WEBVTT 00:00:01.389 --> 00:00:12.179 Pause and identify this Companion, scholar, and eminent figure. 00:00:12.179 --> 00:00:16.179 A new challenge: who am I? 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. 00:00:22.989 --> 00:00:25.989 I am counted among the people of the Hijaz. 00:00:25.989 --> 00:00:29.989 I was the envoy of the Banu Sa'd and their leader. 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. 00:00:37.060 --> 00:00:39.060 I was a sturdy man. 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:42.060 I wore my hair in two braids. 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:48.240 I arrived as an envoy to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:51.240 I tethered my camel at the door of the mosque. 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:53.240 Then I hobbled it. 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. 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.340 I approached them and said: 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:06.400 "Which of you is the son of 'Abd al-Muttalib?" 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.400 The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.459 "I am the son of 'Abd al-Muttalib." 00:01:12.459 --> 00:01:13.459 I said: 00:01:13.459 --> 00:01:15.459 "O son of 'Abd al-Muttalib, 00:01:15.459 --> 00:01:19.459 I am going to ask you some questions and I will be blunt in my questioning, 00:01:19.459 --> 00:01:22.530 so do not take offense." 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:23.530 He said: 00:01:23.530 --> 00:01:25.530 "I will not take offense, 00:01:25.530 --> 00:01:28.909 so ask whatever you wish." 00:01:28.909 --> 00:01:29.909 I said: 00:01:29.909 --> 00:01:31.909 "I adjure you by Allah, your God, 00:01:31.909 --> 00:01:33.909 and the God of those before you, 00:01:33.909 --> 00:01:37.909 and the God of those who will come after you: 00:01:37.909 --> 00:01:42.010 Has Allah sent you to us as a Messenger?" 00:01:42.010 --> 00:01:45.010 The Prophet, peace be upon him, replied: 00:01:45.010 --> 00:01:47.010 "By Allah, yes." 00:01:47.010 --> 00:01:48.260 I said: 00:01:48.260 --> 00:01:51.260 "I adjure you by Allah, your God, 00:01:51.260 --> 00:01:53.260 and the God of those before you, 00:01:53.260 --> 00:01:57.299 and the God of those who will come after you: 00:01:57.299 --> 00:02:00.299 Has Allah commanded you to order us 00:02:00.299 --> 00:02:04.299 to worship Him alone, associating nothing with Him, 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:06.299 and to abandon these idols 00:02:06.299 --> 00:02:08.300 that our forefathers 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:10.490 used to worship alongside Him?" 00:02:10.490 --> 00:02:11.490 He said: 00:02:11.490 --> 00:02:13.490 "By Allah, yes." 00:02:13.490 --> 00:02:14.680 I said: 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:17.680 "I adjure you by Allah, your God, 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:19.680 and the God of those before you, 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.740 and the God of those who will come after you: 00:02:23.740 --> 00:02:25.740 Has Allah commanded you 00:02:25.740 --> 00:02:28.740 to perform these five prayers?" 00:02:28.740 --> 00:02:29.740 He said: 00:02:29.740 --> 00:02:32.870 "By Allah, yes." 00:02:32.870 --> 00:02:36.870 Then I began to mention the obligatory duties of Islam, one by one: 00:02:36.870 --> 00:02:39.870 the zakat, fasting, the Hajj, 00:02:39.870 --> 00:02:42.870 and all the laws of Islam, 00:02:42.870 --> 00:02:45.870 adjuring him regarding each duty 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:48.870 just as I had adjured him regarding the ones before it. 00:02:48.870 --> 00:02:51.900 When I had finished, I said: 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:55.900 "I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, 00:02:55.900 --> 00:02:58.939 and I bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah. 00:02:58.939 --> 00:03:01.939 I will perform these obligatory duties 00:03:01.939 --> 00:03:04.939 and avoid what you have forbidden me from. 00:03:04.939 --> 00:03:07.939 I will neither add to them nor subtract from them." 00:03:07.939 --> 00:03:12.060 Then I turned back toward my camel. 00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:16.060 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: 00:03:16.060 --> 00:03:19.060 "If the man with the two braids is truthful, 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:21.930 he will enter Paradise." 00:03:21.930 --> 00:03:23.930 Then I went to my people, 00:03:23.930 --> 00:03:25.930 and they gathered around me. 00:03:25.930 --> 00:03:29.930 The first thing I said to them was: 00:03:29.930 --> 00:03:32.990 "Woe to Al-Lat and Al-'Uzza!" 00:03:32.990 --> 00:03:33.990 They said: 00:03:33.990 --> 00:03:35.990 "What are you saying? 00:03:35.990 --> 00:03:38.990 Beware of leprosy and vitiligo, 00:03:38.990 --> 00:03:41.060 beware of madness!" 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:42.060 I said: 00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:43.060 "Woe to you! 00:03:43.060 --> 00:03:49.060 By Allah, they are merely two idols that can neither harm nor benefit. 00:03:49.060 --> 00:03:51.060 Allah has sent a Messenger 00:03:51.060 --> 00:03:53.060 and revealed to him a Book, 00:03:53.060 --> 00:03:57.060 through which He saves you from the state you are in. 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:03.180 I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, 00:04:03.180 --> 00:04:07.180 and that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger. 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." 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. 00:04:19.470 --> 00:04:22.540 By Allah, before that day ended, 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. 00:04:28.540 --> 00:04:30.980 So, who am I?