Treasures of biography | Sheikh Othman Al-Khamis | Episode (15)

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

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

0:09 The Migration of Abu Salamah,

0:11 May Allah be pleased with him.

0:15 The Muslims began to migrate,

0:18 While the polytheists attempted to bar them from migrating.

0:21 The very first of the emigrants was Abu Salamah,

0:24 Who had migrated a year before the major Pledge of al-'Aqabah.

0:28 He took his wife, Umm Salamah, and their son, Salamah, along with him.

0:33 Thereupon, his in-laws came to him and said:

0:37 "As for yourself, you have prevailed over us,

0:40 But as for this woman of ours,

0:42 Why should we let you travel through the land with her?"

0:46 "By Allah, we will never allow her to go with you!"

0:49 So they took his wife away from him.

0:51 Naturally, their young child, Salamah, stayed back with his mother.

0:57 The family of Abu Salamah became furious:

0:59 "How dare you take a man's wife from him?!"

1:02 They said: "If you do that,

1:06 We will take our son back!"

1:08 So they wrested Salamah away from his mother.

1:10 Thus, this small family was torn apart:

1:14 Abu Salamah migrated,

1:16 Umm Salamah was detained by her clan,

1:19 And Salamah was seized by his father's clan.

1:22 Abu Salamah migrated alone to Medina.

1:26 After her husband departed and her child was snatched away,

1:31 Umm Salamah would go out every morning to al-Abtah, weeping until evening came.

1:36 She continued doing so for a whole year,

1:39 Crying over the separation from her son and her husband.

1:42 Eventually, one of her kinsmen took pity on her and said:

1:46 "Will you not let this poor woman go?!

1:49 You have torn her apart from her husband and her child!"

1:53 So they said to her:

1:55 "Go and join your husband if you wish."

1:58 She went to her husband's family,

2:00 And they returned her son to her.

2:02 She then set out to migrate after her husband to Medina.

2:06 Yet when she departed,

2:08 She had no one accompanying her.

2:10 Along the way, 'Uthman Ibn Talhah encountered her.

2:14 Once he learned of her situation,

2:16 He escorted her, travelling alongside her

2:19 Until he brought her all the way to Medina,

2:21 Even though he was still an adherent of polytheism.

2:23 Yet that was the noble character of the Arabs.

2:26 When he reached Medina, he said:

2:29 "Your husband is in this village;

2:32 Enter it with the blessing of Allah."

2:34 Then he turned back toward Mecca.

2:37 This is just one depiction of the emigrants

2:40 And what they suffered when they set out

2:42 From Mecca to Medina.

2:46 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah).

2:51 The Migration of Suhayb al-Rumi,

2:54 May Allah be pleased with him.

2:58 Suhayb accepted Islam

3:00 And remained in Mecca for a period of time.

3:03 Then he resolved to migrate to Medina.

3:06 When he prepared to migrate,

3:09 The disbelievers of Mecca came to him and said:

3:12 "You came to us as a destitute vagabond,

3:14 Then your wealth multiplied among us,

3:16 And you attained the standing you have reached;

3:19 Now you wish to depart with both your wealth and yourself?!

3:22 By Allah, that will never happen!"

3:24 Glory be to Allah!

3:26 He had not stolen their money,

3:28 Nor had he cheated them or engaged in usury;

3:31 Rather, he had earned it by the sweat of his brow.

3:33 Yet despite this, they said to him:

3:36 "You and your wealth will never leave together!"

3:39 Suhayb asked them:

3:41 "Tell me, if I surrender all my wealth to you,

3:44 Will you let me go on my way?"

3:46 They replied, "Yes."

3:47 He said, "Then I have given all my wealth to you."

3:52 When news of this reached the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

3:57 He said: "Suhayb has profited!

3:59 Suhayb has profited!"

4:02 Some scholars of knowledge have mentioned

4:04 That the statement of Allah, the Exalted and Glorious:

4:07 “And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah; and Allah hath compassion on (His) bondmen.” (2:207)

4:10 "seeking the pleasure of Allah;

4:14 and Allah is Ever Gracious to His servants"—

4:19 was revealed concerning Suhayb al-Rumi, may Allah be pleased with him.

