Treasures of biography | Sheikh Othman Al-Khamis | Episode (7)

0:00 In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

0:03 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah).

0:06 The beginning of the call.

0:10 Revelation was granted to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him),

0:14 and he was given the glad tidings of prophethood.

0:17 Then the revelation ceased for a period,

0:20 after which it returned to him a second time following three years.

0:25 This phase is known as

0:27 the period of prophethood (Nubuwwah)

0:29 prior to the full apostolic mission (Risalah).

0:31 And the Prophet (peace be upon him) began

0:33 inviting those closest to him

0:35 to the religion of Allah, the Blessed and Exalted.

0:37 The very first

0:39 to embrace Islam with the Prophet (peace be upon him)

0:41 among women

0:43 was Khadijah;

0:44 among freed slaves,

0:46 Zayd Ibn Harithah;

0:48 among young boys,

0:50 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib;

0:52 among free men,

0:54 Abu Bakr al-Siddiq;

0:56 and among slaves,

0:58 Bilal Ibn Rabah.

1:00 On the authority of Hammam Ibn al-Harith,

1:02 from 'Ammar Ibn Yasir,

1:04 who said:

1:06 "I saw the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)

1:08 when there was no one with him except five slaves,

1:10 two women,

1:12 and Abu Bakr."

1:14 And there embraced Islam through Abu Bakr

1:16 al-Siddiq:

1:18 al-Zubayr Ibn al-'Awwam,

1:20 'Uthman Ibn 'Affan,

1:22 Sa'd Ibn Abi

1:24 Waqqas,

1:26 and 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn 'Awf,

1:28 may Allah be pleased with them.

1:30 And on the authority of 'Amr Ibn 'Abasah al-Sulami

1:32 (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

1:34 "I came to the Messenger of Allah

1:36 (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)

1:38 at the very beginning of his mission while he was in Mecca,

1:40 and he was at that time

1:42 in hiding. So I said:

1:44 'What are you?'

1:46 He replied: 'I am a prophet.'

1:48 I asked: 'And what is a prophet?'

1:50 He said:

1:52 'Allah has sent me.'

1:54 I asked: 'Ah,

1:56 Allah has sent you?'

1:58 He said: 'Yes.'

2:00 I asked: 'With what has He sent you?'

2:02 He replied: 'That you worship Allah

2:04 alone without any partner,

2:06 destroy the idols,

2:08 and uphold the ties of kinship.'

2:10 He said: I said:

2:12 'How excellent is that which He has sent you with!

2:14 And who has followed you in this?'

2:16 He replied:

2:18 'A free man and a slave.'"

2:20 He said:

2:22 "Later, 'Amr used to say:

2:24 'I certainly saw myself

2:26 when I was one-fourth of Islam.'"

2:28 He said: "So I embraced Islam,

2:30 and said: 'Shall I follow you,

2:32 O Messenger of Allah?'

2:34 He said: 'No,

2:36 rather return to your people,

2:38 and when you hear that I have

2:40 openly triumphed, then come to me.'"

2:42 And on the authority of Ibn Mas'ud

2:44 (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

2:46 "I was a young lad,

2:48 tending the sheep of 'Uqbah

2:50 Ibn Abi Mu'ayt in Mecca,

2:52 when the Messenger of Allah

2:54 (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)

2:56 and Abu Bakr came upon me,

2:58 having fled in secret from the polytheists.

3:00 He said: 'O young boy,

3:02 do you have any

3:04 milk to give us a drink?'

3:06 I said: 'I am entrusted with them,

3:08 so I cannot give you any drink.'

3:10 He said:

3:12 'Do you have a young ewe

3:14 that has not yet mated with a ram?'

3:16 I said: 'Yes.'

3:18 So I brought it to them both,

3:20 and Abu Bakr held it fast,

3:22 while the Messenger of Allah

3:24 (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)

3:26 stroked the udder and supplicated.

3:28 The udder filled with milk,

3:30 and Abu Bakr brought him a hollowed-out

3:32 rock in which he milked it.

