WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:12.140 Pause and identify the Companion, scholar, and eminent figure. 00:00:12.140 --> 00:00:18.980 A new challenge: Who am I? 00:00:18.980 --> 00:00:21.480 I am one of the senior Companions. 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:26.199 I am the confidant of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.199 I arrived in Medina with my father. 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.699 We embraced Islam alongside its people. 00:00:31.699 --> 00:00:36.240 The Prophet, peace be upon him, welcomed us there. 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:42.740 The Prophet, peace be upon him, gave me the choice to be counted among the Muhajirun or the Ansar. 00:00:42.740 --> 00:00:45.429 I chose the Ansar. 00:00:45.429 --> 00:00:50.929 People used to ask the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, about goodness. 00:00:50.929 --> 00:00:53.429 But I used to ask him about evil. 00:00:53.429 --> 00:00:55.929 For fear that it might overtake me. 00:00:55.929 --> 00:01:02.219 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, confided in me the names of the hypocrites. 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:06.219 I kept them secret and told no one about them. 00:01:06.219 --> 00:01:14.030 I memorized from him the hadiths regarding the tribulations that would befall the Ummah until the Day of Resurrection. 00:01:14.030 --> 00:01:17.030 My father and I missed the Battle of Badr. 00:01:17.030 --> 00:01:19.530 Nothing prevented us from witnessing it. 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:22.530 Except that we had set out on a journey. 00:01:22.530 --> 00:01:25.030 The disbelievers of Quraysh intercepted us. 00:01:25.030 --> 00:01:29.030 They said, "You intend to join Muhammad." 00:01:29.030 --> 00:01:33.030 We replied, "We intend nothing but to go to Medina." 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.560 They took a pledge from us that we would head straight to Medina. 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.280 And that we would not fight alongside him. 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.280 When we reached Medina. 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.280 We informed the Prophet, peace be upon him, of that. 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.280 He commanded us to stay back. 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:54.640 And said, "We shall fulfill our pledge to them and seek the help of Allah against them." 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:57.640 Later, we participated in the Battle of Uhud. 00:01:57.640 --> 00:02:03.140 And we fought alongside the Prophet, peace be upon him, against his disbelieving enemies. 00:02:04.140 --> 00:02:08.169 After the setback that befell the Muslims. 00:02:08.169 --> 00:02:11.169 Confusion spread among the people. 00:02:11.169 --> 00:02:16.169 They struck my father with their swords, thinking he was with the polytheists. 00:02:16.169 --> 00:02:18.169 While I was crying out to them: 00:02:18.169 --> 00:02:21.169 "My father! My father! It is my father!" 00:02:21.169 --> 00:02:25.169 But the decree of Allah was swifter. 00:02:25.169 --> 00:02:28.169 My father was killed by the swords of the Muslims. 00:02:28.169 --> 00:02:30.169 So I said to them: 00:02:30.169 --> 00:02:32.169 "May Allah forgive you." 00:02:32.169 --> 00:02:35.360 "For He is the Most Merciful of the merciful." 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.360 When the Prophet, peace be upon him, learned of that. 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.360 He gave me the blood money for my father. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:43.360 But I did not take it for myself. 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:47.360 I gave it as charity to the Muslims. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:56.509 This increased my status and virtue in the eyes of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and the Muslims. 00:02:56.509 --> 00:03:00.509 One day, Umar Ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, asked me. 00:03:00.509 --> 00:03:02.509 And pressed me insistently: 00:03:02.509 --> 00:03:07.509 "Did the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, count me among the hypocrites?" 00:03:07.509 --> 00:03:09.509 I replied, "No." 00:03:09.509 --> 00:03:12.509 "And I will not vouch for anyone after you." 00:03:12.509 --> 00:03:17.800 Then he asked me, "Is there any hypocrite among my governors?" 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.800 I said, "Yes, one." 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:22.800 He asked, "Who is he?" 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:25.800 I said, "I will not name him to you." 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:27.900 Shortly after, Umar dismissed him. 00:03:27.900 --> 00:03:29.900 As if he had been guided to him. 00:03:31.219 --> 00:03:33.219 And it was the habit of Umar, may Allah be pleased with him. 00:03:33.219 --> 00:03:36.219 Whenever a man died, he would ask about me. 00:03:36.219 --> 00:03:38.219 If I was present for the funeral prayer. 00:03:38.219 --> 00:03:40.219 He would pray over him. 00:03:40.219 --> 00:03:42.219 But if I was not present for the prayer. 00:03:42.219 --> 00:03:44.219 Umar would not attend. 00:03:44.219 --> 00:03:49.210 I witnessed the fighting at the Battle of Nahavand. 00:03:49.210 --> 00:03:55.210 When al-Nu'man Ibn Muqarrin, may Allah be pleased with him, the commander of that army, was killed. 00:03:55.210 --> 00:03:57.210 I took up the banner. 00:03:57.210 --> 00:03:59.210 And the conquest of Hamadan took place. 00:03:59.210 --> 00:04:03.270 And al-Rayy, and the victory was at my hands. 00:04:03.270 --> 00:04:05.270 I witnessed the conquest of al-Jazira. 00:04:05.270 --> 00:04:07.270 And I settled in Nusaybin. 00:04:07.270 --> 00:04:09.270 And I married there. 00:04:09.270 --> 00:04:14.400 I participated in the conquest of Armenia and Azerbaijan with the people of Iraq. 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:20.399 I was alarmed when I saw the Muslims differing in their recitation of the Qur'an. 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:25.430 So I came to the Caliph Uthman Ibn Affan, may Allah be pleased with him, in Medina. 00:04:25.430 --> 00:04:27.430 And I said to him: 00:04:27.430 --> 00:04:31.430 "Save the Ummah before they differ regarding the Qur'an." 00:04:31.430 --> 00:04:36.430 So Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, ordered the compilation of the Mushaf. 00:04:36.430 --> 00:04:38.779 So, who am I? 00:04:38.779 --> 00:04:46.689 Share your answers with us in the comments below the video. 00:04:46.689 --> 00:04:50.939 We will pin the correct answer in the comments. 00:04:50.939 --> 00:04:55.939 Upon the release of the next episode, if Allah wills.