1 00:00:00,460 --> 00:00:03,459 Pause. 2 00:00:03,459 --> 00:00:08,460 Get to know the Companions, the scholars, and the most exalted. 3 00:00:12,460 --> 00:00:16,460 A serious challenge: who am I? 4 00:00:16,460 --> 00:00:22,539 I am a Coptic Companion from Egypt. 5 00:00:22,539 --> 00:00:27,609 I was a servant to al-'Abbas ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib, may Allah be pleased with him. 6 00:00:27,609 --> 00:00:31,609 He gifted me to the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 7 00:00:31,609 --> 00:00:37,609 The Prophet freed me when I brought him the glad tidings of the conversion of al-'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him. 8 00:00:37,609 --> 00:00:42,700 Thus, I became a freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 9 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:45,859 I embraced Islam before the Battle of Badr. 10 00:00:45,859 --> 00:00:49,859 Islam had already entered our household. 11 00:00:49,859 --> 00:00:55,859 Al-'Abbas embraced Islam, his wife Umm al-Fadl embraced Islam, and I embraced Islam. 12 00:00:55,859 --> 00:00:58,929 Al-'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, 13 00:00:58,929 --> 00:01:01,929 used to fear his people and disliked opposing them. 14 00:01:01,929 --> 00:01:04,930 He kept his Islam hidden. 15 00:01:04,930 --> 00:01:09,930 He possessed great wealth distributed among his people. 16 00:01:09,930 --> 00:01:13,700 Abu Lahab, the enemy of Allah, 17 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:16,700 had stayed behind from the Battle of Badr. 18 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:20,760 When news arrived of the defeat of the Quraysh at Badr, 19 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,760 Allah humiliated and disgraced him. 20 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,049 I was working, carving arrow shafts in the chamber of Zamzam. 21 00:01:29,049 --> 00:01:34,140 By Allah, I was sitting there carving my shafts, 22 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:37,140 with Umm al-Fadl sitting beside me, 23 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:40,140 and we were pleased with the news that had come. 24 00:01:40,140 --> 00:01:45,209 Suddenly, Abu Lahab approached, dragging his feet in misery, 25 00:01:45,209 --> 00:01:48,209 until he sat against the wall of the chamber. 26 00:01:48,209 --> 00:01:51,209 His back was toward my back. 27 00:01:51,209 --> 00:01:53,239 While he was sitting there, 28 00:01:53,239 --> 00:01:56,239 Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith arrived. 29 00:01:57,239 --> 00:01:59,239 Abu Lahab said, 30 00:02:04,269 --> 00:02:06,269 "Come here," and he sat beside him. 31 00:02:06,269 --> 00:02:07,269 He asked, 32 00:02:07,269 --> 00:02:12,270 "O nephew, tell me, how did the people fare?" 33 00:02:12,270 --> 00:02:14,270 He replied, "There is nothing to say. 34 00:02:14,270 --> 00:02:18,270 By Allah, we simply encountered the people, 35 00:02:18,270 --> 00:02:23,270 and we turned our backs to them; they killed us however they wished, 36 00:02:23,270 --> 00:02:26,270 and they took us captive however they wished. 37 00:02:26,270 --> 00:02:30,270 Yet, by Allah, I do not blame the people. 38 00:02:30,270 --> 00:02:34,270 We encountered white men on piebald horses, 39 00:02:34,270 --> 00:02:36,270 between the heaven and the earth. 40 00:02:36,270 --> 00:02:39,270 By Allah, nothing could stand against them." 41 00:02:39,270 --> 00:02:42,400 I lifted the curtain of the chamber with my hand, 42 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,400 and said, "By Allah, those were the angels." 43 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,530 Abu Lahab raised his hand, 44 00:02:49,530 --> 00:02:52,530 and struck my face a severe blow. 45 00:02:52,530 --> 00:02:54,530 I grappled with him, 46 00:02:54,530 --> 00:02:57,530 and he picked me up and threw me to the ground. 47 00:02:57,530 --> 00:03:00,530 Then he knelt upon me, beating me. 48 00:03:00,530 --> 00:03:02,530 I was a weak man. 49 00:03:02,530 --> 00:03:07,530 Umm al-Fadl stood up, took a tent pole from the chamber, 50 00:03:07,530 --> 00:03:10,530 and struck him with it, 51 00:03:10,530 --> 00:03:14,530 inflicting a terrible wound on his head. 52 00:03:14,530 --> 00:03:19,620 She said, "You take advantage of him because his master is away?" 53 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:21,620 He stood up, turning away in humiliation. 54 00:03:21,620 --> 00:03:24,620 By Allah, he only lived for seven nights, 55 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:28,620 until Allah afflicted him with the ulcer that killed him. 56 00:03:28,620 --> 00:03:33,750 His sons left him for two or three days without burying him, 57 00:03:33,750 --> 00:03:36,750 until he began to rot in his house. 58 00:03:36,750 --> 00:03:41,840 The Quraysh feared the ulcer and its contagion, 59 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,840 just as people fear the plague. 60 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,870 Finally, a man from Quraysh said to them, 61 00:03:47,870 --> 00:03:50,870 "Woe to you! Are you not ashamed? 62 00:03:50,870 --> 00:03:55,870 Your father is rotting in his house, and you will not bury him?" 63 00:03:55,870 --> 00:03:59,870 They said, "We fear this ulcer." 64 00:03:59,870 --> 00:04:04,969 He said, "Come, I will help you." 65 00:04:04,969 --> 00:04:10,060 They did not wash him, but rather threw water on him from a distance. 66 00:04:10,060 --> 00:04:12,060 They would not touch him. 67 00:04:12,060 --> 00:04:15,129 Then they carried him on his bed, 68 00:04:15,129 --> 00:04:18,129 and buried him at the high part of Makkah against a wall. 69 00:04:18,129 --> 00:04:22,129 They threw stones upon him until they covered him. 70 00:04:22,129 --> 00:04:25,860 Then I migrated to Madinah, 71 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:30,860 and I witnessed the battles with the Prophet, peace be upon him. 72 00:04:30,860 --> 00:04:33,860 I asked his permission to take from the charity (zakat). 73 00:04:33,860 --> 00:04:38,860 He said, "The freedman of a people is one of them, 74 00:04:38,860 --> 00:04:41,860 and charity is not permissible for us." 75 00:04:41,860 --> 00:04:44,089 So, who am I? 76 00:04:50,139 --> 00:04:54,399 We will confirm the correct answer in the comments 77 00:04:54,399 --> 00:04:57,399 when the next episode is released, 78 00:04:57,399 --> 00:04:59,399 if Allah wills. 79 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:04,779 The best of generations in stance and example, 80 00:05:04,779 --> 00:05:09,779 following the Messenger whether he strove or spoke. 81 00:05:09,779 --> 00:05:14,779 They were here, watering our lives like rain, 82 00:05:14,779 --> 00:05:19,779 and their memory lives on within us, exalted. 83 00:05:19,779 --> 00:05:24,779 They departed, leaving a question in the conscience: 84 00:05:24,779 --> 00:05:29,779 Is there any star like them that has risen and shone? 85 00:05:29,779 --> 00:05:34,779 They filled life with pride through their deeds, 86 00:05:34,779 --> 00:05:38,779 and the world of the Ummah flourished because of them.