3:34 Then he drank,

3:36 he and Abu Bakr, and then I drank.

3:38 Then he said to the udder:

3:40 'Shrink,'

3:42 and it shrank back to how it was.

3:44 Sometime later,

3:46 I came to the Messenger of Allah

3:48 (peace be upon him) and said:

3:50 'Teach me some of this

3:52 speech!' So he said,

3:54 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him:

3:56 'You are a boy destined to be taught.'

3:58 And I learned directly from his mouth

4:00 seventy surahs,

4:02 in which no one

4:04 can dispute with me."

4:06 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah):

4:08 The conversion to Islam of Abu—

4:12 Abu Dharr al-Ghifari,

4:14 may Allah be pleased with him.

4:17 Among those who embraced Islam at the very

4:19 beginning was Abu Dharr al-Ghifari,

4:21 and his story is as

4:23 follows:

4:25 Abu Dharr said: "We departed

4:27 from our tribe, Ghifar,

4:29 who used to treat the sacred month as permissible.

4:31 I set out along with my brother

4:33 Unays and our mother,

4:35 and we stayed with a maternal uncle of ours.

4:37 Our uncle treated us honorably

4:39 and was good to us,

4:41 but his people envied us and said to him:

4:43 'Whenever you leave your family,

4:45 Unays goes in to them behind your back'—

4:47 implying that he

4:49 was betraying him with his family.

4:51 So our uncle came

4:53 and repeated to us what had been said to him,

4:55 meaning he disclosed and divulged what

4:57 was told to him.

4:59 So I said to him: 'As for your past

5:01 kindness, you have tarnished it,

5:03 and we shall never join together

5:05 with you after this.'

5:07 So we brought our small herd of camels close,

5:09 loaded our belongings onto them,

5:11 left our uncle,

5:13 and departed.

5:15 Our uncle covered his head with his garment

5:17 and began to weep.

5:19 We traveled until we reached

5:21 the vicinity of Mecca.

5:23 Then Unays competed in a poetic contest wagering our herd of camels

5:25 against an equal number.

5:27 They went to a soothsayer who judged in favor of Unays,

5:29 so Unays came back to us

5:31 with our herd and an equal number with it."

5:33 That is to say, Unays

5:35 was a poet

5:37 who arrived at a place near Mecca,

5:39 and rivaled people

5:41 in poetry with a wager of a she-camel

5:43 for a she-camel.

5:45 Then they sought judgment from the soothsayer,

5:47 who ruled that Unays

5:49 was the better poet, so he won both camels.

5:51 Abu Dharr said

5:53 to the narrator from him, 'Abdullah

5:55 Ibn al-Samit: "And I used to pray,

5:57 O nephew, before

5:59 I met the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon

6:01 him) by three years."

6:03 I asked—

6:05 'Abdullah Ibn al-Samit—:

6:07 "For whom?" He said: "For Allah."

6:09 I asked:

6:11 "And which direction did you face?"

6:13 He said: "I faced wherever

6:15 my Lord directed me.

6:17 I would pray in the evening

6:19 until, toward the end of the night,

6:21 I would collapse like a discarded garment

6:23 until the sun rose high over me."

6:25 Abu Dharr said:

6:27 "Then my brother Unays

6:29 said to us: 'I have some business

6:31 in Mecca, so look after matters for me

6:33 with my mother until I go

6:35 and return.'

6:37 So Unays set off until he reached Mecca,

6:39 but he was delayed in returning—

6:41 meaning he took a long time.

6:43 Then he returned, so I said: 'What did you do?'

6:45 He said:

6:47 'I met a man in Mecca who follows your religion,

6:49 "claiming that Allah

6:51 has sent him."

6:53 Abu Dharr said: "I asked,

6:55 'So what do the people say?'

6:57 He replied: 'They say

6:59 he is a poet, a soothsayer,

7:01 and a sorcerer.'

