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Hafsa bint Umar (ra): Saved by Devotion | The Firsts
Hafsa bint Umar (ra) lived a life marked by devotion that saw her through her multiple tragedies, and earned her the testimony of the greatest angel. In this lecture, Dr. Omar Suleiman talks about the wife of our beloved Prophet ﷺ who was most noted for her private worship.
The Firsts is a weekly video series that chronicles the lives of the sahabah during and after the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. I would like to ask the name of Allah and the name of the Shaitan. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen. Wa la'adwana illa'a la'adwalameen. Wa la'aqeebatu lilmuttaqeem. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka ala abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam tasliman kathira. So alhamdulillah rabbil alameen we continue in the lives of our mothers. May Allah be pleased with them. And just a reminder that we've already covered many of the wives of the Prophet in the first season of the first when we were talking about the early muhajirat, the early migrants from the Muslims, so the first Muslims. And now we're in the Madani period and with A'ishah as we said, though she's technically someone who made hijrah with the Prophet due to her age and due to her earliest memories of Islam, we covered her in season two, though we talked about her in the capacity of Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and his family. With Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, who we're going to be speaking about tonight, Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha is the next wife of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam after A'ishah radiyaAllahu anha in terms of order. So after the death of Khadijah, may Allah be pleased with her, you have Saudah, A'ishah and then Hafsa. And Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, her story also begins in Mecca in a very significant way. Her father is of course Omar bin al-Khattab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and I'm not going to ask you who he is because if I asked you then you didn't answer me then I'd get really frustrated but does anyone know who her mother was? Okay. There was a man that we spoke about and we did an entire series or an entire lecture on him, Uthman bin Mad'un radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
And if you remember Uthman bin Mad'un was married to Khawla bint Hakim who's actually the matchmaker at the time, the one who suggested Saudah and A'ishah to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. And his sister is a woman by the name of Zainab bint Mad'un. So this is one of the earliest families of Islam, Uthman bin Mad'un and his sister Zainab bint Mad'un. So Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, her father is Umar bin al-Khattab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, her mother is Zainab bint Mad'un radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu who is the sister of Uthman bin Mad'un and the sister-in-law of Khawla bint Hakim. And the reason why this is significant again is because Zainab is one of the early Muslims, she's one of those that embraced Islam very early on. Her story goes through Abyssinia the way that many of those struggling Muslims went through Abyssinia to escape the persecution that was taking place. In Mecca, Uthman bin Mad'un is the first migrant that was buried in Medina. So this is the family that she's being born into. Now Hafsa was born about five years before prophethood. So it would equal to the year 605, five years before prophethood. And she's the eldest child of Umar bin al-Khattab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And that's why you find that Umar radiyaAllahu anhu had the kunya, the nickname of Abu Hafs. Hafs being the masculine version of Hafsa, right, Abu Hafs. And the prophet Sayyidina Islam used to refer to him as Abu Hafs and that was a nickname that was beloved to Umar bin al-Khattab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Her full brother is Abdullah bin Umar radiyaAllahu anhuma. So you have Hafsa, you have Abdullah bin Umar, and then you have Abdurrahman al-Kabir, the big Abdurrahman. Now here's something really cool about Umar bin al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu. When he heard something from the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he wanted to act on it, right?
So he heard the prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam say, the most beloved names to Allah are Abdurrahman and Abdullah. So he had Abdullah, then he named three sons Abdurrahman. Abdurrahman the big one, Abdurrahman the middle one, Abdurrahman the small one. So Hafsa, so if any of you ever complained about your names not being original, all right, think about being Abdurrahman the middle one, Abdurrahman the small one, right? So Hafsa has a full brother, Abdullah, and a full brother, Abdurrahman, the servant of the most merciful and of course the servant of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Now what makes this important, just as we get into the story of Hafsa, how many of you have heard that Umar radiyaAllahu anhu buried his daughters alive in the days of ignorance? Many of you may have heard that. And this was a common story that, you know, prior to 15 years ago, I remember saying it in a khutbah myself because it's something that comes through the books of seerah, secondary sources, because in the practice of the days of ignorance, they used to bury their daughters alive. And Umar radiyaAllahu anhu, there's this whole story about him crying and regretting the moments that he buried his daughters alive. The truth is that that is a complete fabrication. Not that he wouldn't have been absolved from it, radiyaAllahu anhu, because these were acts of the days of ignorance after which people repented to Allah. So there are companions who did undertake this hideous practice of burying their daughters alive in the days of ignorance. But that was not something that Umar radiyaAllahu anhu's tribe was known for. This is not something that every tribe used to undertake. There are socioeconomic circumstances here that factored into which tribes would take part in that practice. And of the greatest proofs of that is the fact that Hafsa radiyaAllahu anhu is his oldest and she is alive. He also has another daughter that's narrated to have been named Asiya, not Asiya, Asiya, disobedient and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam changed her name to Jameela.
