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Life of the Prophet (seerah)

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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the accursed. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. No one is worthy of worship except against the wrongdoers. The right path is for the righteous. O Allah, bless and bless Your servant and Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and his family and companions. I want to welcome you all back to the first walhamdulillah 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala 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, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. Who else do you hear about when you think wealthy companion? Who's the other companion you immediately think of? Abd al-Rahman ibn Auf, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. Hakeem ibn Hizam, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, 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, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. Do we have any Hakeem's here by the way? No Hakeem's in the house, okay. So 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, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. As Imam al-Dhahabi, rahimahullah, says, عَلَّامَةً بِالنَّصَبِ فَقِيهَا النَّفْسِ كَبِيرَ الشَّأْنِ 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. كَبِيرَ الشَّأْنِ 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, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, Hakeem ibn Hizam al-Asadi, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu, our mother Khadija radiallahu ta'ala anhu. 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu. So just to refresh her on her father, who was 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 Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib. Safiyya radiyallahu anha, 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-Zubayr. Az-Zubayr bin Awam radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. 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 radiyallahu ta'ala anha in her marriage to the Prophet ﷺ and the birth of the beautiful children that would come from Rasulullah ﷺ and our mother Khadija radiyallahu ta'ala anha. Of course, you go through all of the children up until Fatima az-Zahra radiyallahu ta'ala anha.
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 radiyallahu ta'ala anha, Awam the father of Az-Zubayr radiyallahu anhu, 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 radiyallahu anha because she resembled Khadija radiyallahu anha 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 Shaytan al-Quraysh. This was a man who staunchly opposed the Prophet ﷺ. Nufal ibn 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 ibn Nufal radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. 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 Hakeem 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 Aminah giving birth to him ﷺ as a young teenager and the father has already died. The image of Aminah holding out the Prophet ﷺ and no one taking him in except for Halima al-Sa'diyya. 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 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 dustens him for greatness. Now you'll often hear the story of Ali r.a being born in the Ka'bah. Hakeem ibn Hizam r.a has a story, an authentic story of his birth in the Ka'bah 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 Quraysh raised the door of the Ka'bah so that only the elites could access it. And when you see the images today of only the heads of state and 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 Ka'bah 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 Ka'bah and exit but Quraysh elevated the door so that only the elites could access it. So you had to be of a special caliber which totally defeats the purpose. Right? A special caliber to enter into the Ka'bah. So as far as Hakeem, his mother Umm Hakeem دخلت في نسوة الكعبة she entered with a group of women into the Ka'bah فضربها المخاب and as she entered into the Ka'bah she went into labor. And she fell down and she was too into her labor at that point to come out of the Ka'bah. So they basically coached her in her pregnancy and her delivery in the Ka'bah and Hakeem ibn Hizam was born inside the Ka'bah.
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? The قدر of Allah happens to be entering into the Ka'bah. And this is a sign of his شأن of the honor that Allah سبحانه وتعالى 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 his 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 أخلاق, 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 أخلاق, the best culmination, the best woman رضي الله تعالى عنها of all of those qualities. But Hakim comes from that, right? 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. Right? The uncle, the aunt, the aunt. These are basically your parents at the time. Right? So Khadija is a motherly figure to Hakim. 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, Hakim 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 Harith رضي الله عنه. In fact, remember the story of Zayd ibn Haritha. We actually learn it from a narration from Hakim al-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 Hakim al-Hizam. Hakim al-Hizam says about himself, قَالَ كُنتُ تَاجِرًا أَخْرُجِ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ وَآتِ الشَّامِ 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, فَكُنتُ أَرْبَحُ أَرْبَاحًا كَثِيرًا 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, فَأَعُودُ عَلَى فُقْرَآءِ قَوْمِ And I'd come back and I'd spend that on the poor people of my tribe. By the way, Khadija radiallahu anha 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. Hakim has that same spirit of caring for the poor, spending on the poor. Not to the level of our mother Khadija radiallahu anha, but it's the same type of attitude. Spend on the poor. So he said, وَابْتَعَتُ بِسُوْقِ عُقَاذِ زَيْدِ بِنْ حَارِفَ لِعَمَّتِ He said, I found Zayd ibn Harifa radiallahu anhu in Suq al-Uqad, and I gifted him to my aunt Khadija radiallahu anha. She marries the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam immediately develops a beautiful relationship
with Zayd ibn Harifa radiallahu ta'ala anhu. Khadija radiallahu anha says, Do you love Zayd, O Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam? And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, I do. So Khadija said, فَهُوَ لَكَ He's yours. The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So he's there for the wedding. He's a part of the means by which Zayd ibn Harifa, حب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم, the loved one of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, comes into the life of the Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam. 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 salallahu alayhi wa sallam, دار الندوة which was the house where all of the decisions would be made so the wise men 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 بن حزام فإنه دخل الرأي وهو ابن خمس عشرة 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 marketplace. I don't really feel strongly one way or the other because I'm busy.
