# Abdullah ibn Umar (ra): The Prophet’s ﷺ Shadow | The Firsts

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** The Firsts (Sahaba Stories) | The Forerunners of Islam
**Published:** 2025-08-26
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/DpPK54cFUPA
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-umar-the-prophets-shadow-the-firsts
**Topics:** History, Life of the Prophet (seerah)

## Description
He walked exactly where the Prophet ﷺ walked. Abdullah ibn Umar (ra) lived a life of unmatched devotion, preserving every detail of the sunnah, refusing positions of power, and embodying humility, generosity, and principle. Discover the story of the last major Companion in Mecca and the man whose...

## Chapters
- 0:00 Introduction
- 4:23 Did Abdullah ibn Umar (ra) embrace Islam before his father?
- 7:55 Ibn Umar (ra)’s childhood and youth
- 12:13 Ibn Umar (ra)’s defining moment with the Prophet ﷺ
- 15:02 Learning from the Prophet ﷺ
- 22:25 Closely following the Prophet ﷺ’s sunnah
- 29:15 “And Abdullah ibn Umar would do it as well”
- 33:37 Ibn Umar (ra)’s visits to Masjid al-Aqsa
- 35:38 Preserving the way of the Prophet ﷺ
- 41:40 Father-son relationship between Umar (ra) and Ibn Umar (ra)
- 50:49 Umar (ra)’s assassination and last will to his son
- 55:36 Could Ibn Umar (ra) be khalifah after Umar (ra)?
- 58:25 Honoring his father Umar (ra) after his death
- 1:00:40 His worship, role in conquests, and refusing leadership
- 1:07:44 Ibn Umar (ra)’s humility and modesty
- 1:12:58 Three advices of Ibn Umar (ra) about knowledge
- 1:14:26 Ibn Umar (ra)’s zuhd (asceticism) and sadaqah
- 1:23:48 Refusing leadership and avoiding fitnah
- 1:27:06 Raising and teaching Umar ibn Abdul-Aziz (rh)
- 1:31:09 Ibn Umar (ra)’s assassination and martyrdom
- 1:34:24 The golden chain of hadith

## Transcript
**[0:00]** The Prophet's (ﷺ) Shadow.

**[0:30]** Who looks exactly like Umar ibn Khattab (رضي الله عنه). And whose actions resemble the Prophet (ﷺ) to the point that the way that his hand moves and the way that he walks and everything that he's wearing and everything that he does is an embodiment of the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[0:50]** If you've been to Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, imagine seeing a man walking outside the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ) and he's looking down at his footsteps to see if his feet are falling in a particular place. Walking around, seeing if it's touching this place or that place.

**[1:09]** And then the house that he goes back to is none other than the home in which the Qur'an was collected. And that is the house of his sister Hafsa (رضي الله عنها). In whose home the pieces of the Qur'an, because the Qur'an was written of course on various leaves and scrolls and bones and parchments, was collected in the home of Hafsa (رضي الله عنها).

**[1:35]** And he occupies that home. And as he's walking home, he stops by the grave of the Prophet (ﷺ). As-salamu alayka ya Rasulullah. He sends salam on the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).

**[1:50]** And then he says, as-salamu alayka ya Aba Bakr. And then he says, as-salamu alayka ya Abi. Peace be upon you Abu Bakr, peace be upon you my beloved father. And then he goes back home. This is of course none other than Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما).

**[2:07]** And as I said in the lecture on Abdullah ibn Abbas, that you could arguably say that Abdullah ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنهما) was the most knowledgeable of the Companions. When you saw him you would say he is the most knowledgeable Sahabi of the Prophet (ﷺ). Tawus (rahimahullah) says, if you saw ibn Abbas, you would have never found a more knowledgeable person than him.

**[2:29]** And there was no person more pious than Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما). This is a man of zuhd, a man of asceticism, a man whose very being is encompassed by the love of Rasulullah (ﷺ) in everything that he does.

**[2:47]** And he's also the last of the major Companions to die in Makkah al-Mukarramah. So he's a Sahabi who lives a long life. And like Anas ibn Malik (رضي الله عنه) and Abdullah ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنهما) and some of those Companions, many became Tabi'een.

**[3:04]** If any of those only had met a Companion or two, he would have been one of the only Companions that some of the second generation had met. Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما), Abu Abdur-Rahman, the son of Umar ibn Khattab, was a physical copy of his father.

**[3:22]** And Sa'eed ibn Wasiyyah (rahimahullah) says that of all of the children of Umar, the one who resembled him the most was Abdullah. And of all of the children of Abdullah, the one who resembled him most was a son named Salim. So Salim looked exactly like Abdullah.

**[3:38]** Abdullah looked exactly like Umar. And he was born about one year after the Prophet (ﷺ) received revelation. So we're talking about the year 611. To give you some context because again when you talk about the Abadilah, the Abdullahs, they're all peers to one another.

**[3:54]** Abdullah ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنهما) was born in the year of the boycott, during the time of the boycott. So he's a few years younger than Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما). Abdullah ibn Umar was born one year after the Prophet (ﷺ) received revelation.

**[4:11]** And so he wakes up to this world when his father is a staunch enemy to Islam, but will eventually become one of, of course, the greatest Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). Now some historians say that he embraced Islam before his father.

**[4:29]** He embraced Islam before his father. And I want to talk about why that claim is made and whether or not it's true. Okay. The reason why some of the scholars say that that claim would be likely is that if you remember the life of Umar ibn al-Khattab,

**[4:45]** the elements around Umar were already secretly becoming Muslim. His sister Fatimah bint al-Khattab, one of the very first women who embraced Islam. The second or the third woman that embraced Islam. And you had Sa'eed ibn Zayd, his brother-in-law. The wife of Umar, the only wife of Umar ibn al-Khattab that embraced Islam,

**[5:03]** is a woman by the name of Zaynab bint Maz'un. Now again, I always tell you, like, go back and scroll down the playlist of the firsts. You'll find the story of Uthman ibn Maz'un (رضي الله عنه), who was, I believe, the 15th person to embrace Islam.

**[5:19]** So Zaynab bint Maz'un is the sister of Uthman ibn Maz'un. Zaynab is the mother of Abdullah ibn Umar. So Abdullah is the child of Umar ibn al-Khattab and Zaynab bint Maz'un. May Allah be pleased with them both. Hafsa also, may Allah be pleased with her, is the daughter of Umar and Zaynab.

**[5:38]** So she and Abdullah are full brother and sister. And we know Hafsa also embraced Islam extremely early on with her husband at the time, Khunais. So it could be that Abdullah, being a child, would have followed along with the elements surrounding Umar ibn al-Khattab

**[5:55]** when he was still opposing Islam and considering themselves amongst the Muslims. But again, it kind of becomes irrelevant because he's such a young child. Nafi' (rahimahullah) says, that one of the reasons why there is a misunderstanding,

**[6:10]** when they used to say Abdullah preceded his father to Islam. And by the way, you remember Zayd ibn al-Khattab preceded Umar to Islam. Umar's brother preceded Umar to Islam. He said,

**[6:25]** Nafi' says, people say Abdullah ibn Umar became Muslim before Umar and it is not true. He said, the reason why people say that, is that the day of Bayat al-Ridwan, the day that the Prophet (ﷺ) took the pledge under the tree.

**[6:40]** We're talking about much later in Islamic history, in the famous story of Bayat al-Ridwan. He says that Umar sent Abdullah to bring his horse from one of the Ansari men so that he could fight on it. And at that time,

**[6:56]** people were pledging allegiance to the Prophet (ﷺ) under the tree and Umar was far away. He wasn't yet aware that the Prophet (ﷺ) was taking the bay'ah under the tree in Bayat al-Ridwan. So Abdullah came quicker. He brought the horse to Umar and he was quicker to take the pledge with the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[7:17]** Umar was taking off his armor. Umar had put on his armor to fight. Remember they wanted to go in and fight in Mecca. Umar (رضي الله عنه) was putting on his armor, getting ready for fighting. So Abdullah went before him. He took the bay'ah and then came Umar.

**[7:32]** And he said, that's why people say Abdullah sabqa abi. He preceded his father. So he didn't precede him to Islam. He preceded him on the day of Bayat al-Ridwan. So he was a young child when he was born into this environment of the Prophet (ﷺ)

**[7:51]** shaking Mecca with the call of La ilaha illallah, Muhammadun Rasulullah. And so his childhood is being around Umar ibn al-Khattab. When Umar embraces Islam and being brought to the Prophet (ﷺ) frequently

**[8:06]** and seeing as he grows up that Umar's decision making is entirely based on what he thinks Allah and the Messenger (ﷺ) want. So he constantly sees his father walking that path.

**[8:21]** And the beauty of this story as it unfolds is that he says that the Prophet (ﷺ) used to ask about me. So when Umar (رضي الله عنه) would come and Abdullah was not there, he would say, where's your ghulam? Where's your young man? Bring Abdullah. Bring Abdullah. Bring Abdullah. And this was the Prophet (ﷺ)'s way of nurturing that relationship with the young people at the time.

**[8:41]** So he made hijrah with his father. Then he says the Battle of Badr came and I was too young to fight alongside the Prophet (ﷺ). Then he said Uhud came and I was 14 years old.

**[8:56]** Now here's the thing, the Prophet (ﷺ) would not typically take a 14 year old to fight. He wouldn't take a 14 year old in battle. But Abdullah was a giant like his father. He was huge. He had a huge physical stature. So the narration suggests that the Prophet (ﷺ) thought about it because he was a big boy, big 14 year old.

**[9:15]** But then the Prophet (ﷺ) passed on him. And he said, then I presented myself to the Prophet (ﷺ) on the day of Khandaq. So I didn't get to fight on Uhud and we know what Uhud was like. I presented myself to the Prophet (ﷺ) in Khandaq and I was 15 years old.

**[9:30]** And the Prophet (ﷺ) allowed me to take part in the Battle of Khandaq. So that was the first time that Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما) fought alongside the Prophet (ﷺ). And that's why you'll find in some of the, you know, fiqh of jihad, they talk about the 15 year old sort of being the cutoff, right?

**[9:46]** In historical jurisprudence, because that's the youngest that we know that the Prophet (ﷺ) took someone. He didn't take Zayd ibn Thabit at the same age (رضي الله عنه). Because again, Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما) had a different type of stature, right? And he was able to physically participate at a young age.

**[10:03]** Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (رضي الله عنه) says that of all of the youth around the Prophet (ﷺ) from Quraysh, no one was more disciplined and devoted than Abdullah ibn Umar, which is a big statement considering the types of young people that were around the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[10:20]** So you imagine this young man who very much so like his father, his eyes are wide open constantly. What is it that I need to do to please Allah? Clinging to the Prophet (ﷺ). And maybe you would say a little bit overzealous, right?

**[10:36]** And I don't say that as an insult, but cautious, wanting to make sure that he caught every single thing that the Prophet (ﷺ) said and did. And he would be so happy that the Prophet (ﷺ) would ask about him. So the Prophet (ﷺ) noticed his zeal and asked about him.

**[10:53]** And he also had another access point. So SubhanAllah, you always see that these Companions were trying to find their way into the life of the Prophet (ﷺ). Abdullah ibn Abbas found his way through his aunt. So the aunt of Abdullah ibn Abbas, Maymunah, that's one house of the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[11:12]** Abdullah ibn Umar becomes the brother-in-law of the Prophet (ﷺ) through Hafsa. So his sister, that's another house to the Prophet (ﷺ). So he too would try to find his way next to the Prophet (ﷺ) inside his home as well. So he has access to the Prophet (ﷺ) in his home.

**[11:29]** And he has access to the Prophet (ﷺ) outside of his home. And he narrates frequently that I prayed two rak'ahs with the Prophet (ﷺ) before Dhuhr and two rak'ahs after it. He says that I prayed two rak'ahs after Salat al-Maghrib with the Prophet (ﷺ) in his house.

**[11:46]** So he's one of the narrators of the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ). In fact, of the famous hadith of Sunan al-Ratibah, the Sunan al-Mu'akkadah, the Prophet (ﷺ)'s confirmed Sunnah, the one that he would never leave off, comes from Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما)

**[12:01]** because he would follow the Prophet (ﷺ) into his home. He would pray Sunnah alongside the Prophet (ﷺ). And then he narrated to us what the Prophet (ﷺ) was like inside of his house and how the 'ibadah of the Prophet (ﷺ) were. And just like how Abdullah ibn Abbas has that moment where he's riding behind the Prophet (ﷺ) on the camel

**[12:22]** and the Prophet (ﷺ) turns around and he says, Ya ghulam, inni wa'alimuka kalimat. Oh young man, let me teach you some words. Ibn Umar has that defining moment with the Prophet (ﷺ). He says that one day,

**[12:37]** Akhada Rasul Allah (ﷺ) bi mankibi. The Prophet (ﷺ) put his hand on my shoulder. Like he pulled me to the side. As the scholars of hadith say, He took Abdullah ibn Umar like let me talk to you.

**[12:52]** Let me pull you to the side. So imagine the Prophet (ﷺ) putting his hand on this young man's shoulder. I want to tell you something. And he's going to narrate to him one of the most famous ahadith in Islam. And he says to him, Kun fi ad-dunya ka annaka gharib aw 'abir sabeel.