7:03 But I have heard the words of the soothsayers,

7:05 and his speech is nothing like theirs;

7:07 and I compared his words

7:09 to the meters of poetry,

7:11 and no one's tongue can rightly claim

7:13 that it is poetry.

7:15 By Allah, he is truly truthful,

7:17 and they are indeed liars!"

7:19 Abu Dharr said:

7:21 "I said to Unays,

7:23 'Look after my affairs here until I go

7:25 and see for myself.'

7:27 So I came to Mecca and approached a man who seemed vulnerable among them—

7:29 meaning, I went to a man

7:31 whom I deemed weak among them—

7:33 and I asked,

7:35 'Where is this man whom you call

7:37 the Sabian?'

7:39 He pointed at me and shouted,

7:41 'Here is the Sabian!'

7:43 Thereupon, the people of the valley fell upon me

7:45 with clods of earth and bones,

7:47 until I collapsed unconscious

7:49 from the severe beating.

7:51 When I finally stood up,

7:53 I was covered in blood, like a red sacrificial stone altar.

7:55 So I went to the Well of Zamzam,

7:57 washed the blood off myself,

7:59 and drank of its water.

8:01 I stayed there, O nephew, for thirty

8:03 days and nights.

8:05 I had no food

8:07 except Zamzam water,

8:09 yet I grew fat until the folds of my belly

8:11 creased,

8:13 and I never felt

8:15 any pangs of hunger in my stomach.

8:17 Then, one bright, moonlit night

8:19 while the people of Mecca were asleep,

8:21 deep slumber overcame them,

8:23 meaning their ears were sealed in sleep,

8:25 so no one was circumambulating the House

8:27 except two women supplicating

8:29 the idols Isaf and Na'ilah.

8:31 As they passed by me

8:33 during their circumambulation,

8:35 I said,

8:37 'Marry one to the other!'

8:39 But they did not desist

8:41 from their invocations.

8:43 He said: When they came by me again,

8:45 I said something explicitly vulgar about the idols,

8:47 comparing them to mere wood,

8:49 without using any euphemism.

8:51 So the two women hurried away wailing

8:53 and crying out,

8:55 'If only there were someone here

8:57 from our men!'

8:59 Then the Messenger of Allah,

9:01 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

9:03 and Abu Bakr met them as they were descending.

9:05 He asked: 'What is the matter with you two?'

9:07 They replied,

9:09 'The Sabian is between the Ka'bah

9:11 and its drapes!'

9:13 The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, asked,

9:15 'What did he say to you?'

9:17 They said,

9:19 'He spoke words that filled our mouths with shame!'

9:21 Then the Messenger of Allah,

9:23 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, approached

9:25 until he touched the Black Stone,

9:27 and circumambulated the House

9:29 along with his companion,

9:31 and then offered prayer.

9:33 When he finished his prayer,

9:35 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

9:37 I was the very first person

9:39 to greet him with the greeting of Islam.

9:41 I said to him,

9:43 'Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah!'

9:45 He replied,

9:47 'And upon you, and the mercy of Allah.'

9:49 Then he asked,

9:51 'Who are you?'

9:53 I replied, 'From the tribe of Ghifar.'

9:55 He said: He lowered his hand

9:57 and placed his fingers upon his forehead.

9:59 I thought to myself,

10:01 'He disliked that I belong

10:03 to Ghifar.'

10:05 So I moved to take his hand from his forehead,

10:07 but his companion restrained me—

10:09 and he knew him better

10:11 than I did. Then the Prophet raised

10:13 his head and asked,

10:15 'How long have you been here?'

10:17 I replied, 'I have been here

10:19 for thirty

10:21 days and nights.'

10:23 He asked, 'And who has been feeding you?'

10:25 I said,

10:27 'I had no food

10:29 except Zamzam water,

10:31 yet I grew fat until the folds of my belly

10:33 creased, and I do not

10:35 feel any pangs of hunger in my stomach.'

10:37 Thereupon the Prophet,

10:39 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said,

10:41 'Indeed, it is blessed;

10:43 it is truly a nourishing food.'

