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The nephew of Khadijah (ra) and a core figure in the decade prior to the Prophet ﷺ receiving revelation. He held out on Islam because of his worldly focus, yet eventually embraced Islam and a new focus on the hereafter.
The Firsts is a weekly video series that chronicles the lives of the Sahaba (the companions of the Prophet ﷺ) during and after the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. A'udhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim.
Welcome you all back to The Firsts. Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. We continue. We are on episode 130. So we're moving. Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen. The person that we're speaking about tonight,
I wish every single Muslim who Allah SWT has blessed with means will watch this bi'idhnillahi ta'ala and will heed the lessons. What do I mean by that?
You hear of Uthman ibn Affan (رضي الله تعالى عنه). What else do you hear about when you think wealthy companion? Who's the other companion you immediately think of? Abd al-Rahman ibn Auf (رضي الله تعالى عنه).
Hakeem ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه) is right up there in terms of someone who greatly shifts with his story the perspective that we are to have of this world
and a very special person (رضي الله تعالى عنه). Do we have any Hakeem's here by the way? No Hakeem's in the house? Okay. Hakeem is a very common name amongst the Muslims
and this is of course the man who at least when you look through Islamic history most of those who are named Hakeem if they were tracing back to a companion they are certainly thinking about Hakeem ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه)
as Imam al-Dhahabi rahimahullah says علامة بالنسب فقيها النفس كبير الشأن He's a person subhanAllah who comes from a particular place of lineage that we're going to talk about.
A person who is a scholar of the soul who when you see that turn that he has in Islam becomes an absolute gem of a human being and someone who clearly doesn't just gain perspective of the outer world
but gains great perspective of the inner self in a very special way. كبير الشأن A person who occupies a high standing with Allah and with the people. If he was to walk into the room
you would immediately know that he was a man of great standing. If you knew him before Islam you would see him and you would admire this man (رضي الله تعالى عنه) Hakeem ibn Hizam al-Asadi (رضي الله تعالى عنه)
So who is this person? Let's start with the lineage part. Hakeem ibn Hizam ibn Khuwaylid Right away you should understand when you hear Khuwaylid that he's a relative of the great Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها)
our mother Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) So just so you know right away he is the paternal nephew of Khadija.
So Khadija is his amtu, is his paternal aunt. So typically he gets introduced to us in the books of Sira
through the biography of Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) bint Khuwaylid. Now let's talk about what that means and sort of give you a little bit of a perspective of the family background in this regard.
You've obviously, it's been a long time since we covered the life of Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) So just a refresher on her father who is the grandfather of Hakeem Khuwaylid ibn Asad Khuwaylid was the chief of Banu Asad
and if you were to think about Abdul Muttalib in Mecca and his place in Mecca Khuwaylid is the closest that will come to that in terms of nearness to him. So I want you to think of Abdul Muttalib and we know his position in Mecca
and Khuwaylid as people that are extremely close to each other they hold similar honorable places in Mecca in terms of lineage Khuwaylid more so in terms of wealth as well
but they are honorable senior men in Mecca when you were to come into Mecca. They once, or Khuwaylid is amongst those who once defended the Kaaba against its desecration.
So he's considered one of the custodians of Mecca at the time in that regard. When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala spared the Kaaba from the attempted destruction from Abraha coming from Yemen
Abdul Muttalib and Khuwaylid went together to Yemen to congratulate Saif bin Ziyazan who's the ruler that succeeded Abraha. So you kind of, I just want you to get the picture
noble man along with Abdul Muttalib they traveled together to Yemen as they both were considered protectors of the Kaaba they congratulated the ruler after Abraha their children married each other.
So Khuwaylid's son Awam marries Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib Safiyyah (رضي الله عنها), the aunt of the Prophet (ﷺ) the daughter of Abdul Muttalib marries Awam
the son of Khuwaylid and you can think about again who's the son of Al Awam is Az-Zubair, Az-Zubair bin Awam (رضي الله تعالى عنه) So this kind of gives you a little bit of their picture in Mecca at the time
Khuwaylid passes away in the battle of Fijar some of the battles of the days of ignorance well before Islam and before he gets to see what comes out of our mother Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها)
in her marriage to the Prophet (ﷺ) and the birth of the beautiful children that would come from Rasulullah (ﷺ) and our mother Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) of course you go through all of the children
up until Fatima Az-Zahra (رضي الله تعالى عنها) so that gives you that side of the family in terms of where Hakeem is going to come from now just quickly for those that are taking notes the children of Khuwaylid
if you were to think of a chart and I apologize I didn't get to make you one I was going to try to make a chart I didn't get to make one on time you have Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) Awam, the father of Az-Zubair (رضي الله عنه)
Hala bint Khuwaylid you know in the Prophet's life some used to hear the sister of Khadija and he would immediately rush to her voice (رضي الله عنها) because she resembled Khadija (رضي الله عنها) so much Allahumma Hala, Allahumma Hala, O Allah Ta'ala
this is Hala bint Khuwaylid and then you have two more sons Nufal who is considered Shaitanul Quraysh this was a man who staunchly opposed the Prophet (ﷺ)
Nufal bint Khuwaylid and Nufal had one son that became Muslim we don't know anything about him except that he became Muslim and he migrated to Abyssinia Al-Aswad bint Nufal (رضي الله تعالى عنه)
and then finally you have the youngest brother Hizam so Hizam passes away before Islam and his one son that we are going to learn about today is Hakim ibn Hizam
now it's very interesting because last week we gave you a picture of the birth of the Prophet (ﷺ) the neglect of the orphan Rasulullah (ﷺ) the best of Allah's creation
the orphan who adopted the world the image of Amina giving birth to him as a young teenager and the father has already died the image of Amina holding out the Prophet (ﷺ)
and no one taking him in except for Halima As-Sa'diyah the image of the Prophet (ﷺ) then going to Abu Talib Abdul Muttalib, Abu Talib being passed around
as a baby who is transitioning from house to house because of the crime of being an orphan who had no money to offer Alayhi (ﷺ) that's the birth of the Prophet (ﷺ)
you compare this to the birth today an extraordinary birth so Hakeem ibn Hizam was born about 13 years before the Prophet (ﷺ) about 13 years before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
and he has an incredible birth story which clearly destined him for greatness now you'll often hear the story of Ali (رضي الله تعالى عنه) being born in the Kaaba Hakeem ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه)