So there are two daughters that come through. So clearly this was not a practice of Umar bin Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu by the existence of Hafsa radiyaAllahu anhu. So Hafsa is the oldest child of Umar bin Khattab and she is a copy of her father. She acts like her father. She has many of the same spiritual qualities as her father and she is going to be praised for many of the things that her father will be praised with. And this is something subhanAllah that's very special about Umar bin Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu is that his two children, you know, the two children that are most prominent in the seerah being his oldest daughter Hafsa and his oldest son Abdullah are both copies of him, right? And they both take the best of what he had radiyaAllahu anhu and they live that. Abdullah bin Umar being a copy of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in terms of following his sunnah and his adherence to the sunnah and Hafsa radiyaAllahu anhu being a copy in terms of her adherence to acts of worship. So much so that she would be praised as we'll see even by Jibreel alaihi salam for the acts of worship that she used to undertake. So Hafsa radiyaAllahu anhu being the oldest daughter of Umar radiyaAllahu anhu has another interesting twist to her story which is that most scholars will actually say she became Muslim before her father. She actually embraced Islam before her father. And that is based upon her age, that's also based upon who her husband was. So her first husband is a man by the name of Khunais ibn Hudhafa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And Khunais radiyaAllahu anhu, we have a whole episode on him so you can go back and watch it. Khunais radiyaAllahu anhu ibn Hudhafa is the brother of the famous Abdullah ibn Hudhafa al-Sahmi radiyaAllahu anhu who challenged the emperor of Rome, goes on to challenge the emperor of Rome. And Khunais, the first husband of Hafsa was one of the first batch of Muslims, so much
so that he's included according to most scholars in the first 20 people to embrace Islam. So this is the first husband of Hafsa, a righteous man named Khunais, of the first 20 to embrace Islam. He embraced Islam even before Dar al-Arqam, the house of Arqam which was the place where they used to gather in Mecca privately to learn Islam, before it even opened. So he's one of those early, early, early Muslims. And he and his entire family embraced Islam and they joined the migration to al-Habasha, Abyssinia, modern day Ethiopia, to escape persecution. Hafsa radiyaAllahu anhu will marry him at some point in Mecca. So depending upon where you put her marriage date to Khunais in Mecca, that's where you'll determine whether or not she embraced Islam before Umar or not. So there's a difference of opinion, it's not really clear because again Meccan seerah is not as preserved as the seerah in Medina, as the biographies in Medina where it was easier to document rather than when they were living under persecution. So she married Khunais radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and Khunais was one of the beloved companions of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. And when Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and his family migrated to Medina as a whole, thirteen years later, Khunais and Hafsa were included in the family of Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. So this is a household that is deeply devoted to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, that is moving swiftly with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam as he escapes persecution in Mecca. And they come to Medina, they stay together in the house of Rifaa'ah ibn Abdul Mundhir, as well as a man by the name of Abdul Rahman ibn Jabr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And as they settle in Medina and the Battle of Badr starts to take place, Khunais is the
only person from his tribe, from Banu Sahm, who takes part in the Battle of Badr. And that's one of the praiseworthy traits that belongs to him. He's the only man from his entire tribe to belong to that lofty class of al-Badriyun, the people that went out and fought in the Battle of Badr after escaping persecution. Now Khunais radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, he dies either after the Battle of Badr or after the Battle of Uhud. The reason why this gets important is because his death and the marriage of Hafsah to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam parallels the marriage of Uthman ibn Affan radiyaAllahu anhu to his wife. So most likely he died after Badr, not Uhud. While most of the secondary sources will say that he died after Uhud, most likely it makes more sense that he died after the Battle of Badr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. So he attains that lofty status of being a veteran of the Battle of Badr as well as being a martyr. And he was buried next to Uthman ibn Mad'un radiyaAllahu anhu, the first migrant from Mecca, the first muhajir buried in the graveyard in Medina, the first grave of a Meccan. In Al-Baqir is Uthman ibn Mad'un radiyaAllahu anhu. Next to him is Khunais radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, the first husband of Hafsah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. They had no children. Hafsah is in this awkward place of being a widow in Medina now and wondering what her fate is going to be. And that's where you start to see Umar ibn al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu looking for a match for his daughter Hafsah. SubhanAllah, this story is profound because it shows you the way a community is functioning, it shows you the way a family is functioning, it shows you the way a father is functioning in this regard and trying to take care of his daughter in this society and in these difficult circumstances.
Uthman ibn Affan radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, his wife was Ruqayya, the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. And Uthman ibn Affan radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu missed the battle of Badr because he was taking care of his wife Ruqayya who was sick, the daughter of the Prophet ﷺ. And Ruqayya passed away on the same day that the victory of Badr came. So they said it was the day of great joy and the day of great sadness. So Umar ibn al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu, he tells the story from his perspective. It only made sense to him, my daughter for Uthman. Let me go to Uthman, who better than Uthman ibn Affan radiyaAllahu anhu, this person who was known for his generosity, for his shyness, for his goodness, for his character, one of the first Muslims and he just lost his wife on the same day of Badr and my daughter Hafsa lost her husband after Badr, who better than Uthman radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. So Umar ibn al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu says that when my daughter Hafsa lost her husband Khunais, who was one of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ and he fought in the battle of Badr and he died in Medina. He said I met Uthman ibn Affan radiyaAllahu anhu and I said to him, In shi'ta ankahtuka Hafsa, if you want, I would like to propose Hafsa in marriage to you. I want you to consider marrying my daughter. Now Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu says, Sa'andhuru fee amri, let me think about it and get back to you. So Umar ibn al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu said, I waited some time, then I saw Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu and I went to visit him and when he saw me coming to him, he entered into a salah. So he said, so that's odd, right? So Umar radiyaAllahu anhu was waiting for him and he said he clearly took his time in his prayer because he didn't want to talk to me. So Umar is deeply offended, right? He's like, what in the world is happening to my friends? Like I'm trying to offer you my daughter, like what's wrong with Hafsa? Why don't you want to marry my daughter Hafsa? and Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu was going into
a salah for a long time. He said, then I caught him sometime after that and I said to him, you didn't give me an answer. So he said, you know, qad bada li an laa tazawwuj yawmi hadha. He said, I thought about it and I just decided I'm not ready to get married yet. All right? So Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu basically told him no and that was deeply offensive to Umar ibn al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu. He wasn't expecting that. Then he said, I went to Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu. Now Abu Bakr is greater than Uthman in terms of character and in terms of rank, right? And we're talking about the three greatest people after the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and this is all playing out with those three people, right? And he goes to Abu Bakr and the reason why he didn't go to Abu Bakr first, many of the scholars say, is because the circumstances of Uthman just made perfect sense, right? Uthman just lost his wife. Hafsa just lost her husband. It makes sense. But he goes to Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu and he says to Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu the same thing. He said, listen, you know, if you'd like, I'd like to offer my daughter Hafsa to you in marriage. And he said, Abu Bakr just stared at me and stayed quiet. He didn't say anything. Abu Bakr didn't know what to say. Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu is an eloquent man. So he said, fa kuntu alayhi awjad. He said, I was more upset with Abu Bakr than I was Uthman. Like at least say something to me, just kind of stared at me in silence until I walked away. And I took from his silence that he wasn't interested. So he said, I was so upset. I'm mad at Abu Bakr. I'm mad at Uthman. Why doesn't anyone want to marry my daughter? So he said, I spent a few days. Then I went to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. Now he went to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam to complain about Abu Bakr and Uthman not wanting to marry Hafsa or the way they answered him. And the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, he says to me that Uthman will marry someone better than your daughter and your daughter will marry someone better than Uthman.
Of course, this was the good news to Uthman and the good news to Umar that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam himself would marry Hafsa radiyaAllahu anhu and Uthman radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu was going to marry the second daughter, Um Kulthum of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam was to offer his next daughter to Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would marry Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu himself. Umar radiyaAllahu anhu was full of joy. He actually said, Allahu Akbar. He's excited like this is the best news he's ever gotten. He's going to now be in a family relationship with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and that's the most beloved thing in the world to him. But he's still mad at Abu Bakr and Uthman. So he's like I'm happy with this but I'm still mad at them. So sometime after that Abu Bakr and Uthman come and they find Umar and they say are you upset with us and he said yes and they said look the only reason why we acted that way is because the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam mentioned Hafsa. We already were in on the secret. So we didn't want to give up his secret but at the same time we had to find a way to escape the awkward situation and Abu Bakr said, walaw tarakaha laqabiltuha. If the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam did not mention her of course it would have been an honor to be in this relationship with you. But through this the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would marry Hafsa radiAllahu ta'ala Anha and Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would marry Um Kulthum, the daughter of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. The marriage took place in Sha'ban, three years after Hijrah in some narrations. So Sha'ban would be their anniversary month, we're in Sha'ban right now. And so this is the month before Ramadan in which they got married and so now you have this relationship that's solidified with all four of the Khulafa ar-Rashideen, all four of the closest companions to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam.
