WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.360 Pause. 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:12.140 Learn about the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures. 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:16.140 A new challenge: Who am I? 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:22.609 I am a Companion of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 00:00:22.609 --> 00:00:26.609 I am the son of a man who was among the most noble of those known to the Arabs. 00:00:26.609 --> 00:00:30.609 He was proverbial for his generosity and munificence. 00:00:30.609 --> 00:00:35.609 I inherited from my father noble character, generosity, and a love for giving. 00:00:35.609 --> 00:00:42.340 Thus, I became a leader and a noble among the nobles of the Arabs. 00:00:42.340 --> 00:00:47.340 When I heard that the Muslim armies were approaching our lands, 00:00:47.340 --> 00:00:50.340 I fled with as many of my family as I could. 00:00:50.340 --> 00:00:54.340 I joined my fellow coreligionists among the Christians in the Levant. 00:00:54.340 --> 00:00:58.340 I left my sister, Safanah, behind in our homeland. 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:01.340 The Muslim army captured her along with other nobles. 00:01:01.340 --> 00:01:05.340 They brought her before the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:08.340 She was among the captives from the tribe of Tayy'. 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:11.340 She was detained in an enclosure by the door of the mosque. 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:14.340 It was where the captives were held. 00:01:14.340 --> 00:01:18.340 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, passed by her. 00:01:18.340 --> 00:01:21.340 She stood up to him and said, 00:01:21.340 --> 00:01:26.340 "O Messenger of Allah, my father has perished and my protector has fled; 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:30.469 so show me favor, may Allah show favor to you." 00:01:30.469 --> 00:01:33.469 He asked, "And who is your protector?" 00:01:33.469 --> 00:01:37.469 She replied, "My brother," and she mentioned me by name. 00:01:37.469 --> 00:01:40.469 He, peace be upon him, said, 00:01:40.469 --> 00:01:43.469 "The one who fled from Allah and His Messenger?" 00:01:43.469 --> 00:01:46.599 Then he walked on and left her. 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:49.599 The next day, he passed by her again. 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.599 She said to him the same thing. 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:56.599 And he said to her what he had said the day before. 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:58.599 When the day after that came, 00:01:58.599 --> 00:02:01.599 he passed by her, and she had lost hope. 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:03.629 She did not stand up to him. 00:02:03.629 --> 00:02:06.629 A man behind him signaled to her, 00:02:06.629 --> 00:02:08.629 "Stand up and speak to him." 00:02:08.629 --> 00:02:10.629 She stood up to him and said, 00:02:10.629 --> 00:02:15.629 "O Messenger of Allah, my father has perished and my protector has fled; 00:02:15.629 --> 00:02:18.789 so show me favor, may Allah show favor to you." 00:02:18.789 --> 00:02:21.789 He, peace be upon him, said, 00:02:21.789 --> 00:02:23.789 "I have done so." 00:02:23.789 --> 00:02:25.789 "Do not be in a hurry to leave 00:02:25.789 --> 00:02:29.789 until you find someone from your people whom you trust 00:02:29.789 --> 00:02:32.889 to escort you back to your land." 00:02:32.889 --> 00:02:37.889 When a group from our people arrived whom we trusted, 00:02:37.889 --> 00:02:41.889 she informed the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:02:41.889 --> 00:02:45.889 He clothed her, provided her with a mount, and gave her provisions. 00:02:45.889 --> 00:02:48.889 She accepted Islam and left with them, 00:02:48.889 --> 00:02:50.889 until she arrived in the Levant. 00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:52.889 When she stood before me, 00:02:52.889 --> 00:02:53.889 she said, 00:02:53.889 --> 00:02:56.889 "You breaker of ties, you oppressor! 00:02:56.889 --> 00:02:58.889 You took your family and children with you, 00:02:58.889 --> 00:03:02.919 and left your sister, the remnant of your father." 00:03:02.919 --> 00:03:05.919 I said, "O my sister, 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:07.919 do not say anything but good. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:10.919 By Allah, I have no excuse." 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.919 Then she dismounted and stayed with me. 