has a story, an authentic story of his birth in the Kaaba and there's a context to that which you can kind of parallel to the life of the Messenger (ﷺ) as a baby
remember that Quraish raised the door of the Kaaba so that only the elites could access it and when you see the images today of only the heads of state and you know very special people being granted access
that's exactly what the Prophet (ﷺ) didn't want to happen right, Rasulullah (ﷺ) mentioned that if he could reconstruct the Kaaba but it would be a fitna for the people it would be a test for them he would bring the door back down
because people used to enter the Kaaba and exit but Quraish elevated the door so that only the elites could access it so you have to be of a special caliber which totally defeats the purpose right, a special caliber to enter into the Kaaba
so as far as Hakeem, his mother Umm Hakeem دخلت في نسوة الكعبة she entered with a group of women into the Kaaba فضربها المخاض and as she entered into the Kaaba
she went into labor and she fell down and she was too into her labor at that point to come out of the Kaaba so they basically coached her in her pregnancy
in her delivery in the Kaaba and Hakeem ibn Hizam was born inside the Kaaba so he's destined for something clearly (رضي الله تعالى عنه) imagine that right you know, you think about like a woman
who gives birth on like a flight or in a restaurant and gets a free gift card for the rest of her life what do you think about this right a guy who is born, a boy who is born as his mother just happens right القدر of Allah, happens to be entering into the Kaaba and this is a sign of his
شأن, of the honor that Allah سبحانه و تعالى will bestow upon him one day, certainly so he's born 13 years before the Prophet (ﷺ) he comes from a lot of money Khadija (رضي الله عنها)'s wealth
was largely inherited from her father Khuwaylid so the whole family is extremely wealthy extremely prestigious and very well loved they're not a family
that have any negative akhlaaq negative traits associated with them they're not people that get involved in hurting others they're a loved family and Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) represents the best of that akhlaaq
the best culmination, the best woman (رضي الله تعالى عنها) of all of those qualities but Hakeem comes from that he comes from that family very wealthy 13 years senior to the Prophet (ﷺ)
the nephew of Khadija and of course in those societies as we've already established the nephew is like the son the عمو, the عمتو, the خالة these are basically your parents at the time
so Khadija is a motherly figure to Hakeem and he takes to a special love to the Prophet (ﷺ) so he basically becomes like an older brother to the Prophet (ﷺ)
and the Prophet (ﷺ) is in the family he's someone who is a good friend of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) it's implied that he attends the wedding of the Prophet (ﷺ) and the momentous occasions of the Prophet (ﷺ)
Hakeem is there, so he's there for the wedding he's there for the bestowal of حب رسول الله (ﷺ) the beloved one of the Prophet (ﷺ) Zayd ibn Haritha (رضي الله عنه)
in fact, remember the story of Zayd ibn Haritha we actually learn it from a narration from Hakeem ibn Hizam Zayd ibn Haritha was kidnapped as a child
and sold into slavery right, that's the whole story of Zayd he was kidnapped, sold into slavery and they had the slave market at the time سوق العقاف
right, so Zayd is in the slave market and he enters into the life of the Prophet (ﷺ) through Hakeem ibn Hizam Hakeem ibn Hizam says about himself
قال كنت تاجراً أخرج إلى اليمن وآت الشام he said I was a merchant I used to always go out to Yemen and I'd go out to Al-Sham, greater Syria and he said فكنت أربح أرباحاً كثيرة
and I used to make a lot of money I was really good at what I did I was a good merchant and he said فأعود على فقراء قومي and I'd come back and I'd spend that on the poor people of my tribe
by the way, Khadijah (رضي الله عنها) was most famous for spending on the poor she literally had a tent or like a marker in front of her home that indicated come over here if you need to be taken care of
Hakeem has that same spirit of caring for the poor spending on the poor not to the level of our mother Khadijah (رضي الله عنها) but it's the same type of attitude spend on the poor so he said
وابتعت بسوق عكاذ زيد بن حارفة لعمتي he said I found Zayd ibn Harifa (رضي الله عنه) in Suq al-Aqad
and I gifted him to my aunt Khadijah (رضي الله عنها) she marries the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ) immediately develops a beautiful relationship
with Zayd ibn Harifa (رضي الله عنه) Khadijah (رضي الله عنها) says do you love Zayd O Muhammad (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ) said I do so Khadijah said فهو لك
he's yours the Prophet (ﷺ) frees Zayd and makes him his adopted son instead so Hakim is the beginning of the transition of Zayd ibn Harifa into the life of the Prophet (ﷺ)
so he's there for the wedding he's a part of the means by which Zayd ibn Harifa حب رسول الله (ﷺ) the loved one of the Prophet (ﷺ) comes into the life of the messenger (ﷺ)
he also lives up to his name Hikmah wise he's Hakim he's a wise man and what's narrated about him is لم يدخل دار الندوة للرأي أحد حتى بلغ أربعين سنة
in the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) دار الندوة which was the house where all of the decisions would be made so the wise man would gather no one would be allowed to enter into دار الندوة to give an opinion unless they were 40 years old
except for him إلا حكيم حزام فإنه دخل الرأي وهو ابن خمس عشر he was allowed into there and he was asked for his opinion when he was only 15 years old so that was the wisdom that he had that was the brain that he had
he was wealthy he had good character everything is paving the way for him to embrace Islam but you know what there is arrogance there is ego
and then there is indifference there's a person that is so bogged down by their worldly life by their career they don't even think about religion this whole deen stuff this whole religion stuff I don't got time for that I'm going to Yemen
I'm going to Syria I'm going to this place I'm going to that place I'm in the market place I don't really feel strongly one way or the other because I'm busy that's a diagnosis of حكيم حزام he's not an enemy of the Prophet (ﷺ)
but he's also not interested in being a Muslim he's barely in Mecca anyway he's always out and about right so he's making the two journeys and you have to think that back then you know you don't take flights to Yemen and to Syria
we talked about how devastating that journey was in terms of the family of the Messenger (ﷺ) so if you're going to Yemen and to Asham on an annual basis if you're just making those two trade routes you're someone who's always on the road
right your natural disposition is you're always on the road you are always trading he is not someone (رضي الله تعالى عنه) who is involved in religion not in the affairs of the Prophet (ﷺ) or in the affairs of Mecca
however we do find sympathy he has sympathy and he still loves his aunt Khadija (رضي الله عنها) she's like his mom so when the boycott happens
on Banu Hashim and Banu Mutalib which would ultimately claim the life of Abu Talib and Khadija right the family of the Prophet (ﷺ) placed under such severe restriction
Hakeem had an interest in trying to take care of his aunt and trying to take care of the people by extension right so he's entering into this from the perspective of being family not from the perspective of being a Muslim I don't care about the idols
I don't care about Islam just you know this is wrong and I want to help in some way that I possibly can and realize subhanAllah the nobility of our mother Khadija (رضي الله تعالى عنها) Khadija did not have to be in the boycott
