WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:03.459 Stop. 00:00:03.459 --> 00:00:08.460 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the most exalted. 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.460 A serious challenge: who am I? 00:00:16.460 --> 00:00:23.469 I am the eldest daughter of the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 00:00:23.469 --> 00:00:27.469 My mother is Khadija, may Allah be pleased with her. 00:00:27.469 --> 00:00:30.469 I was born ten years before the Prophetic mission. 00:00:30.469 --> 00:00:33.469 I was known as the "Lady of the Necklace." 00:00:33.469 --> 00:00:36.469 My father, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, 00:00:36.469 --> 00:00:39.469 loved me and praised me. 00:00:39.469 --> 00:00:44.700 He married me to my cousin, Abu al-'As ibn al-Rabi', may Allah be pleased with him. 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:47.700 I lived with him in happiness. 00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:51.729 When my father, peace be upon him, was sent as a Prophet, 00:00:51.729 --> 00:00:53.729 I hastened to believe in him. 00:00:53.729 --> 00:00:56.729 But my husband refused Islam. 00:00:56.729 --> 00:01:00.729 The Quraysh began urging my husband to divorce me, 00:01:00.729 --> 00:01:05.730 offering to replace me with a wife from the noble houses of Quraysh. 00:01:05.730 --> 00:01:08.730 He would reply to them, saying: 00:01:08.730 --> 00:01:10.730 "No, by Allah! 00:01:10.730 --> 00:01:13.730 I will not part with my wife. 00:01:13.730 --> 00:01:16.730 I would not trade my wife for 00:01:16.730 --> 00:01:19.819 any woman from Quraysh." 00:01:19.819 --> 00:01:21.819 When the day of Badr came, 00:01:21.819 --> 00:01:24.819 my husband went out to fight the Muslims, 00:01:24.819 --> 00:01:27.819 and he was taken prisoner by them. 00:01:27.819 --> 00:01:35.819 I sent for his ransom the necklace that my mother, Khadija, may Allah be pleased with her, had gifted me on my wedding day. 00:01:35.819 --> 00:01:39.819 When the Prophet, peace be upon him, saw it, 00:01:39.819 --> 00:01:41.819 he felt compassion for me, 00:01:41.819 --> 00:01:45.819 and he interceded for my husband to be released without ransom, 00:01:45.819 --> 00:01:48.849 and the necklace was returned to me. 00:01:48.849 --> 00:01:52.849 He asked my husband to send me to him in Medina. 00:01:52.849 --> 00:01:56.040 When my husband returned to Mecca, 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:00.040 he ordered me to prepare to join my father. 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:05.040 He asked his brother, Kinana, to escort me part of the way, 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.039 where I would meet some of the Companions 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:11.039 who would take me to Medina. 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:14.099 Kinana took his bow and arrows, 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:17.099 and he took me out in broad daylight, 00:02:17.099 --> 00:02:20.099 in the sight and hearing of the Quraysh. 00:02:20.099 --> 00:02:23.099 The people were enraged and pursued us. 00:02:23.099 --> 00:02:27.099 They terrified me in my howdah until it fell, 00:02:27.099 --> 00:02:30.099 and I suffered a miscarriage. 00:02:30.099 --> 00:02:33.229 At that, Kinana scattered his arrows, 00:02:33.229 --> 00:02:36.229 and swore that no one should approach me 00:02:36.229 --> 00:02:39.229 without him striking them with an arrow in the throat, 00:02:39.229 --> 00:02:42.229 and he never missed his mark. 00:02:42.229 --> 00:02:44.229 The people retreated. 00:02:44.229 --> 00:02:46.229 Then Abu Sufyan came 00:02:46.229 --> 00:02:48.229 and said to Kinana, 00:02:48.229 --> 00:02:51.229 "Take her back to Mecca, 00:02:51.229 --> 00:02:54.229 then take her out at night in secret, 00:02:54.229 --> 00:02:57.229 so that people do not say that she 00:02:57.229 --> 00:03:00.229 left against the will of the people of Mecca." 00:03:00.229 --> 00:03:03.229 Kinana did so. 00:03:03.229 --> 00:03:06.229 When night fell, he took me out 00:03:06.229 --> 00:03:09.229 and handed me over to Zayd ibn Haritha 00:03:09.229 --> 00:03:12.229 and another man, 00:03:12.229 --> 00:03:14.229 whom my father, peace be upon him, 00:03:14.229 --> 00:03:18.060 had sent to escort me to Medina. 00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:20.060 My husband later embraced Islam 00:03:20.060 --> 00:03:22.060 six years after that, 00:03:22.060 --> 00:03:24.060 and he migrated to Medina. 00:03:24.060 --> 00:03:27.060 The Prophet, peace be upon him, returned me 00:03:27.060 --> 00:03:30.060 to him under the original marriage contract. 00:03:30.060 --> 00:03:32.060 I remained with him, 00:03:32.060 --> 00:03:34.060 though the illness from the fall I suffered 00:03:34.060 --> 00:03:36.060 during my migration from Mecca 00:03:36.060 --> 00:03:39.060 never left me, 00:03:39.060 --> 00:03:41.060 until my time came 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:44.060 in the eighth year of the Hijra. 00:03:44.060 --> 00:03:47.259 The Mothers of the Believers washed my body, 00:03:47.259 --> 00:03:50.259 and my father, peace be upon him, gave them 00:03:50.259 --> 00:03:52.259 his lower garment and said, 00:03:52.259 --> 00:03:54.259 "Shroud her in it," 00:03:54.259 --> 00:03:57.259 meaning, place it directly against her body, 00:03:57.259 --> 00:04:00.259 underneath the shroud. 00:04:00.259 --> 00:04:04.319 Then my father, peace be upon him, led my funeral prayer, 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:08.319 and he and my husband descended into my grave. 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.379 So, who am I? 00:04:19.269 --> 00:04:21.269 In the comments, 00:04:21.269 --> 00:04:23.269 when the next episode is released, 00:04:23.269 --> 00:04:25.269 if Allah wills. 00:04:25.269 --> 00:04:27.269 The best of generations, 00:04:27.269 --> 00:04:30.269 in their stances and examples. 00:04:30.269 --> 00:04:32.269 They followed the Messenger, 00:04:32.269 --> 00:04:35.269 in all he strove for or said. 00:04:35.269 --> 00:04:37.269 They were here, 00:04:37.269 --> 00:04:40.269 watering the clouds of our lives. 00:04:40.269 --> 00:04:43.269 They led us, 00:04:43.269 --> 00:04:46.269 their memory rising high. 00:04:46.269 --> 00:04:48.269 They departed and cast 00:04:48.269 --> 00:04:51.269 a question into our conscience: 00:04:51.269 --> 00:04:56.269 Is there a star like them that rose and shone? 00:04:56.269 --> 00:04:58.269 They filled life 00:04:58.269 --> 00:05:01.269 with the glory of their deeds, 00:05:01.269 --> 00:05:06.269 and the world of the self flourished because of them.