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He was given the lofty title of the Mufti of Madinah for his rare combination of Hadith and Fiqh. He narrates over 1000 ahadith from the Prophet ﷺ, and lived a long life of devotion all in his home city of Madinah.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim. Bismillahir rahmanir rahim.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Wa ala al-adwani wa ala al-dhalimeen. Wa al-aqiba tul al-muttaqeen. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barak ala abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira.
I want to welcome you all back to the first. Tonight we're going to be talking about a companion who I think that there's probably the greatest discrepancy between
how often his name is mentioned and how little his story is known. And that is Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, al-Khazraji al-Madani, the great scholar of Medina
that we're going to be privileged to speak about tonight. And inshaAllah ta'ala just to give you all a little bit of an overview about what we're going to be doing over the next few weeks. So I know a lot of people are going to be going to Umrah and Thanksgiving. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la grant us all an accepted Umrah
in November b.a.t. or whenever you're going in the winter. And I wanted to bring it back to Uhud. Bring back the conversation to Uhud. And one of the things that you can appreciate as you look through the stories of the Ansar
is that truly every single one of the Ansar has a Uhud story. Has someone that was taken from them in Uhud, whether it was a parent or a spouse or a sibling or a child or an uncle, an aunt, a cousin.
Everyone has someone who died in Uhud. And as you read about the Ansar, you find that their story intersects with Uhud at some point. So we've been speaking a lot about the shuhada of Uhud,
some of the martyrs of al-Raji' and bi'r ma'una which was right after. And inshaAllah ta'ala tonight also intersects with Uhud. But then next week we will get to the opposite side of Uhud.
We talked about Sa'id ibn Amir al-Jumahi radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu who was part of killing Khubaib radiyaAllahu anhu but then made tawbah. So starting next week we will talk about the three commanders from Uhud being Khalid ibn al-Warid radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu,
Amir ibn Aas radiyaAllahu anhu, and Ikramah ibn Abi Jahl radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. So people keep on saying, when are you talking about Khalid? When are you talking about Khalid? I promise you I was not in any way pushing Khalid radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu off.
I know how beloved Khalid radiyaAllahu anhu is to the Muslims but we've been going in order of people embracing Islam and I thought it would be pertinent to really cover and build out the story of Mecca early on, Medina early on.
And inshaAllah ta'ala starting next week we'll get into some of those stories. So again next week we'll start with Khalid ibn al-Warid radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, then we'll do Amir ibn Aas radiyaAllahu anhu, and Ikramah ibn Abi Jahl radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So tonight we will be speaking about Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. How many of you feel like you've heard his name a lot in hadiths? A lot, right?
So this man narrates over a thousand hadiths from the Prophet ﷺ. So when we talk about someone who narrates a lot, if you keep on hearing Abu Sa'id in a khutbah, if you keep on hearing Abu Sa'id radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu in the classes,
that is because this man is one of those that are known as As-Sab'a Al-Mukthireen. The seven who used to narrate many ahadith from the Prophet ﷺ.
As-Sab'a Al-Mukthireen. So I'm going to do this for the note takers inshaAllah ta'ala. We'll go through the seven who used to narrate the most ahadith of the Prophet ﷺ. Between these seven, who we will name inshaAllah ta'ala,
over 60% of the ahadith of the Prophet ﷺ are preserved. Do you realize the consequences of that? Over 60% of that entire body of the Prophet's ﷺ words and traditions come from seven people alone.
These seven people, four of them are muhajireen, three of them are ansar. As for the muhajireen, then they are... Who wants to actually give this a shot? Actually let's just make it open, seven.
Who do you hear the most narrating ahadith? Aisha radhiyallahu anha, good. Who narrated even more than Aisha? Abu Huraira radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu, that's two. Who else? Who is it?
Not Umar radhiyallahu anhu because he died too early. Anas ibn Malik radhiyallahu anhu, great. Who else? That's three. Abdullah ibn Abbas radhiyallahu anhu, that's four. Who else?
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu, very good. So that's five. So there are two more. Abdullah ibn Umar radhiyallahu ta'ala anhuma, very good. You knew that, right Baba?
Alright, who else? Who else? Not Ibn Mas'ud. I'll give you a clue. He is another orphan of Uhud. Starts with a gene.
Jabir ibn Abdullah radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu. So let's repeat these seven inshallah ta'ala.
They are Abu Huraira, Aisha, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Umar, Anas, Jabir, and Abu Sa'id al-Khudri.
Abu Huraira radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu, Aisha al-Siddiqa radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu, Abdullah ibn Abbas radhiyallahu anhuma, Abdullah ibn Umar radhiyallahu anhuma, I forgot where I lost.
Anas ibn Malik radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu, Jabir ibn Abdullah radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu, and the last one is Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu. So he is the seventh. We've covered all the rest of them, at least in the capacity of their parents.
I plan to inshallah ta'ala go over the youth of the companions once again. So those companions like al-Hassan, al-Husayn, Abdullah ibn Abbas, Abdullah ibn Umar, who we covered in the capacity of their parents, we're going to go back soon inshallah ta'ala, in a few months,
and do full biographies on them bid'ah ta'ala. But these are the seven that are known as al-mukthireen, the seven who narrated the most ahadith. As for Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radhiyallahu ta'ala anhu,
he narrates about 1,170 ahadith from the Prophet ﷺ. 1,170 ahadith from the Prophet ﷺ.
And this is a man who is distinguished in that he narrated from the Prophet ﷺ, he also narrated from all of al-ashr al-mubashshireen, the ten promised paradise. He has narrations from all ten of them, and he narrates from multiple companions.
And you'll often find that these seven narrate from each other. So it's beautiful when you read about these seven youth, if you will, because they were all young when the Prophet ﷺ passed away, including Aisha radhiyallahu ta'ala anha, right?