which is one of the most poetic tragic beautiful ironies of it all Khadija (رضي الله عنها) could have stayed back with her people but she wanted to be with her husband (ﷺ) and as a result of that suffering she would die
right so Hakeem ibn Hizam who's her nephew Hakeem would secretly bring food to her and you know what Khadija (رضي الله عنها) would do she'd distribute it to everyone else
so Hakeem ibn Hizam wants to take care of his aunt Khadija (رضي الله عنها) our mother wants to take care of the Ummah so she'd distribute the food amongst her people and Hakeem ibn Hizam actually had an interesting practice
you know what he would do is he would go to the valley outside of Sha'ba B'Talib outside of the place where they were boycotted and he would take grain and he would take food and goods
and he would load them onto some camels and some animals and then he would strike them in the direction of Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib right so he was trying to send goods in at night he was secretly trying to help
he was someone who generally had a good disposition good heart wants to help wants to support not hostile to Islam but you know what not really interested in becoming a Muslim so he's someone who is
still you know meant for Islam and it shows very early on now did he fight against the Prophet (ﷺ)? kind of how? remember the Prophet (ﷺ) said about the Battle of Badr
that there is some people that were brought out in the Battle of Badr against us ... look they don't want to fight us their people just brought them out they were forced out amongst them was
Amn al-Nabi (ﷺ), the uncle of the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abbas ... Al-Abbas didn't want to fight the Prophet (ﷺ), he came to the battle and he just put his hands down until he got caught basically. I'm not trying to kill the Prophet (ﷺ)
but their people brought them out and they drove them out against the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). Hakeem, there is not a single narration of him you know carrying a sword or fighting or killing but he was present
and in fact ... when he used to take an oath after Islam he would say ... he said by Allah who saved me from
fighting or being killed on the day of Badr. Why? Because if he would have died on the day of Badr he would have died a disbeliever, he would have died an enemy to the Prophet (ﷺ). So after he became Muslim
that was his oath. Alhamdulillah who saved me from being present on the day of Badr or being active on the day of Badr and potentially killed on the day of Badr. So that's his disposition
there's some indications he may have been present in Uhud. Again no real explicit nature except for something from his son later on we'll talk about, who saw him crying one day as a Muslim later on in life and regretting that you know how could I be
there in Badr and Uhud against the Prophet (ﷺ) and swearing that he would never fight the Prophet (ﷺ) again. Right? That's all we kind of get in terms of a hint. So you've got the profile in mind. Right? Here's something that makes him
also interesting. He visited Medina to come visit the Prophet (ﷺ), still not as a Muslim, to give him a gift. Interesting, subhanAllah. So in Muslim Imam Ahmed, he says
كان محمد (ﷺ) أحب الناس إليّ في الجاهلية He said look, Muhammad (ﷺ) was the most beloved person to me or of the most beloved of people to me in the days of ignorance.
So he said فلما نبئ وهاجر, when he received prophethood and he migrated, he said I bought this really special حُلَّة, it's a suit from Yemen. It was like a reddish suit
from Yemen that belonged to the Yazdun. I mentioned his name for a reason. Alright? So it was like a royal suit. He said I want to give it to the Prophet (ﷺ) as a gift.
Not as a prophet, just as, you know, an old friend, family member, someone I loved and I cared about and I thought it was befitting to Muhammad (ﷺ). So I bought it for 50 dinars.
Expensive suit. He said and I came to the Prophet (ﷺ) to give it to him as a gift in Medina. And the Prophet (ﷺ) أَبَى, he refused it. Now here is a
beautiful lesson in the integrity of da'wah. The Prophet (ﷺ) did not want it to come off as a bribe perhaps. He didn't want there to be any type of transactional
muddying of the waters in this da'wah. Right? So the ulema say أَبَى عليه الصلاة والسلام. He refused (ﷺ) because of the circumstances, not because he wanted to hurt his feelings.
Because of the circumstances. You're, you know, a disbeliever who's opposing us. We're in this strange situation right now where our own people have run us out to accept the gift from you.
There's some sort of normalizing of relationships. It's strange. It doesn't make sense. So the Prophet (ﷺ) refused it kindly. Right? Not like get out of here and you know I'm gonna kill you if you don't become Muslim.
I have no interest in this. No. He refused it (ﷺ) but graciously. Hakim ibn Hizam said well I bought the suit and I'm not leaving until you take it. So the Prophet (ﷺ) he said بِالثَّمَنِ, he said then sell it to me. I'll buy it from you.
Hakim ibn Hizam is stuck now because he brought it as a gift to the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ) doesn't want to disappoint him but he doesn't want to muddy the waters of the da'wah. So he said بِالثَّمَنِ, I'll buy it from you.
So Hakim finally agreed to let the Prophet (ﷺ) purchase the suit that he brought as a gift to him (ﷺ). Now this gives you by the way a little bit of
richness to the story from the Shema'il Muhammadiyah. The Shema'il of the Prophet (ﷺ), the description of him (ﷺ). There's a very famous narration that says
رَأَيْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامَ أَوْ رَأَيْتُهَا عَلَيْهِ عَلَى الْمِنْبَرِ I saw the Prophet (ﷺ) standing on the pulpit. One day the Prophet (ﷺ) was giving khutbah and he was wearing that suit.
And he said فَلَمْ أَرَى شَيْئًا أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ يَوْمَ إِذٍ فِيهَا I've never seen anyone look more stunning than the Prophet (ﷺ) looked in that suit. Like he's already beautiful (ﷺ). He's already the most beautiful
being that you would ever see. You put a suit of royalty on him as well (ﷺ). He's wearing the clothes of a nobleman from Yemen, right? A royalty from Yemen.
So when the Prophet (ﷺ) was giving khutbah in that hullah, it was something of a grand nature that's actually documented in the Shema'il of the Prophet (ﷺ). And it seems, and Allah knows best, this is that same suit.
Now here's the thing. The story continues. The Prophet (ﷺ) gave it to Usama ibn Zaid, the beloved one, the son of the beloved one of the Prophet (ﷺ).
So he gifted the suit to Usama ibn Zaid. Like the Prophet (ﷺ) it wasn't really his thing, right? So he gave it to Usama ibn Zaid. So Hakim ibn Hizam saw Usama ibn Zaid wearing it. And he looks at him and he says,
Ya Usama, are you wearing the suit of the Yazid? Think about it. Zaid was a freed slave.
You talk about nobility and lineage in the way that these people think. And Usama ibn Zaid is the son of a freed, in fact, he's the son of two freed slaves.
So he said, are you wearing the hulla? Are you wearing the garment of the Yazid? And look at what Usama says, not out of pride, but to show him the beauty of Islam.
He said, نعم والله لأنا خير منهم ولأبي خير من أبيه He said, yes and wallahi I'm better than him and my father is better than his father.
Like what? Right? I'm better than him and my father is better than his father. قال فانطلقت إلى مكة فأعجبتهم بقوله I went back to Mecca and I told the people of Mecca what happened. And they were like totally amused by this.
What is he talking about? They still don't understand how Islam privileges people on the basis of taqwa, on the basis of piety and it does away with all the tribal nonsense that existed before.