4:23 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah).

4:30 The Emigrants to Medina.

4:36 On the authority of al-Bara', may Allah be pleased with him, who said:

4:39 Abu Bakr said:

4:41 "The Prophet (peace be upon him) set out, and I was with him,

4:45 Until we arrived in Medina by night.

4:48 The people then vied with one another

4:49 As to which of them he would stay with.

4:52 Thereupon, the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:

4:55 'Tonight I shall stay with Banu al-Najjar,

4:58 The maternal uncles of 'Abd al-Muttalib,

5:00 So as to honor them thereby.'

5:03 When we entered Medina, people came out

5:06 Into the streets and onto the rooftops, along with youths and servants,

5:09 Proclaiming:

5:10 'Allahu Akbar!

5:12 Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, has arrived!

5:15 Allahu Akbar!

5:16 Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, has arrived!'

5:19 He spent the night with Banu al-Najjar,

5:22 And when morning came,

5:24 He proceeded until he settled where he had been commanded."

5:27 Al-Bara' said:

5:29 "The very first of the emigrants to arrive among us was

5:32 Mus'ab Ibn 'Umayr.

5:34 I said to him,

5:36 'What has the Messenger of Allah done?'

5:38 He replied,

5:39 'He is still where he was,

5:40 And his Companions are following right behind me.'

5:43 Then, after him, 'Amr Ibn Umm Maktum came to us;

5:47 Then, after him, 'Ammar Ibn Yasir,

5:49 Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqqas,

5:52 'Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, and Bilal arrived.

5:55 Then, after them, 'Umar Ibn al-Khattab came to us

5:58 Accompanied by twenty riders.

6:00 Then, after them, the Messenger of Allah arrived,

6:02 Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

6:04 With Abu Bakr alongside him."

6:06 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah).

6:13 The Migration of Zaynab, the Daughter of the Prophet,

6:16 Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

6:21 The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said

6:24 To Zayd Ibn Harithah:

6:26 "Will you not bring Zaynab to me?"

6:28 He said, "Yes, indeed."

6:30 He said:

6:32 "Take this ring of mine and deliver it to her."

6:34 Zayd continued to employ tact and discretion

6:36 Until he met a shepherd,

6:38 And asked:

6:40 "Whose flock do you tend?"

6:42 He replied, "Abu al-'As's."

6:44 He asked, "And to whom do these sheep belong?"

6:46 He said:

6:48 "To Zaynab, the daughter of Muhammad."

6:50 So he gave him the ring.

6:52 When night fell,

6:54 She came out to him,

6:56 Mounted behind him, and rode until

6:58 She reached Medina.

7:00 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

7:02 Would later say of her:

7:04 "She was the finest of my daughters;

7:06 She suffered injury for my sake."

7:08 Treasures of the Prophetic Biography (Seerah).

7:11 The Migration of the Prophet,

7:17 Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

7:19 In the month of

7:23 Safar in the

7:25 Fourteenth year following the mission of

7:27 The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

7:29 The people of

7:31 Mecca assembled for a momentous plot,

7:33 The likes of which they had never gathered for

7:35 Ever before. That was because

7:37 They convened in Dar al-Nadwah

7:39 And conspired

7:41 To assassinate the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

7:43 This

7:45 Proposal was the idea of

7:47 Abu Jahl, the chieftain of Quraysh

7:49 At that time.

7:51 Abu Jahl said:

7:53 "By Allah, I have conceived an idea regarding him

7:55 Which I see none of you have yet hit upon."

7:57 They said:

7:59 "And what is it, O Abu al-Hakam?"

8:01 He said:

8:03 "I propose that we select from every clan

8:05 A robust, stalwart youth

8:07 Of noble descent and central standing among us;

8:09 We then hand every young man

8:11 Among them a razor-sharp sword,

8:13 Whereupon they will advance upon him together

8:15 And strike him with them

8:17 As the blow of a single man.

8:19 Thus they will slay him, and we shall be rid of him!

8:21 For if they

8:23 Do that,

8:25 The responsibility for his blood will be dispersed among all the clans,

8:27 And Banu 'Abd Manaf will not be capable

8:29 Of waging war against their entire people

8:31 All together;

8:33 They will then accept the blood money from us,

8:35 Meaning the financial indemnity,

8:37 And we shall pay it to them."

