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 most eminent among them. 3 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:16,460 Here is a serious challenge: who am I? 4 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:23,800 I am a Companion, one of the masters of the Ansar. 5 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,800 My father was the leader of the Khazraj. 6 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:30,800 Our house was among the most noble and ancestrally distinguished homes of the Arabs. 7 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:34,799 Following the custom of the wealthy and generous Arabs of that time, 8 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:38,799 we had a herald who would stand upon an elevated place, 9 00:00:38,799 --> 00:00:42,799 calling guests to their food during the day, 10 00:00:42,799 --> 00:00:47,799 and lighting a fire to guide the weary traveler by night. 11 00:00:47,799 --> 00:00:49,799 People used to say, 12 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:52,799 "Whoever loves fat and meat, 13 00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:55,799 let him come to the house of Dulaym Ibn Harithah." 14 00:00:55,799 --> 00:01:00,149 There was neither beard nor hair upon my face, 15 00:01:00,149 --> 00:01:03,149 so the Ansar would say, 16 00:01:03,149 --> 00:01:07,150 "We wish we could buy you a beard with our wealth." 17 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:11,150 Despite that, I was one of the shrewdest of the Arabs, 18 00:01:11,150 --> 00:01:15,150 known for my cunning, skill, and intelligence. 19 00:01:15,150 --> 00:01:17,150 Had it not been for Islam, 20 00:01:17,150 --> 00:01:21,150 I would have devised a scheme that the Arabs could not have withstood. 21 00:01:21,150 --> 00:01:26,209 I served the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, 22 00:01:26,209 --> 00:01:30,209 and I held a position with him like that of a chief of police to a prince. 23 00:01:30,209 --> 00:01:33,209 I carried his banner in some of the military expeditions, 24 00:01:33,209 --> 00:01:36,209 and he appointed me to collect the zakat. 25 00:01:36,209 --> 00:01:40,269 When the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, sent 26 00:01:40,269 --> 00:01:43,269 Abu Ubaydah Ibn al-Jarrah, 27 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:47,269 with three hundred of the Muhajirun and the Ansar, 28 00:01:47,269 --> 00:01:49,269 I was among them. 29 00:01:49,269 --> 00:01:52,269 We suffered great hardship, 30 00:01:52,269 --> 00:01:55,269 so I slaughtered nine camels for them, 31 00:01:55,269 --> 00:01:59,269 until we found a whale on the seashore, 32 00:01:59,269 --> 00:02:01,269 and we ate from it for a month, 33 00:02:01,269 --> 00:02:05,269 until our strength returned to us. 34 00:02:05,269 --> 00:02:11,400 I used to feed people during my travels with the Prophet, peace be upon him, 35 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,400 and whenever my provisions ran out, 36 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,400 I would borrow to feed them. 37 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,400 Every day I would call out, 38 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,400 "Come to the meat and the tharid!" 39 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,360 An old woman came to me and said, 40 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:31,360 "I complain to you of the scarcity of rats in my house," 41 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,360 and I said, 42 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,360 "How elegant this metaphor is!" 43 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,360 "Fill her house with bread and meat, 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,680 and ghee and dates." 45 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,680 I once sold a piece of land of mine for ninety thousand, 46 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,680 and when I arrived in Medina, 47 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,680 I ordered the herald to call out, 48 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,680 "Whoever needs a loan, let him come." 49 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,680 I lent out fifty thousand of it, 50 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:58,740 and spent the rest. 51 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:01,740 Then, I later fell ill, 52 00:03:01,740 --> 00:03:03,740 and my visitors became few. 53 00:03:03,740 --> 00:03:05,740 I said to my wife, 54 00:03:05,740 --> 00:03:09,740 "I see that few have visited me during this illness of mine, 55 00:03:09,740 --> 00:03:12,740 and I believe that is 56 00:03:12,740 --> 00:03:15,939 because of the debts people owe me." 57 00:03:15,939 --> 00:03:18,939 So I ordered the herald to call out, 58 00:03:18,939 --> 00:03:20,939 "Whoever owes us a debt, 59 00:03:20,939 --> 00:03:22,939 they are absolved of it." 60 00:03:22,939 --> 00:03:27,060 By evening, the threshold of my door was broken 61 00:03:27,060 --> 00:03:29,060 from the multitude of visitors. 62 00:03:29,060 --> 00:03:31,189 So, who am I? 63 00:03:31,189 --> 00:03:36,789 Share your answers with us in the comments below the video. 64 00:03:36,789 --> 00:03:41,050 We will pin the correct answer in the comments 65 00:03:41,050 --> 00:03:44,050 when the next episode is released, 66 00:03:44,050 --> 00:03:46,050 if Allah wills. 67 00:03:46,050 --> 00:03:51,430 The best of generations in their stances and examples, 68 00:03:51,430 --> 00:03:56,430 they followed the Messenger whenever he strove or spoke. 69 00:03:56,430 --> 00:04:01,430 They were here, watering the clouds of our lives, 70 00:04:01,430 --> 00:04:06,430 and through their stances, their memory is exalted. 71 00:04:06,430 --> 00:04:11,430 They departed, leaving a question in the conscience: 72 00:04:11,430 --> 00:04:16,430 Is there a star like them that has risen and shone? 73 00:04:16,430 --> 00:04:21,430 They filled life with pride through their deeds, 74 00:04:21,430 --> 00:04:26,560 and the world of the noble flourished because of them.