He is married to the daughter of Abu Bakr and Umar, his two best friends and Uthman is married to his daughter salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, two of his daughters now because his first daughter passed away and Ali is married to Fatima, may Allah be pleased with them all. So this is the initial setup that you have within this society of Medina. And you can imagine a life which is very important, you know subhanAllah as you're trying to envision Medina at the time of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, where the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam has his two best friends, Abu Bakr and Umar, who he described as as sam'u wal basar, my sight and my hearing. And anywhere he goes you always see Abu Bakr and Umar and I, Abu Bakr and Umar did this and I, Abu Bakr and Umar saw this and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam is married to their daughters. So just as we talk about marriage as a function at that time, you know people used to solidify alliances, they used to solidify tribal loyalties at the time through these various marriages. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam is married to the daughters of his two best friends and so these two best friends now come to the house of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and they're entering into their own home. Right Abu Bakr enters the home of his daughter, Umar enters the home of his daughter, the fathers are best friends and Aisha and Hafsa become very close friends as well. Remember we mentioned the camps, Saudah, Aisha, Hafsa. Aisha and Hafsa became very very close friends, may Allah be pleased with them and of course sometimes that was funny because you have the story of the prank gone wrong. Aisha radiAllahu anha mentioning that Hafsa and I switched up the hawj, the ride on the way back from a journey and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam didn't know which one he was talking to and then it turned out that it didn't go in her favor because the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam ended up being with Hafsa radiAllahu anha as well as the
incident of Surat al-Tahrim which was the incident in which they both agreed to tell the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam that his breath smelled a certain way after he consumed the honey from Zainab bint Jahsh radiAllahu anha. So these two, Aisha and Hafsa, develop a very special relationship as their fathers, Abu Bakr and Umar, had a very special relationship and as did the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. Their relationship with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam improved and bring an even greater sense of closeness and joy now that they were all family in the society in Medina. So this is really solidifying the alliances with the four khulafa al-rashideen in that society. And there are several incidents where their story is really tied together. So for example, Urwa narrates from Aisha, she says, kuntu ana wa hafsa saimatayni, that Hafsa and I were one day fasting, that they were both undertaking a voluntary fast. Fa'arada lana ta'am, fa-shtahaynahu fa-aftarna. We were so hungry. Remember that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam lived in extreme poverty. So she's saying we were so hungry and there was some food that came to us while we were both starving. And so we both broke our fast and we started to eat. So it was a voluntary fast, they broke their fast and they started to eat. So basically now they're talking to each other about how they're going to bring this up to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam because remember now the legislation is unclear about what happens when you break your fast. They intentionally broke their fast, but it was a voluntary fast. So they don't know the hukum, they don't know the ruling in this regard. And they're both kind of nervous about what they're going to say to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. So Aisha radiAllahu anha is trying to cook up a way to break this to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. And she says that Hafsa radiAllahu anha had this guilty conscience, super guilty conscience. So as soon as the
Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam came, baadarat ilayhi Hafsa wakana ibnata abiyah. So as soon as the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam came, she rushed to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam to tell him what happened and she was the daughter of her father. What does she mean by she was the daughter of her father? Remember when the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam said about Aisha, innaha ibnata abi Bakr, that she's the daughter of Abu Bakr. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam was praising the eloquence of Aisha, that Abu Bakr was known radiAllahu anhu for his eloquence. Aisha radiAllahu anha had that eloquence just like her father had. When Aisha radiAllahu anha says about Hafsa, ibnata abiyah, she's just like her father, she truly is the daughter of her father, she's speaking to that guilty conscience. That when Umar radiAllahu anhu felt like he upset the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam or he did something wrong, it was the end of the world for him. I mean, Surat al-Hujurat comes down about them raising their voices and Umar who has this booming voice now he talks like so low that he's whispering and you can't even hear him, you have to ask him to repeat himself. He cries and he thinks he's destroyed anytime he upsets the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. So Hafsa radiAllahu anha was worried that we just committed a major sin. So while her and Aisha kind of have this whole plan about how they're going to break the news to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, Hafsa just immediately tells them what happened. And RasulAllahu radiAllahu alayhi wa sallam said that it's okay, you simply make up the date and don't worry about it, right, because breaking a mandatory fast is impermissible, but we take from this the fiqh, the understanding that if you voluntarily fast, if you break a voluntary fast, then there's no sin on you and of course a person can simply make it up at a later time, right. So this is the back story of that incident between the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and Hafsa and Aisha, may Allah be pleased with them. You also see that from the story of Hafsa radiAllahu anha, this idea of access
to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam through now, you know, Hafsa, both from her father as well as her brother Abdullah. So the two narrations, and some of the scholars say that it refers to the same incident, both of them a dream that Abdullah had and he asks his sister Hafsa, who's now the wife of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, to explain that dream. In one narration Abdullah says, and Hafsa's older sister, he says that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam after fajr used to say whoever has a dream that they want to share with us, share the dream. So people would come to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam share their good dreams that they had and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would give them the glad tidings of that. So he said I wanted to have a dream that I could share with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and he said I used to spend all of my time in the masjid in the time of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam So he was a righteous young man who was attached to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam attached to the mosque at the time of the Prophet ﷺ. And he said, but instead I saw this dream that two angels took hold of me and they took me to the fire and they held me outside the fire and he said, I saw people inside of that fire. I knew who they were. And I said, I seek refuge in Allah from the fire, I seek refuge in Allah from the fire. And then the angel said, do not worry, this is not your place and they took me away. So the good part of the dream was that I didn't end up in the fire. The scary part was that I was taken there in the first place. It wasn't a good dream altogether. So he was too shy to ask the Prophet ﷺ and when he was too shy to ask the Prophet ﷺ something directly, he went to his sister Hafsa ﷺ and Hafsa asked the Prophet ﷺ about this dream and the Prophet ﷺ said, نعم الرجل عبد الله What a good young man Abdullah is لو كان يصلي من الليل
If only he'd pray a little bit at night. If only he'd add a little bit of prayer to his night. So he's a good young man, he knows everything he says to Hafsa is going to get back to Abdullah. But if only, if only he would pray a little bit more at night. SubhanAllah. And Abdullah, you know, as is narrated from Salim, after that he used to sleep very little at night because of that dream that he had. In another dream or in the same incident but the first part of the dream, he said, I saw in a dream وفي يدي سرقة من حرير He said that I had in my dream a piece of silk, a silk garment. And he said, in any direction that I pointed it to in Jannah, I flew to that place in paradise. So it's a beautiful dream. I had this cloth and any direction that I pointed it to and I looked to this place in Jannah, the cloth would fly me to that place in Jannah. So he said, I asked my sister Hafsa what this means. And she said, I asked the Prophet ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ said, إِنَّ أَخَاكِ رَجُلٌ صَالِحٌ Your brother is a good young man, is a righteous young man. Your brother is a righteous young man. So Umar رضي الله عنه now has access through Hafsa رضي الله عنها Abdullah now has access through Hafsa رضي الله عنها But what about her? Hafsa's greatest effect and in her personality, she wasn't someone like Aisha رضي الله عنها She wasn't someone that was very public. She wasn't someone that used to, you know, engage society the way that our mother Aisha رضي الله عنها would. In her experience with the Prophet ﷺ, she adopts this incredible habit of Qiyamul Layl, praying at night. She adopts the habit of fasting constantly. And she adopts the Qur'an, the recitation of the Qur'an.