That there was a collection of hadith, a preservation effort amongst the seven of them, primarily, that continued onwards. And there were, of course, other sahaba, like Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Aas radhiyallahu anhu,
who narrated quite a bit from the Prophet ﷺ. So we're going to talk about the least known of them, and I'm pretty sure he is the least known of them, to the point that sometimes you read an entire collection of biographies of the sahaba,
and you don't have the biography of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri. Maybe a paragraph or two here or there, even though he narrated over a thousand hadith from the Prophet ﷺ. So who is he?
An Imam al-Zahabi, rahimahullah, titles his chapter Al-Imam al-Mujahid Mufti al-Madina. The Imam, the warrior, Mufti al-Madina. His title is the Mufti of Madina.
Remember Abu Darda'a radhiyallahu anhu was the Mufti of Ash-Sham. He is the Mufti of Madina, and his name is Sa'ad ibn Malik ibn Sinan radhiyallahu ta'ala anhuma.
Sa'ad ibn Malik ibn Sinan radhiyallahu anhuma, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, his nickname Abu Sa'id al-Khudri. So his actual name is Sa'ad ibn Malik ibn Sinan,
and his nickname is Abu Sa'id, the father of Sa'id, and he actually has a son named Sa'id al-Khudri, which refers to his ancestor, a famous ancestor from al-Madina. Mufti al-Madina.
When we talk about the young people of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, Hamdul ibn Abi Sufyan narrates from his teachers,
لم يكن أحد من أحداث أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ أفقها من أبي سعيد. That there was no one from the youth around the Prophet ﷺ that had greater fiqh, that had greater understanding and jurisprudence,
than Abu Sa'id al-Khudri radhiyallahu ta'ala anhum. He is from the tribe of Khazraj. When we talk about Aus and Khazraj, the two main tribes of the Ansar,
he is from al-Khazraj radhiyallahu ta'ala anhum. Now, his story is beautiful in that he's one of those young people who saw the Prophet ﷺ come into Madina,
but there's something about him, and I was thinking about how to title this lecture, and I wanted to title it The Lover of Madina as well. This man never leaves Madina. So he's Madini through and through. He's Madina before the Prophet ﷺ gets there,
in the sense that he was in the city. He lives with the Prophet ﷺ. He doesn't leave Madina for any extended period of time his entire life. Lives decades, and then dies later on, teaching in the masjid of the Prophet ﷺ, and is buried in al-Madina al-Munawwara.
May Allah ﷻ grant us a death in al-Madina as well. Allahumma ameen. So he's Madini through and through, lived with the Prophet ﷺ, and he tells his story as follows. He says, I was 10 years old,
10 years old when the Prophet ﷺ made hijrah to al-Madina al-Munawwara. So he's a 10-year-old boy, and his parents were both amongst those who accepted Islam from the Ansar.
Both his mother and his father were amongst those who accepted Islam from the Ansar, and they took him, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, as a 10-year-old, to take his pledge to the Prophet ﷺ.
So I want you to imagine a 10-year-old boy coming with his parents, and his mother was amongst those women who directly took bay'ah with the Prophet ﷺ, in that it wasn't her husband who represented her,
she herself took her pledge with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. His mother, a righteous woman named Unaisa bint Amr. Unaisa bint Amr.
And Unaisa, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, was married twice. I should have made a chart for you guys, I apologize. Unaisa bint Amr was married to a man prior to the father of Sa'd.
His name was al-Nu'man ibn Zayd. And the reason why this is an important point to mention,
because Unaisa and al-Nu'man ibn Zayd had three righteous children that all became from the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and they're the half-siblings of Sa'd ibn Malik, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
So they're the half-siblings of Abu Sa'id. One of them is a man by the name of Qatada ibn al-Nu'man, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, who has a miracle in Uhud that we will one day talk about, inshaAllah.
And I'm sure you will all remember this a few months from now. Qatada ibn al-Nu'man is the half-brother of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, and he has a pretty gruesome but powerful miracle with the Prophet ﷺ in Uhud.
So he fought in the Battle of Uhud, his half-brother. And he has Um Sahal ibn al-Nu'man, Um Sahal and Thabit ibn al-Nu'man, his half-siblings.
Then his mother married his father, Malik ibn Sinan, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, who lived and became Muslim. So his mother is Unaisa ibn Amr, his father is Malik ibn Sinan.
May Allah be pleased with them both. His older sister, Sa'id's older sister, is a woman named Fari'ah bint Malik. Fari'ah bint Malik. What is she famous for, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu?
This is the woman about whom the ayah of the iddah of the widow was revealed. So she is at the center of the iddah of a widow. It came down in regards to her, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu,
her husband passed away on the way back to Medina at some point. So the iddah of four months and ten days came in regards to Fari'ah bint Malik, the sister of Sa'id ibn Malik, Abu Sa'id, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
By the way, you all understand Sa'id ibn Malik and Abu Sa'id are the same person at this point, right? Because I'm going to use them interchangeably. So, what is his story?
He says that when the Battle of Badr came along, I obviously was an 11-year-old boy, I had nothing to do with the Battle of Badr. When the Battle of Uhud came along,
Sa'id ibn Malik, Abu Sa'id, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, he says that my father, Malik ibn Sinan, brought me to the Prophet ﷺ, وَأَنَا أَبْنُوا ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةً وَأَنَا أَبْنُوا ثَلَاثَ عَشْرَةً
and I was 13 years old. So I'm 13 years old. One of the common stories that we find before Uhud is that the Prophet ﷺ needed men. And so you had parents that were eager
to present their teenage boys to the Prophet ﷺ to be fighters. And the Prophet ﷺ disappointed some of those parents by saying, he's too young, he's too young, he's too young. Not every 14-year-old was allowed,
not every 16-year-old was allowed. There were some 14-year-olds that were bigger than 16-year-olds. You all get the point. So parents were bringing their young people to the Prophet ﷺ, their young teenagers.