10:45 Then Abu Bakr said,

10:47 'O Messenger of Allah,

10:49 grant me permission to host him tonight.'

10:51 So the Messenger of Allah,

10:53 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

10:55 and Abu Bakr set off,

10:57 and I went along with them.

10:59 Abu Bakr unlocked a door

11:01 and began taking handfuls of raisins from

11:03 al-Ta'if for us,

11:05 and that was the very first food

11:07 I ate there.

11:09 Then I remained for as long as I remained,

11:11 after which I came to the Messenger of Allah,

11:13 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

11:15 and he said,

11:17 'I have been shown the land of palm trees to which I shall emigrate;

11:19 I see it

11:21 to be none other than Yathrib.

11:23 Will you convey the message

11:25 from me to your people?

11:27 Perhaps Allah will benefit them through you

11:29 and reward you for them.'

11:31 So I went back to Unays,

11:33 and he asked me, 'What have you done?'

11:35 I said, 'I have

11:37 embraced Islam and believed.'

11:39 He said,

11:41 'I have no aversion to your religion;

11:43 I too have embraced Islam and believed.'

11:45 Then we went to our mother,

11:47 and she said,

11:49 'I have no aversion to your religion;

11:51 I too have embraced Islam and believed.'

11:53 So we packed our belongings

11:55 and came to our people,

11:57 the tribe of Ghifar,

11:59 and half of them embraced Islam.

12:01 They were led in prayer by Imah ibn Rahadah

12:03 al-Ghifari,

12:05 who was their chieftain.

12:07 And the other half said,

12:09 'When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, arrives in

12:11 Medina, we will embrace Islam.'

12:13 When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, arrived in

12:15 Medina,

12:17 the remaining half

12:19 embraced Islam.

12:21 Then the tribe of Aslam came

12:23 and said, 'O Messenger of Allah,

12:25 our brethren have embraced Islam, so we embrace Islam

12:27 upon the same terms as they did.'

12:29 And so they embraced Islam.

12:31 Thereupon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said,

12:33 'Ghifar—may Allah forgive

12:35 them;

12:37 and Aslam—may Allah grant them peace.'

12:39 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah):

12:41 The conversion to Islam of al-Tufayl

12:44 ibn 'Amr al-Dawsi,

12:46 may Allah be pleased with him.

12:48 Al-Tufayl was

12:52 an obeyed chieftain and a nobleman

12:54 among the tribe of Daws, and Daws

12:56 was in Yemen. He had

12:58 arrived in Mecca, where the nobles of Quraysh

13:00 gathered around him

13:02 and warned him against the Messenger of Allah,

13:04 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

13:06 They forbade him from meeting with him

13:08 or listening to his words.

13:10 Al-Tufayl ibn 'Amr said:

13:12 'By Allah, they continued pressing

13:14 me until I resolved

13:16 not to hear anything

13:18 from him nor speak to him,

13:20 to the point that when I went to the Sacred Mosque,

13:22 I stuffed my ears with cotton

13:24 out of fear.'

13:26 'So I went early in the morning to the Mosque,

13:28 "And there was the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

13:30 standing

13:32 praying near the Ka'bah.

13:34 So I stood close to him,

13:36 but Allah willed that He should cause me to hear

13:38 some of his words,

13:40 and I heard beautiful speech.

13:42 So I said to myself,

13:44 'May my mother be bereaved of me!

13:46 By Allah, I am a man

13:48 who is intelligent and a poet;

13:50 what is good is not hidden from me, nor what is bad.

13:52 So what prevents me

13:54 from listening to what this man says?

13:56 For if that

13:58 which he brings is good, I will accept it,

14:00 and if it is bad,

14:02 I will leave it.'

14:04 Then I waited until the Messenger of Allah,

14:06 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, turned away

14:08 to his house,

14:10 and I entered upon him

14:12 and said, 'O Muhammad,

14:14 indeed your people told me such and such,

14:16 and such,

14:18 and by Allah, they kept making me fear

14:20 your affair until I stuffed

14:22 my ears with cotton so that I would not

14:24 hear your words.