So Hakim ibn Hizam, again, hostility, very low, indifference to religion, high, noble in many ways, kind of aloof to the entire call of the Prophet (ﷺ),
wasn't particularly a worshipper when it comes to the idols and when it comes to the things in Mecca as well. And that's why you'll find the following statement. When Rasulullah (ﷺ) was coming into Mecca before Fatih Mecca,
before the conquest of Mecca, we've talked about the enemies of the Prophet (ﷺ). Right? Some of these people, the Prophet (ﷺ) is forgiving them for the cause.
Like Abu Sufyan. You don't put Abu Sufyan on the same scale as As-Sabiqoon Al-Awwaloon, the early companions or these great... No, like the Prophet (ﷺ) was letting him go. They were tulaqa, they were people that the Prophet (ﷺ) was overlooking their transgressions
against Islam for the sake of Allah. And Alhamdulillah, as time went on, their Islam settled in their hearts and they became who they became. Alhamdulillah, right? But there's a different category here too.
And the Prophet (ﷺ), as he was entering into Mecca, he said, (ﷺ), أربعوا بهم عن الشرك. There are four people that shirk is beneath them.
Polytheism is beneath them. Like, it's almost like I don't understand how they're still polytheists. How they're still mushrikoon.
And he (ﷺ) said, عُتَّاب ابن أسيد و جبير ابن مطعم و حكيم ابن حزام و سهيل ابن عمر. He named four, (ﷺ).
عُتَّاب ابن أسيد و جبير ابن مطعم و حكيم ابن حزام و سهيل ابن عمر. And we've already talked about سهيل ابن عمر previously. May Allah be pleased with them. So the Prophet (ﷺ) is saying like, these people are way too intelligent.
They're too noble, shirk is beneath them. There is no reason why they should have held out this long. And the Prophet (ﷺ) is clearly intending to forgive them. And this is where it gets very interesting.
Because you find multiple narrations. In one of the narrations when the Prophet (ﷺ) enters into Mecca, he doesn't just say من دخل دار أبي سفيان فهو آمن. Whoever enters in the house of Abu Sufyan فهو آمن.
He says (ﷺ), and this is authentic from Hamad ibn Salama. قال من دخل دار أبي سفيان فهو آمن و من دخل دار حكيم ابن حزام فهو آمن.
و من دخل دار بوديل ابن ورقاء فهو آمن. و من أغلق بابه فهو آمن. So stay with me with this narration because it has some depth to it. Whoever enters in the house of Abu Sufyan فهو آمن.
Now why did the Prophet (ﷺ) mention Abu Sufyan (رضي الله عنه)? To win his heart over. Al-Abbas (رضي الله عنه) said, Look, this man is a chief of his people. We want to soften his heart to Islam. Don't treat him like an enemy anymore. Say whoever enters his house is safe.
Hakim ibn Hizam is not an enemy of the Prophet (ﷺ). So it's a different category. Relatives, the people we've been talking about. Like Abu Sufyan ibn Harith and others. Relatives, people who this whole affair
has unfortunately put them on the opposite side, but they're family. There's no reason for them to be in this way. Not hostile. Some of the scholars also mentioned that Hakim ibn Hizam's house was just that big. And we'll talk about that. He had a huge house.
Right, so there's a logistical component, but you can't just reduce it to logistical component. The Prophet (ﷺ) doesn't just think in terms of logistics here. And the last one, one day maybe we'll talk about Budail ibn Warqa.
Budail ibn Warqa (رضي الله عنه) was the chief of the Khuza'ah, Banu Khuza'ah. So it's a way of bringing in everyone. Sort of big tent approach now to bring everyone back into safety and bringing them into the ties of brotherhood.
And the Prophet (ﷺ) said, وَمَنْ أَغْلَقَ بَابَهُ فَهُوَ آمَنُ Whoever shuts his door in his own home is safe. Right, so there's a softening of the heart. There's a softening of the ties. But it's not like Abu Sufyan bin Harith,
the brother of the Prophet (ﷺ) (رضي الله عنه), like it was a lot of hurt and pain. Like it's not like the Prophet (ﷺ) can't look at him or has deep trauma because of what he did to him. It's just, why now? Why did you wait so long?
You were so distracted by your money, so distracted by your wealth, so distracted by your pursuit of this dunya. You missed out, right? So on that day, Hakeem ibn Hizam embraces Islam.
Officially embraces Islam on the day of Fath Makkah. Also, because he's older than the Prophet (ﷺ), his children are also companions as well. So his children Hisham, Khalid, Hizam,
Abdullah, Yahya, Umm Sumayyah, Umm Amr, Umm Hisham, and his wife all embrace Islam as well. So his entire family embraces Islam with the Prophet (ﷺ).
Now when he embraces Islam, remember this is a man who is known to do great things, right? And one of the questions that he asked the Prophet (ﷺ) is the basis by which when someone becomes Muslim,
we tell them all of your good deeds have been preserved and all of your sins have been forgiven. So it comes from an authentic hadith that the Prophet (ﷺ) when he accepted the shahada of Hakeem.
Like you remember Amr bin Aas (رضي الله عنه), he pulled his hand back like, wait a minute, am I forgiven for all the horrible things I did to you? Hakeem ibn Hizam has the opposite problem. Like Ya Rasulullah, what happened to all the good stuff I did? It's literally the opposite approach,
opposite question to the Prophet (ﷺ). So he says, Ya Rasulullah, رأيت أمورا كنت أتحدث أو أتحنّت بها He said, Ya Rasulullah,
do you see that there are some things كنت أتحنّت أو أتحنّت بها that there are some things that I used to do that were good deeds in the days of jahliyah, في الجهلية من صدق وعطاقة وصدقة
I used to establish the ties of kinship, صلصلة, عطاقة, I used to free slaves. I used to give a lot of charity to people. هل لي فيها أجر? Like, does all that go away?
Do I have any reward for it? And the Prophet (ﷺ) said, أسلمت على ما سلف لك من خير SubhanAllah. He said, you embraced Islam with all of the good deeds
that you have done before it. Meaning all of the good that you did before Islam is now preserved with Islam. So when someone becomes Muslim, not only are they purified of the sins, the good deeds are purified
of what would have held them from being rewardable in the akhirah of shirk. Right, so that goes away. So we take it from this narration. And of the beautiful narrations, Urwa ibn Zubayr, (رضي الله عنهما), who is now the second cousin,
because Zubayr is the first cousin. Zubayr ibn Awwam ibn Khuwaylid, Hakim ibn Hizam ibn Khuwaylid. Urwa, who is the most prolific narrator of the seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ), he narrates about him that he freed,
أَعْتَقَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَ مِئَةَ رَقَبَ وَحَمَلَ عَلَى مِئَةِ بَعِيرٍ ثُمَّ أَعْتَقَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ مِئَةَ رَقَبَ وَحَمَلَ عَلَى مِئَةِ بَعِيرٍ That in the days of ignorance, he freed a hundred people from slavery,
and he donated a hundred camels in charity. And then when he became Muslim, he freed another one hundred people from slavery, and he donated another hundred camels. Like it's all accepted by Allah ﷻ
through his becoming Muslim. Many of the hadith about the virtues of freeing people from slavery come from Hakim ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه) and his way with the Prophet (ﷺ) and his way with wealth.