This is the love of the Ansar for the Prophet ﷺ. They want to dedicate their children to this cause. I mean just think about the Prophet ﷺ on the outskirts of Uhud. We know that this humongous army, vicious, vengeful army
is coming to take revenge from the Battle of Badr. And we go and we take our youth to the Prophet ﷺ. We say, Ya Rasulullah, accept him in your cause. Let him fight, let him be in your cause. So Sa'ad ibn Malik,
I'm just going to say Abu Sa'id from now on. So Abu Sa'id ﷺ says, عُرِطُ يَوْمَ أُحُدْ عَلَى نَبِيهِ ﷺ My father brought me to the Prophet ﷺ on the day of Uhud.
And the Prophet ﷺ looked at me. فَجَعَلَ أَبِي يَأْخُذُ بِيَدِي My father took my hand, and it's like he was showing the Prophet ﷺ the arms of Sa'ad.
And he said, إِنَّهُ عَبْلُ الْعِظَامُ Sa'ad has big bones, like Abu Sa'id ﷺ. He can do it, Ya Rasulullah. He can fight, he can be with us, Ya Rasulullah. So Abu Sa'id is explaining before the battle of Uhud
that I'm in front of the Prophet ﷺ, and my father is trying to show my strength to the Prophet ﷺ. And he says, فَجَعَلَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُصَاعِدُ فِي النَّظَرِ
The Prophet ﷺ was looking at me up and down. And the Prophet ﷺ said, رُدَّهُ Turn him back. He's not old enough. قَالَ فَرَدَّنِي So my father took me back home.
So his memory of Uhud, his last memory of his father, Malik ibn Sinan ﷺ, is his father taking him to the Prophet ﷺ and presenting him as a potential warrior, and he takes him back home.
So Abu Sa'id ﷺ says, So I and a group of youth that were not allowed to proceed forward in Uhud. We waited away from the battlefield to hear the news of Uhud.
And I want you to think about this, their parents are fighting. As for Abu Sa'id, his father Malik ibn Sinan, his uncle Murri ibn Sinan, his paternal uncle,
his half-brother Qatad ibn Nu'man, basically all the elder men, all the capable men of his family are in this fight. They've gone alongside the Prophet ﷺ in Uhud, and he's left behind.
So the rest of the story is going to be secondhand, from those that actually got to fight in the battle of Uhud. And picture yourself as Abu Sa'id ﷺ from the area of Al-Haram al-Madani, with the rest of the children
waiting to hear the news of their parents. So he now goes to what happened in the battlefield. He says that, my father was one of those people, Malik ibn Sinan radiAllahu ta'ala anhu,
who did not flee from the Prophet ﷺ. And I want you to think about the natural love, and the way that these people just, you know, inherently were dedicated to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
when things started happening in Uhud, and they had a reaction of love to the Prophet ﷺ. He said that, أُصِيبَ وَجْهُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ يَوْمَ أُحِدُ The Prophet ﷺ was struck in every part, and he was even struck in his face.
And the blood was dripping from the mouth and the face of the Prophet ﷺ. They knocked the Prophet's ﷺ teeth out in Uhud. صلى الله عليه وسلم And the Ansar who loved the Prophet ﷺ more than themselves, they're grabbing the Prophet ﷺ,
they're trying to protect them. So he said, so my father was around the Prophet ﷺ, and he caught some of the dripping blood, and he didn't want to let the blood of the Prophet ﷺ hit the ground, and he didn't want to wipe it. So just instinctively, he put it in his mouth.
مالك بن سينان رضي الله عنه This is just an act of, like I'm trying to protect the most important person in the world to me right now, Rasulullah ﷺ.
Until he says that my father was struck, and he was killed, and the Prophet ﷺ looked at my father, and the Prophet ﷺ was deeply hurt by the death of the Ansar. Of course, one of the dynamics of Uhud
is that these people took the Prophet ﷺ in Medina, and they suffered the most. Almost all of those killed in Uhud were Madani, were Ansar. They took the Prophet ﷺ, and they were killed protecting him,
and it broke the Prophet ﷺ's heart. So he looked at my father in the battlefield, and he said, من أحب أن ينظر إلى من خالت دمه فلينظر إلى مالك بن سينان
Whoever wants to look at a man who my blood and his blood have mixed. Look at Malik bin Sinan radiAllahu ta'ala. Imagine he's one of those people who inshaAllah ta'ala the next time you go to Uhud you will think about
a man who just in an act of love and fervor around the Prophet ﷺ caught the blood of the Prophet ﷺ, did not even want the blood of the Prophet ﷺ to touch the ground, much less spill. And the Prophet ﷺ said, this man died a shaheed,
and his blood, his last act subhanAllah is that his blood mixed with my blood. رضي الله تعالى عنه So Abu Sa'id now continues the story.
Abu Sa'id radiAllahu ta'ala says, and so we were waiting outside of Uhud, the kids, and a lot of kids are about to become orphans, and a lot of women are about to become widows,
are about to find out about their loved ones. They're about to be devastated, right? And he says, so the Prophet ﷺ came riding towards us, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
was on a horse. And he said that as the Prophet ﷺ came towards us, Rasulullah ﷺ looked at me, and he said to me, are you Sa'id ibn Malik?
Asking me my name, just confirming. So I told him, بِأَبِي أَنْتَ وَأُمِيَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ May my father and my mother be ransomed for you, O Messenger of Allah. Yes, I'm Sa'id ibn Malik. So he said that,
I kissed the knee of the Prophet ﷺ on the horse. Right, like he wants to dedicate himself to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ the way that his parents taught him. And the Prophet ﷺ came down,
and the Prophet ﷺ said, قُتِلَ أَبَاكِ Your father was killed and martyred. May Allah ﷻ magnify your reward on his account. So the Prophet ﷺ himself gave Abu Sa'id, a 13-year-old,
the tough news that his father was amongst those that were martyred on the day of Uhud. SubhanAllah, Abu Sa'id r.a, he now describes what comes next. And if you remember the story of Jabir ibn Abdullah r.a,
some of these people really had heavy burdens. Not just the emotional burden of what had happened in Uhud, but the human capital. Jabir r.a, all the sisters he was in charge of and didn't have anything to take care of them.