**[13:11]** Listen to me, oh young man. Be in this world as if you are a stranger or a wayfarer. SubhanAllah, so many of us have heard this hadith. As you hear the life of Ibn Umar unfold, Like imagine this outside of the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[13:26]** Like this is how the hadith was transmitted. He has his hand on the shoulder of this young man. And he says, listen, be in this world as if you are a stranger or a wayfarer. And he says, wa kana Ibn Umar yaqul, Mujahid says, And Ibn Umar would say, like he understood from the advice of the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[13:44]** So this statement is the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ). And Ibn Umar would say, after he quoted the Prophet (ﷺ), Itha amsayta fa-la tantazir as-sabah, wa itha asbahta fa-la tantazir al-masa. Wa khud min sihhhatika li-maradika, wa min hayatika li-mawtika.

**[14:00]** Ibn Umar would say, remembering what the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, If you go to sleep at night, don't expect to wake up in the morning. And if you wake up in the morning, don't expect to sleep at night. And take from your health before your sickness, and take from your life before your death.

**[14:18]** And so his life sort of mirrors this hadith of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) that Ibn Umar embraced being the stranger. He embraced having his own standards. He embraced the sense of urgency. He embraced being the young person that was a little too serious.

**[14:34]** Like you look at Ibn Abbas and how that hadith sort of shapes his trajectory in life. This hadith shapes the trajectory of Ibn Umar's life as well. And Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) loved that about him. And you know, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) does not make a du'a for you or give you advice unless he knows you're the right person to hear it.

**[14:52]** Or the right person for that du'a to be made for. So here you have Ibn Umar excited to soak in the companionship of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). So he always wants to talk to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and this is how he describes the relationship. Like he treasures not just advice,

**[15:08]** but like I want Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) to pay attention to me, and I want to have a reason to have a conversation with him. Right? So he says, one time we were sitting and Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, which of the trees of this world are most similar to the tree of Iman?

**[15:25]** Right? So everyone was quiet. By the way, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), it was like that. Like he would say like, what day are we in? And no one would answer him. Cause they're like, is there, you don't want to get the answer wrong. And it was a little intimidating. What month is this?

**[15:41]** And no one would say it. So Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) asked the question, Ibn Umar said, I knew the answer and I really wanted to say the answer. But at the same time, like I was shy. Like I look around and I see the seniors of the Companions are not saying anything. So then Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) saw the silence or heard the silence

**[15:58]** and Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, it's the palm tree. The palm tree is the most similar tree to the tree of Iman. So as he and his father are walking out from the gathering, Abdullah Ibn Umar says to his dad, says to Umar Al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه), and like, it's really cool to picture Umar (رضي الله عنه) as dad, right?

**[16:13]** As father, you see it a lot in here. He says, you know, I knew the answer and I wanted to say it, but no one was saying it. And I didn't want to just kind of blurt it out there. And Umar (رضي الله عنه) says, I would have been proud of you to say it. I would have loved that you would have answered Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), right? Like that would have been a good thing.

**[16:29]** It's a good thing. Speak up. Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) likes to see the presence of confident youth, right? Who loved this deen and who are paying attention. So that's one of the narrations. The other narration is one that many of you have heard.

**[16:46]** It's a scarier one, but it also comes from a desire. And I want to focus on that position of Abdullah Ibn Umar with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). It says, It says that a young person in the time of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) when they saw a dream,

**[17:03]** they would share it with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in the morning. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at some point in the day, after Fajr, after Dhuha, after his dhikr, after praying, he would talk to his Companions and he would say, who amongst you saw a dream last night that they want to share?

**[17:19]** So Abdullah Ibn Umar said, I wanted to have a good dream just so I could share it with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). I'm waiting for a dream just so I can have an opportunity to talk to him, right? And to sort of stand out in the eyes of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). So he says,

**[17:41]** I was hoping for this dream that Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would interpret for me. He says, He said, I saw a dream while I was asleep in the masjid. And he says, I was a single young man at the time. He said, I saw two angels that came and took me

**[18:02]** and they took me towards the hellfire. So he says, and I was brought close to it and I saw inside of it, I saw in it people that were being punished

**[18:17]** and I knew who they were. Like I recognized the people that were being punished in hellfire. So he says, He said, so in the dream I'm saying, I seek refuge in Allah. I seek refuge in Allah. I seek refuge in Allah.

**[18:33]** And so the two angels said to me, don't be afraid. This is not for you. And instead they took him to the right destination towards Jannah. Now this is a bad dream and a good dream, right? Because he saw hellfire and it terrified him

**[18:50]** but he ends up in the right place. And so now he said, I was too embarrassed to share it with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). So I shared it with my sister Hafsa (رضي الله عنها) and I said, can you talk to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) for me and ask Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) what the dream meant. Like I'm too embarrassed to talk to him

**[19:06]** in the masjid myself. So Hafsa shared the dream with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, ni'ma rajul Abdullah. What an awesome young man Abdullah is. Like Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) knows what he says to Hafsa will get back to Abdullah.

**[19:22]** And when you have a young person that's that sensitive to everything Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) says or does, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) could say something that could crush him. And he doesn't want to do that (ﷺ) and that's from his guidance (ﷺ). He says, ni'ma rajul Abdullah.

**[19:39]** What a great young man Abdullah is. What an awesome young man Abdullah is. Wa law qad salla min al-layl but if only he prayed a little bit of the night. He should pray some tahajjud. He should pray some qiyam al-layl. So Hafsa tells Abdullah Ibn Umar

**[19:55]** this is what Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said and Salim, who's the son of Abdullah says that my father never slept a full night after that night. SubhanAllah how he took the advice of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) for him. He never missed qiyam another night in his life.

**[20:12]** (رضي الله تعالى عنه وعن أبيه) So this is the nature of Abdullah Ibn Umar. I want to talk to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). I want to follow him into his house. I'm praying sunnah with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) is taking me by the shoulder and giving me advice. And he's so afraid to do anything

**[20:27]** to offend Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And so there's a more lighthearted narration but it just shows you the beauty of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) with these young people. Abdullah Ibn Umar said one time I was riding this camel and this camel belonged to Umar and it was a camel that was out of control.

**[20:44]** And I was riding alongside Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and we were on a journey. Fakana yataqaddamu 'an al-Nabi (ﷺ) fa-safar So the camel kept going ahead of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) I was so embarrassed. Right? Like I look like such a terrible young person

**[21:01]** like such an arrogant young person. My camel goes in front of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). So he says on top of that, Umar (رضي الله عنه) said, ya Abdullah la yataqaddamu 'an al-Nabi (ﷺ) ahad Abdullah don't let your camel go in front of the Prophet (ﷺ)

**[21:16]** I was just like, trying so hard to not let this camel go in front of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) So he was embarrassed. So Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) stopped, stopped the journey. He goes to Umar. He says, ba'anihi sell me the camel.

**[21:32]** So Umar says, huwa lak it's for you. Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) purchases the camel from Umar. And then he says, Abdullah come here. So Abdullah came. Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said,

**[21:47]** this is a gift from me to you. fasna bihi mashir do as you will. Like, don't feel bad that your camel is going in front of me. It's okay. By the way, this narration SubhanAllah is in Sahih al-Bukhari and you pass through it. It's like used as a small point in fiqh, as a fine point in fiqh of going in front of the leader,

**[22:04]** a qa'id and a jaysh, like a ruler. But like, it's so beautiful and so profound. Like these are the small details that get missed. Like Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) is concerned with how he's going to interpret these incidents. It's all right. Don't worry about it. Let the camel go ahead. And so he gifted Abdullah the camel that he bought

**[22:23]** from his father. Abdullah Ibn Umar (رضي الله تعالى عنهما) fell in love with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in every way. SubhanAllah, there is no man who noticed the finer details of every day of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)'s life like this man.

**[22:39]** So when you talk about Ibn Abbas's love for the Quran, you're talking about Ibn Umar's love for the Sunnah. So much so that he counted every gray hair in the beard of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) before he passed away. So he numbered the gray hairs in the beard of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)

**[22:54]** and he pointed to where exactly they were and his love for the Sunnah and adherence to the Sunnah was so much that Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ali So this is one of the children of Ali ibn Abi Talib. He said that none of the Sahaba were more cautious

**[23:11]** than Abdullah Ibn Umar in narrating the hadith of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and he wouldn't add a word or diminish a word. Like, you know, the Quran is transmitted by exact words. Obviously every single letter of the Quran is perfectly preserved. Sometimes a hadith, there's a word that would be different.

**[23:28]** The meaning doesn't change, but someone told you this and you're saying what this person said to you. You're not changing the meaning at all. But in the case of Abdullah Ibn Umar, he would narrate the hadith of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) with every word. He will not increase a word. He will not diminish a word.

**[23:43]** That's how careful he was. (رضي الله تعالى عنهما) and Nafi' And this is a side point. I'm gonna, one day, one day inshallah, we'll cover Nafi' Everything from Abdullah Ibn Umar is narrated from Nafi' one of his freed slaves or one of the, you know,

**[24:00]** he is one of the greatest scholars of Islam. So Nafi' narrates from Ibn Umar most of what we learn about Abdullah Ibn Umar. Nafi' says, and this is so beautiful. He says that Abdullah Ibn Umar never narrated a hadith

**[24:15]** of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) without the tears falling from his eyes. Like this is so personal to him. He remembers Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). By the way, he narrates over 2000 hadith. Okay. And he never says, Sama'tu Rasul Allah (ﷺ)

**[24:32]** or Ra'aytu Rasul Allah (ﷺ) except that the tears fill his eyes. And Asim ibn Muhammad, he narrated this from his father. He said, whenever I heard Abdullah Ibn Umar talk about the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) he would weep, may Allah be pleased with him. He would weep. I mean, the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)

**[24:48]** became the center, right, of his life. Just like many of these young people. But to him it was different. Clearly a very different type of attachment. He loved the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in the way you were supposed to love the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).  Right? So it wasn't a cultish love.

**[25:04]** It wasn't a love that was like elevating the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) to a God. You know, God forbid. It was a love of adherence. Say, "If you love Allah, follow me [Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)]" Like it was follow the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Footstep by footstep. An-Nafi' says,

**[25:20]** "If you saw Ibn Umar and he was following and following the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), you would have said he was crazy." If you saw Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) following every footstep of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) you might've called him a crazy man. You might've said that he was insane

**[25:35]** because of how much he adhered to the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). He says that he used to follow the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and he made it a point to pray in every place he ever saw the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) pray. Every place he ever saw the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)

**[25:51]** He made sujud in that place. And he was the one that used to walk around the masjid of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) or anywhere in Medina. And he would say, "Perhaps my footstep will fall on his footstep." It might be that my footstep, that my footstep will fall on his footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).

**[26:07]** And so imagine a man walking around Medina and looking at his footsteps and trying to remember where he saw the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)'s feet fall and making it a point to let his foot fall in the same place as the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). It was to the point that if he saw he,

**[26:24]** you know, one time he turned his camel. He made two rounds with his camel before he descended from his camel. And he said, because I saw the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in this exact place, make two rounds with his camel and descend on this camel. And if you want to know what love is,

**[26:39]** Subhan'Allah, imagine him walking around and watering the trees of Medina. What are you doing? Watering the trees of Medina. He said, I saw the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) sit under this tree and I didn't want this tree to die.

**[26:54]** So that's love. Like that's true love that he has for the Messenger of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), that he wanted to go so that it doesn't go bad so that the tree does not die. So he's watering the trees around the masjid. He's walking around the masjid

**[27:10]** making sure his footsteps fall there. He scented himself with what the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) scented himself with. So he smelled exactly like the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). It's one of the narrations about him. He smelled like him, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), and he wanted to make sure that he only wore what the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)

**[27:27]** used to like to wear. He dyed his beard with the same thing that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) dyed his beard with until it dripped on his clothes in the exact same way that he saw from the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). His hair was down to his earlobes. And he says, because I saw the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)'s hair

**[27:43]** down to his earlobes and Aisha (رضي الله عنها) said, I have never seen anyone holding on to the original al-amr, the original affair of this deen like Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه). That's a testimony from Aisha about him (رضي الله عنه).

**[27:58]** And as Imam Malik (رحمه الله) and this is by the way, he is formative to the Madhab of Imam Malik who looks at the people of Medina. He said that Ibn Umar would follow the traces and lifestyle of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) to a point that his keenness

**[28:15]** could be interpreted as insanity. Like his keenness of following the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) and everything that he did and everything that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) desired. And Subhan'Allah, there's a beautiful narration as well that shows you like he was even anticipating

**[28:31]** what he thinks the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would have liked or seen to be done. So he heard the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say before he passed away, "If I had opened this door for the women" Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, if I could make this door for the women.

**[28:47]** But the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) did not do it before he passed away. He simply said, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), that I would appoint this door to be for the women. And it was said about Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه), he never entered that door again, even if the masjid was empty until the day of his death.