Now here's the thing, if you've been following the last few weeks, there's this point where people embrace Islam at Fath Makkah, at the conquest of Makkah. And then they kind of learn something in Hunayn, in the battle of Hunayn, right?
You keep on following this trajectory if you've watched the last five, six weeks, that it's Fath Makkah and then it's Hunayn and Ta'if, right? And then there's like these conversations, the Ansar, the new converts in Makkah, everyone's trying to figure out where they stand with the Prophet (ﷺ)
after the battle of Hunayn, which is the first battle that now everyone fought on the same side, right? And the Prophet (ﷺ) was giving more money to who? Of the spoils. This is a very easy question by the way, so don't overthink it.
Who was the Prophet (ﷺ) giving a lot of money to? From the spoils of war? The new converts from Makkah, right? To soften their hearts, to solidify their place in Islam. Prophet (ﷺ) was giving them more of the spoils and he guaranteed the Ansar
that he will go back with them in Medina and that they were still privileged in his eyes (ﷺ). But this was a different type of thing. Hakim ibn Hizam is someone who liked a lot of money and he gave a lot of money.
So he's wealthy and he likes being rich, but he also gives money too, okay? So you've got a profile here and the Prophet (ﷺ) of course said, لَوْعُتِ ابْنَ آدَمْ وَادٍ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ
If the child of Adam was given one valley of gold, what would they do? They'd want to turn it into two valleys of gold. That's how we are as human beings, right? تُحِبُّونَ الْمَالَ حُبًّا جَمَّةً You always like to gather more and more and more.
If Allah gives you one valley of gold, you don't go, alhamdulillah for the valley of gold, you say, how can I turn this into two? Right? So Hakim ibn Hizam is a rich man and he comes to the Prophet (ﷺ) in Hunain.
قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُ النَّبِي (ﷺ) فَأَعْطَانِ I asked the Prophet (ﷺ) for a share of the spoils of war and he gave me. Then he said, ثُمَّ سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْطَانِ I asked him again
and he gave me another batch of wealth. So I asked him a third time and he gave me a batch of wealth. But this time the Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, Oh Hakim, like look, I get Abu Sufyan and Sufyan ibn Umayyah
and some of these others. Let me be real with you as my brother, right? You're someone, we grew up together, I know you and I want you to hear me out. يا حكيم إِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ خَضِرَةٌ حِلْوَةٌ
It's ironic that he said that this money is green and sweet. Not because they used to have dollar bills, American dollar bills, alright, green. Meaning, like when Allah ﷻ mentions,
ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَاهُ مُصْفَرًا Right, that it starts off green and then it becomes yellow and then it rots away, right? So it's green as in it looks evergreen, it looks perfect, it looks just right, right?
And it's sweet. Then he (ﷺ) said, فَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِطِيبِ نَفْسٍ بُورِكَ لَهُ فِيهِ Whoever takes that money without greed,
Allah is going to put blessing in it. So don't try to take so much money, just take the little and if you take it without greed, without attachment, Allah will put barakah in it.
وَمَنْ أَخَذَهُ بِإِشْرَافِ نَفْسٍ لَمْ يُبَارَكْ لَهُ فِيهِ And whoever takes it with greed in his soul will find no barakah in their wealth. Allah will not bless that wealth for them. And then he says to him,
وَكَانَكَ الَّذِي يَأْكُلُ وَلَا يَشْبَعُ He (ﷺ) said, he's like a person who eats and never gets full. Don't be a person who eats and never gets full. And he says, وَالْيَدُ الْعُلِيَةُ خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْجِبْرِ
يَدِ السُّفْلَةُ He said, the upper hand is better than the lower hand. Meaning what? The giving hand is better than the receiving hand. Give charity. Don't be someone who gets addicted to this money. Give from that charity. Don't ask too much.
Instead, be asked, be someone who gives. And he (ﷺ) said, وَمَنْ يَسْتَعْفِفْ يُعِفَّهُ اللَّهُ And whoever abstains, whoever seeks to be financially independent,
Allah will help them become financially independent. وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْنِي يُغْنِهِ اللَّهُ And whoever seeks to be self-sufficient in a more wholesome way, Allah will make them self-sufficient. So, you know, whoever abstains, العفة is to abstain from asking, right?
Whoever abstains, Allah will make it for them so they don't have to. And whoever seeks to be self-sufficient, Allah will open the doors for them to be self-sufficient. He's giving Hakeem like this crash course on how to approach money.
Like I know you've done this for a long time. And this is your way of thinking. And you have to remember, Hakim ibn Hizam is in his 70s now. He's an old man. The Prophet (ﷺ) is 60 plus. So that means he's at least 73 years old.
He's lived his whole life looking at money in a certain way. And the Prophet (ﷺ) is saying, I need you to switch your perspective. Don't get addicted to it. Take it without greed. Don't take more than you have to.
And give and give and give and give. Hakeem said, I said to the Prophet (ﷺ), Ya Rasulullah, wal-lathi ba'athaka bil-haq. O Messenger of Allah, by the one who sent you with the truth.
La arza'u ahadan ba'daka shay'an hatta ufariqa al-dunya. I will never ask anyone for money again so long as I live on this earth until I die. Like I hear you, that's it.
This is the last time I'll ever ask anyone for anything. I'll never burden anyone with the ask ever again in my entire life. So he took an oath on himself. He said from now on, I'll be al-yad al-ulya, I'll never be al-yad al-sufla.
