His Hajj Story | A Dhul Hijjah Series
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5 Deeds That Equal the Reward of Hajj | His Hajj Story Ep. 10
While we yearn and pray for the day Allah invites us to experience the last pillar (whether or not it is our first visit), we can find solace in a few gifts the Prophet (s) left us: messages that confirm that even when we are far from his land and the land of Ibrahim (a), we can still earn the reward of a fully accepted Hajj through the ordinary deeds that are in extraordinary standing with the Most High.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. When you talk about the vastness of the mercy of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and his bounty, what you realize is that sometimes you come across these authentic ahadith. And at first you might even be a little suspicious about whether or not they're authentic because the reward that is mentioned is so great for seemingly very simple things. And then you realize that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, as he talks about these deeds that are otherwise inaccessible to us, or these rewards that are otherwise inaccessible to us, the deeds that he does SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam are always regular habits that we can adopt in our lives and who knows how many hajjs and how many rewards we will find on the day of judgment, bidnillahi ta'ala, if we sincerely undertake those deeds. First and foremost, the sincerity of intention. And you know, sometimes, especially for those that make the intention of hajj, it doesn't really hit them that, you know, inshAllah you had the niyyah so bidnillahi ta'ala, because you had the intention, the sincere intention, it counts, but I didn't feel it, right? I didn't get to go to Madinah and go to Mecca. I didn't feel the struggle of hajj. And so it's hard for me to conceive that perhaps I actually would have the reward of hajj, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grant it to all of us who made the intention for hajj or Umrah, Allahumma Ameen. And then you look at this particular hadith where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam chose to talk about the people who wanted to go to Tabuk. Now remember, Tabuk was a difficult journey. It was in the heat of the summer, and it was a journey that the hypocrites did not want to go on because it just required so much and they made all sorts of excuses and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is speaking to those who actually went to Tabuk and they actually encountered all of its hardships and he says, there are people that are not with you, habasahum al marad
that they were held back by some sort of sickness or al udhur, they had some sort of excuse, but they have the same reward as you. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying that to the people that went under that huge journey, that undertook that huge journey with all of its hardships, and he's saying SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, look, there are people that have the same reward, even though they did not struggle the way that you struggled. So the sincerity of intention is important and it's something that we have to always remind ourselves of that innama al a'malu bin niyat, that actions are but by intentions. It's not just some sort of comfort that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gives to us when we can't fulfill a deed. It's something that requires work. Like you have to actually work on your intention and make sure that as you intend to do something, that you sincerely intend it for Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la and then the reward is assured from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Now, one of the things that we see with the sahabah is that when they moved to Al-Madinah, for example, they were unable to make it to Mecca and they missed Umrah. And we see the wisdom of the hadith of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, where he says that whoever makes wudu in Madinah and then he heads out to Masjid Quba, the first masjid in Islam to pray two rak'ahs, that that will equal Umrah, that that will actually equal Umrah. So imagine if you just moved to Madinah and you now have that comfort from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, that going out to Quba is like going to Mecca and getting the reward of Umrah. So that's something that we still do today because in the mercy of Allah, though there might be context to these things, they are not restricted in their reward. This is something that is available to the entire Ummah. And so you have one of the most hopeful hadiths, not just about attaining the reward of Hajj, but Hajj with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Imagine if you lived in Madinah and everyone came back and you missed out. Right? Think about the few people that did not get to go on Hajj with the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and it's being referred to as Hajjatul Wada' the farewell Hajj. There's a chance that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam won't go out again. And so people are really remorseful and regretful that did not go with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And there's this particular woman, Um Sinan Al-Ansariya radiAllahu ta'ala Anha, who was so sad because she wanted to go on Hajj with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, but she was unable to. So she goes to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and she complains to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam about her situation that, Ya Rasulullah, I missed Hajj with you. So this is after the Hajj. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, well, what stopped you from doing Hajj with us, Um Sinan? And she said, my husband only has two camels. He used one for himself to go out with Hajj for you. And the other camel is for irrigating our land. So I had no way to actually go out with Hajj or for Hajj with you SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could have given her a specific answer to her situation. He could have said to her, for example, that, you know, you had the sincere intention. So InshaAllah it counts. And that would have been true to everything that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had already said about so many other things, but instead a gift to the entire Ummah. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says to her, if you can go out in Umrah in Ramadan, Fa inna Umratan fee Ramadan taqdi Hajjatan ma'i. If you do Umrah in Ramadan, it is equal to doing Hajj with me. Notice the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not tell her to go to Hajj next year because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam knew that he would not be around for Hajj next year, but he gave a gift to the Ummah. May Allah reward Umm Sinan for asking the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that question, because when you see the Haram in normal circumstances, full in the time of Ramadan and the people flocking from all over the world, know that that is the reward of Hajj with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now you have all of these various deeds, and this is something that I want to end