**[29:04]** He would not enter that door because he heard the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say, "If I had opened this door for the women," if we left this door for the women, even though he didn't make it obligatory, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). I can go on and on about this. And there are so many narrations

**[29:20]** with every single companion talking about the way that he adhered to the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). But I want to move on from this, in sha'Allah, to just what this actually manifested in for Islamic history, for our legacy. It's narrated in the Siyar that people used to make du'a

**[29:37]** that Abdullah ibn Umar would stay alive so that the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would stay alive. And so they would say, Oh Allah keep Abdullah ibn Umar alive for as long as I live, so that I do not lose sight of what the Prophet

**[29:53]** Muhammad (ﷺ) used to follow. So people used to make du'a for him to live long because if there is any dispute, of the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), you didn't even need to hear him say anything. You just looked at what he was doing. And he said that's what the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) is. And Subhan'Allah, as the narrators would say about him in his biography,

**[30:11]** the du'as were answered because he lived as one of the longest of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), the last major Sahabi to die in Mecca. And the people took fiqh, not necessarily from his words even, but from the way that he carried himself, may Allah be pleased with him.

**[30:26]** And of course he did teach people and he taught people from a place of love. And he taught exactly as the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) taught. And so there's one narration that Al-Hajjaj ibn Aiman walked in to the masjid of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ),

**[30:47]** and he was doing his salah. And as he was doing his salah, he wasn't pausing between the ruku' and the sujud properly, which is where most people lose their salah, right? Most people lose their salah without properly standing up. When they come up from ruku', you have to stand up still for that point.

**[31:04]** Your bones have to settle or else your salah is invalid. So someone comes up, and they're already down for sujud. That salah did not count. Not only was it deficient, it didn't actually count, right? It's a scary thought. Or between the two sajdas, right?

**[31:19]** That a person should have tranquility between the two sajdas. They should sit up and they shouldn't go, right? Right back up, right back down. So a young man walked in, Al-Hajjaj ibn Umm Aiman. Hajjaj ibn Umm Aiman. Umm Aiman, the wet nurse of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).

**[31:37]** And he prayed this way and Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) corrected his salah and told him to repeat his prayer and explained to him what he did wrong. And then after he left, Abdullah ibn Umar asked, who was that? And they said that that was one of the children of Umm Aiman.

**[31:53]** And Abdullah ibn Umar said that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would have loved that young man. Like he looks like someone that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would have loved. Like channeling even the instinct that this is someone who the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would have loved and would have adored.

**[32:10]** And so when you look through his ahadith, this is where something beautiful you catch as well. There are over 500 ahadith where he doesn't just narrate about the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), but "And Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) used to do it."

**[32:25]** That it would say at the end of the hadith and Abdullah ibn Umar would do it as well. Abdullah ibn Umar would do it as well. And so you find a narration that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) spent the night at the Tuwa until it was dawn. And then he entered into Mecca, and Ibn Umar used to do it.

**[32:41]** Or how the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) would wear his sandals and how he would dye his beard. And Ibn Umar used to do that as well. The place that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) slaughtered his hadi, his sacrificial animal. And Ibn Umar used to do that as well.

**[32:59]** And there are hundreds of ahadith like this. And there is no other companion that this exists for. No other Sahabi of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) that this exists for. Because this was how closely he adhered to the words of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Meaning, if there was going to be any misunderstanding or interpretation of how the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said this or what he would have meant,

**[33:20]** it's solved because Ibn Umar used to do it this way. And we know that this man does not depart from the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in any way. And this was not just an external thing to where like he puts his hands in the right place and his beard is in the right place and his turban is in the right place.

**[33:37]** But I actually found this, Subhan'Allah, most exemplified. And there are multiple ones. In the narration about Ibn Umar going to Masjid Al-Aqsa. May Allah liberate it. Allahumma Ameen. One of the things that the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said about Masjid Al-Aqsa was that of the du'as of Sulaiman (عليه السلام) is that no one comes to this masjid only desiring the pleasure of Allah, the Exalted.

**[34:01]** Except that they leave it, right? Forgiven for their sins. They come here, they pray two rak'ahs only desiring the pleasure of Allah, the Exalted. They leave it like the day that their mother gave birth to them. This is one of the virtues of Masjid Al-Aqsa. So they said about Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) that when he would go to Masjid Al-Aqsa, and what a lesson, Subhan'Allah, in ikhlas and sincerity.

**[34:22]** He would not even drink a sip of water in Al-Aqsa. Why? Because he said I don't want to compromise my niyyah. The intention is that you're only coming here for the sake of Allah.

**[34:37]** Like you think about this in an era where in noble activism, in noble things, your niyyah could be compromised just like that. He's not talking about pictures and someone seeing him and someone saying mashallah, he's like this and he's like that. He wouldn't even take a sip of water because he didn't want to lose out on the reward of praying in Masjid Al-Aqsa seeking only the pleasure of Allah, the Exalted.

**[35:00]** What a beautiful thought. And he's one of the Sahaba that it's narrated about him that he wore his ihram from Al-Quds. And went all the way to perform his 'umrah or his hajj from Al-Aqsa to Makkah without losing his ihram.

**[35:22]** And by the way, that wasn't on like Egypt Air or on like a particular flight. I mean, he did the whole journey in ihram, right? Seeking the reward of that from Allah, the Exalted. May Allah, the Exalted, allow us that opportunity one day as well.

**[35:37]** Allahumma Ameen. So this is his nature of how he takes the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), how he lives it. And this was something that actually made him so principled. That even if Umar (رضي الله عنه) said something, his father said something and he heard the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say something else.

**[35:58]** He'd adhere to the words of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Right? So he's someone who's so principled that it would be considered to a fault by someone on the outside who doesn't understand this religion properly. But there are multiple narrations. One of them from Salih ibn Abdullah that there was a mas'ala that came, a question that came in hajj about doing tamattu' after 'umrah until hajj.

**[36:22]** And Ibn 'Umar (رضي الله عنه) said that it is lawful. And one man from Ash-Sham, he said, but your father said it was prohibited. He said, is the order of this religion to follow my father or to follow Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)?

**[36:38]** So I heard it from Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). He loves his father. He adores his father. You'll see the relationship that he had with his father, but Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said it. And this is how we're going to follow this religion. He said, laqad sa'ahu Rasul Allah (ﷺ), I saw Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) do it this way.

**[36:55]** Therefore, this is the way that we are going to do. And Salim, who's the son of Abdullah, he actually, SubhanAllah, it's narrated about him that he one time, right, abandoned the position of his father because he heard that Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) had said something else.

**[37:10]** And they told him, but your father said this. He said, but my father also disagreed with his father when he heard Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say this. So this is how we were taught as the family of 'Umar is that when you hear Rasul Allah (ﷺ) said something or did something, that's what takes precedence, not even our fathers, not even our forefathers.

**[37:30]** And by the way, SubhanAllah, one of the ways that this transpires in his own family with his own son. 'Umar (رضي الله عنه) is known for his ghirah, his intense sense of honor, right, and jealousy. Abdullah had that as well. But Abdullah had a son named Bilal.

**[37:49]** And Bilal forbade his wife from going to the masjid. So there's a famous narration here, and this is the context of it. Bilal ibn Abdullah ibn 'Umar forbade his wife from going to the masjid out of a sense of honor.

**[38:04]** So his wife went to Abdullah ibn 'Umar complaining about Bilal. And Abdullah said, la tamna'aha ya Bilal, do not forbid her, oh Bilal. Fa inni sama'tu Rasul Allah (ﷺ) yaqul, I heard Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say, la tamna'u ima' Allah masajid Allah.

**[38:22]** Do not forbid the female servants of Allah from the masjid of Allah. Bilal said out of a sense of like protection, right, honor. He said, wallahi lamna'anhun, that I swear by Allah that we will forbid them.

**[38:39]** Abdullah ibn 'Umar said to him, I told you, qala Rasul Allah (ﷺ), Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, and you said that we will do what Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said we won't do? Abdullah ibn 'Umar said, don't talk to me until you abandon this position and you repent to Allah (سبحانه وتعالى).

**[38:58]** Like I will boycott you, I won't talk to you. It's not about the mas'ala, it's not about the fiqh of it, by the way, the jurisprudence. It's about the idea that Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said something and you're saying something else and you don't have the right to disagree with something that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said.

**[39:15]** And that was his approach with his own family. His approach with al-bid'ah in general, with innovation, multiple times where Abdullah ibn 'Umar would step in. The smallest word, you know, he heard a man once sneezing and saying, you know, alhamdulillah wa assalatu wassalamu 'ala Rasulillah.

**[39:32]** Like when you sneeze, what do you say? Alhamdulillah. So he heard the man saying alhamdulillah wa assalatu wassalamu 'ala Rasulillah. Abdullah ibn 'Umar told him, don't say that. And he said to him, what, you got a problem with me saying assalatu wassalamu 'ala Rasulillah? He said, no, I have a problem with you sneezing and saying alhamdulillah wa assalatu wassalamu 'ala Rasulillah.

**[39:50]** Because the man that you're sending salawat on didn't used to do that. (ﷺ). Like be precise. There's another narration where you had a man that they said he sang the adhan. Now this is a whole, when you say exaggerating the adhan, it's when someone actually betrays, right?

**[40:08]** The mudud and the pronunciation in order to make the adhan sound a certain way. So don't like come blame a mu'adhin who sounds good and be like, you know, you sang the adhan. You should sound nice when you make the adhan. But I'm not going to give you an example, but someone who would actually say the words wrong and exaggerating it.

**[40:25]** But he thought he sounded really good. So he sang the adhan in that way. Then Abdullah ibn 'Umar was like sitting in the masjid looking at him like petrified. So he came up to him and he said, I love you for the sake of Allah. Abdullah ibn 'Umar said, I don't love you for the sake of Allah.

**[40:41]** He's like, why? He said, you know, that's not how Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) used to make the adhan. Like, what are you doing? You're trying to make it sound nice, but you're exaggerating. And he hated that with some of the, you know, the tabi'in, some of them, right? You had people that would read the Qur'an and they would faint.

**[40:59]** He'd be like, I didn't used to see people doing that. It's not how the Companions of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) were, where they were moved, they were deeply moved. But don't exaggerate this affair. Don't take it too far. You see, SubhanAllah, sometimes adherence can lead to extremism very quickly. Right?

**[41:14]** Like, and there are warnings of ghuluw ad-din, of extremism in the religion. I'm not talking about in the security surveillance sense. I'm talking about in the religious sense. Right? But Ibn 'Umar, what makes him so perfect in this regard is that adherence to him means don't go this far or don't go that far.

**[41:29]** It's trying to follow the way of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) properly. Don't exaggerate to the right. Don't exaggerate to the left. So that's his relationship with Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). But as for his relationship with his father, it's also a beautiful relationship.

**[41:45]** It's really cool, again, to read about 'Umar al-Khattab as a father. You read about him as the mentor, as this person that was incredibly accessible. Right? Just, noble. But look at him as a father. Abdullah ibn Utbah says that there are no two people who you could see ikhlas in, sincerity in, like 'Umar and Abdullah ibn 'Umar.

**[42:08]** Two people that when they walked amongst you, their ikhlas was so apparent. Their sincerity was so apparent in everything that they did. And you could see their birr, their obedience to Allah in every one of their speeches and every one of their actions.

**[42:23]** So Abdullah used to imitate his father, especially after the death of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). He was just as tall as his father. He was just as handsome as his father. He had just as much of an imposing appearance as his father.

**[42:39]** SubhanAllah, one of the most beautiful things that I read, because it gives you the human side, that when people used to miss 'Umar after his assassination, (رضي الله عنه), they would stare at Abdullah ibn 'Umar to remember him. Like you missed him, and so you'd look at him so that you could remember what it was like to have him.

**[42:57]** You know, SubhanAllah, this is one of the mercies that Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) leaves for us in this world. He used to love sweet scents, right? Like we said, the perfume of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), the scent of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And Nafi' said, I never met a man that smelled as good as Ibn 'Umar.

**[43:15]** He would burn 'ud all the time, and then he would leave his clothes to absorb the scent. And you could still smell the 'ud of Ibn 'Umar in a place three days after he left that place. Now, by the way, this is something he took from his dad. 'Umar is a man of zuhd. 'Umar is a man of asceticism.

**[43:31]** But 'Umar said, if I spent half of my money on 'ud, then I wouldn't consider it israf. I wouldn't consider it wasting my money because the prophets love to smell good. So when you see Shaykh Yasir Qadhi doing his three-hour routine of burning things, the first time I got introduced to his routine, I was like, what is going on here?

**[43:48]** It was like burning 'ud through his thawb and then through his beard. You walk into his office and the smoke's coming out of his beard. I'm like, what's happening here? I'm just used to like just taking a bottle of cologne and just spraying it on you. So that's a thing, right?

**[44:03]** And Abdullah ibn 'Umar, he had that personality as he took it from his father as well. And they took that from Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And there are multiple narrations, SubhanAllah, where Aslam, he mentions that there are no two people who are more similar than these two people, both in terms of their generosity,

**[44:21]** as well as their work ethic, right? So when they describe them, ajadda wa ajwada, we never met people more generous and more hardworking than 'Umar and his son, Abdullah. May Allah be pleased with them both. And 'Umar taught his son, Abdullah ibn 'Umar, about no favoritism,

**[44:41]** that you don't get a pass for being the son of Amir al-Mu'minin. In fact, it was harder for you because you were the son of Amir al-Mu'minin, right? Like you weren't going to get privileged because of that. And so one of the narrations is that 'Umar (رضي الله عنه) fixed 4000 dirhams for his son.