That's a diagnosis of حكيم بن 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 Ash-Sham 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. Hakim 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 would 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 Hakim Nuhizam,
who's her nephew, Hakim would secretly bring food to her. And you know what Khadija رضي الله عنها would do? She'd distribute it to everyone else. So Hakim Nuhizam wants to take care of his aunt, Khadija, our mother, wants to take care of the ummah. So she'd distribute the food amongst her people. And Hakim Nuhizam actually had an interesting practice. You know, what he would do is, he would go to the valley, outside of Sha'ab Abi 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 Talib. 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 are some people that were brought out in the Battle of Badr against us. أُخْرِجُوا كَرْهَا لَا حَاجَةَ لَهُمْ فِي قِتَالِنَا Look, they don't want to fight us. Their people just brought them out. They were forced out. Amongst them was عَمِّ النَّبِي ﷺ, the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ, العَبَّاس وضي الله تعالى عنه. 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. Hakim, there is not a single narration of him carrying a sword or fighting or killing. But he was present. And in fact, كَانَ إِذَا اجْتَهَدَ فِي يَمِينِهِ
When he used to take an oath after Islam, he would say لَا وَالَّذِينَ اجْجَٰنِي يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ مِنَ الْقِتَالِ 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. 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, محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم 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, فلمّا نُبِعَ وَهَاجَرَ when he received Prophethood and he migrated, he said, I bought this really special hulla, 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 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 going to kill you if you don't become Muslim. I have no interest in this. No, he refused it ﷺ. But graciously. Hakim al-Hizam said, well, I bought the suit and I'm not leaving until you take it. So the Prophet ﷺ, he said بِالثَّمَن He said then sell it to me. I'll buy it from you. Hakim al-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 بِالثَّمَن 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 Shama' al-Muhammadiyah,
the Shama' of the Prophet ﷺ, the description of him ﷺ. There's a very famous narration that says رَأَيْتُهُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ 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, right? And he said فَلَمْ أَرَى شَيْئًا أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ 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 noble man 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 shama'il of the Prophet ﷺ. And it seems when Allah knows best, this is that same suit. Now here's the thing, the story continues. The Prophet ﷺ gave it to Usama ibn Zayd, the beloved one, the son of the beloved one of the Prophet ﷺ. So he gifted the suit to Usama ibn Zayd. Like the Prophet ﷺ, it wasn't really his thing, right? So he gave it to Usama ibn Zayd. So Hakim al-Hizam saw Usama ibn Zayd wearing it. And he looks at him and he says, Ya Usama, أَتَلْبَسُ حُلَّةَ ذِي يَزَى Are you wearing the suit of Ziyazah? Think about it. Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه was a freed slave. You talk about nobility and lineage in the way that these people think. And Usama ibn Zayd is the son of a freed, in fact he's the son of two, right, freed slaves. So he said, are you wearing the hullah? Are you wearing the garment of Ziyazah? And look at what Usama says, not out of pride, but to show him the beauty of Islam.
