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Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the most eminent among them.

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Here is a serious challenge: who am I?

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I am a Companion, one of the masters of the Ansar.

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My father was the leader of the Khazraj.

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Our house was among the most noble and ancestrally distinguished homes of the Arabs.

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Following the custom of the wealthy and generous Arabs of that time,

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we had a herald who would stand upon an elevated place,

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calling guests to their food during the day,

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and lighting a fire to guide the weary traveler by night.

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People used to say,

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"Whoever loves fat and meat,

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let him come to the house of Dulaym Ibn Harithah."

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There was neither beard nor hair upon my face,

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so the Ansar would say,

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"We wish we could buy you a beard with our wealth."

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Despite that, I was one of the shrewdest of the Arabs,

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known for my cunning, skill, and intelligence.

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Had it not been for Islam,

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I would have devised a scheme that the Arabs could not have withstood.

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I served the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,

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and I held a position with him like that of a chief of police to a prince.

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I carried his banner in some of the military expeditions,

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and he appointed me to collect the zakat.

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When the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, sent

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Abu Ubaydah Ibn al-Jarrah,

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with three hundred of the Muhajirun and the Ansar,

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I was among them.

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We suffered great hardship,

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so I slaughtered nine camels for them,

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until we found a whale on the seashore,

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and we ate from it for a month,

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until our strength returned to us.

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I used to feed people during my travels with the Prophet, peace be upon him,

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and whenever my provisions ran out,

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I would borrow to feed them.

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Every day I would call out,

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"Come to the meat and the tharid!"

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An old woman came to me and said,

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"I complain to you of the scarcity of rats in my house,"

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and I said,

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"How elegant this metaphor is!"

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"Fill her house with bread and meat,

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and ghee and dates."

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I once sold a piece of land of mine for ninety thousand,

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and when I arrived in Medina,

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I ordered the herald to call out,

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"Whoever needs a loan, let him come."

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I lent out fifty thousand of it,

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and spent the rest.

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Then, I later fell ill,

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and my visitors became few.

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I said to my wife,

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"I see that few have visited me during this illness of mine,

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and I believe that is

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because of the debts people owe me."

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So I ordered the herald to call out,

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"Whoever owes us a debt,

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they are absolved of it."

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By evening, the threshold of my door was broken

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from the multitude of visitors.

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So, who am I?

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Share your answers with us in the comments below the video.

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We will pin the correct answer in the comments

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when the next episode is released,

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if Allah wills.

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The best of generations in their stances and examples,

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they followed the Messenger whenever he strove or spoke.

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They were here, watering the clouds of our lives,

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and through their stances, their memory is exalted.

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They departed, leaving a question in the conscience:

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Is there a star like them that has risen and shone?

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They filled life with pride through their deeds,

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and the world of the noble flourished because of them.