I'll be the giving hand, I'll never be the asking hand, the receiving hand. For the rest of my life, I'll be this hand, I won't be this hand. As if that one conversation with the Prophet (ﷺ) completely blew his mind and changed his entire perspective on money. He's been thinking about it a certain way,
now you think differently. I'm always going to be the giving hand, I'm never gonna be the receiving hand again. And I'm gonna change the way that I think about money. Remember this oath as we get to the later years of his life
that he took with the Prophet (ﷺ). Then you find he narrates practically all ahadith, or all of his ahadith, and they are quite a few, are about money. So if you wanted to teach money or how to approach wealth as Muslims,
you should just teach a course on how Hakim ibn Hizam narrates from the Prophet (ﷺ). Because he's clearly asking the Prophet (ﷺ) a lot of questions because he still has a lot of money. And he wants to know how to handle it. So he narrates that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him,
خير الصدق ما كان عن ظهري غنى وابدأ بمن تعوذ said, (ﷺ), Hakim ibn Hizam (ﷺ) said, the Prophet (ﷺ) said,
the best sadaqah is that which you give in excess of your wealth. Now I'm translating that way because عن ظهري غنى as the scholars say in the sharih of the hadith, the explanation of the hadith means,
you pay off your expenses and whatever is left over donate. Right? Like you always think about, they say money is sitting in the bank account and it's being wasted. That doesn't mean it's haram to invest. No, we know the famous hadith of the man who would
invest one-third, spend one-third on his family and give one-third in sadaqah. But the point is the Prophet (ﷺ) is saying, like that wealth that comes after your expenses that you don't even need, give it. وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُونَ
And start with those who are closest to you. So give of what Allah ﷻ has given you that you don't even need for your immediate expenses and start with those that are nearest to you.
So he gets a message here from the Prophet (ﷺ). Hakim ibn Hizam also, he said that the Prophet (ﷺ) once gave me a dinar to go and buy a udhiyah, a sacrificial animal.
So he's with the Prophet (ﷺ) in hajj. And the Prophet (ﷺ) said, go buy me a sacrificial animal. So he said, I took that one dinar and I bought a sheep for that dinar. Then I sold that sheep for two dinars.
He's really good in the marketplace. He said, I figured I could turn the sheep around. I looked at the sheep. I said, no, this one will go for two dinars. Alright, he's a businessman and there's nothing wrong with that. So just by his own business sense, he said, I bought the sheep for one dinar,
but it's really worth two dinars. He went and he sold it for two dinars. Then he went and he bought another sheep for one dinar. Follow the logic here. Then he came back to the Prophet (ﷺ)
and he gave him back the dinar and he gave him a sheep. You see what happened here? The Prophet (ﷺ) gave him one. He took the one. He bought a sheep. He said, that's worth two. Sold it for two. Got two.
Bought another sheep for one dinar. So now he has one sheep, one dinar. He comes to the Prophet (ﷺ) and he says, Ya Rasulullah, here's the dinar and here is the sheep.
فَدَعَى لَهُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَسْتَلَامُ أَن يُبَارَكَ لَهُ فِي تِجَارَتِهِ رَوَاهُ تُرْمَدِي The Prophet (ﷺ) then made du'a that Allah would bless him in his trade. Right? You get a du'a from the Prophet (ﷺ), you're blessed in your trade.
Something very special about that. You also find that Hakeem ibn Hizam narrates the famous hadith. He said, Ya Rasulullah, a man comes to me in the marketplace and he wants me to sell him something that I don't yet possess.
You hear this hadith in home financing quite a bit. So he said, should I sell something I don't yet possess? The Prophet (ﷺ) said, لا تبع ما ليس عندك Don't sell something you don't yet possess. So we learned that from Hakeem ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه).
He also narrated the Prophet (ﷺ) said that two parties in a business transaction, they have a right to annul that transaction as long as they're still in the discussion of it. Like as long as they're still together and they haven't yet separated. And if they tell the truth
and they make everything clear in the transaction, like no one tries to cheat the other, Allah will put barakah in the transaction. So no one's trying to cheat the other, Allah is going to bless that transaction. وَإِن كَتَمَ وَكَذَبَ مُحِقَتْ بَرَكَةُ بَيْعِهِمَا
And if they lie to each other and they deceive one another, all the barakah of that transaction, all the blessing of that transaction will be lost. So he's teaching you halal financing, he's teaching you barakah, he's teaching you how to use your money properly, how to earn your money properly, how to think about it.
Because the first thing you'll be asked about with your money on the Day of Judgment, من أين اكتسبه وفيما أنفقه How you earned it and how you spent it. And he narrates some other hadith from the Prophet (ﷺ). For the sake of time, I won't go into the rest of them,
just to continue with the story. So you get the gist. Hakim ibn Hizam (رضي الله عنه), wealthy, businessman, charitable, and is someone who becomes very concerned about halal rizq, halal sustenance,
after he becomes a Muslim, and never asks anyone for anything and is extra careful to make sure there's blessing in what he does. The Prophet (ﷺ) passes away. And the narration in Al-Bukhari,
when the time came to distribute the spoils of war, Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه), كان يدعو حكيما إلى العطاء فيأبى أن يقبله Abu Bakr would call Hakim, and Hakim would not take his share.
Basically the way that it worked was, every Muslim got a share from the spoils. Hakim ibn Hizam refused the share of the spoils. Umar (رضي الله عنه), دعاه ليعطيه He calls him to give him his share.
فأبى, and he refused. Umar (رضي الله عنه) is like, wait a minute, that's on you. If you want to take it and you want to give it in sadaqah, that's your business, but I'm not going to meet Allah SWT having cheated a Muslim. Take your share. Hakeem says, no, I don't want it.
I took an oath with the Prophet (ﷺ), I'll never take anything from anyone again. So take your share. Hakeem says, no. Umar (رضي الله عنه), he gets so frustrated, he calls out and he says, يا معشر المسلمين He said, I want all the Muslims to come here.
He said, I need you, أشهدكم I need you to bear witness على حكيم أني أعرض عليه حقه من هذا الفيء فيأبى أن يأخذه I need you to all bear witness that I tried to give Hakim his share and he refused to take it. Umar is like,
I don't want to meet Allah with this on my neck on the day of judgment. Hakim ibn Hizam refuses it. So Hakim does not take anything that he doesn't earn directly in the marketplace. He's like, I'm not taking it anymore. And subhanAllah, the narration says
that he was this way all the way until he passed away. حتى توفيه Until the day that he died. Now, by the way, plot twist.
Hakim ibn Hizam died at the age of a hundred and twenty years old. He's one of the longest living companions. Some of the scholars actually say the longest living companion of the Prophet (ﷺ). And there is a relationship between sadaqa
and the extension of your life. Right? He lived to a hundred twenty years old. This is in Bukhari and Muslim, by the way. This is not like just in the books of Siyar. A hundred twenty years old. And he refused to take any wealth from anybody else.
He became the richest man in Medina. Abi Hazm says, ما بلغنا أنه كان بالمدينة أكثر حملاً في سبيل الله من حكيم The richest, the person who used to give the most sadaqa, the most blessed in his transactions. Because again, he outlives Uthman,
he outlives Abdur Rahman ibn Auf (رضي الله عنه). He outlives those other companions. He was known as the richest man in the Medina of the Prophet (ﷺ). And people of a like mind and a like spirit become close.