He said, نعم وَاللَّهِ لَأَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُمْ وَلَأَبِي خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أَبِيهِ 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. قَالَ فَانْطَلَقْتُ إِلَى مَكَّ فَأَعْجَبْتُهُمْ بِقَوْلِهِ 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 Hakeem Nuhizam, 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. 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 ﷺ said, أَرْبَعَ أَرْبَعُوا بِهِمْ عَنِ الشِّرْكِ 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 mushrikun.
And he ﷺ said, عُكْتَابِ بْنُ أُسَيْدِ وَجُبَيْرِ بْنُ مُطْعِمِ وَحَكِيمِ بْنُ حِزَامِ وَسُهَيْلِ بْنُ عَمْرِ He named four, ﷺ ورضي الله عنهم. عُتَابِ بْنُ أُسَيْدِ وَجُبَيْرِ بْنُ مُطْعِمِ وَحَكِيمِ بْنُ حِزَامِ وَسُهَيْلِ بْنُ عَمْرِ And we've already talked about سُهَيْلِ بْنُ عَمْرِ 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's 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, مَنْ دَخَلَ دَارَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ فَهُوَ آمِنٌ Whoever enters in the house of Abu Sufyan فَهُوَ آمِنٌ He says ﷺ, and this is authentic from Hamad ibn Salama. قَالَ مَنْ دَخَلَ دَارَ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ فَهُوَ آمِنٌ وَمَنْ دَخَلَ دَارَ حَكِيمِ بْنُ حِزَامِ فَهُوَ آمِنٌ وَمَنْ دَخَلَ دَارَ بُدَيلِ إِبْنِ وَرْقَاءِ فَهُوَ آمِنٌ وَمَنْ أَغْلَقَ بَابَهُ فَهُوَ آمِنٌ So stay with me with this narration because it has some depth to it. Whoever enters in the house of Abu Sufyan, he's safe. Now why did the Prophet ﷺ mention Abu Sufyan radhiAllahu anhu? To win his heart over. Al-Abbas radhiAllahu anhu said, look, this man is a chief of his people. You want to soften his heart to Islam, don't treat him like an enemy anymore. Say, whoever enters his house is safe. Hakim al-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 al-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 radhiAllahu anhu 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 And 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 radhiAllahu anhu. 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, Hakim al-Hizam embraces Islam. Officially embraces Islam on the day of Fatah 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 Hakim.
Like, you remember Amr ibn Aas radiAllahu anhu, he pulled his hand back, like, wait a minute, am I forgiven for all the horrible things I did to you? Hakim al-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, أَرَأَيْتُ أُمُورًا كُنْتُ أَتَحَدَّثُ أَوْ أَتَحَنَّتُ بِهَا He said, Ya Rasulullah, do you see that there are some things كُنْتُ أَتَحَنَّثُ أَوْ أَتَحَنَّتُ بِهَا that there are some things that I used to do that were good deeds in the days of jahliyah, في الجاهلية. مِنْ صِلَةٍ وَعَتَاقَةٍ وَصَدَقَةٍ I used to establish the ties of kinship, صَوْصِلَة, عَتَاقَة. I used to free slaves. Give a lot of charity to people. هَلِّي فِيهَا أَجْرٍ Like, does all that go away? Do I have any reward for it? And the Prophet ﷺ said, أَسْلَمْتَ عَلَى مَا سَلَفَ لَكَ مِنْ خَيْرٍ 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 تعالى عنهما who is now the second cousin because Zubayr is the first cousin. Zubayr ibn Awam ibn Khuwaylid, Hakim Nuh 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 SWT through his becoming Muslim. Many of the hadith about the virtues of freeing people from slavery come from Hakim Nuh 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 is 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, لُعُتِ ابْنَ آدَم 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 Hunayn. 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. He said, I asked him a third time, and he gave me a batch of wealth. But this time the Prophet ﷺ said to me, يا حَكِمْ 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 حَكِمْ إِنَّ هَذَا الْمَالَ خَضِرَةٌ حُلْوَةٌ It's ironic that he said that this money is green and sweet, not because they used to have dollar bills, American dollar bills, right? Green, meaning like when Allah ﷻ mentions, ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَاهُ مُسْفَرًا 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 said ﷺ, 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 بِإِسْرَافِ 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 Allahu Akbar. He said ﷺ, 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 الْعُلِيَا خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْيَدِ السُّفْلَةِ 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 said ﷺ, وَمَنْ يَسْتَعْفِفْ يُعِفَّهُ اللَّهُ And whoever is, 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, Hakeem al-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, يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ وَالَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ O Messenger of Allah,
