1 00:00:01,389 --> 00:00:12,179 Pause and identify this Companion, scholar, and eminent figure. 2 00:00:12,179 --> 00:00:16,179 A new challenge: who am I? 3 00:00:16,179 --> 00:00:22,989 I am one of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 4 00:00:22,989 --> 00:00:25,989 I am counted among the people of the Hijaz. 5 00:00:25,989 --> 00:00:29,989 I was the envoy of the Banu Sa'd and their leader. 6 00:00:29,989 --> 00:00:37,060 I was known as the best of the Bedouins who came as an envoy to the Prophet, peace be upon him. 7 00:00:37,060 --> 00:00:39,060 I was a sturdy man. 8 00:00:39,060 --> 00:00:42,060 I wore my hair in two braids. 9 00:00:42,060 --> 00:00:48,240 I arrived as an envoy to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 10 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,240 I tethered my camel at the door of the mosque. 11 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:53,240 Then I hobbled it. 12 00:00:53,240 --> 00:01:00,340 Then I entered the mosque, where the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, was sitting with his Companions. 13 00:01:00,340 --> 00:01:03,340 I approached them and said: 14 00:01:03,340 --> 00:01:06,400 "Which of you is the son of 'Abd al-Muttalib?" 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,400 The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: 16 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,459 "I am the son of 'Abd al-Muttalib." 17 00:01:12,459 --> 00:01:13,459 I said: 18 00:01:13,459 --> 00:01:15,459 "O son of 'Abd al-Muttalib, 19 00:01:15,459 --> 00:01:19,459 I am going to ask you some questions and I will be blunt in my questioning, 20 00:01:19,459 --> 00:01:22,530 so do not take offense." 21 00:01:22,530 --> 00:01:23,530 He said: 22 00:01:23,530 --> 00:01:25,530 "I will not take offense, 23 00:01:25,530 --> 00:01:28,909 so ask whatever you wish." 24 00:01:28,909 --> 00:01:29,909 I said: 25 00:01:29,909 --> 00:01:31,909 "I adjure you by Allah, your God, 26 00:01:31,909 --> 00:01:33,909 and the God of those before you, 27 00:01:33,909 --> 00:01:37,909 and the God of those who will come after you: 28 00:01:37,909 --> 00:01:42,010 Has Allah sent you to us as a Messenger?" 29 00:01:42,010 --> 00:01:45,010 The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: 30 00:01:45,010 --> 00:01:47,010 "By Allah, yes." 31 00:01:47,010 --> 00:01:48,260 I said: 32 00:01:48,260 --> 00:01:51,260 "I adjure you by Allah, your God, 33 00:01:51,260 --> 00:01:53,260 and the God of those before you, 34 00:01:53,260 --> 00:01:57,299 and the God of those who will come after you: 35 00:01:57,299 --> 00:02:00,299 Has Allah commanded you to order us 36 00:02:00,299 --> 00:02:04,299 to worship Him alone, associating nothing with Him, 37 00:02:04,299 --> 00:02:06,299 and to abandon these idols 38 00:02:06,299 --> 00:02:08,300 that our forefathers 39 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:10,490 used to worship alongside Him?" 40 00:02:10,490 --> 00:02:11,490 He said: 41 00:02:11,490 --> 00:02:13,490 "By Allah, yes." 42 00:02:13,490 --> 00:02:14,680 I said: 43 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,680 "I adjure you by Allah, your God, 44 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,680 and the God of those before you, 45 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,740 and the God of those who will come after you: 46 00:02:23,740 --> 00:02:25,740 Has Allah commanded you 47 00:02:25,740 --> 00:02:28,740 to perform these five prayers?" 48 00:02:28,740 --> 00:02:29,740 He said: 49 00:02:29,740 --> 00:02:32,870 "By Allah, yes." 50 00:02:32,870 --> 00:02:36,870 Then I began to mention the obligatory duties of Islam, one by one: 51 00:02:36,870 --> 00:02:39,870 the zakat, fasting, the Hajj, 52 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:42,870 and all the laws of Islam, 53 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:45,870 adjuring him regarding each duty 54 00:02:45,870 --> 00:02:48,870 just as I had adjured him regarding the ones before it. 55 00:02:48,870 --> 00:02:51,900 When I had finished, I said: 56 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:55,900 "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, 57 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:58,939 and I bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah. 58 00:02:58,939 --> 00:03:01,939 I will perform these obligatory duties 59 00:03:01,939 --> 00:03:04,939 and avoid what you have forbidden me from. 60 00:03:04,939 --> 00:03:07,939 I will neither add to them nor subtract from them." 61 00:03:07,939 --> 00:03:12,060 Then I turned back toward my camel. 62 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:16,060 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: 63 00:03:16,060 --> 00:03:19,060 "If the man with the two braids is truthful, 64 00:03:19,060 --> 00:03:21,930 he will enter Paradise." 65 00:03:21,930 --> 00:03:23,930 Then I went to my people, 66 00:03:23,930 --> 00:03:25,930 and they gathered around me. 67 00:03:25,930 --> 00:03:29,930 The first thing I said to them was: 68 00:03:29,930 --> 00:03:32,990 "Woe to Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza!" 69 00:03:32,990 --> 00:03:33,990 They said: 70 00:03:33,990 --> 00:03:35,990 "What are you saying? 71 00:03:35,990 --> 00:03:38,990 Beware of leprosy and vitiligo, 72 00:03:38,990 --> 00:03:41,060 beware of madness!" 73 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:42,060 I said: 74 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:43,060 "Woe to you! 75 00:03:43,060 --> 00:03:49,060 By Allah, they are merely two idols that can neither harm nor benefit. 76 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:51,060 Allah has sent a Messenger 77 00:03:51,060 --> 00:03:53,060 and revealed to him a Book, 78 00:03:53,060 --> 00:03:57,060 through which He saves you from the state you are in. 79 00:03:57,060 --> 00:04:03,180 I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, 80 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:07,180 and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. 81 00:04:07,180 --> 00:04:13,280 I have come to you from him with what he has commanded you to do and what he has forbidden you from." 82 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:19,470 I began to tell them what the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, had taught me. 83 00:04:19,470 --> 00:04:22,540 By Allah, before that day ended, 84 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:28,540 there was not a single man or woman in my tribe who had not become a Muslim. 85 00:04:28,540 --> 00:04:30,980 So, who am I?