And she adopts his Zuhd ﷺ, his abstinence from this world. So Hafsa, what distinguishes Hafsa رضي الله عنها? If you were to meet her, what was she like? Just like her father, right? You know, extremely God conscious, had this extreme level of Taqwa, connection to Allah سبحانه وتعالى, where she is known as As-Sawwama al-Qawwama, the one who fasts and the one who prays. You meet this woman, what's she usually doing? She's fasting during the day, she's praying at night رضي الله عنها And she narrates much of the Zuhd, much of the abstinence, the asceticism of the Prophet ﷺ from this world. So she was asked, what was your mattress like? What was your mattress like in the house of the Prophet ﷺ, the most powerful man in the world? What did your bed look like? And she said that all we had was this one, you know, fabric of wool, like a blanket. It wasn't even a real mattress. And she said that we would fold it in two to sleep at night. And one night I thought to myself, let me fold it into four and let the Prophet ﷺ have a more comfortable sleep. Subhanallah, that's what's happening in the house of the most powerful man in the world. So let me take this blanket and make it four, you know, or fold it into an even smaller area so that the Prophet ﷺ can have a more comfortable sleep. And she said, so I did that and the Prophet ﷺ, he slept and then the Prophet ﷺ said, let's go back to the way it used to be because this chipped away at my performing qiyam. He felt ﷺ he was slower to get up for the night prayer, subhanallah, because the bed got a little bit more comfortable. So she narrates this from the Prophet ﷺ. She says, I used to see the Prophet ﷺ before Salatul Fajr, before he would go out for the Fajr prayer, that he would pray two raka'at ﷺ. He'd pray his units of prayer within the home and he wouldn't leave for Fajr until he prayed his sunnah of Fajr inside the home, ﷺ.
And she narrates something so powerful because all of her narrations actually have to do with the Prophet's ﷺ worship. She doesn't have nearly as many narrations as Aisha, by the way, only about 60 total. They're almost all about the ibadah, the worship of the Prophet ﷺ. She says that I never saw the Prophet ﷺ sitting in his night prayer until the last year of his life, ﷺ. But she said that he would recite ﷺ, he would recite it slowly, measured, and you could hear every letter that the Prophet ﷺ was reciting. And she said until when he started to pray sitting down, he made his surahs, his recitation, longer than it used to be. So it's as if the Prophet ﷺ has such ihsan, such excellence in his worship, that when the Prophet ﷺ was getting older, remember what Aisha said, why he started praying sitting down? Does anyone remember what she said? Anybody? She said, people broke him down. He got burnt out ﷺ due to his service of the people. So when he got older and he's praying at night, she said, he started to increase the recitation, like to make up for the change in posture ﷺ. And one narration, they asked her, what was his recitation like? And she's saying, you wouldn't be able to match it. And they asked her, oh, our mother, what was his recitation like? And so she recited, alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, ar-rahman ar-rahim, maliki yawm al-deen. The narrator said that she recited each ayah slowly and with a pause between each one to suggest the Prophet ﷺ never used to connect the ayahs at night. He would read an ayah and then he would take his time supplicating, crying, connecting to Allah ﷻ. So this is one of the narrations where she recited the ayahs, disconnected from behind a curtain to them, to impress upon them.
You can't match the recitation of the Prophet ﷺ. You don't know what his recitation was like. It was so beautiful. It was so profound. Hafsa, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, also became a hafidha of Qur'an. She herself became one of those who memorized the Qur'an along with Aisha, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. And this was not the common thing at the time for men or women to memorize the entire Qur'an, but she is someone who had memorized the entire Qur'an. She learned how to read and write. Of course, literacy was not common at the time. And the person that taught her how to read and write was a woman by the name of Ash-Shifa' bint Abdullah al-'Adawiyya, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. We also have an episode about her if you go back to season one, a short episode about her. Ash-Shifa' bint Abdullah was a woman who was skilled in reading and writing, literacy, calligraphy, and medicine, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. And she taught Hafsa, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, how to write and how to advance in her literacy. And there's one narration in Abu Dawud where the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, entered upon Hafsa and Ash-Shifa' bint Abdullah al-'Adawiyya was there. And the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, said, أَلَا تُعَلِّمِينَ هَذِهِ رُقْيَةَ النَّمْلَ كَمَا عَلَّمْتِيهَا الْكِتَابَةَ Will you not teach her the ruqya of the ant, the cure for ants, the way that you have taught her how to read and write? Now, there's an interesting interpretation here, and you'll see from Ibn Hajar and others in the explanation of this hadith, that there are two opinions as to what the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, meant when he said, رُقْيَةَ النَّمْلَ One of them, أَنَّ الْكَلَامَ عَلَى ظَاهِرِهِ A lot of the scholars said it means exactly what it sounds like it means, a cure or some sort of medicine for ant bites or to protect yourself from the ants. Why?