**[44:59]** Every one of the Muhajirun as their pension. And then he fixed only 3500 for Abdullah ibn 'Umar. And they asked him, they said, how come you give your son less than the rest of the Muhajirun? I mean, Abdullah ibn 'Umar was a Muhajir.

**[45:17]** He said his parents took him and made hijrah with him. So he doesn't get the same type of treatment as those who migrated with themselves. At the end of the day, he came with his father and his mother, so he's going to get treated less as well in that regard.

**[45:33]** And so you find the sense of social responsibility that's going to be nurtured as well. 'Umar (رضي الله عنه), one time he saw like a really healthy camel that was walking around. He said, mashallah, who's this camel for? And they said, your son, Abdullah.

**[45:49]** So 'Umar immediately called Abdullah ibn 'Umar. He said, min ayna laka hadha? Where'd you get this from? Abdullah said, ishtaraytuhu min ra'si mali ya abi. I purchased it with my own money. And he said, bakhun bakhiyyun ya Ibn 'Umar. Said, what is it like? This is too much for us.

**[46:05]** He said, sell it and then give the price of it to bayt al-mal, to charity. Abdullah ibn 'Umar said, asma'u wa ata'a, I hear and I obey. So when he sold the camel and he put it into bayt al-mal, into the treasury. And of course we know that,

**[46:21]** especially when times became tougher, like 'Umar chasing his son around the house, not Abdullah, but one of his kids around the house because he had a piece of watermelon in the year of the famine. And he says, no, no, the son of Amir al-Mu'minin is not gonna have a piece of watermelon

**[46:37]** when the ummah cannot have watermelon. That's that type of social responsibility, that type of actual responsibility to the ummah that was taught to these children. We also know that 'Umar used to take each one of his kids out on his night patrols on separate nights.

**[46:52]** So he taught all of his kids that this is what we do. We go out at night, the khalifah. And they served the people throughout the night. There's one narration, which I'll mention, and I was hesitant to mention it, but I'll mention it so that it doesn't get misused.

**[47:07]** All right. It's an authentic narration in at-Tirmidhi that Abdullah ibn 'Umar got married and he liked the woman that he married and 'Umar (رضي الله عنه) told him to divorce her. And Abdullah looked at Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)

**[47:25]** He's like, my dad's telling me to divorce her. I just got married. Why do you want me to do this? And Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, Ati' abaka, listen to your father. And Abdullah ibn 'Umar divorced her. Now, why am I going to talk about this hadith really quick? Because this can be an abused hadith.

**[47:40]** And I'll explain it. Because it even happened in the early generations that there was a fiqh discussion that came out of this hadith. 'Umar did not look at her and say, she belongs to a different tribe. I don't like her skin color. I don't like the way that she's this or this and that. 'Umar is a man who is muhaddath, spoken to by the angels,

**[47:57]** naturally inspired towards good. Clearly he saw something that concerned him right away. And Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) validated that for him, right? That this is not a good idea, that there's something in this woman that's not good for you.

**[48:14]** And Imam Ahmad (رحمه الله), he confronted someone that tried to act on this hadith in his lifetime. So a man told his son to divorce his wife. And then his son said, why? He said, because 'Umar told his son to divorce his wife. And Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said,

**[48:29]** Ati' abak, listen to your father. Imam Ahmad (رحمه الله) said, la anta ka 'Umar, wa la ibnuka ka ibn 'Umar. You're not like Umar, nor is your son like Abdullah ibn Umar. Like, calm down. This does not apply to you. This was not fiqh for the ummah.

**[48:45]** This was not jurisprudence for the ummah. This was something that belongs to a very special group of people who Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala inspired towards different things. We also learn subhanAllah in this beautiful connection. There is no body of hadith

**[49:03]** of a father-son combination more than Abdullah narrating from his father. There are no two people that you have this closer narration than Abdullah ibn Umar narrating from Umar ibn al-Khattab (رضي الله عنهما). Which shows you what?

**[49:19]** That while Abdullah himself narrated from the Prophet (ﷺ), he also was learning from his father. Everything the Prophet (ﷺ) said or did that he himself missed. And so you're not gonna find any father-son connection more prevalent in the hadith than Abdullah from his father.

**[49:38]** On top of that, something very beautiful. Umar used to invite nasiha, used to invite advice from his son. That's a very difficult thing to do. Like you talk about putting your ego down. Umar used to take shura from his son Abdullah.

**[49:54]** And he'd ask his son to correct him, to rectify him. And that's a tone that you wanna set in the house. Like the very first time, like a kid notices something that's wrong, it can be very bitter as a parent to have the kids point out a hypocrisy or a contradiction.

**[50:10]** It can hurt. How you react to that is gonna actually teach them a principle. And we saw that in the life of Abdullah ibn Umar that that principle was enacted to where it even lived with his own kid. So his father used to correct him. And there's no doubt that the position of the father over the son remained,

**[50:26]** but he used to also correct his father, give nasiha to his father. That type of relationship builds something far greater than merely a parent and a son. So he had that father-son relationship with Umar that we benefit from as an ummah.

**[50:42]** And subhanAllah, this will have long-term effects that we'll talk about later insha'Allah in Islamic history. And so how would you imagine then, you know, it would be like for him when his father was stabbed. So was he present when his father was assassinated?

**[50:59]** Not only was he present when his father was stabbed, but when Umar (رضي الله عنه) was giving the wasaya and he was giving his last will, he was giving it to Abdullah while he was bleeding out to death over those several hours. So subhanAllah, he saw from his father

**[51:17]** that his father would drink some milk and it would come out from the wounds, from the amount of wounds that he took from the stabbing (رضي الله عنه). And so he narrates those painful moments of being with his father when his father was passing away.

**[51:32]** And he says that my father called me and he said, how much money do we owe people? How much debt do we have? I wanna settle my debts. So he said, I checked and I told my father 86,000 dirhams. So Umar (رضي الله عنه) said,

**[51:48]** see if the property that we have covers the debt and then pay it off. Otherwise request what is owed to us from Bani Adi ibn Ka'b. And if that is not sufficient, then go to the elders of Quraysh, but don't ask it from anyone else and make sure you pay it on my behalf.

**[52:04]** SubhanAllah, Amirul Mu'mineen had a debt. The Khalifa died with a debt or the debt was paid off before he passed away, but the Khalifa was dying and he had some money that he owed, which shows you the way that Umar (رضي الله عنه) was living his life as he was establishing justice,

**[52:22]** bringing Islam to the whole world, but he was making sure (رضي الله عنه) that none of that would undermine the integrity that he had with the ummah. And then one of the wasaya of course, SubhanAllah, which changes Islamic history. He says to Abdullah, he says,

**[52:38]** go to Ummul Mu'mineen Aisha, go to Aisha, the Mother of the Believers and say to her that Umar sends you salam, but don't say to her Amirul Mu'mineen sends you salam, the Chief of the Believers sends you salam, say to her Umar sends you salam because he says today I'm not Amirul Mu'mineen,

**[52:55]** like I'm dying. He's humbling himself before he's passing away. And he says, Umar asks you permission to be buried with his two companions, with the Prophet (ﷺ) and with Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه). Aisha (رضي الله عنها) had prepared for herself

**[53:13]** that she would be buried next to her father and her husband (ﷺ). So Umar sent Abdullah with that mission to Aisha to ask that question. So Abdullah says, so I went to Ummul Mu'mineen Aisha, I asked her permission to enter

**[53:29]** and I found Aisha (رضي الله عنها) sitting in the hujra of the Prophet (ﷺ) and she was weeping. She was crying over obviously Umar dying. And I said to her that Umar sends his salam and he asks you, Oh, our mother for the permission to be buried with his two companions.

**[53:45]** Like think about how selfless Aisha is to give up that spot. What a woman, right? To give up that spot next to the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr in that house. And she says that I always thought that this would be the place for myself,

**[54:02]** but I prefer Umar to myself, right? Like I know that the Prophet (ﷺ) would have wanted this. I prefer Umar to myself. So Abdullah, when he came back to the house, he said that as I came back to my father, Umar (رضي الله عنه) saw me come in

**[54:17]** and Umar (رضي الله عنه) said, sit me up. He told the others to sit me up. Like he wanted to hear what the news was. What did I come back with? So he said, Abdullah, mal khabar? What news do you have? So he said that I said to my father, Ya Amirul Mu'mineen, it is as you wish,

**[54:33]** walhamdulillah, she gave you the permission. And Umar (رضي الله عنه) said, alhamdulillah, nothing was more important to me than this. But look at what he says. He says, when I die, this was the wasiyah to Abdullah. He said, when I die, then go to Aisha again

**[54:50]** and say to her that Umar ibn al-Khattab asked permission to be buried here. And if she gives permission, then bury me there. And if she refuses at that time, then it's okay. Take me to the graveyard of the Muslims. Take me to al-Baqi'. Like maybe she responded in the moment of emotion and she felt guilty saying no.

**[55:06]** So after I die, just ask her one more time. And so Abdullah said, I took the body of my father. Like we led his body to the home of Aisha (رضي الله عنها) after the janazah, after he passed away. And I asked permission once again

**[55:22]** and she gave the permission. And so we took his body into the home of Aisha (رضي الله عنها) and buried Umar (رضي الله عنه) next to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه) and next to the Prophet (ﷺ). Here's another twist in Islamic history.

**[55:39]** When Umar (رضي الله عنه) was dying, multiple Sahaba suggested that the most logical way to continue the khilafah of Umar is to appoint his copy, Abdullah, as the khalifa.

**[55:55]** So that was one way of thinking that there is no person who, I mean, if you're talking about continuity, he talks like his father, he acts like his father, he has the zuhd, the sincerity, the asceticism, the justice of his father, appoint him to be the khalifa.

**[56:12]** Umar (رضي الله عنه) said, no way, not only that, but Umar (رضي الله عنه) when he appointed the shura, he appointed Ali (رضي الله عنه), Uthman (رضي الله عنه), At-Talha and Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما), Sa'd and Abdur-Rahman ibn A'uf (رضي الله عنهم), may Allah be pleased with them all. Six of the ten promised paradise.

**[56:31]** The two that he left out, or sorry, the one that he left out was Sa'd ibn Zaid (رضي الله عنه) because Sa'd ibn Zaid was his brother-in-law. So he left out Sa'd ibn Zaid, and he said, let these six choose amongst themselves.

**[56:46]** So the shura that Umar appointed to choose the khalifa were the six of the ten promised paradise. The one missing is the one who's related to him. And then they said, what about your son, Abdullah? He said, listen, this affair, it's enough for one person from the family of al-Khattab

**[57:03]** to have this affair. I don't want nepotism. SubhanAllah, look at the wisdom, the hikmah. I don't want this. I don't want the sense of like, no, I start a trend. Absolutely not. He said, but if you want, Abdullah can be amongst them, meaning the six.

**[57:19]** He can be a seventh, but he can't be the khalifa himself. So he can be part of the shura, but he himself cannot be the khalifa. So subhanAllah, this was a way of protecting his son, but also protecting the integrity of the ummah, right?

**[57:35]** Even though if you and I would have been alive, we probably would have been like, just let's keep this going. You have the successful khalifa. Why break the continuity? Keep it going with a young man who is just like his father, (رضي الله عنه).

**[57:51]** And so his father passes away, (رضي الله عنه). And Abdullah is now the resemblance, the memory of Umar amongst the Muslims. What a heavy burden to carry. And this is where you start to see another beautiful chapter of his life unfold.

**[58:07]** So Abdullah (رضي الله عنه) would walk by, every day he would greet the Prophet (ﷺ). As-salamu alayka ya Rasulullah wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. As-salamu alayka ya Aba Bakr. As-salamu alayka ya Abi. Peace be upon you, oh my father.

**[58:23]** And then he would retire to his house. And then you saw the honoring of his father. And subhanAllah, there are so many narrations in this regard. One time he was in a souk, he was in the marketplace, and there was a Bedouin man that he came across,

**[58:38]** an Arab, a poor Bedouin man. And Umar (رضي الله عنه), he gets off of his animal, he takes his turban off, he puts it on the Bedouin, he tells the Bedouin to take the animal, and he, you know, sees him off. As-salamu alaykum.

**[58:54]** Then he starts walking without his turban, and without his animal. And people are looking at him like, what are you doing? What was that? Because he was just some random poor Bedouin man. Why didn't you just give him something small? Like if he was a beggar, give him a little bit of money.

**[59:09]** And they said to him, ya Ibn Umar, fakhla'a lahul imama. You know, you took off your turban for him. And he said, innahum minal a'arab, yarda'una bil yaseer. He's just one of the Bedouins. They would have been satisfied with something small. You could have given him a dirham,

**[59:24]** you could have given him some dates. But your turban and your camel, and Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه), in his usual way, started to weep. He said, sami'tu Rasulallahi (ﷺ) yaqul, I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say,

**[59:41]** inna min abarri al-birr, silatu ar-rajul ahla wudda abi. Says that one of the greatest ways, the finest act of bir, of obedience to your parents,

**[59:56]** is to honor the loved ones of your father after he passed. This is like one of those lost Sunnahs that our generation probably couldn't even begin to grasp. The loved ones, the friends of your father, the friends of your mother, the friends of your parents, that is part of bir al-walidayn, that you honor the friends of your parents.