So Abu Sa'id... Abu Sa'id r.a says that I and my mother, I was the only one there to take care of my mother at this point.
And he said that we sunk into poverty. Many of the houses of the Ansar gave everything. And Uhud was absolutely devastating.
So he said that my mother sent me to ask for help from the Prophet ﷺ. And the Prophet ﷺ was giving everything that he possibly could to the Ansar. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was the poorest of them.
So he said, so I approached and I heard the Prophet ﷺ. I just so happened to approach. And the Prophet ﷺ was saying to the Ansar, مَا يَكُونُ عِنْدِي مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَلَنْ أَدَّخِرَهُ عَنْكُمْ
That, O Ansar, whatever I have, I will not store from you. Whatever I have of good, any money I have, any animals I have, any food I have, O Ansar, I'm going to give it to you. I'm not going to hold back anything from you.
You gave everything for me. And the Prophet ﷺ was saying, I'm not going to hold back anything from you. And he says, وَمَنْ يَسْتَعْفِفْ يُعِفَّهُ اللَّهُ
And whoever seeks to have ifrah, to have their dignity, Allah will dignify them. وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْنِي يُغْنِهِ اللَّهُ
And whoever seeks to be financially sufficient, Allah will grant them financial sufficiency. Meaning, if you seek from Allah ﷻ that position, Allah ﷻ will give you that position as well.
وَمَنْ يَتَصَبَّرْ يُصَبِّرْهُ اللَّهُ And whoever seeks patience, Allah will make them patient. وَمَا أُعْتِيَ أَحَدٌ عَطَاءً هُوَ خَيْرٌ وَأَوْسَعٌ مِنَ الصَّبْرِ
And the Prophet ﷺ said, and no one of you will be given a gift, a blessing that is better and that is more expansive than patience.
So, Abu Sa'id ﷺ, he's a teenager, and he says that, when I heard the Prophet ﷺ say that, like I'm coming to ask the Prophet ﷺ for help. But when I heard the Prophet ﷺ say that, I said,
I can't ask him for anything, I don't want to ask him for that. He said, instead I'll seek it from Allah ﷻ. And he said, so Allah ﷻ blessed our household. So he now goes on to continue, he says that basically,
I sought from Allah ﷻ, I told my mother what happened, and we sought from Allah ﷻ, and he said, Allah ﷻ descended His barakah upon us, and he went on to say, فَمَا أَعْرِفُ أَهْلَ بَيْتِ مِنَ الْأَنصَارِ أَكْثَرُ مَالًا مِنَّا
He said, so I don't know a single house of the Ansar that became wealthier than our household. Alhamdulillah. So Allah provided for us in miraculous ways, somehow, even though we were devastated, I was an orphan, my mother was a widow after Uhud,
Allah opened the doors upon us, and somehow, He blessed us in our produce, and you'll find stories of Abu Sa'id and his garden, He blessed us in our produce, and we became the wealthiest house of the Ansar.
رضي الله تعالى عنهم أجمعين Now we look through some of the narrations, because what ends up happening now with Abu Sa'id, because he doesn't talk about himself much, you have to piece his biography, and I'm being literal here,
because this is one of the harder ones to do, you have to piece his biography through all of his narrations, and catch glimpses. And so you start to see what the relationship dynamic is like between him and the Prophet ﷺ, this young man who now dedicates himself
to the Prophet ﷺ. And I want you to think about how much you've learned from him in the process. Abu Sa'id رضي الله تعالى عنه says, that the Prophet ﷺ said to me, يا أبا سعيد, Oh Abu Sa'id,
so Abu Sa'id is narrating a hadith to him directly, not to a group. يا أبا سعيد من رضي بالله ربا وبالإسلام دينا وبمحمد ﷺ نبيا
واجبت له الجنة. Oh Abu Sa'id, whoever is pleased with Allah as his Lord, with Islam as his religion, and with Muhammad ﷺ as his Prophet,
paradise has become mandatory for that person. فعجب لها أبو سعيد. So Abu Sa'id was so pleased, like you just said that we can get to Jannah just by رضيت بالله ربا وبالإسلام دينا
وبمحمد ﷺ نبيا. You all know this du'a, so you have the back story. So he said, Oh Messenger of Allah, أعدها عليّ يا رسول الله. Can you repeat that to me?
I want to make sure I heard you correctly, Oh Messenger of Allah. قال ففعل ﷺ So the Prophet ﷺ did so, and he taught him, whoever is pleased with Allah as their Lord,
with Islam as their religion, and with Muhammad ﷺ as their Prophet, Jannah has become mandatory. And then he said, and more, the Prophet ﷺ said, there is that which elevates the position of a person in Jannah
to a grade a hundred higher, and then a hundred higher, equal to the height of the heavens and the earth. And he said, what is that? قال الجهاد في سبيل الله. He said, striving in the path of Allah. And so Abu Sa'id رضي الله تعالى عنه
narrates this hadith from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. So he goes on, and he describes like many of the companions who just missed the cut-off, they were too young for Uhud. He goes on and he fights alongside the Prophet ﷺ in every single battle afterwards.
So he's from those who fought in Khaybar, and he is from the people of Ridwan, Bayat al-Ridwan, the people who took the pledge under the tree that Allah says he is pleased with.