Because her name was Ash-Shifa, she was a healer, and she knew different types of medicines, and obviously if you live in the type of house the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, lived in, there were ant bites and all types of bites, right? So some of them said, الْكَلَامَ عَلَى ظَاهِرِهِ That it is what it apparently means. And some of them said, كَلِمَاتُ قَالِ الْعَرُوسِ لِتَعْرِيفِهَا بِوَاجِبَاتِ الزَّوْجَةِ She said that some of them said that this was, they called رُقَّة النَّمْلَةِ It was like the things that you would say to a bride, لِتَعْرِيفِهَا بِوَاجِبَاتِ الزَّوْجِيَّةِ So that she could know the duties of marriage. And what was included in that was to be dutiful to the husband, you know, and to honor the husband. So something like that they would whisper, they called it رُقَّة النَّمْلَةِ Because it was like the ants, right? Soft sound which you tell the bride about how to honor her husband. And they said the Prophet ﷺ was joking with her because the Prophet ﷺ was saying maybe if she knew رُقَّة النَّمْلَةِ she wouldn't have gotten herself in trouble. And so what's alluded to in Surah Tahrim when they plotted with the Prophet ﷺ to tell him that his breath smelled a certain way after he ate the honey from the house of Zaynab رضي الله تعالى عنها. So again, some of the scholars say this and some of them say that and both of them actually fit in this situation. And you find that some of her narrations are actually tafsir of Qur'an. So one of them, she said, I heard the Prophet ﷺ say, لا يدخل النار إن شاء الله من أصحاب الشجرة أحد that no one will enter the fire from the people who took the pledge under the tree. This is talking about حُدَيْبِيَّةُ بَيْعَةُ الرِّضْوَانِ The pledge that was taken under the tree that the Prophet ﷺ was saying, Inshallah, no one will enter into the fire, no one will be punished who took part in that.
And she said, يا رسول الله, O Messenger of Allah, but what about the آية وَإِن مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَا That every one of you will touch it. And the Prophet ﷺ said, didn't Allah ﷻ say after that ثُمَّ نُنَجِّ الَّذِينَ التَّقَوْا وَنَذَرُوا الظَّالِمِينَ فِيهَا جِثِيَةً That we will save and rescue those who were pious and we will leave the oppressors and the wrongdoers to their punishment. So a conversation taking part in the house of the Prophet ﷺ where Hafsah ﷺ is asking the Prophet ﷺ about the Qur'an to explain certain ayat. These are some of the verses that you have as well. Now the most prominent incident of Hafsah ﷺ is actually the incident of the divorce. Now I'm going to go through this incident because it's the longest narration in regards to Hafsah ﷺ and it has significant human elements in that you can, you know, you can feel the emotions that are coming through this hadith. And we alluded to this last week with Aisha ﷺ, with the Prophet ﷺ, you know, basically is giving his spouses a choice between the comfort of this world and the hereafter, right? And of course the mistake that Aisha and Hafsah made with the Prophet ﷺ. So listen to how this is narrated because it's beautiful. Abdullah ibn Abbas, he says, I waited a whole year to ask Umar ibn Khattab about this incident. Like I was plotting for this entire year to find an opening where I could ask Umar ibn Khattab, who Allah is talking about when he says, if you too repent to Allah, who the two women are that are being spoken about in Surah Tahreem.
The relationship of Ibn Abbas and Umar is a beautiful relationship. Ibn Abbas was a young man who basically sleeps at the doorsteps of the companions and tries to gather the incidents and the narrations and everything that he can, the history, the oral history of every companion with the Prophet ﷺ. And he had a special relationship with Umar ibn Khattab. So he said, I spent an entire year waiting for the right moment where I could ask Umar, who's this ayah talking about? So he said, we went to Hajj together. And during Hajj, Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum, he went out to relieve himself. And I went out with him and I was carrying a bucket of water so that he could relieve himself. He could use the restroom. I could do the same. We could do wudu together afterwards. So he said, we go out. So think about this conversation happening in Mina and Hajj, the Mina tents. There was no VIP back then. It was just the tents of Mina and it was kind of out there in the desert, right? So Abdullah ibn Abbas is saying, I spent a whole year waiting for my moment. Here's my moment to ask him about this verse. Because it's a little sensitive because I'm pretty sure the ayah is talking about his daughter, right? So I'm waiting for the right time to ask him about this ayah. Umar radiyaAllahu anhu goes and he relieves himself. He comes back. I've got a bucket of water. I start pouring the water on his hands and he starts doing wudu. And I said to myself, all right, now's the time. So I said, Ya Amir al-Mumineen, manil mar'atayni min azwaj al-nabi salAllahu alayhi wa sallam allatani qala lahuma inta tuba ilallah? O commander of the believers, who are the two women that Allah is talking about in this verse? Casual wudu conversation in Mina, right? It's just me and Umar radiyaAllahu anhu. So Umar radiyaAllahu anhu, immediately he says, I'm surprised you don't know. It's Aisha and Hafsa. And then you have this long narration, Umar radiyaAllahu anhu gives him the whole story, exactly what he wanted.
Right? Out when they're doing hajj together in Mina doing wudu and then Umar radiyaAllahu anhu, he goes on and he tells him the whole backstory of that ayah. So he says, I and this neighbor from the Ansar, from Bani Umayya ibn Zaid, we used to live in the awali in Medina. The awali, awali literally means the higher grounds. The awali, that's the area of Masjid Quba. You notice a lot of the palm trees and things of that sort. So Umar radiyaAllahu anhu said, I and this companion of mine from the Ansar, we used to live there. And we basically made an agreement that when one of us can't be with the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, the other one will die. Document everything that happens and come back and tell the other person what we missed. So talk about a relationship of talab al-ilm, a relationship of seeking knowledge. So if Umar can't be there with the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he waits for his neighbor to come home. And he says, tell me everything I missed today. So he'll tell him everything that he missed. So he said, continuing on, that we the people of Quraysh, this is really interesting. He says, we the people of Quraysh, we used to have authority over our women. But then once we came to live with the Ansar, he said that we noticed that the Ansari women had the upper hand over their men. He said, fatafiqa nisa'una ya'khuzna min adabi nisa'il ansar. So he said, our women from Mecca got messed up by the women in Medina from the Ansar. The women of Mecca started to act like the women of Medina, right? They had a stronger personality. And subhanAllah, you'll notice, like Ibn Athir and others will say, just the nature of how, you know, subhanAllah, there's a sociological element to this, right? The people of Mecca, you know, had a different lifestyle. The people of Medina were an agricultural people.
