1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:04,360 Pause. 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:12,140 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the prominent figures. 3 00:00:12,140 --> 00:00:16,140 A new challenge: Who am I? 4 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:23,129 I am one of the Companions of the Prophet, peace be upon him, from Makkah. 5 00:00:23,129 --> 00:00:25,129 I embraced Islam in the year of the Conquest. 6 00:00:25,129 --> 00:00:30,129 I witnessed the Battle of Hunayn alongside the Prophet, peace be upon him. 7 00:00:30,129 --> 00:00:33,130 And the events that followed it. 8 00:00:33,130 --> 00:00:39,189 I was among the most generous of people, giving away wealth without measure. 9 00:00:39,189 --> 00:00:43,189 I used to spend wealth just as kings spend. 10 00:00:43,189 --> 00:00:49,259 I had a grand house in Makkah, close to the Sacred Mosque. 11 00:00:49,259 --> 00:00:54,259 It had two doors and was known as "The Two-Faced House." 12 00:00:54,259 --> 00:00:57,259 Perfumers used to sit by it. 13 00:00:57,259 --> 00:01:02,259 After my conversion to Islam, I became one of the most generous of the Companions. 14 00:01:02,259 --> 00:01:05,260 I was the first to clothe the Kaaba with two coverings. 15 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:11,260 Under the guidance of the Rightly Guided Caliph, Uthman Ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him. 16 00:01:11,260 --> 00:01:16,379 The Prophet, peace be upon him, appointed me as governor over Yemen. 17 00:01:16,379 --> 00:01:19,379 After the Farewell Pilgrimage. 18 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:23,379 Then, the Caliph Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, directed me. 19 00:01:23,379 --> 00:01:26,379 To fight the apostates in Yemen. 20 00:01:26,379 --> 00:01:31,379 I resided for a time in Sana'a as governor and judge. 21 00:01:31,379 --> 00:01:36,090 I was the first to date official documents. 22 00:01:36,090 --> 00:01:38,090 Among the stories of my time in Yemen: 23 00:01:38,090 --> 00:01:43,090 There lived in Sana'a a boy named Asil. 24 00:01:43,090 --> 00:01:47,090 Asil’s father had a corrupt wife. 25 00:01:47,090 --> 00:01:50,090 She had six brothers. 26 00:01:50,090 --> 00:01:53,090 One day, she said to her brothers: 27 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:56,090 "You will never be able to have me to yourselves," 28 00:01:56,090 --> 00:02:00,090 "Until you kill Asil, my husband's son." 29 00:02:00,090 --> 00:02:03,090 They killed him after his father had traveled. 30 00:02:03,090 --> 00:02:06,090 And they threw him into an abandoned well. 31 00:02:06,090 --> 00:02:10,219 The woman began wandering the streets, asking about him. 32 00:02:10,219 --> 00:02:14,219 And praying to Allah to return her stepson to her. 33 00:02:14,219 --> 00:02:17,219 When the news reached me, 34 00:02:17,219 --> 00:02:20,219 I exerted my utmost effort to solve the case. 35 00:02:20,219 --> 00:02:24,219 I promised those who would help uncover the truth with generous rewards. 36 00:02:24,219 --> 00:02:27,250 After a few days, 37 00:02:27,250 --> 00:02:30,250 Some clever individuals came to me. 38 00:02:30,250 --> 00:02:34,250 They informed me that they had seen, at a well near the Ghumdan Palace, 39 00:02:34,250 --> 00:02:38,250 Green flies rising from it in great numbers. 40 00:02:38,250 --> 00:02:41,250 And that such flies do not appear, 41 00:02:41,250 --> 00:02:44,469 Except near a corpse. 42 00:02:44,469 --> 00:02:47,469 So I went out to the mentioned well. 43 00:02:47,469 --> 00:02:51,469 I ordered one of those present to descend and inspect the well. 44 00:02:51,469 --> 00:02:54,469 The one who descended was one of the killers, 45 00:02:55,469 --> 00:02:58,469 As he had come to monitor the situation. 46 00:02:58,469 --> 00:03:01,469 When he descended into the well, 47 00:03:01,469 --> 00:03:04,469 He found the victim floating on the water. 48 00:03:04,469 --> 00:03:07,469 He placed him in a hole beside the well. 49 00:03:07,469 --> 00:03:10,469 And covered him with a rock. 50 00:03:10,469 --> 00:03:12,469 When he came out, he said, 51 00:03:12,469 --> 00:03:14,469 "I found nothing." 52 00:03:14,469 --> 00:03:16,469 I did not believe him, 53 00:03:16,469 --> 00:03:21,469 Because the smell had intensified after he descended and moved the victim. 54 00:03:21,469 --> 00:03:25,469 So I ordered another man from those present to descend. 55 00:03:25,469 --> 00:03:27,469 At that moment, 56 00:03:27,469 --> 00:03:30,469 Signs of fear appeared on the killer. 57 00:03:30,469 --> 00:03:32,469 His complexion changed. 58 00:03:32,469 --> 00:03:35,469 I ordered him to be detained, 59 00:03:35,469 --> 00:03:38,629 Until the victim was brought out of the well. 60 00:03:38,629 --> 00:03:41,629 Then I pressed the killer hard, 61 00:03:41,629 --> 00:03:43,629 And he confessed to everything. 62 00:03:43,629 --> 00:03:46,629 He named his accomplices in the crime. 63 00:03:46,629 --> 00:03:48,629 I arrested them. 64 00:03:48,629 --> 00:03:53,629 I referred the case to Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him. 65 00:03:53,629 --> 00:03:58,629 Umar ordered the execution of all those who participated in killing the boy. 66 00:03:58,629 --> 00:04:00,629 And he said his famous words: 67 00:04:00,629 --> 00:04:03,629 "If the people of Sana'a had conspired against him," 68 00:04:03,629 --> 00:04:05,629 "I would have executed them all for him." 69 00:04:05,629 --> 00:04:07,729 So the six were executed, 70 00:04:07,729 --> 00:04:11,729 Along with the wife of Asil’s father. 71 00:04:11,729 --> 00:04:16,500 I met Umar Ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, one day. 72 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:18,500 I said to him, 73 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:22,500 "I am amazed that people shorten the prayer when they are safe." 74 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:25,500 "Yet Allah, the Almighty, has said:" 75 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:29,500 “And when ye go forth in the land, it is no sin for you to curtail (your) worship if ye fear that those who disbelieve may attack you. In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you.” (4:101) 76 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:33,500 “And when ye go forth in the land, it is no sin for you to curtail (your) worship if ye fear that those who disbelieve may attack you. In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you.” (4:101) 77 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:35,500 "And the people are now safe." 78 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:37,500 Umar replied, 79 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:39,500 "I am amazed by the same thing you are amazed by." 80 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:44,500 So I mentioned that to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 81 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:46,500 He said, 82 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:50,500 "It is a charity that Allah has bestowed upon you, so accept His charity." 83 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:52,500 So accept His charity. 84 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,850 So, who am I?