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Summary of the Prophet’s biography | Episode (94) | The service of the family of Abu Bakr, may God be pleased with him, to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
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A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah).
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Authored by Sheikh Musa bin Rashid al-Azimi.
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May Allah preserve him.
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The service of the family of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, to the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
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'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with them both, used to
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spend the night with the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and his father
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during the period they were in the cave.
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'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said:
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'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr would spend the night with them,
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and he was a sharp, intelligent, and quick-witted youth.
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"Sharp" means possessing keen insight and intelligence.
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"Quick-witted" means he had a good capacity for understanding and retaining what he heard.
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He would leave them at the break of dawn,
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and arrive in Makkah among the Quraysh by morning, as if he had spent the night there.
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He would not hear of any plot they were devising without committing it to memory,
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until he could bring them the news of it when the darkness of night fell.
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The shepherding of 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah, may Allah be pleased with him.
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'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, said:
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'Amir ibn Fuhayrah,
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the freed slave of Abu Bakr, would graze a herd of milch sheep for them.
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He would bring them back to them when the first part of the night had passed,
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and they would spend the night with fresh milk,
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which was the milk of their herd and their evening drink.
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Then 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah would drive the sheep away at the first light of dawn.
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"Drive" means he would call out to his sheep.
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We did this every night during those three nights.
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Ibn Ishaq said:
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Whenever 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr, may Allah be pleased with them both,
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left them in the morning to go to Makkah,
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'Amir ibn Fuhayrah would follow his tracks with the sheep
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until he had covered them,
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meaning he would trample and erase his footprints.
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Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, bringing food to them.
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Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, said:
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I prepared the provisions for the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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in the house of Abu Bakr
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when he intended to migrate to Madinah.
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The "provisions" (sufrah) refers to the food a traveler takes with him,
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usually carried in a circular leather bag.
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She said:
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We could not find anything to tie the food bag or the water skin with.
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So I said to Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him,
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"By Allah, I find nothing to tie them with except my waistband (nitaq)."
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The "waistband" is what a woman uses to cinch her waist,
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to keep her garment raised from the ground.
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He said, "Tear it into two pieces and tie them,"
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using one for the water skin,
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and the other for the food bag.
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So I did.
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That is why she was called "Dhat al-Nitaqayn" (She of the Two Waistbands).
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In another narration in Sahih Muslim,
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Asma', may Allah be pleased with her, said:
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"I am, by Allah, Dhat al-Nitaqayn.
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As for one of them,
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I used it to lift the food of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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and the food of Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, away from the animals.
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As for the other,
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it was the woman's waistband, which she cannot do without."
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Imam al-Nawawi said:
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The most correct view is that she was named that
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because she tore her single waistband into two halves,
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making one of them a small waistband
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and being content with it,
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and using the other for the provisions of the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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and Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him,
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just as she explicitly stated in this hadith here.
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A Summary of the Prophetic biography (Seerah).
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If the longing of the worlds for some of them grows long,
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the longing for you, O Messenger of Allah, has no bounds.
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May Allah send blessings upon you as long as the call to prayer is raised,
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and lips move with the remainder of the remembrance.