the series with because these are things that are accessible to all of us, bithnAllahi ta'ala, and they all equal Hajj. And these are all authentic narrations that I'm going to share with you. What are the deeds that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned equal Hajj? Number one, the most famous and the most common, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, whoever prays in jama'ah, whoever prays in congregation and remembers Allah from Fajr. So prays Fajr in congregation and remembers Allah until sunrise. So they make dua or they do dhikr. They remember Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la in one of the legislated ways. And then they pray two rak'ahs after sunrise, Salatul Buha. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that that person has the reward of Hajj, tamah, tamah, tamah, complete, complete, complete. The reward of Hajj and Umrah, complete, complete, complete. So that's something that you can do on a regular basis. You could pray Fajr and you could stay until sunrise. And that is the reward of Hajj and Umrah. And that's something that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam mentions authentically. Then there are other narrations, all of them authentic. One of them, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, man mashaa ila salatin maktoobatin fil jama'ah whoever walks to one of the obligatory prayers to pray in congregation. Fahiyya ka hajjah. Then that is the reward of Hajj. Waman mashaa ila salatin tatawwur and whoever walks to pray a voluntary prayer in the masjid, then that is Umrah. And in one narration, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam specified salatul duha. So if a person one day decides that they want to go to salatul duha or they want to go pray two rak'ahs in the masjid, salatul duha or a voluntary prayer, then that is the reward of Umrah. And when a person walks to the mandatory salah and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says that is like a Hajj, complete, complete, complete. What about the other things? And notice they all surround the masjid here, right? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said in another authentic hadith, man gada ila almasjid la yuridu illa an yata'allama khayra aw yu'allima
whoever goes out to the masjid and what they want, the only thing that they want is to learn something good or teach something good. So both the student and the teacher, when there's a halaqa and you go out to the masjid, to one of those circles of remembrance and think about this, by the way, in the age of everything being virtual now, especially post COVID, right, when things open up and you actually have the opportunity to go and listen to something in person, attend a class live. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, kana lahu ka ajri hajj, that that person has the reward of a person who went out for hajj, taama. And he said all together, complete, complete, complete. Why does the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam keep saying taama? Because you might be thinking to yourself, come on, Ya Rasulullah, really? The entire hajj, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is saying the reward of hajj, complete, complete, complete. So these are things SubhanAllah that surround the masjid that a person could do on a regular basis, praying salatul fajr and staying until salatul duha, going to the obligatory prayer or going to pray a voluntary prayer, specifically perhaps salatul duha when they have the opportunity to do so, or a person going to the masjid to learn or to teach. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la make that reward accessible to all of us. Allahumma Ameen. And then there's one more narration that I want to share with you in this regard, also an authentic narration from Anas Ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, a powerful narration. He says that a man came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, ata rajul an-nabi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam fa qal inni ashtahil jihad. He said that I want to go out and fight for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. I desire to go out and fight for the sake of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, to struggle in the path of Allah. Wa inni laa aqdiru alayhi, but I don't have the means to do so. So I can't go out in tabuuk, I can't go out in hunain. Ya Rasulullah, I'm unable to do so. What was the answer of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? He said, hal baqiya ahadun min walidayk?
Are either of your two parents still alive? Qala ummi, he said, my mother. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, fa ablillaha uzran fee birriha. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, then show your closeness to Allah, come close to Allah with your intention, strive and struggle by obeying her, by showing her goodness, by giving her good companionship, by serving her. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and of course we know that when it comes to jihad, this is the famous narration where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sent the young man back and he said, fa feehi maa fa jahad, then strive in your parents, right? Strive in their favor, that go back to your mother, heaven is under her feet. But here in this particular narration, which is an authentic narration, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, fa innaka idha faAAalta thalik, that if you do what I just told you, if you honor your mother, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, fa anta haaj wa mu'tamar, you are a person who is amongst those who do hajj and mu'tamar, you are one of those who has done umrah wa mujahid fee sabili Allah. So SubhanAllah, if one of your parents is alive, honoring your parent is like jihad and hajj and umrah all together. And this is an authentic narration from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. SubhanAllah, we find this throughout this entire series and throughout everything that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was doing in hajj. Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not want to restrict our Islam to a single gathering, but rather to transform our entire lives. And that's something that we take even from the ultimate gathering that happened in this world with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. May Allah resurrect us in the ultimate gathering in the hereafter in his companionship SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and allow us to be his neighbors in Jannatul Firdaus. Allahumma Ameen. JazakumAllahu Khayran. Wasalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. In these days, as we exert ourselves with all sorts of good deeds that our
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught us, we invite you to spend in the way of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la so that we may all further ourselves along this journey and draw closer to him.
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