8:39 Following this perilous assembly,

8:41 Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, sent

8:43 Gabriel, peace be upon him,

8:45 Who informed the Prophet,

8:47 Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

8:49 That Allah commanded him to migrate.

8:51 So the Prophet went

8:53 in the midday heat, just before noon,

8:55 to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq,

8:57 may Allah be pleased with him,

8:59 to finalize with him the stages of the Hijrah.

9:01 'A'ishah said,

9:03 "While we were sitting

9:05 in the house of Abu Bakr

9:07 at the peak of midday heat,

9:09 someone said to Abu Bakr,

9:11 'Here is the Messenger of Allah,

9:13 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, veiled with a head-covering,'

9:15 and that was

9:17 at an hour in which he had never

9:19 used to visit us.

9:21 Thereupon Abu Bakr said,

9:23 'May my father and mother be ransomed for him!

9:25 By Allah, nothing has brought him

9:27 at this hour except [an urgent matter].'

9:29 Then the Messenger of Allah

9:31 (peace be upon him) came,

9:33 asked permission to enter, and permission was granted to him,

9:35 so he entered.

9:37 The Prophet (peace be upon him) said

9:39 to Abu Bakr,

9:41 'Dismiss whoever is with you.'

9:43 Abu Bakr replied,

9:45 'They are none but your family, may my father

9:47 be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah!'

9:49 The Prophet (peace be upon him) then said,

9:51 'Indeed, I have

9:53 been granted permission to depart.'

9:55 Abu Bakr said,

9:57 '[May I have your] companionship, may my father

9:59 be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah?'

10:01 The Messenger of Allah

10:03 (peace be upon him) said to him,

10:05 'Yes.'

10:07 So the Prophet (peace be upon him) remained

10:09 until the darkness of night,

10:11 when suddenly the disbelievers of Makkah gathered

10:13 at the door of the Prophet (peace be upon him),

10:15 intending to kill him

10:17 when he stepped out.

10:19 And concerning this, Allah revealed,

10:21 the Blessed and Exalted:

10:23 'And [remember] when those who

10:25 disbelieved plotted against you to restrain you,

10:27 or kill you,

10:29 or expel you;

10:31 they plot,

10:33 and Allah plots,

10:35 and Allah is the best of plotters.'

10:40 This was their plot:

10:42 they agreed upon murdering

10:44 the Prophet (peace be upon him),

10:46 and that he be struck down

10:48 by strong young men,

10:50 so that the blood of the Prophet (peace be upon him) would be dispersed

10:52 among all the tribes,

10:54 and the clan of Banu 'Abd

10:56 Manaf would be forced to accept blood money.

10:58 Now behold the plan of Allah,

11:00 the Blessed and Exalted,

11:02 and what Allah did to them,

11:04 just as the Exalted and Majestic said:

11:06 'Indeed, they are devising

11:08 a plot,

11:10 but I am devising a plot.

11:12 So give respite to the disbelievers;

11:14 deal gently with them for a while.'

11:16 The Messenger of Allah

11:18 (peace be upon him) said

11:20 to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib:

11:22 'Sleep on my bed

11:24 and cover yourself with my cloak,

11:26 for nothing that you dislike

11:28 shall reach you from them.'

11:30 This was a reassurance

11:32 from the Prophet (peace be upon him)

11:34 to 'Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.

11:36 The Prophet

11:38 (peace be upon him) had kept

11:40 'Ali in Makkah

11:42 in order to return the entrusted deposits

11:44 in his possession to the people of Makkah.

11:46 Here we wish to point out

11:48 two vital matters:

11:50 the first of them

11:52 is that the disbelievers of Makkah

11:54 used to say

11:56 about the Prophet (peace be upon him)

11:58 that he was a liar,

12:00 a sorcerer,

12:02 a poet,

12:04 and a madman,

12:06 along with other accusations with which they charged him;

12:08 yet in doing so they were lying,

12:10 for they did not truly believe

12:12 what they were saying,

12:14 since they used to place their valuables

12:16 in the trust of the Prophet (peace be upon him).