Okay, so he makes it amongst those people, رضي الله تعالى عنه. Now you can see from his ahadith a few different themes. One of them is the description of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
And he describes the Prophet ﷺ with some of the famous shama'il of the Messenger ﷺ. And one of those narrations, قال كان نبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أشد حياء من العذراء في خدرها
فإذا رأى شيئا يكرهه عرفناه في وجهه ﷺ So he says that the Prophet ﷺ was more shy than a bride in her room, in her separate room.
And he said when the Prophet ﷺ disliked something, we saw that عرفناه في وجهه ﷺ we could see it in his face. So he described the haya' of the Prophet ﷺ. Now what does this mean? The Prophet ﷺ was deeply modest, not arrogant,
not someone who was commanding, not someone who was impulsive ﷺ, not someone who was boastful. He describes the haya' of the Prophet ﷺ. He said I never saw a man more shy than him ﷺ.
He also is one of the few companions who can narrate about the Prophet ﷺ both as a guest and as a host. He says that دخلت على نبي صلى الله عليه وسلم
I was one of those who visited the Prophet ﷺ. فرأيته يصلي على حصير يسجد عليه And I saw the Prophet ﷺ praying on a reed, a mat, a simple mat,
making sujood on it ﷺ. And he said and I saw him praying in a single garment with part of it over his shoulder. So he describes the poverty of the Prophet ﷺ. I got to see the inner chamber
of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in his qiyam, in his personal life. And I saw the deep poverty of the Prophet ﷺ. So he narrates as a guest. And he also narrates the Prophet ﷺ
visiting him when he was sick. He said the Prophet ﷺ visited me when I was sick. And the sister فريعة رضي الله عنها served the Prophet ﷺ something from a lamb,
the leg of a lamb. And the Prophet ﷺ ate a small piece of it ﷺ. And he is of course the most gracious of guests عليه الصلاة والسلام, visiting his companions when they are sick. Even the teenagers, subhanAllah.
Like the Prophet ﷺ is finding time to even visit teenagers in his community when they are ill. This young companion of his ﷺ. He was one of those who got to travel with the Prophet ﷺ. And one of the things that's really beautiful
is that him and Jabir co-narrate some of the ahadith of the Prophet ﷺ and travel. Both of them being from the orphans of Uhud. And so you can see the Prophet ﷺ's loyalty to his companions taking the orphans of Uhud
with him عليه الصلاة والسلام. So him and Jabir narrate that we travelled with the Prophet ﷺ. سَفَرْنَا مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَيَصُومُ الصَّائِمُ وَيُفْتِرُ الْمُفْتِرُ
فَلَا يَعِيبُوا بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَىٰ بَعْضٍ And so some people fasted and others did not fast. And no one blamed the other or no one saw the other as making a mistake.
So they got to travel with the Prophet ﷺ together. And he described some of the fiqh of travel in the process, some of the jurisprudence of travel in the first place.
And you find many ahadith in that regard. In one narration he says that a group of us, this is actually a really interesting narration. Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه says, a group of us set out on a journey with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
And then we came across one of the Bedouin tribes and it was a non-Muslim tribe. And they were a stingy group of people. They weren't hospitable to us. So we asked them for hospitality,
to give us something, to shelter us, you know. Good manners if you are traveling is like the house of Um Ma'bad رضي الله عنها. Give us something to drink, give us some shelter for the day, offer us something on the road. So we asked them for some hospitality
and they basically told us to get lost. Then he says that the leader of the tribe got stung by something, like a scorpion or something in the desert.
And so they started to try to cure him and they couldn't do anything. So they basically called us back and they said, do you guys have any medicine, any way to cure the chief? So it's an emergency, he got stung by something
and we need help. So Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه he said, well, we can do ruqya, we can read on him, but we need something in return. All right, you guys told us to get lost,
you rebuffed us, and so this is a transaction right now. What's your payment for us? So they said, we'll give you these sheep if he's cured. So Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه,
he says, so we started to blow on him and we recited Surah Al-Fatiha. So I recited the ruqya, I recited Surah Al-Fatiha on a non-Muslim chief.
And then we went to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and we had the sheep, because it worked. So you can see the fiqh here, by the way, one of the rulings that is extracted from this hadith is that it's okay to wish well
for someone who's not Muslim, to perform ruqya even on someone who's not Muslim, and to hope for their cure, right? So to even participate in the cure and things of that sort. So he says, so he went to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and we had some of that sheep,
and we told the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what happened. So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says, وَمَا كَانَ يُدْرِيهِ أَنَّهَا رُقْيَةً How did you know that that was a ruqya? How did you know that Surah Al-Fatiha would work?
And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was happy and he said, you did the right thing. So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم basically said, let's eat. أَقْسِمُوا وَضْرِبُوا Let's go ahead and eat what's been given to us. So let's apportion now the share.
So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was proud of his companions. And Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه was describing this journey that he took with the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم in that regard. He's also رضي الله تعالى عنه
he has a story behind the revelation of Surah Al-Ma'idah. He said that I had some wine that belonged to an orphan when Surah Al-Ma'idah was revealed. And when it came down, I told the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم,
but Ya Rasulullah, this wine is for an orphan. And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to pour it out. So don't make a distinction in the prohibition of alcohol between the orphan and the one who is not an orphan to basically pour it out. He describes an incident
of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم seeing a group of poor people فقراء that were extremely poor. من ضعفاء المسلمين And he says that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ما أظن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يعرف أحد منهم
Like I don't think the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم actually knew any single one of them. It was like an outside tribe. And he said that they were barely covering their عورة. Barely their private parts were covered. That's how poor they were. And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم of course
wants to take care of these people, but he's asking them about themselves. And he's getting to know them عليه الصلاة والسلام And he notices that they have like a حلقة amongst themselves. So he says, what are you doing?