14:26 Then Allah willed that He should cause me to hear

14:28 your words, and I heard beautiful

14:30 speech.' So he presented—

14:32 so the Messenger of Allah,

14:34 peace be upon him, presented

14:36 Islam to me

14:38 and recited the Qur'an to me.

14:40 And by Allah, I had never heard

14:42 speech better than it,

14:44 nor a matter more just than it.

14:46 So I embraced Islam and bore

14:48 the testimony of truth.

14:50 And I said, 'O Prophet of Allah,

14:52 indeed I am an obeyed man among my people,

14:54 and I am returning

14:56 to them to call them

14:58 to Islam,

15:00 so pray to Allah to make a sign for me

15:02 that will be a help to me against them

15:04 in that to which I call them.'

15:06 So he said,

15:08 'O Allah, grant him a sign.'

15:10 He said: 'So I went out

15:12 to my people until,

15:14 when I was at the mountain pass

15:16 that overlooks the settlement,

15:18 a light fell between my eyes

15:20 like a lamp.

15:22 So I said, "O Allah, place it somewhere other than

15:24 my face, for I fear

15:26 they might think it is a disfigurement."

15:28 So it moved and fell upon the tip of my whip,

15:30 and the people of the settlement began

15:32 looking at that light

15:34 from the tip of my whip

15:36 shining like a lantern

15:38 as I was descending upon them

15:40 from the mountain pass,

15:42 until I reached them and was among them in the morning.

15:44 So when I arrived,

15:46 my father came to me—

15:48 and he was an elderly man—

15:50 and I said, "Keep away from me,

15:52 my father,

15:54 for I am not of you, nor are you of me."

15:56 He said, "Why, my son?"

15:58 I said,

16:00 "I have embraced Islam and followed the religion of Muhammad,

16:02 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him."

16:04 He said,

16:06 "O my son, your religion is my religion."

16:08 I said,

16:10 "Then go and wash, and purify

16:12 your clothes, then come to me

16:14 so that I may teach you of what I have been taught."

16:16 So he went,

16:18 washed, and purified his clothes,

16:20 then he came, and I presented

16:22 Islam to him, and he embraced Islam.

16:24 Then my wife came to me,

16:26 and I said, "Keep away from me,

16:28 for I am not of you, nor are you of me."

16:30 She said,

16:32 "Why, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you?"

16:34 I said,

16:36 "Islam has separated me and you,

16:38 and I have followed the religion of Muhammad,

16:40 peace be upon him."

16:42 She said,

16:44 "Then my religion is your religion."

16:46 So I said, "Then go

16:48 to the sanctuary of Dhu Ash-Shara and purify yourself

16:50 from it."

16:52 She said, "May my father and mother be sacrificed for you,

16:54 do you fear anything for the children from Dhu Ash-Shara—

16:56 any harm?"

16:58 I said, "No,

17:00 I guarantee that."

17:02 She said, "So she went and washed,

17:04 then she came,

17:06 and I presented Islam to her,

17:08 and she embraced Islam."

17:10 Then I called Daws to Islam,

17:12 but they were slow to respond to me.

17:14 Then I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,

17:16 in Mecca

17:18 and said, "O Messenger of Allah,

17:20 they were slow to respond to me,

17:22 so supplicate against them."

17:24 But the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said,

17:26 "O Allah,

17:28 guide Daws.

17:30 Return to your people, call them,

17:32 and be gentle with them."

17:34 He said: "So I continued in the land of Daws,

17:36 calling them to Islam,

17:38 until he migrated—

17:40 the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him—

17:42 to Medina,

17:44 and Badr, Uhud,

17:46 and Al-Khandaq passed.

17:48 Then I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,

17:50 with those who had embraced Islam with me

17:52 from my people,

17:54 while the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,

17:56 was at Khaybar,

17:58 and he assigned us a share alongside the Muslims.

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