12:18 Could it ever be conceivable

12:20 for a rational person

12:22 to entrust his valuables to a man

12:24 whom he genuinely considers a liar, a madman,

12:26 or a sorcerer?

12:28 This is utterly impossible.

12:30 This proves

12:32 that they did not truly deem him a liar,

12:34 just as Allah, the Blessed

12:36 and Exalted, said: 'For indeed,

12:38 they do not deny you,

12:40 but it is the verses of Allah that the wrongdoers

12:42 repudiate.'

12:44 The second matter

12:46 is the trustworthiness of the Prophet,

12:48 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

12:50 For when they sought to kill him,

12:52 he did not say,

12:54 'I shall take their wealth because they

12:56 want to murder me,

12:58 so I am entitled to it.'

13:00 Rather, he (peace be upon him) said:

13:02 'Render back the trust

13:04 to the one who entrusted you,

13:06 and do not betray the one who betrays you.'

13:08 That is: even if another betrays you,

13:10 you must never betray,

13:12 for a believer never acts treacherously.

13:14 Thus the moral conduct of the believer remains

13:16 sublime, lofty, and manifest,

13:18 even if treachery is committed

13:20 by whichever disbelievers choose to betray.

13:23 So when the Prophet

13:25 (peace be upon him) resolved

13:27 to leave his house,

13:29 and those strong,

13:31 armed youths were waiting for him

13:33 at the door to assassinate him,

13:35 Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, cast

13:37 deep slumber over all of them.

13:39 The Prophet (peace be upon him)

13:41 stepped out toward them,

13:43 took a handful of earth,

13:45 and began scattering it

13:47 over their heads.

13:49 Allah had completely veiled

13:51 their sight so they could not see him,

13:53 while the Prophet (peace be upon him)

13:55 was reciting:

13:57 'And We have put before

13:59 them a barrier

14:01 and behind them a barrier

14:03 and covered them, so they

14:05 do not see.'

14:07 Not a single man among them remained

14:09 except that the Prophet (peace be upon him) placed

14:11 upon his head

14:13 some dirt.

14:15 He then proceeded to the house of Abu Bakr,

14:17 and they exited through a small back door

14:19 in Abu Bakr's house

14:21 by night until he reached

14:23 the Cave of Thawr in the direction of Yemen.

14:25 Meanwhile, those who intended

14:27 to assassinate the Prophet (peace be upon him) remained

14:29 standing outside

14:31 until a man came upon them

14:33 who was not among their group;

14:35 he saw them at the door

14:37 and asked them, 'What

14:39 are you waiting for?'

14:41 They replied, 'Muhammad.'

14:43 He said, 'You have failed and lost!

14:45 By Allah, he has already passed by you,

14:47 scattered dust upon your heads,

14:49 and departed

14:51 to attend to his business.'

14:53 They placed their hands on their heads

14:55 and found the dirt,

14:57 so they began shaking it off,

14:59 saying, 'By Allah,

15:01 we did not see him!'

15:03 Then they peered inside the house

15:05 and saw 'Ali,

15:07 saying, 'By Allah, here is Muhammad;

15:09 he is asleep!'

15:11 So they did not stir from their positions

15:13 until morning came and 'Ali arose

15:15 from the bed,

15:17 at which point they were utterly confounded.

15:19 They said to him, 'Where is Muhammad?'

15:21 He replied, 'I have no knowledge.'

15:23 And since

15:25 the Prophet (peace be upon him)

15:27 knew that Quraysh

15:29 would pursue him relentlessly,

15:31 Knowing that all eyes would be directed

15:33 toward the road to Medina,

15:35 it was out of his keen strategic wisdom,

15:37 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

15:39 that he took an entirely different route,

15:41 completely in the opposite direction:

15:43 the road leading south toward Yemen.

15:45 He walked about five miles

15:47 in the direction of Yemen,

15:49 while all eyes and minds

15:51 expected that the Prophet,

15:53 peace be upon him, would migrate directly

15:55 toward Medina.

15:57 That was indeed his ultimate destination,

15:59 but he wanted to obscure

16:01 his trail from them.

16:03 He stayed at a place

16:05 called Mount Thawr

16:07 for three days.