بما كنتم تراجعون What are you sort of reviewing with yourselves? They said, هذا رجل يقرأ لنا القرآن ويدعو لنا That this person is reading Qur'an to us and he's making du'a for us. So the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says
فعودوا لما كنتم فيه So go back to what you were doing. And the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said الحمد لله الذي جعل في أمتي من أمرت أن أصبر نفسي معهم ثم قال ليبشر فقراء المؤمنين
بالفوز يوم القيامة قبل الأغنياء بمقدار 500 عام هؤلاء في الجنة يتناعمون وهؤلاء يحاسبون The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said الحمد لله
All praises be to Allah Who placed in my ummah these poor simple righteous people that I have been commanded to be patient amongst The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to be amongst the ضعفاء He used to be amongst the poor He used to be amongst those who were struggling
And he said صلى الله عليه وسلم Let the oppressed and the weak ones amongst the believers have the good news of success on the day of judgment in which they will be placed ahead of the wealthy by 500 years
They will be in paradise enjoying its luxuries while the other people will still be held accountable صلى الله عليه وسلم So Abu Sa'id narrates some of these Ahadith of travel He also narrates many of the Ahadith of the
Salah of The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم And he taught Salah to many of the Tabi'een and he says هكذا رأيت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يصلي This is how I saw The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم praying He described some of the moments
in which he says we were praying with The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the rain started to come and he said that the roof leaked and at that time the roof of the Masjid was just some date palms and he said
I saw The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I'll never forget looking at The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and seeing his head and he said the water and the mud was on the forehead and on the nose of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم Almost admiring The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was again
such a humble man and someone who cared deeply about worshiping Allah سبحانه و تعالى on all things He narrates a Hadith about The Prophets وضوء He was with The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in Hajj He narrates about The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم's food
He narrates about his clothes He narrates some of his Duas He narrates some of his travel habits The Ahadith about Bani Israel You know the man who killed 99 people that we talked about a few weeks ago That is a narration of Abu Sa'id
Al-Khudri رضي الله تعالى عنه And then he narrates about the virtues of deeds and of places And so he is the one who narrates the Hadith from The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ما من عبد يصوم يوما في سبيل الله إلا بعد الله بذلك اليوم
عن وجهه النار سبعين خريفة that no one fasts for the sake of Allah for one day except that Allah سبحانه و تعالى places between him and hellfire a distance of 70 years He also narrates the Hadith
الباقيات الصالحات that the lasting good deeds are لا إله إلا الله سبحان الله الله أكبر الحمد لله لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله Two more Ahadith and we'll get back to a story He narrates the Ahadith about
the virtues of places so the virtues of deeds and then the virtues of places So the very famous Hadith is the one from Abu Sa'id لا تشد الرحال إلا إلى ثلاثة مساجد
that a journey should not be taken except to three Masajid المسجد الحرام المسجد الأقصى ومسجدي هذا and my Masjid being in Medina. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى allow us to pray in all three. Allahumma ameen
The Hadith of the Rawdah is also narrated from him رضي الله تعالى عنه where he narrates that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said ما بين بيتي ومنبري روضة من رياض الجنة ومنبري على حوضي
that what is between my home and my Minbar is one of the gardens of Jannah and my Minbar is upon my Haud I just want you to think how much you learned from him
without even knowing so every time you pray in the Rawdah every time you're going out and you're performing these deeds and you're repeating these Afqar and you're repeating these Duas, this man رضي الله تعالى عنه is a vehicle by which Allah سبحانه و تعالى conveyed the message
of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم through his blessed heart and his blessed mouth رضي الله تعالى عنه so his whole story is narrating a Hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away
Abu Sa'id رضي الله تعالى عنه basically now assumes a position of a teacher in the Masjid of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم مفتي المدينة he's Madani throughout
he was 10 when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم came he's now 23 when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم passes away and it becomes quickly known that he is a man from whom you seek a Hadith so Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه used to sit at his feet and gather many of the narrations
and a man comes to him and he says to him هنيا لك يا أبا سعيد برؤية رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وصحبته هنيا لك
may Allah bless you Abu Sa'id how lucky are you how blessed are you to have seen the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and have accompanied him and Abu Sa'id would cry and he would say يا أخي يا أخي
you don't know what we did after him meaning we haven't lived up he felt that guilt رضي الله عنه of not living up to the standard of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم after his passing
he also used to greet the students of knowledge when they would come from around the world with a very particular greeting so if you remember Abu Darda رضي الله عنه in Al-Sham when the students of Hadith used to come to him
he used to spread out his Rida he used to spread out his cloak and he used to say مرحبا بأحبة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم welcome to the lovers of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he would tell them what the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
said so if you walked into a Masjid in Al-Sham and you saw the Mufti of Al-Sham Abu Darda he says to you welcome to the lovers of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Abu Sa'id says that
the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to us إِنَّ النَّاسَ لَكُمْ تَبَعُونَ وَإِنَّهُمْ سَيَأْتُونَكُمْ مِنْ أَقْطَارِ الْأَرْضِ وَيَتَفَقَّهُونَ فِي الدِّينِ فَإِذَا جَاءُوكُمْ فَاسْتَوْصُوا بِهِمْ خَيْرًا the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to us
that there are people that will follow you and they will come from all over the world seeking to understand their religion so when they come to you take care of them, treat them well and in one narration
the Prophet ﷺ says قُولُوا لَهُمْ مَرْحَبًا مَرْحَبًا بِوَصِيَةِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم Welcome, welcome to the inheritors of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم To those that the Prophet has instructed us to take care of