**[1:00:19]** Like, we're still like aunts, uncles, like some, we're not talking about distant relatives here. Like Ibn Umar saw this man and his father having a nice conversation one day, maybe, and that was enough for him to say, take the camel, take the turban. And that's something that we should also adopt as well, because he cites this as a sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).

**[1:00:41]** He continues afterwards in his way, he fought in the battles in Ash-Sham, in Iraq, in Basra, in Persia. He was one of those that participated in the conquest of Egypt, who actually lived in Mosul, lived in Fustat for some time.

**[1:00:56]** And so he participated in the conquest, but he never took a position in the Islamic government. He didn't want a position. He only wanted to be a worshiper of Allah and someone who conveys the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And so there are a few qualities that we'll go through inshallah ta'ala.

**[1:01:11]** The first one is his wara', his fear of Allah that's spoken about. Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) has narrated that he used to worship Allah, the Exalted, throughout the night. He used to fast throughout the day.

**[1:01:27]** He used to perform the hajj annually. He used to remember Allah frequently. And Sa'id ibn Musayyib, one of the greatest of the Tabi'een, he said, if I were to testify that someone is from Ahlul Jannah, I would have testified that Abdullah ibn Umar is from Ahlul Jannah. If I was to see a man and say, this is a person who's going to Jannah, it would be this person.

**[1:01:45]** But just like his father, there was probably no man that was more unsure of himself going to Jannah than this man. So Nafi' says, إذا قرأ ألم يأني للذين آمنوا أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله When he read the verse in Surat Al-Hadid,

**[1:02:01]** isn't it time for those who believe to soften their hearts to the remembrance of Allah and the truth which he has revealed? That he would cry until he could no longer proceed with the surah. Nafi' also says that one time he asked for a cup of water and he started to drink from his water and then he started to weep.

**[1:02:20]** So he said, ما يبكيك? Why are you crying? قَالَ ذَكَرْتُ قَوْلَ اللَّهِ وَحِيلَ بَيْنَهُمْ وَبَيْنَ مَا يَشْتَهُونَ I remember that Allah says in the Quran that on the day of judgment, they would be separated from the things that they desire. And he says, and I realize,

**[1:02:37]** أَهْلَ النَّارَ لَا يَشْتَهُونَ شَيْئًا أَكْثَرٌ مِنَ الْمَاءِ That the people of hellfire don't desire anything more than a sip of water. Think about how present the man is with his fear of Allah that his sip of water causes him to think that way. Nafi' says he also had this way of redeeming himself if he missed the ibadah.

**[1:02:58]** Not if he committed a sin, if he missed an act of worship. So he said, if he missed Salat Al-Isha in congregation, then he increased his time in the night in qiyam. And if he missed a day of fasting, then he multiplied the days of fasting in its place.

**[1:03:14]** I'm talking about a voluntary day as well. He was brave and courageous just like his father. And so they said we saw from this man al-'ajib, things that we only saw from his father. I remember one time on one of the journeys that a lion approached us while we were in Sabil Allah.

**[1:03:31]** And all of us were afraid to go any further. But Abdullah ibn Umar went forth making his dhikr. He went to the lion, he grabbed it by the ear, he said something to it and it walked away. And those were the types of things we only saw from his father. When you talk about karamat al-awliya, like the miracles of the righteous ones,

**[1:03:47]** like those were things of dedication and devotion. We're not fearing anything but Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, that we only saw from his father. And Nafi' was asked what was the life of Ibn Umar like in his house? He said no one is able to do it. No one is capable of living like this man that he lived his life between wudu and salah and qira'at al-Quran

**[1:04:08]** and his sadaqah and his charity. And every single day he was thinking about that moment that he would meet Allah, the Exalted. And SubhanAllah one day he was reciting Surat Al-Mutaffifin among some people. And he came to yawma yaqomu al-nas li rabbi al-'alamin.

**[1:04:24]** The day that the people will stand before the Lord of the worlds. And he wept and he wept and he wept and he could not continue Surat Al-Mutaffifin. So when it came to the Quran, it was heavy for him. And he has a statement that's actually SubhanAllah really interesting to think about.

**[1:04:42]** He says that we the beginning of the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). A man from amongst the best of us would not memorize sometimes more than one surah of the Quran. Or something small. Memorize the few surahs of the Quran.

**[1:04:59]** But the Quran was weighty upon them. It was heavy upon them. And so they knew those surahs, those few surahs of the Quran. But they acted upon those words of the Quran. And they feared to meet Allah, the Exalted, not acting upon any one of those verses that they knew.

**[1:05:16]** So he said that was the first of this ummah. This is a scary one. He says the last of this ummah will find the Quran yasir, light and easy. So he says the child will recite it. And a person whose Arabic is not their native language will recite all of it.

**[1:05:33]** But without taking a moment to reflect on a single one of the verses. So they'll memorize it. They'll say it. But it's not penetrating the way that it used to penetrate us. So he was someone SubhanAllah that had that dedication to the Quran.

**[1:05:48]** And he hated to miss a single action of the verses of the Quran. And that's why SubhanAllah you find when it comes to his like dedication to the Quran and the sunnah. One of the famous narrations about him, we learn it from Salat Al-Janazah. Abdullah ibn Umar used to pray the janazah.

**[1:06:04]** But it wasn't his habit to go follow the janazah. He would just sit in the masjid and go back to his recitation or his dhikr. Please move forward inshallah, brothers. So one day while he goes and he prays the janazah. Then he goes and he sits back down in the masjid.

**[1:06:20]** Someone comes up to him and says to him. Why don't you follow the janazah to the graveyard? Because then you'll get qirat. You'll get the reward of a mountain of good deeds. He says what are you talking about? He said the man says to him that Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) says that he heard the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say that

**[1:06:37]** whoever prays Salat Al-Janazah gets qirat, gets a mountain of good deeds. And whoever follows it gets another mountain of good deeds. And he says to that, Aksara Abu Hurairah 'alayna. He said no, no, this sounds like too much from Abu Hurairah.

**[1:06:53]** Like this might be an exaggeration or a misunderstanding. So he sends a messenger to 'Aisha (رضي الله عنها) to ask her if the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) really said this. So he's sitting in the masjid and he's got some like rocks. He's like picking up the rocks from the ground and he's like nervously anxiously like moving it around his hand.

**[1:07:12]** And then the man comes back and he says to Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) that 'Aisha confirmed what Abu Hurairah said. So he throws the rocks and he said, Kam farwatna fi qirat kathira How many mountains of good deeds have we missed out on?

**[1:07:30]** He never missed the janazah again. That's the mindset. Like, oh, I didn't know. And he was mad at himself for missing out on the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And that's why SubhanAllah.

**[1:07:46]** Some of you are familiar with Al-Adab Al-Mufrad. So Imam Bukhari has Sahih Al-Bukhari, which is his most famous collection of ahadith. Al-Adab Al-Mufrad is another collection of Imam Bukhari, which focuses on ahadith about mannerisms. And there is no narrator more prevalent in this collection than Abdullah ibn Umar.

**[1:08:04]** May Allah be pleased with him and his father. So the hadith, innal haya'a wa al-iman, that verily modesty and belief are tied together. If one of them is removed, the other goes as well. He's the one that narrates it. And he narrates the hadith that no one of you should stand up.

**[1:08:20]** La yuqimanna ahadukum akhaahu thumma yajlisu fi majlisihi No one should make one of his brothers stand up from a place and then take his place. What does that mean? Like don't treat people that way that, you know, someone has to get up so you could take their place. And then you always read the subtext of the hadith.

**[1:08:37]** That if Ibn Umar walked into a room and someone got up from and left their place, he would never go sit in that place. He'd sit in the place that was nearest to him because he did not want to go against what the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) had taught.

**[1:08:52]** A man once came to him and said to him, Ya khayra al-nas, wa ibna khayra al-nas, O best of people and the son of the best of the people. And he said, Ma ana bi khayra al-nas, I am not the best of the people, nor is my father of the best of the people. Someone was praising, writing some poetry about his son Bilal.

**[1:09:11]** And said about Bilal that there is no Bilal greater than your Bilal. And he said to him, Kathab, he lied. The Bilal of Rasul Allah Muhammad (ﷺ) is better than my Bilal. Like, calm it down. We can't accept this type of exaggeration in our religion.

**[1:09:28]** And that's why Mujahid (رحمه الله) says, Sahibtu Ibn Umar fi al-safar, I went along with Ibn Umar so that I could serve him in a journey. And he said, he ended up serving me more than I served him. Like, I was his student. I went on this journey with him so that I could serve him and learn from him.

**[1:09:45]** And he was instead serving me more. And the narrations of this, SubhanAllah, are so many in this regard. How he acted in every single element of his life. One of the things about him in this regard as well is that no one would beat him to say salam.

**[1:10:01]** Like someone of that stature, people should greet him first, right? That's the idea. No one would beat him in salam. And so Bashir ibn Yasar says, Ma kana ahadun yabda'u ibn Umar bi al-salam. No one would say salam to Ibn Umar before him.

**[1:10:18]** And in one narration, he would go out to the marketplace. And this is an authentic narration from Tufayr ibn Ubay ibn Ka'b. That Ibn Umar would go out to the marketplace just so he could greet the people with salam. And he wouldn't purchase anything from the marketplace.

**[1:10:34]** That it was from his adab, from his mannerisms just to go and greet the Muslims, the old and the young. And he would go out for no reason except to say salam to the people. Because he took that as something from the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Afshi al-salam, spread the salam amongst you.

**[1:10:50]** So he goes out to the marketplace. Anbasa (رضي الله عنه) says, Ra'aytu Ibn Umar yusallimu 'ala al-sibyan fi al-kutab. That I saw Ibn Umar going out to like the little kids memorizing Quran and learning. And he would just go to them to say salam to them. And talk to them. Like he received that love from the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) as a young person.

**[1:11:08]** And that was his adab from his mannerisms. (رضي الله عنه) to say the salam. And Anbasa says, and the kids used to love to jump on his back. Why? Because he was so tall that when he got up it was like you were standing on a mountain. So you would see this man, this zahid, this ascetic, this person SubhanAllah who has no love for this dunya.

**[1:11:29]** But the children are jumping on his back and he's carrying them high onto his shoulders. (رضي الله عنه) and his father. And so that's one of the characteristics that we can learn from him as well. The other one is his silence. Despite his knowledge.

**[1:11:44]** Abdullah ibn Umar is the master of the madhhab of la adri. I don't know. Allah knows best. That he would sit and people would come to him and they would ask him all types of questions. And he would say, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. And one day he got asked all these questions.

**[1:12:00]** He said, I don't know, I don't know. And the man said, what do you know? And Abdullah ibn Umar, he smiled and he laughed to himself. He said, Al-Hamdu lillah, someone asked me, what do I know? And I said, I don't know. Like, this is a good day for me. And in hajj when people would come to him, he would point to Abdullah ibn Abbas and he would say,

**[1:12:18]** Go ask Ibn Abbas, don't ask me. And he observed silence because that was part of his khashyah, part of his fear of Allah is to not speak of the religion without knowledge. And that's also a lost adab, a lost mannerism. Right? That like people want to be able to say everything about the religion of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ).

**[1:12:35]** Like, you know, the deen of Allah. It's okay to say, I don't know. And so Imam Malik (رحمه الله) would cite Ibn Umar as that. Like, it's not shameful to say, I don't know. It's shameful to say, I know when you don't know. And to exaggerate or to embellish or put something to the religion that is not actually there.

**[1:12:56]** And so one time a man came to him and said, can you write down all of your knowledge? And Ibn Umar said, listen, knowledge is vast. So I'll just give you three advices.

**[1:13:11]** He said, if you can meet Allah, listen very carefully to this. If you can meet Allah with your back light of the burden of the blood of the people or oppression. If you can meet Allah without carrying the burden of oppression.

**[1:13:26]** And your stomach empty from consuming people's wealth. And your tongue free of disparaging people's honor. Then that's your knowledge. Meet Allah without carrying any mazalim, without carrying oppression or the blood of people on your back.

**[1:13:43]** Without consuming their wealth. And without disparaging their honor with your tongue. Then that's what I'll give you. That's the 'ilm that you're looking for. Like you want to narrate a thousand hadiths. You want to narrate two thousand. You just need to know this at least if you're trying to find safety with Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[1:14:00]** This is the safety that you should look for. And he said, knowledge is of three types. He said the book that forever speaks, which is the Qur'an. And the established Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And I don't know. So that's three types of knowledge.

**[1:14:16]** That's it. If I don't know that Allah said and Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said, I don't want to talk about it. I'd rather keep myself safe in front of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that brings us, subhanAllah, to his asceticism and to the many, many, many examples of how he lived his life.

**[1:14:32]** Abdullah ibn Umar was a man who lived truly with zuhd, with asceticism. Jabir ibn Abdullah says, none of us experienced this dunya except that it affected us, except for Abdullah ibn Umar. And this is just like his father. Maimun ibn Mahran said, I visited his house and I noticed that everything in his house combined did not equal the price of a shawl.

**[1:14:53]** There was another narration. It's a little bit funny, subhanAllah, that someone gifted him with jowar. Jowar was like a digestion medicine. And he said, what's this for? He said, you know, if you eat too much, it helps you digest your food.