16:09 As he walked toward

16:11 the Cave of Thawr,

16:13 he was walking on his tiptoes

16:15 because the terrain was rugged and rocky,

16:17 which severely chafed his feet,

16:19 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

16:21 The journey grew increasingly arduous for him

16:23 until they finally reached the cave

16:25 at the mountain's summit.

16:27 When the two of them arrived at the cave,

16:29 Abu Bakr said:

16:31 "By Allah, you shall not enter it,

16:33 O Messenger of Allah, until

16:35 I enter before you;

16:37 if there is any harmful creature inside,

16:39 it will strike me instead of you."

16:41 Abu Bakr went in and swept it clean,

16:43 and finding several holes

16:45 along its sides, he tore

16:47 his lower garment and plugged them with it.

16:49 Two remaining holes were left,

16:51 so he blocked them with his own feet.

16:53 He then said to the Messenger of Allah,

16:55 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him:

16:57 "Please enter."

16:59 The Messenger of Allah,

17:01 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, entered,

17:03 laid his head down in

17:05 Abu Bakr's lap, and fell asleep.

17:07 Abu Bakr was then stung

17:09 in his foot from the hole,

17:11 but he did not move

17:13 for fear of awakening

17:14 the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.

17:17 His tears began to fall

17:19 from the intense pain onto the face of

17:21 the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.

17:23 Thereupon, the Messenger of Allah,

17:25 peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, asked what was wrong,

17:27 and he replied, "I was stung, may my father and mother be ransomed for you!"

17:31 So the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, applied his saliva to the sting,

17:36 and the pain he felt instantly vanished.

17:39 This event highlights two profound lessons for us:

17:44 First,

17:45 the immense love the Companions had for the Prophet, peace be upon him,

17:49 such that Abu Bakr was stung yet refused to flinch

17:53 so as not to disturb the Prophet while he slept.

17:58 Second,

17:59 the blessing of the Prophet's touch and supplication,

18:03 and how, merely by applying his saliva to the wound,

18:07 Allah, the Exalted and Majestic, completely relieved his pain.

18:10 The two of them remained in the cave for three nights:

18:13 Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night.

18:18 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr used to spend the night with them.

18:22 'A'ishah said of him:

18:24 "He was a shrewd, sharp-witted young man."

18:27 He would depart from them before dawn

18:30 and be among Quraysh in Mecca by morning as if he had spent the night there.

18:34 He would not hear of any plot against them without memorizing it,

18:38 bringing them the news as soon as night fell.

18:43 Meanwhile, 'Amir ibn Fuhayrah used to graze his sheep near them;

18:47 he was the freed slave of Abu Bakr.

18:49 He would bring the flock to rest by them after an hour of nightfall,

18:53 so they could drink fresh milk,

18:56 and he did this every single one of those nights.

19:00 He would also follow the footprints of 'Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr

19:04 on his way to and from the cave,

19:07 driving the sheep over his tracks to completely erase them.

19:10 As for Quraysh,

19:12 they were utterly infuriated once they confirmed

19:15 that the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had escaped

19:19 on the very morning of the night they had resolved to assassinate him.

19:24 They interrogated 'Ali ibn Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, and assaulted him

19:29 to force him to reveal the Prophet's whereabouts,

19:33 but he told them nothing.

19:36 When they finally despaired of getting anything from him,

19:38 Abu Jahl went to the house of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.

19:42 Asma' bint Abi Bakr came out to meet him,

19:45 and he demanded, "Where is your father?"

19:48 She replied, "I do not know."

19:50 Abu Jahl then raised his hand

19:52 and slapped her across the face with such force

19:54 that her earring went flying off.

19:57 Quraysh then set a bounty

19:59 of one hundred camels

20:01 for anyone who could guide them to the Prophet, peace be upon him,

20:06 dead or alive.

20:09 Horsemen, footmen,

20:11 and skilled trackers set out in vigorous pursuit,

20:14 for a hundred camels was an enormous prize.

20:17 They dispersed across the mountains and valleys

20:20 searching relentlessly for the Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him,

20:23 but all in vain.

20:26 Treasures of the Prophetic biography (Seerah).

Treasures of biography | Sheikh Othman Al-Khamis | Episode (15) | Immigration

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