:04:31.860 Is there a star like them that has risen and shone? 00:04:31.860 --> 00:04:36.860 They filled life with pride through their deeds. 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:42.860 And the world of mankind flourished in their grace.