**[1:15:09]** He said, I haven't eaten to my fill for 40 years. So I don't know what I'm gonna do with this stuff. Like I don't eat to my fill. And he said, I haven't eaten to my fill since the day that I became Muslim. That's how we were taught in the house of Umar to not eat to our fill.

**[1:15:26]** And so the narrations of him wearing coarse clothes and things of that sort are many. I want to get to his sadaqah, subhanAllah, because the stories of his sadaqah are so many. And Abu al-Hasan al-Nadwi says that there are two special traits from Abdullah ibn Umar that you read about him. Hubb al-Sunnah wa hubb al-masakin.

**[1:15:42]** He loved the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ). And he loved the poor. He loved the Sunnah and he loved the poor. And so this is one of the du'as of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). That he used to ask Allah for hubb al-masakin. For the love of the poor. And what's narrated about Abdullah ibn Umar authentically in Sahih Muslim

**[1:16:01]** and Imam Ahmad, that he would not sit for a meal unless he had a yateem, unless he had an orphan that was sharing with him in that meal. And he attributed that to a practice of his father. That's how that transition, subhanAllah, of caring for people goes from

**[1:16:17]** generation to generation. And there are multiple narrations, subhanAllah, of his freeing the slaves. In fact, the last line of his biography is a narration from Nafi' that by the time Abdullah ibn Umar left this world, he would have freed over a thousand

**[1:16:32]** slaves with his own wealth. Anything that he got of money, he would free the slaves and he would bring the orphans to eat with him. And he would bring the most disenfranchised people to eat with him. If he saw the beggar, if he saw a leper, he never turned away anyone. Mujahid says that ibn Umar did not like to see an animal that was hungry or

**[1:16:51]** two animals that were fighting each other. Like he could not look away from the pain of the people or the pain of the creation of Allah, subhanAllah. So he passed by a group of young men and they tied a hen and they were shooting at it. And he said,

**[1:17:06]** من فعل هذا؟ Who did this? I saw Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) cursing. لعن من فعل هذا. He cursed the one who tortures animals this way. He hated it, may Allah be pleased with him. And there are narrations of his, when someone would come to him and they

**[1:17:22]** would ask him for money and they would trick him and asking him for money. Hisham al-Yahya says, جاء سائل إلى عبد الله بن عمر That a beggar came to Abdullah ibn Umar and said, أعطني ديناراً Give me a dinar. And let me have it for the sake of Allah.

**[1:17:39]** So he told him, go ahead and take it. And as he left, Salim said, I said to my father, knowing that that was all that he had was that one dinar, تقبل الله منك يا أبي May Allah accept it from you, O my father.

**[1:17:54]** So he said, so my father started to cry. And he said, لو أضمن أن ربي قبل مني في دنياكم سجدة أو قبل مني في دنياكم صدقة تمنيت الموت If I knew that Allah accepted from me in this world, one sajdah or one dinar,

**[1:18:13]** I would have wished for death. Like when you say تقبل الله And he recited, إنما يتقبل الله من المتقين That verily Allah, 'Azza wa Jall, accepts from the pious. Abdullah ibn Ja'far (رضي الله عنه) He says that one time I gave Abdullah ibn Umar 10,000 dinars

**[1:18:31]** To, you know, as a gift. And he turned around and he freed Nafi' with that 10,000. So he wouldn't, subhanAllah, take money and keep it for himself. And Nafi' says that slaves, that the slaves in society, they knew how much

**[1:18:49]** Abdullah ibn Umar liked to free, especially the righteous amongst them, the pious ones amongst them. So he prioritized the religious ones amongst them. So he said that people that, you know, the enslaved would come to salah And they would pray in the first row, hoping that ibn Umar would see them so that he could free them.

**[1:19:07]** So he said, I came to him one day and I said, إنهم يخادعونك They're tricking you. They're deceiving you. And he would laugh and he would say, let them deceive me for Allah. I don't care. So if he saw a slave coming to the masjid, he would immediately do everything he could to gather the money to free that person.

**[1:19:23]** The trickery also happened in this way. The beggars would take advantage of his generosity. One time ibn Umar got sick and his wife said to him, what is it that you want to eat? So he wanted to eat fish. So she went and she prepared some fish for him.

**[1:19:39]** And just as he was about to eat it, a beggar knocked on the door and asked for some food. And subhanAllah, his hand was about to touch the food. He said, go ahead and give him the food. And she said, يا أبا عبد الرحمن You're sick. I made it for you.

**[1:19:54]** And this is what she wanted. So go ahead and give it to the beggar. And so she gave the food to the beggar. And then subhanAllah, this wife wanted to make Abdullah happy. So she went to the beggar and she said, can I buy back the fish for my husband?

**[1:20:13]** So the beggar said, sure. So she gave him a few dirhams. She got the fish, she brought it back, and then he came back and knocked on the door again. And ibn Umar said, give it to him. Give him the fish.

**[1:20:30]** SubhanAllah, Nafi' has a similar narration. He said one time he had a cluster of grapes and a beggar came and knocked on the door. And Abdullah said, give him the grapes. And Nafi' said, I mean, take a few of them and then I'll take him the rest of the cluster. He said, no, give him the whole thing. So he said, I gave him the grapes and then I felt bad.

**[1:20:46]** So I went to the beggar and I said, let me buy the grapes back from you. So I gave him a dirham. I brought them back. And then the beggar came and he knocked on the door a second time. So the trick got around, you know, they talk about like people figuring you out. The trick got around. We know how to get to him. So ibn Umar said, give it to him again.

**[1:21:02]** So Nafi' said, I went, like I was so upset and bothered. I went and I bought it back from him again. Then he came back a third time. So he said, I got so annoyed by him the third time because ibn Umar said, give it to him again. So he said, I went after him and I said,

**[1:21:18]** ألا تستحي Like, aren't you ashamed of yourself? Like, come on, like you're taking advantage of Abdullah ibn Umar of all people. So he said, finally, I gave him a fourth dirham and I said, don't come back. I took the grapes and I gave it back to Abdullah ibn Umar.

**[1:21:34]** But this is how he was. Nafi' says, Wallahi, he would distribute 30,000 dirhams in a single setting. And Abdullah ibn Umar said that my methodology is I don't ask people for anything, but I don't refuse a gift. So if people gave him a gift, he took it and then he distributed it.

**[1:21:49]** في سبيل الله So sometimes a lot of money would come to him and then he would give it for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala without tasting anything of it. And that's why there's a narration of him that one time he received 4,000 dirhams and a velvet blanket from one of the foreign emissaries.

**[1:22:06]** And then the next day he was in the souk and he was buying fodder for his camel on credit. And they asked him, didn't you receive 4,000 dinars in a blanket yesterday? And he said, yes. And he said, I gave it all for the sake of Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[1:22:22]** And multiple narrations in this regard. And subhanAllah, he liked to test the righteousness of people. One of the famous stories, some of you might have heard this before, that one time on a journey, he stops by a shepherd and he says to the shepherd, sell me one of your sheep. This was a slave that was taking care of the sheep.

**[1:22:39]** So he says to him, sell me one of the sheep. So the shepherd responded and said, أنا مملوك، مؤتمن. I'm, no, I can't, this isn't mine. I'm not free and these are not mine. And he said, why not? He said, because it's not mine and you know, the owner might find out.

**[1:22:59]** So Ibn Umar testing him, he says قل للمالك أكله ذئب. Just tell the owner that a wolf ate one of the sheep. He's not going to notice. Give me one of the sheep, sell me one of the sheep and just tell the owner that it was eaten by a wolf. And the shepherd responded with the famous words, وماذا أقول لله؟

**[1:23:19]** And what will I say to Allah? And Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما), he smiled and he says كلمة أعتقتك في الدنيا. This is a word that you just said that earned you your freedom in this world. وأسأل الله, and I ask Allah that it frees you in the hereafter as well.

**[1:23:36]** So he went to, he found the master and he purchased the freedom of that slave as well, just because of subhanAllah, his taqwa of Allah, 'Azza wa Jall, in this regard. So he wanted to live his life in this regard. He did not want a leadership position. He didn't want a leadership position similar to 'Umar ibn al-Khattab.

**[1:23:52]** 'Uthman ibn 'Affan, he insisted, he said to him, you know, I want to make you a qadi. I want to make you a judge in the state. Abdullah said, listen, a judge is of three types and an emir is of three types. He said either he judges in ignorance and he ends up in the hellfire or he swerves away, you know,

**[1:24:10]** being carried away by his desire and he ends up in the hellfire or he strives and he's correct. Maybe he just meets the balance, right? And he says, I'd rather not put myself in that situation. He said, but your father, you know, acted in that regard. And he said, my father, when he would act in that regard, if something was unclear to me,

**[1:24:30]** I would ask Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). And if something was unclear to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), he asked Jibril. He said, I don't find anyone that I can ask when I find myself in a difficult situation. And he said that, didn't you hear Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) say that whoever seeks refuge in Allah,

**[1:24:45]** then give him refuge in what he's seeking from. So 'Uthman said, yes. So Ibn Umar said, I seek refuge in Allah that you appoint me to this position. So 'Uthman said, fine, go ahead. So Ibn Umar did not take a position in that even as a judge in the Khilafah of 'Uthman (رضي الله عنه).

**[1:25:03]** And subhanAllah, he was, there's so many stories. If you go back to the life of 'Uthman because of the shortage of time, we can't go through them. Where Abdullah Ibn Umar defended 'Uthman when the ignorance started to take place and the slander started to take place. Actually, one of the most famous narrations of defending 'Uthman ibn 'Affan (رضي الله عنه)

**[1:25:21]** from the slander and the lies at the time, but he didn't want a leadership position. And so when 'Uthman was assassinated, Abdullah Ibn Umar went to Mecca and he refused to engage himself in any type of fitna amongst the Muslims.

**[1:25:39]** 'Ali (رضي الله عنه) asked him to come back to Medina and to be with him, right? To take a position. Abdullah Ibn Umar wanted no position whatsoever. He probably said something very profound. He said, if you're going to call me to hayya 'ala al-salah, hayya 'ala al-falah, you call me to success?

**[1:25:56]** You call me to come do something? I'll do it. You tell me hayya 'ala qital al-mushrikeen, you tell me to fight against the disbelievers, I'll do it. You tell me to fight the Muslims? Leave me alone. Leave me in my house. I want nothing to do with this. When the people start breaking out in the fitna, I do not want any connection to this whatsoever.

**[1:26:16]** And so his whole life becomes a settling away from fitna. Wherever there's fitna, Abdullah Ibn Umar is not there. When the people start to quarrel, Abdullah Ibn Umar is not there. And subhanAllah, in that process, he earns a respect and an integrity to where everyone loves him.

**[1:26:31]** Everyone respects him. So they still go to him with positions. They still go to him and ask him questions. Knowing that he's a man of integrity and he's consistent, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and not doing anything that would compromise the message that he has.

**[1:26:47]** So he continues to teach the Prophet (ﷺ) Sunnah and to deliver the verdicts of the Prophet (ﷺ) accordingly. He lives khilafah after khilafah after khilafah, doing hajj after hajj after hajj, the people coming to him and meeting him in hajj and learning from him.

**[1:27:04]** RadiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Until an important figure in Islamic history, which is Umar ibn Abdul Aziz. RadiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Who is from khulafa al-rashideen, even though he's disconnected by time.

**[1:27:21]** A man who changes Islamic history. Who Umar ibn Al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه) saw in a dream. He saw an image of a descendant of his with a scar. And Umar ibn Al-Khattab woke up one day from a dream and he said, أَلَا لَيْتَ شِعْرِي مَنْ هَذَا الْفَتَى مِنْ نَسْلِي الَّذِي يَمْلَأُ الْأَرْضَ عَدْلًا بَعْدَ أَنْ مُلِيءَتْ جَوْرًا

**[1:27:40]** Oh, who is that from my descendants that's going to fill the earth with justice after it's been filled with injustice. They thought it was Bilal, the son of Abdullah, the same one he got mad at for not letting his wife go to the masjid. But Umar ibn Abdul Aziz, the grandson, right, of Umar, who when he was a child, he got kicked in the face by a horse.

**[1:28:02]** He had a scar on his face. Umar ibn Abdul Aziz was that one in that dream. And subhanAllah, Umar ibn Abdul Aziz took his entire love for the Sunnah from Abdullah ibn Umar. Abdullah ibn Umar lived long enough to mentor him and to teach him and to raise him.

**[1:28:21]** And Umar grew up saying, I want to be like Khali. I want to be like my uncle Abdullah ibn Umar. And so Anas ibn Malik (رضي الله عنه), who also lived so long, he said, I never saw a man who perfects the salah according to the Sunnah of the Prophet (ﷺ) like Umar ibn Abdul Aziz. How did he get that?

**[1:28:37]** He learned it from Abdullah ibn Umar, who mastered it from the Prophet (ﷺ). And so that is subhanAllah, his continuation in this regard. And fitna after fitna, he maintains his principles. He's not ambiguous on where he stands. He doesn't compromise on the truth, but he refuses to take up arms or to hold a sword against the Muslim.

**[1:28:57]** And I want to make a very important point here. No one questioned where he stood on issues. A lot of people use Ibn Umar's example to justify moral bankruptcy in the political arena. They say, you know, the manhaj of Ibn Umar was to be quiet.

