WEBVTT 00:00:00.460 --> 00:00:03.459 Pause. 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 --> 00:00:22.539 I am a Coptic Companion from Egypt. 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. 00:00:27.609 --> 00:00:31.609 He gifted me to the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. 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. 00:00:37.609 --> 00:00:42.700 Thus, I became a freedman of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him. 00:00:42.700 --> 00:00:45.859 I embraced Islam before the Battle of Badr. 00:00:45.859 --> 00:00:49.859 Islam had already entered our household. 00:00:49.859 --> 00:00:55.859 Al-'Abbas embraced Islam, his wife Umm al-Fadl embraced Islam, and I embraced Islam. 00:00:55.859 --> 00:00:58.929 Al-'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, 00:00:58.929 --> 00:01:01.929 used to fear his people and disliked opposing them. 00:01:01.929 --> 00:01:04.930 He kept his Islam hidden. 00:01:04.930 --> 00:01:09.930 He possessed great wealth distributed among his people. 00:01:09.930 --> 00:01:13.700 Abu Lahab, the enemy of Allah, 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:16.700 had stayed behind from the Battle of Badr. 00:01:16.700 --> 00:01:20.760 When news arrived of the defeat of the Quraysh at Badr, 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:23.760 Allah humiliated and disgraced him. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:29.049 I was working, carving arrow shafts in the chamber of Zamzam. 00:01:29.049 --> 00:01:34.140 By Allah, I was sitting there carving my shafts, 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:37.140 with Umm al-Fadl sitting beside me, 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:40.140 and we were pleased with the news that had come. 00:01:40.140 --> 00:01:45.209 Suddenly, Abu Lahab approached, dragging his feet in misery, 00:01:45.209 --> 00:01:48.209 until he sat against the wall of the chamber. 00:01:48.209 --> 00:01:51.209 His back was toward my back. 00:01:51.209 --> 00:01:53.239 While he was sitting there, 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.239 Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith arrived. 00:01:57.239 --> 00:01:59.239 Abu Lahab said, 00:02:04.269 --> 00:02:06.269 "Come here," and he sat beside him. 00:02:06.269 --> 00:02:07.269 He asked, 00:02:07.269 --> 00:02:12.270 "O nephew, tell me, how did the people fare?" 00:02:12.270 --> 00:02:14.270 He replied, "There is nothing to say. 00:02:14.270 --> 00:02:18.270 By Allah, we simply encountered the people, 00:02:18.270 --> 00:02:23.270 and we turned our backs to them; they killed us however they wished, 00:02:23.270 --> 00:02:26.270 and they took us captive however they wished. 00:02:26.270 --> 00:02:30.270 Yet, by Allah, I do not blame the people. 00:02:30.270 --> 00:02:34.270 We encountered white men on piebald horses, 00:02:34.270 --> 00:02:36.270 between the heaven and the earth. 00:02:36.270 --> 00:02:39.270 By Allah, nothing could stand against them." 00:02:39.270 --> 00:02:42.400 I lifted the curtain of the chamber with my hand, 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:46.400 and said, "By Allah, those were the angels." 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.530 Abu Lahab raised his hand, 00:02:49.530 --> 00:02:52.530 and struck my face a severe blow. 00:02:52.530 --> 00:02:54.530 I grappled with him, 00:02:54.530 --> 00:02:57.530 and he picked me up and threw me to the ground. 00:02:57.530 --> 00:03:00.530 Then he knelt upon me, beating me. 00:03:00.530 --> 00:03:02.530 I was a weak man. 00:03:02.530 --> 00:03:07.530 Umm al-Fadl stood up, took a tent pole from the chamber, 00:03:07.530 --> 00:03:10.530 and struck him with it, 00:03:10.530 --> 00:03:14.530 inflicting a terrible wound on his head. 00:03:14.530 --> 00:03:19.620 She said, "You take advantage of him because his master is away?" 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:21.620 He stood up, turning away in humiliation. 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:24.620 By Allah, he only lived for seven nights, 00:03:24.620 --> 00:03:28.620 until Allah afflicted him with the ulcer that killed him. 00:03:28.620 --> 00:03:33.750 His sons left him for two or three days without burying him, 00:03:33.750 --> 00:03:36.750 until he began to rot in his house. 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:41.840 The Quraysh feared the ulcer and its contagion, 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:44.840 just as people fear the plague. 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.870 Finally, a man from Quraysh said to them, 00:03:47.870 --> 00:03:50.870 "Woe to you! Are you not ashamed? 00:03:50.870 --> 00:03:55.870 Your father is rotting in his house, and you will not bury him?" 00:03:55.870 --> 00:03:59.870 They said, "We fear this ulcer." 00:03:59.870 --> 00:04:04.969 He said, "Come, I will help you." 00:04:04.969 --> 00:04:10.060 They did not wash him, but rather threw water on him from a distance. 00:04:10.060 --> 00:04:12.060 They would not touch him. 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:15.129 Then they carried him on his bed, 00:04:15.129 --> 00:04:18.129 and buried him at the high part of Makkah against a wall. 00:04:18.129 --> 00:04:22.129 They threw stones upon him until they covered him. 00:04:22.129 --> 00:04:25.860 Then I migrated to Madinah, 00:04:25.860 --> 00:04:30.860 and I witnessed the battles with the Prophet, peace be upon him. 00:04:30.860 --> 00:04:33.860 I asked his permission to take from the charity (zakat). 00:04:33.860 --> 00:04:38.860 He said, "The freedman of a people is one of them, 00:04:38.860 --> 00:04:41.860 and charity is not permissible for us." 00:04:41.860 --> 00:04:44.089 So, who am I? 00:04:50.139 --> 00:04:54.399 We will confirm the correct answer in the comments 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.399 when the next episode is released, 00:04:57.399 --> 00:04:59.399 if Allah wills. 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:04.779 The best of generations in stance and example, 00:05:04.779 --> 00:05:09.779 following the Messenger whether he strove or spoke. 00:05:09.779 --> 00:05:14.779 They were here, watering our lives like rain, 00:05:14.779 --> 00:05:19.779 and their memory lives on within us, exalted. 00:05:19.779 --> 00:05:24.779 They departed, leaving a question in the conscience: 00:05:24.779 --> 00:05:29.779 Is there any star like them that has risen and shone? 00:05:29.779 --> 00:05:34.779 They filled life with pride through their deeds, 00:05:34.779 --> 00:05:38.779 and the world of the Ummah flourished because of them.