He was a close friend of Uthman (رضي الله تعالى عنه). And when Uthman (رضي الله تعالى عنه), who was like him, or he was rather like Uthman, because Uthman remains in the greater category. Right? When Uthman (رضي الله عنه) passed away,
Hakeem ibn Hizam (رضي الله عنه) was one of the people who secretly buried him at night when he was assassinated (رضي الله تعالى عنه). A few more narrations about him and they become, they're extremely touching, subhanAllah.
One of them is that he lived all the way to the time Muawiyah. And when Muawiyah (رضي الله عنه) came to Mecca, he purchased Dar al-Nadwa from Hakeem ibn Hizam.
That means Hakeem ibn Hizam owned the place. The famous Dar al-Nadwa, Hakeem ibn Hizam actually owned it at some point, became his property. And he sold it to Muawiyah for 100,000 dinars.
And Ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه), who's from the family, right? He's his second cousin, because Zubayr is his first cousin. He was upset with him. And he said when he heard about it, he said that the old man doesn't know,
the sheikh doesn't know what he sold, what he just gave away to Muawiyah. Like he has no idea how precious that was. This belonged to us, this belonged to Quraysh. This was a special piece for us. And he just sold it to Muawiyah.
So as Ibn Zubayr says to him, بعت مكرومة قريش You sold the nobility of Quraysh, right? And he responds to him and he said,
ذهبت المكارم يا ابن أخي إلا التقوى He said all nobility has gone out the door, O son of my nephew, except for taqwa. Nothing's really left except for taqwa. إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ The most noble of you in the sight of Allah
are the people of the most God-consciousness. So he said, إِنِّي شْتَرَيْتُ بِهَا دَارًا فِي الْجَنَّةِ I purchased with that a home in paradise. وَشْهِدُكُمْ أَنِّي قَدْ جَعَلْتُهَا لِلَّهِ
I bear witness that I took the entire profit that I made off of that trade to Muawiyah and I donated it for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So there is no, none of this nobility stuff, none of these the royalties and it's,
you know, what it gives us in terms of its memories and what it gives us, none of that, right? That is all out the window. I sold it for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We also find that when Zubayr (رضي الله تعالى عنه) passed away. Zubayr (رضي الله تعالى عنه) died and he had a lot of debts because he used to give a lot of charity and he used to always be in Jihad.
SubhanAllah, Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) was in the battlefield and he was giving, giving, giving and he ended up piling up a lot of debts. So Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله تعالى عنهما), he, you know, he tells the story with Zubayr (رضي الله عنه).
If you go back and you watch that episode, we talked about the last conversation, like what do I do about your debt? He said استعن بمولاه, seek help from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. It's going to come to you as you pay off those debts.
Abdullah ibn Zubayr said that Hakim ibn Hizam (رضي الله عنه) came to me when my father Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) passed away. And he said كم ترك أخي من الدين?
How much debt did my brother leave behind? How much debt did he have? So I told him الف الف, a thousand times a thousand. How much is that? Now you guys are really tired. I just want to make sure that it's time to wrap up the lecture.
A thousand times a thousand is? A million. All right. So for all the Arab in here, مليون is not an Arabic word. All right الف الف is how you would say a million, right? A thousand times a thousand. So he said a million, right?
That's if I was to round up the debt. I've been left with a million dollars of debt from Zubayr (رضي الله عنه). Hakim ibn Hizam says علي خمس مئة ألف.
I'll take care of half of that 500,000. So the stories of paying off someone's debt, how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would spare a person on the day of judgment from paying off someone's debt.
Imagine the nobility of this man who goes to a person in need, knows he's in need and says, here's half a million from me. He's that anonymous donor that shows up and says, I've got it covered, don't worry about it.
And he said (رضي الله تعالى عنه), ما أصبحت وليس ببابي صاحب حاجة إلا علمت أنها من المصائب التي أسأل الله الأجر عليها.
He said, I don't wake up a single day of my life seeing someone at my door who is in need except that I know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is testing me and I seek the reward of that test from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when I see someone in need, I immediately clear house.
Give, give, give. I don't think about these things. I'm going to give you one more scene from his life, which will come back up in the Dhul Hijjah series insha'Allah ta'ala because it's one of my, something I think about at Arafah.
May Allah enable us to do hajj and have an accepted hajj. I want you to think of the scene on the day of Arafah. Hakim ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه) comes on the day of Arafah
and Hakim ibn Hizam purchases the freedom of any enslaved person he can see in sight. A hundred people, he purchases their freedom on that day with his money, clears house, freeing people from slavery.
And then he brings forth a hundred camels and a hundred sheep. SubhanAllah. So he is immersing himself in sadaqa on the day of Arafah and the people are watching this scene on the day of Arafah
with people who are excited, proclaiming their freedom, with the animals being brought forth for sacrifice. 200 animals from a single man to be sacrificed for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the charity given.
And Hakim ibn Hizam (رضي الله تعالى عنه) raising his hands to the sky and weeping in du'a to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for acceptance. People are looking at him like what a man, right? Like calling out to Allah in desperation
اللهم اعطق رقابنا من النار اللهم اعطق رقابنا من النار Oh Allah free our necks from the fire. Oh Allah free our necks from the fire. Like I freed these people. Oh Allah free our necks from the fire. And the people, this is actually an incident that happened.
The people all looked at him and they all started to cry. And they said a word, some of the people said a du'a on that day with what had happened with Hakim.
They said رَبَّنَا هَذَا عَبْدُكُ قَدْ اَعْتَقَ عَبِيدَكُ وَنَحْنُ عَبِيدُكُ فَعَتِقْنَا Oh Allah this is your slave and he has freed your slaves and we are your slaves.
So free us from the fire. Oh Allah this is your slave Hakim. He has freed your slaves and we are your slaves. So free us from the fire. Meaning you are more merciful to us than Hakim is
to the creation of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. What a sight as the people are crying and looking at the outpouring of the sadaqa, the generosity of this man. (رضي الله تعالى عنه)
When he was passing away in Bukhari says 120 years, half of his life in Jahiliyyah, half of his life in Islam, half of his life was in ignorance, half of his life was in Islam. As he was passing away in Medina peacefully in his bed,
his last words that are narrated by his son Hisham.
قال لا إله إلا الله قد كنت أخشاك وأنا اليوم أرجوك
لا إله إلا الله I used to fear you and now I have hope in you. لا إله إلا الله I used to fear you and now I have hope in you. So these were the last words that were narrated from him. (رضي الله تعالى عنه)
And he was buried in Al-Baqi' next to our Prophet (ﷺ) with the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). As Allah سبحانه وتعالى destined him, born in the Ka'bah 120 years later,
dies in Al-Madinah Al-Murawwara with a life of sadaqa and charity and spending but a lot of regret as to why he didn't do it earlier. And Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows best. Allah knows best that is the Qadr of Allah.
Allah knows best that he didn't become Muslim earlier on. What a beautiful legacy to have. Before I finish, because I can't do a whole separate lecture, you know, sometimes subhanAllah the kids get left out here.