So the idea of women's involvement in society was different than the idea of women's idea, ahlu tijara in Mecca, right? So he's saying that we came to Medina and then it all got messed up, you know, because the women of Mecca started to see how the women of Medina were with their husbands. So he says, so one time I got into an argument with my wife. It's the human element, right? So he said that, fasihtu ala amraati, that I raised my voice at my wife, faraja'atni, and then she raised her voice at me. Faankartu antu raja'ani. So I was surprised that she responded to me that way. I was like, what's going on here? So she said to me, you know, why are you surprised? You know, why are you surprised? Wa lima tunkiru an uraji'aka fa wallahi inna azwajil nabiyyi sallallahu alaihi wasallam la yuraji'nahum. She said, why are you surprised? Because even the wives of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, sometimes they raise their voice at the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam too. So this is like you just shattered my world twice. First of all, you know, what's happening here? And subhanAllah, in one of these narrations, Umar radiyaAllahu anhu has the famous narration, kunna la na'uddu linisai shay'a. We used to not regard women with anything until Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed what He revealed about them and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allocated to them what He allocated about them. So the change in attitude. So Umar radiyaAllahu anhu was talking about his own change of attitude here. Right? He's saying, what do you mean the wives of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam raised their voice at the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam? And he says, khaabat man fa'ala minhunna biAAzeen. Umar radiyaAllahu anhu said, if someone raises their voice at the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, then they're in big trouble. Right? I mean, what kind of devastation do you have to be in if you raise your voice at the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam? Realize who Umar is. Umar radiyaAllahu anhu was so afraid to upset the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam, was so afraid to raise his voice in the presence of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam.
So to him, the hayba, the awe that he has of the Messenger salallahu alaihi wasallam, he can't fathom like, wait, what? This happens? This is a thing? So he said, I immediately got dressed and I went to Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. I went to my daughter. And I said to her, do any one of you really raise your voices at the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam? And you know, like you have marital arguments. And sometimes you don't talk until the nighttime. And she responded and she said, yes. And Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, he says, khabat wa khasirat. Afata'manu an yaghdaballahu? Lighadabi rasulihi salallahu alaihi wasallam? Fathahlikina? You know, what great loss you would be in, how devastated would you be, what a loser you would be if Allah gets mad at you. Aren't you afraid that Allah will get mad at you because of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam's anger with you? And then you would be destroyed if Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala became angry with you. So he's saying to her at that point, la tastakthiri ala rasulillah salallahu alaihi wasallam. Don't ask too much of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. Wala turaji'ihi fee shayt. And don't respond to him in any way. Wala tahjurihi. And do not abandon him. Don't desert him salallahu alaihi wasallam. Like never leave his side salallahu alaihi wasallam. Was'alini ma bada laki. If you have anything you want to ask him or you want to solve something, just come to me. I'll handle it for you. Don't do this to yourself. And she says, and don't think you're like, he says to her, don't think you're like Aisha. You know? And in one narration he says, and your father is not like the father of Aisha. Like don't put yourself on the same level of Aisha with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. You're not like Aisha and your father is not like her father to the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam. He's being a protective father. He's trying to calm the situation down.
And he's trying to give her, you know, advice to not mess this up, to not make this situation bad. So Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala said, so I went home. Then remember the neighbor, right? The neighbor from the Ansar. Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala said, there were rumors circulating in Medina that the Ghassanis were preparing an attack on us. If you remember the Battle of Mu'tah, the Battle of Mu'tah happened because of this Ghassani chief who killed the messenger of the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam in a brutal way. And the idea was they're waging war on the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam and the Muslims. And they were a huge army. So this is actually the pretext to the Battle of Mu'tah where Zayd radiyaAllahu ta'ala and Ja'far radiyaAllahu ta'ala and Abdullah ibn Rawaha were martyred. May Allah be pleased with them. So Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala was saying, this is sort of the atmosphere in Medina right now that the rumors are starting to swirl that the Ghassanis are going to attack us. And suddenly my companion, my neighbor from the Ansar, that guy, he comes back in the middle of the night and he's knocking on my door violently. He's banging on my door. So I thought to myself, maybe they're invading. So he said, I got up. I went to the door. I said, what happened? Are they here? Did the Ghassanis come? And he said, no, even worse than that, I said, what happened? And this is how the rumor mill starts. He said, Talaka Rasool Allahi salallahu alayhi wasalam nisaa. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam divorced all of his wives. Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala was like, oh no. Not one of them, not Hafsa. All of them are done. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam divorced all of them. So Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, he said, I said to myself, Khabat Hafsa wa khasirat. Hafsa is in great loss. She's in trouble. I told her not to do this. I knew this was going to happen. So he said, I got dressed. I went and I prayed Fajr with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam.
Then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he entered into this room where he was all by himself and I went to Hafsa and she was crying. I said, why are you crying? And you know, I said to her, did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam divorce you? And she said, I don't know. And Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, he said, where is he? So she pointed to the room that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is. And so he said, I went out and I, you know, I went to the room where the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was staying and Bilal radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu was standing in front of the room. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was having his alone time. So I said to Bilal, can I have permission to enter in to see the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam? And Bilal radiyaAllahu anhu asked the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam didn't say anything. So he told Umar, he said, listen, I mentioned you and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam didn't say anything. So after some time, he said, I couldn't, you know, I sat in the masjid and I couldn't bear the situation for myself. So I went back to Bilal again and I said, can you please ask permission for me to enter upon the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam? So he went in and he came back with the same message. And then as I was walking away, nervous, Bilal radiyaAllahu anhu called me back and he said, Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wasalam has given you permission to enter. So he said, you'll start to see, subhanAllah, some of these narrations that you've heard in isolation of one another. He said, I entered in and I saw the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam laying down on these branches. His bed was just a bed of these branches, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and this pillow that had a little bit of leather in it. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam rose up and because of how poor the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was, or the poverty that he was living in, salallahu alayhi wasalam, the marks on his back, salallahu alayhi wasalam. So he's noticing, like he came there for one thing, but then he's devastated because he's seeing the poverty that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is in. So he said, you know, I said salamu alaykum to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and
the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said, wa alaykum salam, and he said, I'm standing up and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is sitting down. I said, ya Rasulullah, did you divorce your wives? And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he said, no. So he said, I said, Allahu Akbar, kabbara, radhiallahu ta'ala anhu. Alright, so I dodged the bullet. So still not a good situation, right, because clearly I still want to find out what's happening. So Umar radhiallahu ta'ala anhu, he said that, I then said, and he said I was trying to strike up conversation with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, I said, kunna ma'shara Quraysh, naghlibu nisaa, falamma qadimna ala qawmin taghribuhum nisaa'uhum, that we in Quraysh, we used to be people, we used to be men, we used to have authority over our women. Then we came into contact with these people in Medina, and we found that their women have authority over them, and Umar radhiallahu ta'ala anhu starts telling the story to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, so he says, fatabassamu alnabis salallahu alayhi wasalam, like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam just smiled at me. Like, phew, alright. Like he knows what Umar is trying to do. Umar radhiallahu anhu is trying to prepare the ground for this conversation. So Umar radhiallahu anhu said, I saw the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam smile, so then I said, so I went to Hafsa, so he starts talking about his conversation with Hafsa, and I told her, don't think you're like Aisha, don't think you're like her in terms of beauty or in terms of rank with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, don't compare yourself, and you better listen to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and don't respond to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and he said, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam smiled again. Right, like Umar is a nervous father trying to figure out how to, you know, make sure that nothing bad happens, that there is no dissolution of this marriage. So he says, fajalastu heena raaytuhu tabassama salallahu alayhi wasalam. So then after the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, you know, responded with a smile, second smile, you know, I felt like I kind of broke the ice.
