His Hajj Story | A Dhul Hijjah Series
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Amongst the People | His Hajj Story Ep. 9
A major theme of the Prophet’s directions on how to perform Hajj was flexibility. He knew that, just as Allah never places a burden upon anyone beyond what they can handle, Hajj was also meant to be something every individual could handle. He reminded his Companions to be flexible and to remember that honoring each other was even more important than the holy pilgrimage itself.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. The beauty of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in this one hajj that he does with all of the people is that he's constantly with the people. So you have all of these incidents narrated where people come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and they ask him certain things. You have incidents where things that would probably be deemed too small to warrant the intention of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam indeed warrant his attention. You have the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comforting people. You have the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam responding to people's needs. And this was what made him Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is that he was always amongst the people. And this was a beautiful way for the majority of the sahaba to become introduced to him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as he was guiding them through this important ritual. The narrations of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam particularly on the day of Eid, the day of sacrifice. And I say the day of Eid even though even when we go to hajj a lot of people are always surprised that you don't pray Eid as a hajji but instead you do the sacrifice. The narrations are so plentiful of him just paying attention to everything that is being done. So for example the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is the one who is using his hands to dictate the speed of all of the people that are going from station to station. And you see the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam slowing people down. Obviously there was an excitement for people to get from one place to the next and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is constantly calming things down as they move from place to place. And every place of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is marked by his speeches as well as his dua SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So obviously they got to Muzdarifah and they were trying to rush to Muzdarifah and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam told them to slow down. They got to Muzdarifah, they prayed Maghrib and Isha late and
combined meaning in the time of Isha. And then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam stays in Muzdarifah and he makes dua from Fajr until sunrise facing in the direction of the Qibla. He hastens towards Mina. He throws his seven pebbles at Jamratul Aqaba, the way that we do in Hajj at the main one of the Jamarat. And then this is the day of sacrifice. Now sacrifice is a time that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could have easily simply moved to the side and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam could have maybe sacrificed one animal just to fulfill that sunnah. But the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had ordered Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu to bring a hundred camels from Yemen. And Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu mentions this scene and many of the companions they witnessed the scene where the sacrificial animals are brought to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sacrificed 63 of the camels himself. Now one of the things that was interesting was that they said that the camels were coming towards the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for slaughter as if they saw it as an honor to be sacrificed from the hand of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam whereas the animals usually would flee from the time of sacrifice. But not only were they not distressed but rather there was an eagerness of sorts for the camels to be sacrificed by the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Ali radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he sacrificed the other 37. Now the question is why is it that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sacrificed 63 in particular? And the ulama mentions how a beautiful wisdom of this that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sacrificed for every year of himself existing. So his age SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was 63. And you think about the aqeeqah which is a form of gratitude to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was showing gratitude to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for every year that he lived on earth and indeed we are the ones that should express gratitude to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for every blessed year that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
had on this earth and the sunnah that he left behind that continues to guide us until this day. Then you have the narrations of the people that are afraid. Did we do hajj wrong? Are we in trouble? Especially on the day of Eid, the day of the sacrifice where you know there are so many rituals. It's easy to get lost. It's easy to maybe do things in a way that you might think are out of order. So you have people coming to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and they're asking the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam about the order of which things are to be done on that day. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam permits all of the different orders for people to do the sequence of the day of the sacrifice. So you have obviously going to the Jamratul Aqaba, going and stoning the main pillar. You have the tawaf of al-ifadah. You have the sacrifice itself and then you have the cutting of the hair or the shaving of the head and the exiting of al-ihram. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam permitted that there is some order that can be done or not a rigid order of the things that are done before a person exits out of their ihram. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam allows for those things. People come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and they're worried about things that they're not able to do. And the famous statement of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam throughout the hajj was if'al wala haraj, go ahead and do it and there is no blame upon you. So Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was making people feel at ease as they wondered if their hajj was complete because of the various things that got in the way and because of the hardships that were out of their control. One of the most famous incidents is the incident of Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. Where Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha was unable to perform the rituals of the hajj because of her cycle. And so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says to her as he sees her crying, he says don't be sad. This is something that Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la has written for the daughters of Adam Alayhi As-Salam. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam tells her to do everything except for the tawaf. And then the rest of it, the tawaf you can do when you're in a state of purity. Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha
though the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave her that and obviously she's put at ease by that. She wanted to do umrah with her hajj and all of the other wives of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam were able to do umrah and hajj and Aisha radiAllahu Anha felt left out because she was, because of the circumstances out of her hands unable to do umrah. So she tells the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam I want to do umrah too. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Ya Aisha what you've done is enough. She insisted and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam saw that you know what, she didn't want to be the only one of the wives of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that did not do umrah. So Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sent her with Abdur Rahman Ibn Abi Bakr to a Tan'im and this is where the famous Miqat is or the famous place of Ihram is in Tan'im. Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha then performed her make up umrah as she was unable to do it when they first came into Al-Makkah. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is always you know responding to people. He is listening carefully to his ummah. He's listening carefully to his family. He's making arrangements SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for some to leave Muzdalifah early and that excuse was given especially to the elderly and some of the women so that they could go to the Haram early and they could perform their Tawafil Ifadah. He's making all these arrangements SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam recognizing at all times that there are people in his ummah that have different circumstances and this is something that's beautiful about him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is that he did not make that Hajj an unpleasant experience for the people right. He did not burden the people because Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la does not burden us beyond our scope. Now what we find from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as well is that he's always a teacher Alayhi Salaatu Wasallam and one of the narrations is from Al-Fadl Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu who narrates you know most of the Hajj of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam because he was literally you know at a front row seat. He was sitting behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on his camel for most of the Hajj. It was either him or Usama Ibn Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. So Al-Fadl is narrating so much of what happened and so many of the conversations
where people came up to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and asked him questions and one of the things that Al-Fadl mentions is that there was a group of women that passed by and Al-Fadl kept on staring and he says the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gently put his hand on my head and he kept on turning my head away from the women. So I kept on looking and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam kept on turning my head gently and this was the teaching of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to Al-Fadl radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu very gently as he was doing that to his young cousin radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is always a teacher, he's always paying attention, he's always giving advice. One of the most famous ahadith we have obviously is from Abdullah Ibn Abbas radiAllahu Anhumah where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is talking to him as they are riding an animal together. So Al-Fadl mentions that he was teaching me to lower my gaze even in the days of Hajj and then you have the sermon of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam or an address of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to the people on that day that reinforces everything that he was trying to set out to do in the day of Arafah. Abi Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu he mentions that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he spoke to us on the day of the sacrifice and he said ayyu yawmin hadha, what's today? And he says, Fasakatna, we were quiet. Why? Because we thought that maybe the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was going to name the day something different. Realize that this Hajj the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is teaching them what remains from the days of ignorance and what is abolished. So they're thinking perhaps when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam asks us what day is this then that means that he's about to change the name. So we were quiet. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Alaysa yawmin nahar? Isn't it the day of the sacrifice? Qulna bala, we said yes O Messenger of Allah. He said, Fa ayyu shahrin hadha? What month is this? So he said we were quiet because we thought maybe the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was going to rename the month. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Alaysa bi dhil hijjah? Isn't it the month of dhil hijjah? They said, yes O Messenger of Allah. And he said
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Fa inna dimaakum wa amwalakum wa a'aralakum baynakum haramun ka hurmati yawmikum hadha fee shahrikum hadha fee baladikum hadha. Then know that your blood, your property, and your honor amongst yourselves are more holy than this day and this month in this place. So once again the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is explaining that to the people. And in one narration the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam even speaking to the Kaaba, about the Kaaba itself, says that the honor of your brother, the property of your brother, the life of your brother is more sacred than this Kaaba on this day and this month.
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