and so if you met Abu Sa'aid in the masjid of the Prophet he would say مَرْحَبًا بِوَصِيَةِ رَسُولِ اللهِ صلى اللهُ عليه وسلم Welcome to those who the Prophet told us to take care of
He used to love to quote the messenger of Allah عليه الصلاة والسلام and he said تَحَدَّثُ فَإِنَّ الْحَدِيثَ يُهَيِّجُ الْحَدِيثِ He said spread the Ahadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم because that will keep the Ahadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم alive
and spreading throughout the world صلى الله عليه وسلم What was he like in the masjid? He used to stay in the masjid from Al-Fajr to Al-Duha and he used to
be in the masjid for his long prayers in Salat Al-Duha in the masjid of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and then after he would pray multiple raka'at for a lengthy time at the time of sunrise
he used to teach people Qur'an and he would teach five verses at a time رضي الله تعالى عنهم So it's really beautiful because you start to see that the companions had methodology and how they would teach the Qur'an
So he would teach you five verses, he would give you its context, he would give you its meaning and then he would come back later on and sometime before Salat Al-Maghrib Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه would sit in the masjid again
and he would teach people another five ayat of the Qur'an and people used to approach him in his garden So remember he said that we ended up with the most blessed house of the Ansar
So he used to be in his garden, he was tending to all of these crops and students would come to him and they would ask him for Hadith and he would stop whatever he was doing during the day and he had a special shawl that he would put on رضي الله تعالى عنه
and he would begin to narrate the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ to people that came from around the world So people start to come from around the world to see this man رضي الله تعالى عنه and to hear the Hadith from him
He lived رضي الله تعالى عنه through some of the more difficult times of the Ummah He lived through the fitan and he was one of those who sided with Ali ibn Abi Talib رضي الله تعالى عنه
and he narrates and this is actually really powerful because you can see him live the Ahadith that he narrates in real time He says that I heard the Prophet ﷺ say
أَلَا لَا يَمْنَعَنَّ رَجُلًا حَيْبَةٌ نَاسِي أَن يَقُولَ بِحَقٍ إِذَا عَلِمَهُ He said that fear of people, the Prophet ﷺ said no one should let the fear of people stop them from speaking the truth
when they know the truth and he would cry رضي الله عنه بكى أبو سعيد and he said قَدْ وَاللَّهِ رَأَيْنَا أَشْيَاءٌ فَهِبْنَا He said that there are some things I wish I would have spoke a little bit more forcefully on and so he used to advise people
He used to advise the rulers of the Ummah He used to advise the people that were oppressing and he would try to stop them رضي الله عنه and he was never hindered by his fear and in fact سبحان الله
one of the things that we see in the footnote of the hadith is that Abu Sa'id stayed in Medina his whole life and he left one time to Ash-Sham one time to Baghdad very shortly
but when he narrated this hadith he said that I went to Muawiyah رَكِبْتُ إِلَى مُعَاوِيَةٍ رضي الله عنه فَمَلَأْتُ أُذُنَيْهِ ثُمَّ رَجَعْتْ and I filled his ears, meaning I gave him a lot of advice
and then I came back to Medina So he was someone who was very forceful in what he preached but at the same time he didn't want the Ummah to split and so it's very interesting سبحان الله
the position that he takes in fitna where he speaks the truth but he still prays with everyone and he still tries to hold the community together and because he lived such a long time and he saw some of the things that would happen later on
in the Ummah as he was teaching the hadith he lived to the time of Marwan ibn al-Hakam and he basically confronted Marwan on two things number one Marwan ibn al-Hakam
put the pulpit out on Eid and he started to do the khutbah before the salah and the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ is to do the khutbah after the salah
so he didn't like that and that was obviously a means by which you got the khutbah across whether people wanted to hear it or not because the khutbah is optional, the salah is what you pray and then you can stay for the khutbah if you want and there was a man who stood up and who confronted him on that
and Abu Sa'id radiAllahu ta'ala said من هذا? who is that person? they said this person is فلان ابن فلان so and so and he says أما هذا فقد قضى ما عليه that person did what he was commanded فإني سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول
من رأى منكر whoever sees something evil فاستطاع أن يغيره بيدي فليغيره بيدي and he is able to change it with his hand let him change it with his hand and if he can't do so then with his tongue and if he can't do so then let him hate it in his heart
and that is the weakest of faith now I want to segue to his story and sort of the end of his life and something very interesting that happens to him towards the end of his life so basically he's in Medina teaching people
the hadith of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and some of you may remember last week and it's not the first time we've talked about this we spoke about وقعة الحرة
الحرة was when Medina was basically put under a very vicious occupation, a very vicious murder and that was in the year 63
last week I said 36 I meant to say 63 after hijrah where basically multiple sahaba of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم were killed in الحرة one of them was ربيع بن كعب الأسلم رضي الله عنه who we spoke about last week
so Abu Sa'id actually lived to see that incidents where Medina comes under attack in the year 63 and unfortunately those that are attacking it
are also people who are saying لا إله إلا الله and that is the most difficult part of it so Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه because he knows Medina so much better than everyone else
he basically found a cave he gets chased into a cave and he hides in this غار and a man comes to him من أهل الشام because this army came from أهل الشام
and as he is about to enter into the cave Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه is holding his sword inside the cave to protect himself but just سبحان الله look at how this plays out
so Abu Sa'id says do not come in and the man says that either you come out or I will come in so Abu Sa'id said لا أخرج I'm not going to come out
وإن تدخل أقتلك and if you come in I'll kill you so the man came in to the cave anyway because again this is an army that's attacking Medina and he sees Abu Sa'id رضي الله عنه
and Abu Sa'id is holding a sword and he recites the verse from المائدة about Cain and Abel إني أريد أن تبوأ بإثمك فتكون من أصحاب النار
that I want to let you bear your own sin as well as the sin that you are committing against me and you will be from the people of the fire basically the brother who is being killed by his brother
and as the man enters and he looks at him سبحان الله talk about an introduction like you're someone who embraced Islam from far away and you've been led to kill other Muslims he said to him أنت أبو سعيد الخضري
