WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:03.459 Pause. 00:00:03.459 --> 00:00:08.460 Get to know the Companions and the scholars, and the most exalted among them. 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.460 A serious challenge: who am I? 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:21.120 I am one of the Companions. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:27.219 I embraced Islam before the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, entered the house of al-Arqam. 00:00:27.219 --> 00:00:30.219 I was among the oppressed in Makkah. 00:00:30.219 --> 00:00:33.280 I was a slave to al-Tufayl ibn al-Harith. 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:38.280 He used to torture me to make me renounce my religion, but I refused. 00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:44.469 When Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, saw me suffering from the torture, 00:00:44.469 --> 00:00:47.469 he bought me and set me free. 00:00:47.469 --> 00:00:52.469 I then became his freedman, tending to his sheep. 00:00:52.469 --> 00:01:01.530 When the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and his companion Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, migrated to Madinah, 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:05.530 they hid in the cave of Thawr for three nights. 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:08.530 So that the polytheists would lose their trail. 00:01:08.530 --> 00:01:11.530 I would go to them with the sheep. 00:01:11.530 --> 00:01:13.530 I would milk them for the two of them. 00:01:13.530 --> 00:01:17.530 And when ‘Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr would leave them, 00:01:17.530 --> 00:01:23.530 I would follow his tracks with the sheep to cover his footprints. 00:01:23.530 --> 00:01:25.819 When they set out for Yathrib, 00:01:25.819 --> 00:01:31.819 I went out with them and attained the honor of the migration in their company. 00:01:31.819 --> 00:01:34.819 I served them along the way. 00:01:34.819 --> 00:01:42.819 Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, would have me ride behind him on his mount until we reached Madinah. 00:01:42.819 --> 00:01:50.579 I witnessed the battles of Badr and Uhud with the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 00:01:50.579 --> 00:01:53.579 In the fourth year of the Hijrah, 00:01:53.579 --> 00:01:56.579 the incident of Bi'r Ma'unah took place. 00:01:56.579 --> 00:01:58.579 Where the disbelievers committed treachery. 00:01:58.579 --> 00:02:04.579 They killed us all, except for ‘Amr ibn Umayyah, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:02:04.579 --> 00:02:08.580 The one who killed me was Jabbar ibn Salma. 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:11.580 He pierced my back with his spear. 00:02:11.580 --> 00:02:13.580 The spear passed through my body. 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:16.580 I said, "I have succeeded, by the Lord of the Ka'bah!" 00:02:16.580 --> 00:02:20.580 Jabbar asked, "What has he succeeded in?" 00:02:20.580 --> 00:02:23.580 They said, "He has succeeded in attaining Paradise." 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:26.580 He said, "By Allah, he spoke the truth." 00:02:26.580 --> 00:02:28.580 He then embraced Islam afterward. 00:02:28.580 --> 00:02:33.639 Upon my death, the angels raised me to the sky. 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.639 People saw me between the sky and the earth. 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:40.639 Then the angels placed me back on the earth. 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:43.669 They came searching for my body, 00:02:43.669 --> 00:02:45.669 but they could not find it. 00:02:45.669 --> 00:02:49.669 They believed that the angels had buried me. 00:02:49.669 --> 00:02:51.699 So, who am I? 00:02:51.699 --> 00:02:57.430 Share your answers with us in the comments below the video. 00:02:57.430 --> 00:03:01.689 We will pin the correct answer in the comments 00:03:01.689 --> 00:03:06.689 when the next episode is released, if Allah wills. 00:03:06.689 --> 00:03:12.099 The best of generations in their stances and examples. 00:03:12.099 --> 00:03:17.099 They followed the Messenger whenever he strove or spoke. 00:03:17.099 --> 00:03:22.099 They were here, watering our lives like clouds. 00:03:22.099 --> 00:03:27.099 They passed away, yet their memory remains exalted among us. 00:03:27.099 --> 00:03:32.099 They departed and left a question in the conscience: 00:03:32.099 --> 00:03:37.099 Is there any star like them that has risen and shone? 00:03:37.099 --> 00:03:42.099 They filled life with glories through their deeds, 00:03:42.099 --> 00:03:46.099 and the world of the Ummah flourished because of them.