**[1:29:14]** His methodology was to be quiet. So people would stay quiet about everything. And you don't know where they stand on corruption. Everyone knew where Ibn Umar stood on corruption. Everyone knew how he felt about the oppressors. Everyone knew where he stood on the issues. But at the same time, Ibn Umar did not want to participate in the fitna themselves.

**[1:29:34]** And so when it came to the times again, qatl al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه), when al-Husayn was killed, remember what he said to the people of Iraq? He said, you shed the blood of the beloved one of the Prophet (ﷺ). And you're asking me about the blood of mosquitoes?

**[1:29:51]** When al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the tyrant, would stand up and speak after murdering Abdullah ibn Zubayr. Ibn Umar would stand up and address him publicly. And he would say to him, Ya aduwwallah, O enemy of Allah.

**[1:30:07]** Istahlaltah haram Allah. You took the haram of Allah in Mecca. And you shed blood here. Kharabta baytullah. You attacked the house of Allah. And he said, just finish up what you have to say. La nuridun nasma'ak. We don't want to hear what you have to say.

**[1:30:23]** So even though he wouldn't fight him, right? He did not participate in the inward battles. In that regard, he was still a man of complete clarity and who took his position. And that's why subhanAllah, al-Hajjaj actually ordered him to be poisoned.

**[1:30:39]** And so he was poisoned by a corrupt ruler, even though he never actually took up arms. Which shows you, subhanAllah, sometimes the strongest position to hold in society is merely to speak with principle and not to be compromised in any way.

**[1:30:54]** No one could accuse Abdullah ibn Umar of being swayed by the dunya. He's someone who just embodied integrity in the most powerful and profound ways and was respected across the board by the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). And so while he was, when he was poisoned, al-Hajjaj poisoned him,

**[1:31:12]** but he secretly poisoned him. And then he came to visit him to act like, you know, he was concerned over him. And he said to him, how are you doing? And he said, I'm doing okay. Salih alhamdulillah. He said, wa man asabak?

**[1:31:27]** And who is the one who struck you? And he said, the same person who allowed for weapons and arms to be held in the haram of Allah. Meaning it was you. I know it was you that poisoned me. I know it was you that ordered this harm towards me.

**[1:31:44]** But at the same time, I'm going to meet Allah (ﷻ) with my conscience clear. And when he was dying, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and I'm coming to the end, subhanAllah. He said, I don't miss the dunya. I'm not going to regret anything over this dunya except for three things. I'm going to miss dhamma al-hawajjaj.

**[1:32:00]** I'm going to miss the long days of fasting. And he says, and I'm going to miss the long nights of qiyam. I'm going to miss and all the times, wa anni lam uqatil, all the times that I did not fight against the oppressive group that afflicted us.

**[1:32:17]** So he said, I don't miss anything from this dunya that is of this dunya. Right? I'm someone that wants to meet Allah (ﷻ). According to the original advice that the Prophet (ﷺ) gave, kun fi dunya ka'annaka ghareeb, aw aabiru sabil. When the Prophet (ﷺ) put his hand on my shoulder,

**[1:32:32]** said, be in this world as if you are a stranger or a wayfarer. By the way, this is a message, subhanAllah, to everyone when it comes to fighting over the affairs of the Muslims, like positions and things of that sort. Like this is what you learn in terms of being attached to Allah (ﷻ)

**[1:32:47]** and letting things go fi sabirillah, and not being a person who gets caught up in these types of things. He also used to have his will written with him. And he said that I have not spent a night without my will since I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) talk about a person who goes to sleep

**[1:33:04]** for three nights without their testament, without their will, written off and ready with them. Before he dies, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he asks for a few things. He calls for his daughter. And he had, subhanAllah, a daughter who was engaged to be married.

**[1:33:23]** And he asked his daughter to get married before he passed away. Why? Not because he wanted to attend her wedding, but because he said that I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) talk about a person who makes a promise and doesn't fulfill the promise.

**[1:33:40]** And because we made this promise in marriage, I don't want to die with an unfulfilled promise. So I'm asking you to fulfill this before I pass away. So he marries off one of his daughters. And he leaves this world, subhanAllah, as he came into it, gharib, strange,

**[1:33:57]** with the people pouring in. And Sa'id ibn Jubair (رضي الله عنه) says that when he passed away, he was the best man alive on the face of the earth. And he died radiAllahu ta'ala anhu at the age of 86 years old. So he's one of the longest living Companions.

**[1:34:12]** Remember he was born one year after the Prophet (ﷺ) received revelation. So it's about 73 years after the hijrah with thousands of ahadith narrated from him, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And I'm going to leave you with this one thought. The golden chain of hadith.

**[1:34:29]** Scholars mentioned the golden chain of hadith. Imam Malik collects this hadith from Nafi, the freed slave of Ibn Umar, from Abdullah ibn Umar, from the Prophet (ﷺ). This is the golden chain of hadith.

**[1:34:44]** The golden chain of hadith means this is the most integrity you can have in a narration because of how strict the adherence was to the way of the Prophet (ﷺ). Nafi narrating from Abdullah ibn Umar, narrating from the Prophet (ﷺ). And he left behind multiple children.

**[1:35:01]** And he named his children after Companions. So I leave you in a lesson in naming. He had an Abu Bakr. He had a Bilal. He had Salim. And he actually says, Said ibn Musayyib said, do you know why I named him Salim? I named him Salim after Salim Mawla Abu Hudhaifa.

**[1:35:18]** He had an Abdullah. He didn't name him Abdullah to be Abdullah Jr. He said, do you know why I named him Abdullah? I named him Abdullah after Abdullah ibn Rawaha. May Allah be pleased with them all. SubhanAllah, one of the things that's really interesting is that in the books of hadith, there are so many Abdullah ibn Umars.

**[1:35:34]** Meaning many of the Companions had grandsons named Abdullah ibn Umar. Uthman has a son named Umar, who named his son Abdullah. Ali has a son named Umar, who named his son Muhammad, who named his son Abdullah. So you can see so many Abdullah ibn Umars from the hadith transmitters,

**[1:35:49]** which shows you the special Sunnah of naming your kids after these Companions. And yes, that's why I named my son Abdullah ibn Umar. It's special. Wallahi it's special. Name your kids after the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ).

**[1:36:04]** Let them feel that connection to these people. Let them feel like they have an example to live up to. And what better example than these people? May Allah be pleased with them. May Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala send his peace and blessings upon the Prophet (ﷺ),

**[1:36:19]** upon his family and his Companions. Allahumma ameen. Wa sallallahu wa sallam wa baraka to our Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma'in. Jazakum Allah khair. Al-Fatihah.