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:20.139 When she told me of the Prophet's, peace be upon him, treatment of her, 00:03:20.139 --> 00:03:22.139 I said to myself, 00:03:22.139 --> 00:03:24.139 "If I go to this man, 00:03:24.139 --> 00:03:27.139 and he is a truthful man, I will follow him." 00:03:27.139 --> 00:03:29.240 When I arrived in Medina 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:32.240 and met the Prophet, peace be upon him, 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.240 he welcomed me and took me to his house. 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.340 While we were on the way, 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:42.340 he met a weak, elderly woman. 00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:44.340 She stopped him, 00:03:44.340 --> 00:03:46.340 and he stood with her for a long time 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:49.340 listening to her needs. 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:51.340 I said to myself, 00:03:51.340 --> 00:03:54.530 "By Allah, this is not the way of a king." 00:03:54.530 --> 00:03:58.530 Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, continued with me. 00:03:58.530 --> 00:04:01.530 When he entered his house, 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:04.530 he took a leather cushion 00:04:04.530 --> 00:04:06.530 stuffed with palm fibers, 00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:08.530 and threw it to me. 00:04:08.530 --> 00:04:09.530 He said, 00:04:09.530 --> 00:04:11.590 "Sit on this." 00:04:11.590 --> 00:04:12.590 I said, 00:04:12.590 --> 00:04:14.590 "No, you sit on it." 00:04:14.590 --> 00:04:16.589 He said, 00:04:16.589 --> 00:04:17.589 "No, you." 00:04:17.589 --> 00:04:19.589 So I sat on it. 00:04:19.589 --> 00:04:24.689 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, sat on the ground. 00:04:24.689 --> 00:04:26.689 I said to myself, 00:04:26.689 --> 00:04:29.879 "By Allah, this is not the way of a king." 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:31.879 Then he said, 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:33.879 "Accept Islam, and you will be safe." 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:34.879 I said, 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:36.879 "I have a religion." 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:37.879 He said, 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:40.939 "I know your religion better than you do." 00:04:40.939 --> 00:04:42.939 "Do you not lead your people?" 00:04:42.939 --> 00:04:44.939 I said, "Yes." 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:45.939 He said, 00:04:45.939 --> 00:04:48.939 "Are you not a Rakusi, taking a fourth of the spoils?" 00:04:48.939 --> 00:04:50.939 I said, "Yes." 00:04:50.939 --> 00:04:51.939 He said, 00:04:51.939 --> 00:04:56.069 "That is not permissible for you in your religion." 00:04:56.069 --> 00:04:58.069 I became certain that he was a Prophet. 00:04:58.069 --> 00:05:00.069 So I accepted Islam. 00:05:00.069 --> 00:05:06.000 I heard the Prophet, peace be upon him, one day reciting: 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:14.000 “They have taken as lords beside Allah their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary, when they were bidden to worship only One Allah. There is no Allah save Him. Be He Glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!” (9:31) 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:15.000 I said to him, 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.000 "We did not worship them." 00:05:18.029 --> 00:05:19.029 He said, 00:05:19.029 --> 00:05:23.029 "Do they not forbid what Allah has made lawful, and you forbid it? 00:05:23.029 --> 00:05:27.029 And do they not make lawful what Allah has made unlawful, and you make it lawful?" 00:05:27.029 --> 00:05:29.029 I said, "Yes." 00:05:29.029 --> 00:05:30.029 He said, 00:05:30.029 --> 00:05:32.029 "That is their worship." 00:05:32.029 --> 00:05:34.899 After my conversion, 00:05:34.899 --> 00:05:37.899 I became very generous and charitable, 00:05:37.899 --> 00:05:40.899 and frequently remembered Allah the Exalted. 00:05:40.899 --> 00:05:45.899 No prayer time would pass without me longing for it. 00:05:45.899 --> 00:05:48.899 And never was the call to prayer made since I accepted Islam 00:05:48.899 --> 00:05:51.899 but that I was in a state of ablution. 00:05:51.899 --> 00:05:54.899 I was a cause for the steadfastness of my people in the faith 00:05:54.899 --> 00:06:01.899 on the day most of the Arabs apostatized after the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:06:01.899 --> 00:06:04.250 So, who am I? 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:22.500 'Adi ibn Hatim.