are you Abu Sa'id الخضري he said yes قال صاحب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the companion of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said yes he said فاستغفر لي can you ask Allah to forgive me
Abu Sa'id says غفر الله لك may Allah forgive you and the man left right سبحان الله just the interesting way that this is all playing out in his life
and unfortunately he was attacked in his home he was tied up and everything was stolen from his home in this حرة in this attack even the filling of his pillows was taken
the wool that used to fill the pillows was taken from him رضي الله تعالى عنه and this was a fitna that unfortunately left many righteous people dead in that moment may Allah سبحانه وتعالى be pleased with them all
now he passes away رضي الله تعالى عنه about a year after that and he's in his seventies at this point and I want to talk about his death because his death is very special it's very special for a few reasons
number one Abu Sa'id narrates many of the حديث of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم about how to act when you die and how to care for the dead so he is the one who narrates the حديث from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
لَقِنُوا مَوتَاكُمْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ teach your dying ones to say لا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ when someone is dying keep telling them to say لا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ when you stand next to someone who is passing away
لا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ so Abu Sa'id is teaching his kids his two sons these حديث so that they can practice them with him as well
he would die a natural death رضي الله عنه so his kids are around him and they are saying لا إِلَهَ إِلَى اللَّهِ because of what they learned from him from what he learned from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم another حديث he narrates is that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said
إِذَا وُضِعَتِ الْجَنَازَةِ that when the جنازة is ready for burial and the people carry the جنازة on their shoulders فَإِن كَانَتْ صَالِحًا قَالَتْ قَدِّمُونِي قَدِّمُونِي if it's a righteous soul
the جنازة, the person will say hurry up and take me وَإِن كَانَتْ غَيْرَ صَالِحًا قَالَتْ يَا وَيْلَهَا يَا وَيْلَهَا أَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ بِهَا
woe to it, woe to it, where are you taking it so the story of the soul in the body as a person is being carried to their جنازة may Allah make us from the righteous ones who will say قَدِّمُونِي hurry up and take me to my grave
hurry up and take me to my grave so I can be taken to my place of الجنة and may Allah protect us from being the opposite of that and he said, subhanAllah that
يَسْمَعُوا صَلْطَهَا كُلُّ شَيْءٍ إِلَّا الْإِنسَانِ that everything, here's the soul saying that except for the human being so every other creation of Allah can hear the person as they're being carried to their grave
either saying قَدِّمُونِي hurry up or slow down يَا وَيْلَهَا أَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ بِهَا now here's where it gets subhanAllah very beautiful
when Abu Sa'id was dying he took his son to the بقير he said hold my hand so I want you to imagine the بقير of the Prophet ﷺ
of the masjid of the Prophet ﷺ where all the sahabah are buried said hold my hand and he walked to a very particular location in the بقير and he said when I die
I want you to bury me right here and you can actually see the image of the place in the بقير where he is buried رضي الله تعالى عنه and basically it was the furthest point of the بقير
at that point it's almost adjacent if you go to the grave of Uthman ibn Affan رضي الله عنه walk about a hundred feet take a left all the way to the fence they're the only two graves that have that
that brick around it in this way those two graves that you see the one that is closest here is Abu Sa'id al-Khudri رضي الله تعالى عنه
the one next to it is the grave of the one for whom the throne of Allah shook Sa'id ibn Mu'adh رضي الله تعالى عنه so these are the graves of Abu Sa'id al-Khudri رضي الله تعالى عنه
and Sa'id ibn Mu'adh رضي الله تعالى عنه and Abu Sa'id said when I die oh my son I want to be buried right here and he also said
he picked the specific clothes the kafan to be buried in رضي الله تعالى عنه and he prayed رضي الله تعالى عنه up until the last moment using the gestures of his body so he got very ill رضي الله تعالى عنه
he was in his 80s when he passed away some say 85 or 86 years old praying with gestures doing dhikr until the very last moment with his body رضي الله تعالى عنه
until he passed away in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah and it was Yawm Al-Jumu'ah the day of Friday in Muharram that he passes away رضي الله تعالى عنه
and subhanAllah when the Mufti of Madinah passes away there were many many many people that came for his janazah any of the sahaba that were still alive the people came from far the tabi'een his students
and they prayed upon him رضي الله تعالى عنه and he left behind not just plenty of students رضي الله تعالى عنه and a whole body of ahadith that we still narrate from today may Allah reward him on our behalf
but his two sons Sa'id Abu Sa'id and Abdur-Rahman may Allah be pleased with them who narrate much of their father's work and they also lived long lives so the two sons of Abu Sa'id Sa'id and Abdur-Rahman lived long lives
and they also had many students and so that really extends the life of the ahadith that he narrated from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he passes away in that spot رضي الله تعالى عنه may Allah سبحانه و تعالى
grant him his pleasure and may Allah عز و جل grant us the ability to die in Madinah and to be buried in that Baqir and to be raised with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم آمين I'll end with one hadith
Inshallah Ta'ala since we're talking about الصلاة على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم Abu Sa'id رضي الله تعالى عنه says that we said to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يا رسول الله هذا السلام عليك we send salam to you
we know how to say salam to you O Messenger of Allah قال فكيف نصلي how do we pray upon you O Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said to Abu Sa'id and his companions and we will repeat it Inshallah Ta'ala he said say
اللهم صلي على محمد can you all repeat اللهم صلي على محمد ابدك ورسولك كما صليت على إبراهيم
وبعك على محمد وعلى آل محمد كما باركت على إبراهيم وآل إبراهيم so he said اللهم صلي على محمد عبدك ورسولك
كما صليت على إبراهيم وبعك على محمد وعلى آل محمد كما باركت على إبراهيم وآل إبراهيم اللهم آمين We ask Allah to send His peace and blessings upon His Messenger ﷺ, His family, His companions.
May Allah be pleased with them all. May Allah join us with them. Inshallah ta'ala, next week we will now start with Khalid ibn al-Walid رضي الله عنه and those on the other side of Uhud.
And Inshallah ta'ala, I pray that it will be beneficial to you all. JazakumAllahu khayra. SubhanakAllahu wa mahamdika. Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah. Astaghfirullah wa atubu ilayka. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Al-Fatiha.