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- [Thumama ibn Uthal (ra): The most powerful Muslim of his time? | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/thumama-ibn-uthal-the-most-powerful-muslim-of-his-time-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
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- [A Foiled Conspiracy: Umayr ibn Wahb (ra) & Safwan ibn Umayyah (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/a-foiled-conspiracy-umayr-ibn-wahb-and-safwan-ibn-umayyah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Children of Ta’if Who Stoned the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-children-of-taif-who-stoned-the-prophet-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Abu Mahdhura (ra): The Kid Who Mocked Adhan | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-mahdhura-the-kid-who-mocked-adhan-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Abu Bakra (ra): The Freed Slave of Allah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakra-the-freed-slave-of-allah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Jinn Who Became Muslim | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-jinn-who-became-muslim-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Addas (ra) of Ta’if: The Brother of Yunus (as) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/addas-of-taif-the-brother-of-yunus-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Prophet ﷺ’s Bodyguard: Mughira ibn Shu‘ba (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-prophet-bodyguard-mughira-ibn-shuba-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Urwa ibn Masud (ra): The Chief Who Resembled Isa (as) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/urwa-ibn-masud-the-chief-who-resembled-isa-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Most Honored Man By The Prophet ﷺ: Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-most-honored-man-by-the-prophet-abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [When Allah Guided the Children of Abu Lahab | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/when-allah-guided-the-children-of-abu-lahab-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Hakim ibn Hizam (ra): When Money Stops Mattering | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hakim-ibn-hizam-when-money-stops-mattering-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Mothers of the Prophet ﷺ: Amina and Halima al-Sa’diyya | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-mothers-of-the-prophet-amina-halima-al-sadiyya-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Prophet ﷺ’s Brother: Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-prophets-brother-abu-sufyan-ibn-al-harith-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (ra): Forgiving the Enemy | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb-forgiving-the-enemy-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl (ra): The Pious Son of Pharoah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ikrimah-ibn-abu-jahl-the-pious-son-of-pharoah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Amr ibn al-As (ra): The Conqueror of Egypt | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amr-ibn-al-as-the-conqueror-of-egypt-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Amr ibn al-As (ra): His Wicked Father and “Better” Brother | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amr-ibn-al-as-part-1-his-wicked-father-and-better-brother-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Khalid ibn al-Walid (ra): The Legendary Military General | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khalid-ibn-al-walid-ra-the-legendary-military-general-the-firsts.md)
- [Khalid ibn al-Walid (ra): Becoming the Sword of Allah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khalid-ibn-al-walid-ra-becoming-the-sword-of-allah-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Saeed al-Khudri (ra): The Jewel of Madinah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-saeed-al-khudri-ra-the-jewel-of-madinah-the-firsts.md)
- [Rabiah ibn Kab (ra): Falling in Love with the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/rabiah-ibn-kab-ra-falling-in-love-with-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Saeed ibn Amir (ra): Haunted by Murder | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saeed-ibn-amir-ra-haunted-by-murder-the-firsts.md)
- [Khubayb ibn Addiy (ra): A Prisoner of Many Miracles | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khubayb-ibn-addiy-ra-a-prisoner-of-many-miracles-the-firsts.md)
- [Asim ibn Thabit (ra): Protector of Faith | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asim-ibn-thabit-ra-protector-of-faith-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Dujana (ra): The Red Bandana | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-dujana-ra-the-red-bandana-the-firsts.md)
- [The Amwas Plague | The Firsts Documentary Special](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-amwas-plague-the-firsts-documentary-special.md)
- [Burayda ibn al-Husayb (ra): An Unlikely Convert | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/burayda-ibn-al-husayb-ra-an-unlikely-convert-the-firsts.md)
- [Suraqa ibn Malik (ra): The Bounty Hunter |  The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/suraqa-ibn-malik-ra-the-bounty-hunter-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Ma’bad (ra): The Description of the Prophet ﷺ |  The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-mabad-ra-the-description-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari (ra): A Voice Like No Other | Sahaba Stories (The Firsts)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-musa-al-ashari-ra-a-voice-like-no-other-the-firsts-sahaba-stories.md)
- [Abu Huraira (ra): The Preserver of Hadith | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-huraira-ra-the-preserver-of-hadith-the-firsts.md)
- [Tufayl ibn Amr (ra): The Hidden Legend | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/tufayl-ibn-amr-ra-the-hidden-legend-the-firsts.md)
- [Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (ra): The Secret Keeper | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hudhayfah-ibn-al-yaman-ra-the-secret-keeper-the-firsts.md)
- [Maymunah bint al-Harith (ra): A Blessed Wedding | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/maymunah-bint-al-harith-ra-a-blessed-wedding-the-firsts.md)
- [Safiyya bint Huyayy (ra): A Heart of Gold | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/safiyya-bint-huyayy-ra-a-heart-of-gold-the-firsts.md)
- [Juwayriya bint al-Harith (ra): A Blessing to Her People | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/juwayriya-bint-al-harith-ra-a-blessing-to-her-people-the-firsts.md)
- [Zaynab bint Jahsh (ra): The Longest Arm | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-jahsh-ra-the-longest-arm-the-firsts.md)
- [Hafsa bint Umar (ra): Saved by Devotion | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hafsa-bint-umar-ra-saved-by-devotion-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): Legacy and Life after Rasulallah ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aisha-bint-abu-bakr-ra-legacy-and-life-after-rasulallah-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): Slander and Death of the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aisha-bint-abu-bakr-ra-slander-and-death-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): The Love Story | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aisha-bint-abu-bakr-ra-the-love-story-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): The Early Years of Sacrifice | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aishah-bint-abu-bakr-ra-the-early-years-of-sacrifice-the-firsts.md)
- [Kulthum ibn al-Hadm (ra) and Sa'ad ibn Khaythamah (ra): The Hosts of Masjid Quba | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/kulthum-ibn-al-hadm-ra-and-saad-ibn-khaythamah-ra-the-hosts-of-masjid-quba-the-firsts.md)
- [Jabir ibn Abdullah (ra): The Orphan With 7 Sisters | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/jabir-ibn-abdullah-ra-the-orphan-with-7-sisters-the-firsts.md)
- [Hanzala Ibn Abi Amr (ra) and Jameela (ra): When Angels Bathe You | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hanzala-ibn-abi-amr-ra-and-jameela-ra-when-angels-bathe-you-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibn Ubayy (ra): The son of the Chief Hypocrite | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-abdullah-ibn-ubayy-ra-the-son-of-the-chief-hypocrite-the-firsts.md)
- [Amr ibn Al Jamuh (ra): No Limping in Jannah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amr-ibn-al-jamuh-ra-no-limping-in-jannah-the-firsts.md)
- [Asma Bint Yazid (ra): The Orator of the Women | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asma-bint-yazid-ra-the-orator-of-the-women-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Waraqa bint Abdullah (ra): The Martyred Hafidha | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-waraqa-bint-abdullah-ra-the-martyred-hafidha-the-firsts.md)
- [Ubayy ibn Ka'b (ra): The Master of all Reciters | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ubayy-ibn-kab-ra-the-master-of-all-reciters-the-firsts.md)
- [Muadh Ibn Jabal (ra): Most Knowledgeable & Beloved | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/muadh-ibn-jabal-ra-most-knowledgeable-and-beloved-the-firsts.md)
- [Zayd ibn Thabit (ra): The Scribe of the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zayd-ibn-thabit-ra-the-scribe-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Nusaybah bint Ka'ab (ra): The Woman Warrior | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/nusaybah-bint-kaab-ra-the-woman-warrior-the-firsts.md)
- [Hassan Ibn Thabit (ra): The Master of All Poets | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hassan-ibn-thabit-ra-the-master-of-all-poets-the-firsts.md)
- [Ka'ab Ibn Malik (ra): The Greatest Story of Repentance | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/kaab-ibn-malik-ra-the-greatest-story-of-repentance-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah Ibn Rawahah (ra): The Warrior Poet | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-rawahah-ra-the-warrior-poet-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Darda (ra): The Scholar Who Wouldn't Sleep | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-darda-ra-the-scholar-who-wouldnt-sleep-the-firsts.md)
- [Salman Al Farsi (ra): Back to Persia | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/salman-al-farsi-ra-back-to-persia-the-firsts.md)
- [Salman Al Farsi (ra): The Truth Seeker | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/salman-al-farsi-ra-the-truth-seeker-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Salam (ra): The Righteous Rabbi | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-salam-ra-the-righteous-rabbi-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Ayyub Al Ansari (ra): The Host of the Prophet | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-ayyub-al-ansari-ra-the-host-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Al Bara' Ibn Malik (ra): The Underestimated Hero | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/al-bara-ibn-malik-ra-the-underestimated-hero-the-firsts.md)
- [Ubadah ibn al-Samit (ra): A Man Equal to a Thousand Men | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ubadah-ibn-al-samit-ra-a-man-equal-to-a-thousand-men-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Haram (ra): When Dreams Come True | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-haram-ra-when-dreams-come-true-the-firsts.md)
- [Anas ibn Malik (ra): In Service of the Beloved | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/anas-ibn-malik-ra-in-service-of-the-beloved-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Sulaym (ra): Her Dowry Was Islam | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-sulaym-ra-her-dowry-was-islam-the-firsts.md)
- [Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah (ra): The Generous Chief | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saad-ibn-ubadah-ra-the-generous-chief-the-firsts.md)
- [Sa'ad Ibn Muadh (ra): The Man Who Shook The Throne | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saad-ibn-muadh-ra-the-man-who-shook-the-throne-the-firsts.md)
- [Usayd Ibn Hudayr (ra): Transformed by the Quran | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/usayd-ibn-hudayr-ra-transformed-by-the-quran-the-firsts.md)
- [As’ad Ibn Zurara (ra): The First Convert of Madinah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asad-ibn-zurara-ra-the-first-convert-of-madinah-the-firsts.md)
- [Loving the Ansar | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/loving-the-ansar-the-firsts.md)
- [Mihja, Umayr, and Ubayda (ra): The Martyrs of Badr | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/mihja-umayr-and-ubayda-the-martyrs-of-badr-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Kulthum Bint Uqbah Ibn Abi Muayt (ra): The Enemy's Daughter | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-kulthum-bint-uqbah-ibn-abi-muayt-the-firsts.md)
- [Zinneera (ra) and Aflah (ra): The Tortured Ones | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zinneera-ra-and-aflah-ra-the-tortured-ones-the-firsts.md)
- [Amir Ibn Fuhayra (ra): The Guide on the Hijrah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amir-ibn-fuhayra-ra-the-guide-on-the-hijrah-the-firsts.md)
- [Anisa, Al-Numan, and Amir (ra): On A Boat From Abysinnia | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/anisa-al-numan-and-amir-ra-on-a-boat-from-abysinnia-the-firsts.md)
- [Rayta Bint Al-Harith (ra): Poisoned on the Way | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/rayta-bint-al-harith-poisoned-on-the-way-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Khalid Ibn Sa’id Ibn al-'As (ra): A Dream of the Prophet | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khalid-ibn-said-ibn-al-as-ra-a-dream-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Subay'a Al-Aslamiyya (ra): The Iddah of a Widow | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/subaya-al-aslamiyya-ra-the-iddah-of-a-widow-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Nuaym Ibn Abdullah (ra): Redirecting History | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/nuaym-ibn-abdullah-redirecting-history-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Ukasha ibn al-Mihsan (ra): He Beat You To It | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ukasha-ibn-al-mihsan-ra-he-beat-you-to-it-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Zaynab Bint Khuzayma (ra): The Mother of the Poor | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-khuzayma-ra-the-mother-of-the-poor-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Abu Ahmad Abd Ibn Jahsh (ra): The Other Blind Companion | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-ahmad-abd-ibn-jahsh-ra-the-other-blind-companion-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Jahsh (ra): An Accepted Prayer | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-jahsh-ra-an-accepted-prayer-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Shurahbil Ibn Hasana (ra): The Scribe and Commander | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/shurahbil-ibn-hasana-ra-the-scribe-and-commander-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Utbah ibn Ghazwan (ra) | The Humble Governor | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/utbah-ibn-ghazwan-ra-the-humble-governor-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Ayyash ibn Abi Rabiah (ra) - The Guilt Trip That Led To Captivity | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ayyash-ibn-abi-rabiah-ra-the-guilt-trip-that-led-to-captivity-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Atika bint Zayd (ra) - The Wife of Many Martyrs | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/atika-bint-zayd-ra-the-wife-of-many-martyrs-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Hudhafah (ra): The Man Who Wouldn't Flinch | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-hudhafah-ra-the-man-who-wouldnt-flinch-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Khunais ibn Hudhafah (ra): The First Husband of Hafsa (ra) | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khunais-ibn-hudhafah-ra-the-first-husband-of-hafsa-ra-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Al-Shifa bint Abdullah (ra): The Healer and Scholar | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/al-shifa-bint-abdullah-ra-the-healer-and-scholar-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Musab Ibn Umair (ra): The Man Who Gave It All | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/musab-ibn-umair-ra-the-man-who-gave-it-all-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah Ibn Umm Maktum (ra): After Abasa | The Firsts with Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-umm-maktum-after-abasa-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Jandal, Abdullah, & Suhayl Ibn Amr (ra) : Switching Sides | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-jandal-abdullah-suhayl-ibn-amr-ra-switching-sides-the-firsts.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): His Leadership, His Legacy, His Death | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-his-leadership-his-legacy-his-death-the-firsts.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): The Opening of Jerusalem | The Firsts with Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-ra-the-opening-of-jerusalem-the-firsts-with-dr-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): 10 Unique Virtues | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-10-unique-virtues-the-firsts.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra) - The Convert Who Changed The World | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-the-convert-who-changed-the-world-the-firsts.md)
- [Khawla Bint Hakim & Uthman Ibn Madhun: The Righteous Couple | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khawla-bint-hakim-and-uthman-ibn-madhun-the-righteous-couple-the-firsts.md)
- [Miqdad Ibn Aswad (ra) : Better Than A Thousand Men | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/miqdad-ibn-aswad-better-than-a-thousand-men-the-firsts.md)
- [Hamza Ibn Abdulmuttalib (ra): The Lion of Allah | The Firsts by Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hamza-ibn-abdulmuttalib-the-lion-of-allah.md)
- [Abdurrahman Ibn Awf (ra): A Generous Soul](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdurrahman-ibn-awf-a-generous-soul.md)
- [Abu Ubaydah Ibn Al Jarrah (ra): The Trustworthy One](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-ubaydah-ibn-al-jarrah-ra-the-trustworthy-one.md)
- [Sawda Bint Zama’a (ra): The Prophet’s Joy](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/sawda-bint-zamaa-ra-the-prophets-joy.md)
- [Saalim Mawla Abu Hudhaifa (ra) : The Imam of the People of Quran](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saalim-mawla-abu-hudhaifa-the-imam-of-the-people-of-quran.md)
- [Abu Hudhaifa Ibn Utbah (ra): Seeking Another Status](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-hudhaifa-ibn-utbah-seeking-another-status.md)
- [Talha Ibn Ubaydillah (ra): The Living Martyr](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/talha-ibn-ubaydillah-the-living-martyr.md)
- [Asma Bint Abi Bakr (ra) : The Possessor of Two Waist Belts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asma-bint-abi-bakr-the-possessor-of-two-waist-belts.md)
- [Zubayr Ibn Awwam (ra): The Disciple](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zubayr-ibn-awwam-the-disciple.md)
- [Saffiyah Bint Abdul Mutallib (ra) : A Warrior Aunt](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saffiyah-bint-abdul-mutallib-a-warrior-aunt.md)
- [Umm Habiba (ra) - Part 2: Royalty Redefined](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-habiba-ra-part-2-royalty-redefined.md)
- [Umm Habiba (ra): A Dream Come True (Part 1)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-habiba-ra-a-dream-come-true-part-1.md)
- [Umm Salama (ra): A Legacy of Wisdom (Part 2)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-salama-ra-a-legacy-of-wisdom-part-2.md)
- [Umm Salama (ra): A Separated Family (Part 1)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-salama-a-separated-family-part-1.md)
- [Najashi - Ashama Ibn Abjar (ra): The Righteous King](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/najashi-ashama-ibn-abjar-the-righteous-king.md)
- [Jafar Ibn Abi Talib (ra): Flying in Paradise](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/jafar-ibn-abi-talib-flying-in-paradise.md)
- [Abu Dharr Al Ghifari (ra): Living and Dying Alone](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-dharr-al-ghifari-ra-living-and-dying-alone.md)
- [Abdullah Ibn Masood (ra): A Mighty Legacy of Qur'an](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-masood-ra-a-mighty-legacy-of-quran.md)
- [Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas (ra): His Prayers Always Answered](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas-his-prayers-always-answered.md)
- [Uthman Ibn Affan (ra) - Part 2: The Possessor of Two Lights](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/uthman-ibn-affan-the-possessor-of-two-lights-2.md)
- [Uthman Ibn Affan (ra): The Possessor of Two Lights](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/uthman-ibn-affan-the-possessor-of-two-lights.md)
- [Zaynab Bint Muhammad (saw): The First Daughter (ra)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-muhammad-the-first-daughter.md)
- [Lubaba Bint Al-Harith (ra): The First Woman After Khadijah (ra)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/lubaba-bint-al-harith-ra-the-first-woman-after-khadijah-ra.md)
- [Al-Arqam Ibn Abil Arqam: The House of Islam](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/al-arqam-ibn-abil-arqam-the-house-of-islam.md)
- [Suhaib Ibn Sinan Al Rumi (ra): From Persia, to Rome, to Paradise](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/suhaib-ibn-sinan-al-rumi-from-persia-to-rome-to-paradise.md)
- [Bilal ibn Rabah (ra): The Voice of Certainty](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/bilal-ibn-rabah-the-voice-of-certainty-the-firsts.md)
- [Khabbab Ibn Al Aratt (ra) - Under Burning Hot Coals](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khabbab-ibn-al-aratt-under-burning-hot-coals.md)
- [Sumayyah (ra): The First Martyr](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/sumayyah-the-first-martyr.md)
- [Zayd Ibn Al Haritha (ra): Loved and Liberated](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zayd-ibn-al-haritha-loved-and-liberated.md)
- [The Plague that Killed Sahaba and the Coronavirus](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-plague-that-killed-sahaba-and-the-coronavirus.md)
- [Abu Bakr (ra) - Part 3: There Will Never Be Another One](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakr-part-3-there-will-never-be-another-one.md)
- [Abu Bakr (ra) - Part 2: Setting His Own Standards](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakr-al-siddiq-part-2-setting-his-own-standards-lecture.md)
- [Abu Bakr (ra): Second to None in the Pursuit of God](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakr-al-siddiq-second-to-none-in-the-pursuit-of-god.md)
- [The First Family - Part 2: From Love to the Pain of Death](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-first-family-part-2-from-love-to-the-pain-of-death.md)
- [The First Family: The Beautiful Marriage of Ali and Fatima](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-beautiful-marriage-of-ali-and-fatima.md)
- [Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra): Courageous & Steadfast](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ali-ibn-abi-talib-courageous-and-steadfast.md)
- [Umm Ayman (ra): The Woman Who Never Stopped Caring](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-ayman-the-woman-who-never-stopped-caring.md)
- [Khadijah (ra): His First Love, Our First Mother](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khadijah-his-first-love-our-first-mother.md)
- [Waraqa Ibn Nawfal: The First to Confirm Prophethood](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/waraqa-ibn-nawfal-the-first-to-confirm-prophethood.md)
- [Zaid Ibn Amr (ra): A One Man Ummah](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaid-ibn-amr-a-one-man-ummah.md)
- [Trendsetters, Revivers, and Strangers](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/trendsetters-revivers-and-strangers-the-firsts-series.md)
- [The Firsts | The Forerunners of Islam](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-firsts-the-forerunners-of-islam.md)