So his son Hisham, who's his oldest son, Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam, you'll find him, he's a Hadith narrator. And he inherited the beauty of his father in terms of character.
So Al-Dhahabi actually has a separate chapter for Hisham. And Hisham was someone that had a lot of haybah, a lot of presence. That's how he's described. And the Prophet (ﷺ) immediately loved him.
And in fact, one of the beautiful narrations, صَرَاعَهُ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَ مَرَّةً فَصَرَاعَهُ The Prophet (ﷺ) wrestled him once and the Prophet (ﷺ) beat him. So it's a family affair, right?
He was strong, he had a lot of presence and the Prophet (ﷺ) wrestled him. A young man and the Prophet (ﷺ) overcame him (ﷺ) even though the Prophet (ﷺ) was in his 60s.
He has a few narrations with Sayyidina Umar (رضي الله عنه) that I'll end with because it comes to something very powerful and related to the moment. Umar (رضي الله عنه) loved him. He became like an immediate close friend of Umar (رضي الله عنه).
Why? كان يأمر بالمعروف وينهى عن المنكر He used to enjoin good and he used to forbid evil. So he was someone who was like really, really strict in a way, right? Enjoining good, forbidding evil.
And Umar (رضي الله عنه) used to say when he would say evil, أَمَّا مَا عِشْتُ أَنَا وَهِشَامُ ابْنُ حَكِيمُ فَلَا يَكُونُ هَذَا If it wasn't for me and Hisham and Hakeem being alive, this would pass, right?
We're the ones, we're kind of in charge here, we gotta make sure this doesn't happen. So we're the ones that check evil together.
However, Umar has a pretty funny narration with him but it's also one that we can take some wisdom from and perhaps you've heard it. Hisham ibn Urwa, he narrates from Umar (رضي الله عنه).
قَالَ سَمِعْتُ هِشَامُ ابْنُ حَكِيمُ فَلَا يَقْرَأُ سُورَةِ الْفُرْقَانِ عَلَىٰ غَيْرِ مَا أَقْرَأُهَا Umar says that one day we were sitting and then Hisham started leading the salah
and Hisham was reading Surat Al-Furqan different than the way that I was reading it. So think about yourself in Ramadan when mashallah Hafidh Afdal and Ahmad and Hamza start reading in those different qiraat and you go, are you sure?
Are you sure this is okay? So with Umar, he's listening to him and Umar never heard this recitation of Surat Al-Furqan. And he's older than Hisham, Hisham is like a younger brother to him.
And he says, وَكِتُ أَنْ أَعْجَلَ عَلَيْهِ Like I wanted to jump on him. Basically beat him up for reading the Quran differently. Like I thought the man changed the Quran. Right? So he said, but I held myself.
ثُمَّ أَمْهَلْتُهُ I left him until he finished the salah. Then Umar (رضي الله تعالى عنه) said, I took his cloak and I wrapped his neck and I dragged him to the Prophet (ﷺ). So this is in the time of the Prophet (ﷺ). Like I'm bringing you this young man, Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam.
He's changing the Quran. New convert, this young man is reading the Quran differently. So he said, I dragged him to the Prophet (ﷺ) and I had his cloak around his neck. Like he's strangling Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam and bringing him to the Prophet (ﷺ).
So he said, so I brought him to the Prophet (ﷺ) and I said, إِنِّي سَمِعْتُ هَذَا يَقْرَأُ عَلَىٰ غَيْرِ مَا أَقْرَأْتَنِيهَا That I heard him reciting, this young man reciting different than the way you taught me to recite. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, first of all, أَرْسِلْهُ
Let him go. Let the young man breathe. And the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, اقْرَأْ Read. So Hisham ibn Hakim ibn Hizam read Surat al-Furqan to him. And then the Prophet (ﷺ) said to Umar, اقْرَأْ
Read. So Umar (رضي الله عنه) read. And the Prophet (ﷺ) said, هَكَذَا أُنزِلَتْ هَكَذَا أُنزِلَتْ This is how it was sent. إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ أُنزِلَ عَلَىٰ سَبَعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ فَقْرَأُوا مِنْهُ مَا تَيَسَّرُ
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, the Quran was revealed in seven modes. Read of it as you want. Right? So Adam, next time you're reading, if they come and choke you, just remind them of this hadith, alright?
So this was the way that this all kind of functioned at the time. But why do I mention Hisham? This is a very famous narration about Hisham. (رضي الله تعالى عنه) ابن حكيم نحزام But I want to share this last narration
because it actually did touch my heart. As we think about the people of Gaza, may Allah ﷻ give them victory and give them aid in this moment. And they are never far from our hearts and our minds. And as we live these moments with the Sahaba of the Prophet (ﷺ),
these glory days, we ask Allah to restore the glory of this Ummah. And we ask Allah ﷻ to allow us to see it in its beauty and its Izzah once again. Hisham, one day, was in Ash-Sham in Syria.
And he walked by some people and they were being made to stand out in the sun. And they were kind of put out in the sun, not tortured, not beaten, but under harsh conditions.
Clearly they were in trouble. So Hisham asked the governor at the time. He said, مَا شَأْنُهُمْ Why are they being treated like this? And the governor responded and he said,
they're Christians and they're not paying the jizya, they're not paying the tax. Okay. And Hisham quoted the most famous hadith and actually one of the only hadith he has
from the Prophet (ﷺ). So he said to them, لَسَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ (ﷺ) يَقُولُ I swear by Allah that I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say,
إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعَذِّبُ الَّذِينَ يُعَذِّبُونَ النَّاسَ فِي الدُّنْيَا Allah will torture the people who torture people in this world.
And so subhanAllah, as I was reading it, I just couldn't help. I said, you know what, even though it's not Hakeem ibn Hizam, it's his son, but the fact that he narrates that. Again, as you're seeing dear brothers and sisters, what's happening with our brothers and sisters.
وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيًا Your Lord does not forget. May Allah ﷻ, اللهم انتق من الظالمين May Allah ﷻ avenge our brothers and sisters. May Allah ﷻ compensate them. May Allah ﷻ overcome the enemies and the oppressors.
May Allah have mercy and be pleased with Hakeem ibn Hizam, (رضي الله عنه) and allow us to approach the dunya in the way that he approached the dunya, seeking the akhirah. May Allah ﷻ open our hearts to that which is righteous.
May Allah ﷻ free our minds, free our hearts from greed. May Allah ﷻ allow us to see the beauty of the Messenger (ﷺ) and his example early on in our lives and to follow it to the best of our ability.
And may Allah ﷻ gather us with the Prophet (ﷺ), with his family, with his companions, with the Siddiqoon, the Shuhadat, the Salihoon.
اللهم آمين. والصلاة والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته.