So he said, I went and I sat with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. I sat down and talked to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and he said, then I looked around the room, I said, subhanallah, there's nothing here. Like this man is the most powerful man in the world, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and he owns nothing. He said, I just saw three skins that were worth anything, like from a worldly perspective. And I'm looking around, and as I'm staring at this situation, I said, ya Rasulullah, ask Allah to make your followers prosperous, like the Persians and the Romans have been made prosperous. You know, and he actually says that I said to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, you know, in particular, like Allah has given them so much of this world, and they don't worship Allah. See that's the statement here you need to pay attention to. So he said, I said to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, make dua to Allah and Allah will expand for this ummah, he'll provide for this ummah. Because the Persians and the Romans have so much sustenance, and they don't worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And he said, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, you know he was reclining this entire time, but when I said that, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, he sat up and he said, he said, are you in doubt, O Umar, are you in doubt, O child of Al-Khattab, they are a people who Allah has hastened their goodness through perishable worldly goods, and our reward is in the hereafter.
So aren't you pleased, O Umar, they have this material world, we have the hereafter we're seeking. Subhanallah how this conversation changed, like this conversation was supposed to be, please don't divorce my daughter. Then this conversation became, like you live in such poverty but you have so much opportunity, you could take advantage of that power, you could take advantage of that prestige, why are you living this way, Ya Rasulullah, and why are you depriving yourself of this world, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam affirming him once again, that we don't seek this dunya, we seek the hereafter. So he said, O Messenger of Allah, please seek forgiveness for me, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam sought forgiveness for me, and Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anha takes over the story. She said that I was crying because I was wondering what my situation was going to be. So then she said the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came to me, and so I put on my clothes, and she was crying with some of her maternal relatives from Banu Mad'un, and she said that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam came to me, and he said, Atani Jibreel salallahu alayhi wasalam, Jibreel salallahu alayhi wasalam came to me, and he said, Raja Hafsa fa innaha sawwama qawwama wa innaha zawjatuka fil jannah. Take back Hafsa because she is a woman who fasts, and a woman who prays, and she is your wife in paradise. SubhanAllah, this is so profound because the scholars mention Allah revealed the innocence of Aisha radiyaAllahu anha through the Quran, and removed her from those claims. With Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anha, the intercession on her behalf was not just a random intercession, it wasn't that she's the daughter of Umar bin Al-Khattab. It wasn't that, it was innaha sawwama qawwama, this is a woman that fasts a lot, and this
is a woman that prays a lot, meaning she's celebrated in the heavens. Hafsa's name is plentiful, radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anha, in the heavens due to her excess of qiyam, her excess of the night prayer, and her excess of fasting those extra days, and she is your wife in paradise. And so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam took her back. SubhanAllah, there's so much to unpack here in this regard, but if you go back to what she narrated back to her brother who had that dream, that your brother is a good man, if only he'd pray a little bit more at night, and how she being the transmitter of so many of those advices was applying that in her own right, radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anha, and so the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam took her back, radiyaAllahu anha, as he did the entirety of his family, salallahu alayhi wasalam. What we also find is that Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anha of course went to Hajj with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and she narrates some of the ibadah of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam in Hajj. She is the one who narrates that she saw the people remove the ihram from themselves, meaning they fulfilled their ihram, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam did not do tahallul, he did not remove his ihram at that point, and she said, I asked the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, what is wrong with the people that they have come out of their ihram and you are still in your ihram, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that I brought my hadi, I brought my sacrifice with me, had I not brought it with me then I would have done tahallul as well, but instead the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam combined, so this is the difference between Hajj qiran and Hajj tamattu, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam combined his ihram, so he remained in ihram salallahu alayhi wasalam until he had the one sacrifice to the end that sufficed for both, whereas the people who came and did umrah and then did Hajj later on were able to separate between those two.
So she narrated some of the Hajj of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, she also narrates that when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was passing away, and of course you know subhanallah it is really interesting because you can see that when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam was dying everyone wants a piece of that moment, everyone wants to have their connection, their everlasting connection to that, and no one has a greater fadl, a greater virtue than Aisha radhiyallahu anha with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam dying in her lap, but she says that it was my tub, that she had a brass tub, I mean these are the simple possessions of these people, that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would bathe in and that they would pour water on him because of the extensive nature, the intensity of his fever salallahu alayhi wasalam, and so she kept that tub that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, a brass tub that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam took his last few baths in alayhi salatu wasalam before he passed away, and of course she had the narrations, the memories of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam kissing her on a day of fasting and some of those shared moments with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam. Now if you remember she is like her father, how devastated Umar radhiyallahu anhu was by the death of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, Hafsa radhiyallahu anhu was devastated by the death of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and she basically resigned herself to a very quiet life after the death of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and again there is a human element here, some of those closest to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam became teachers on a frequent basis giving public lectures, narrating multiple ahadith, Hafsa radiyallahu anhu and some of them really kind of resigned themselves at that point, they stayed in that place and they waited for that moment where they could long for the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam once again and be with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, there is a very touching incident between her and Umar, and subhanallah her and her father were extremely close, and one of those incidents where she saw her father, subhanallah
look how the times move on, she saw her father who is the Khalifa at this point, who is now the leader, and Umar radiyallahu anhu is walking around, he has got stitches in his garment, right, Umar radiyallahu anhu just had so much poverty that was visible on him, and she said to him, you know, oh my father why don't you dress with something that is nicer, that is easier for you, and you know what, she said Umar my father said to me, don't you remember how your husband used to dress, salallahu alayhi wasalam, remember the state, the difficult life the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam had, and they both started to cry and they embraced each other crying remembering the poverty of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, subhanallah you will find this consistently, Aisha radiyallahu anhu crying when a good meal was in front of her because she remembers that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam didn't have those good meals, and now Hafsa radiyallahu anhu and Umar radiyallahu anhu crying because they remember the clothes the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam used to have and the difficulty that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam lived in, and she is the one who narrates the famous hadith, she said I used to hear my father making this dua, and they are different narrations, Allahumma. And there are different narrations that oh Allah I ask you for martyrdom in your path in the city of your Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, so I said to my father, how is that even possible to my father, because martyrdom was in the battlefield, Madina was not a place where battles would take place, Madina is a safe space, so you are thinking about shahada, you are thinking about Syria, you are thinking about Egypt, you are thinking about different parts of the world, and Umar radiyallahu anhu responded to her and said, Allah will make it happen if he wants, I am just going to make a dua sincere and I will let it happen, as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sees fit, so Umar radiyallahu anhu would ask for two things
that seemed impossible, to die a martyr in the city of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and when Umar radiyallahu anhu was stabbed, leading the prayer in the masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and as he was laying and his wounds were open, Hafsa radiyallahu ta'ala anhu was weeping so loudly that the companions were trying to calm her down. So it shows you the relationship she had with her father as well, it was a deep tight relationship and obviously the death of Umar radiyallahu anhu was devastating, the stabs, and he was such a big man so he survived radiyallahu anhu longer than most people would with those multiple stab wounds, but she saw her father in that state and she wept loudly radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, and Umar radiyallahu ta'ala anhu even in those moments he said, mahlan ya bunayyatu, calm down oh my daughter, alam ta'lami anna rasulallah salallahu alayhi wasalam, qal inna almayyita yu'adhabu bi buka'i ahlihi alayhi. Don't you remember the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam said that the dead is punished by the wailing of the family after him? So don't be too loud, crying is one thing but remember not to scream and yell and shout when you see someone that is passing away. So Umar radiyallahu anhu subhanallah in this last moment with his daughter, reminding her of a sunnah, like let's remember what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam taught us, even as the blood is flowing from him radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, that don't cry in that way because we know that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam taught us differently and so she lost her father radiyallahu ta'ala anhu as well. Now what happens after that, what is her life after that? Hafsa radiyallahu anha has the unique privilege of her home being the home in which the mushaf was kept, in which the Quran was kept. So the compilation of the Quran was kept in her house radiyallahu ta'ala anhu.
And when Uthman radiyallahu anhu would make copies of the Quran, he borrowed the copy from the house of Hafsa, made those copies and then returned it back to her. So in her house resided that initial copy and compilation of the Quran radiyallahu ta'ala anhu and just like her father, she was a caretaker of the orphans, so she used to be amongst those that would keep orphans in her house all the time and subhanAllah this is a beautiful tradition of the family of Umar. Abdullah ibn Umar would not have a meal without an orphan. He refused to eat food without having a yatim, without having an orphan with him. And Hafsa radiyallahu ta'ala anhu's house became a place where she would take care of the orphans and she had in her home the daughter of Zayd ibn al-Khattab radiyallahu ta'ala anhu and she was taking care of her. And she lives her life in ibadah, the rest of her life in worship with the Quran, fasting and praying at night. And Nafi radiyallahu ta'ala anhu says, مَا مَاتَتْ حَفْصَةُ حَتَّى مَا تُفْتِرْ Hafsa, by the time she died it was like she was fasting every single day of her life. Can you imagine subhanAllah that's how prominent her fasting was radiyallahu anhu. The same thing that she was praised by Jibreel alayhis salam for, she maintained for the rest of her life. When it came to politics, when it came to the fitna, the trials and tribulations, she avoided all of it. And in fact due to her relationship with Aisha radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, when Aisha radiyallahu anhu went out to protest the assassination of Uthman radiyallahu anhu and demand that the murderers be brought to justice, which was the lead up to the battle of al-Jamal, she went to Hafsa. And Hafsa radiyallahu anhu declined and that was at the advice of Abdullah ibn Umar radiyallahu anhu that to stay out of this. And she used to say alhamdulillah I didn't dip my hands in that at all, like I stayed out of all of it. So she avoided all of the fitna, she avoided the battle of al-Jamal which took place in
Iraq, she avoided all of these situations and she stayed in that house of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam fasting and praying and worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala until her last days. She would pass away radiyallahu ta'ala anhu 45 years after hijrah and Aisha radiyallahu anhu grieved her death. Abu Huraira radiyallahu anhu was amongst those that carried her body and her brother Abdullah ibn Umar radiyallahu anhu entered the grave and placed her body inside the grave, our mother Hafsa radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. Now before you leave what I'd like to sort of put up to kind of have a visual to this, Hafsa lived in this house and then the orphan girl she was taking care of stayed in the house after her and then once the orphan girl passed away, Abdullah ibn Umar radiyallahu anhu occupied that home, that dwelling. And when you now go to Al Medina and on the men's side, so there are two sides of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's grave, on the men's side when you stand and give salam to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and Abu Bakr and Umar, you're actually standing in the house of Hafsa. So I actually wanted to put a visual up if you could put the first image up. So this is the house of Aisha radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. This is a visual of what the house of Aisha radiyallahu anhu was. As we said, subhanAllah, Aisha radiyallahu anhu had the three moons buried inside her home and each one of the companions, Abu Bakr to the shoulder of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, Umar to the shoulder of Abu Bakr and subhanAllah, imagine that being your living room. That was the living room of Aisha radiyallahu anhu where she resided behind the curtain and she said she was too shy after Umar radiyallahu anhu was buried in her home to walk into that room without her hijab. This is the house of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, the house of Aisha.
The house of Hafsa was literally across the street, if you will, or it was facing directly adjacent, meaning if you just pull up a modern day visual, you put up the second picture if you have it. When you go to Medina and you're standing, this is the view of Hafsa radiyallahu anhu into that house. So subhanAllah, just to give you a sense of the history that you're standing in when you go there, that as you go through and you say, assalamu alayka ya Rasulallah, wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, assalamu alayka ya Abu Bakr, assalamu alayka ya Umar, you're walking through that house and you're looking at the house of our mother Aisha radiyallahu anhu, from the house of our mother Hafsa radiyallahu ta'ala anhu and that is where the Quran was compiled. May Allah have mercy and be pleased with our mothers, all of them, and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala join us with them and with the beloved family of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam and his companions and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam and al-Firdaws al-A'la. Allahumma ameen. InshaAllah ta'ala next week we will do Zainab bin Jahsh radiyallahu ta'ala anha and we will conclude before Ramadan. So biidinAllahi ta'ala I will see you all next week. Wa salallahu wa sallam wa baraka wa nabiyyina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma'in. Wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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