by the One who sent you with the truth. لَا أَرْزَأُ أَحَدًا بَعْدَكَ شَيْئًا حَتَّى أُفَارِقَ الدُّنْيَا 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 a ask ever again in my entire life. So he took an oath on himself. He said, from now on, I'll be al-yadu al-'ulya, I'll never be al-yadu 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 Hakeem Nuhizam 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, خَيْرُ الصَّدَقَ مَا كَانَ عَنْ ظَهْرِ غِنَةً وَابْدَأْ بِمَنْ تَعُوذُ Said ﷺ, Hakeem Nuhizam 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 عَنْ ظَهْرِ غِنَةً 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 تَعُوذُ 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. 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. 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 وَالسَّلَامُ أَن يُبَارَكَ لَهُ فِي تِجَارَتِهِ رواه الترمذي 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 to be blessed in your trade. Something very special about that. You also find that Hakim Nurhizam 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 Hakim Nurhizam 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, مَنْ أَيْنَكْ تَسَبَهُ وَفِي مَا أَنْفَقَهُ 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. حَكِيمٌ حِزَامٌ رضي الله عنه Wealthy, businessman, charitable, and as 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 تعالى عنه كان يدعو حكيماً إلى العطاء فيأبى أن يقبله Abu Bakr would call Hakeem,
and Hakeem would not take his share. Basically the way that it worked was, every Muslim got a share from the spoils. Hakeem al-Hizam refused the share of the spoils. Umar رضي الله تعالى عنه دعاه ليعطيه He calls him to give him his share. فأبى And he refused. Umar رضي الله تعالى 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 ﷻ 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 تعالى 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 Hakeem 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. Hakeem رضي الله تعالى عنه refuses it. So Hakeem does not take anything that he doesn't earn directly in the marketplace. It'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. Hakeem al-Hizam died at the age of 120 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 Sadaqah and the extension of your life. All right. He lived to 120 years old. This is in Bukhari Muslim, by the way. This is not like just in the books of Seer. 120 years old. And he refused to take any wealth from anybody else. He became the richest man in Medina. Abi Hazm says, مَا بَلَغْنَا أَنَّهُ كَانَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ أَكْثَرَ حَمْلًا
فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ مِنْ حَكِيمٍ The richest, the person who used to give the most Sadaqah, the most blessed in his transactions. Because again, he outlives Uthman, he outlives Abdurrahman ibn Uth 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, Hakim Nuhizam 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 Hakim Nuhizam. That means Hakim Nuhizam owned the place. The famous Dar al-Nadwa, Hakim Nuhizam actually owned it at some point, became his property. And he sold it to Muawiyah for a hundred thousand dinars. And Ibn Zubayr رضي الله عنه was 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 Shaykh 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, you sold the nobility of Quraysh, right? And he responds to him and he said, He said all nobility has gone out the door,
O son of my nephew, except for Taqwa. Nothing's really left except for Taqwa. The most noble of you in the sight of Allah are the people of the most God consciousness. So he said, I purchased with that a home in paradise. 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 what it gives us in terms of its memories and when 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 radiAllahu ta'ala anhu passed away, Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu 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 radiAllahu anhu was in the battlefield and he was giving, giving, giving and he ended up piling up a lot of debts so Abdullah ibn Zubayr radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma he, you know, he tells the story with Zubayr radiAllahu anhu 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, ista'n bi mawlah, 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 Nuh Hizam radiAllahu anhu came to me when my father Zubayr radiAllahu anhu passed away and he said, kam taraka akhi man ad-dain? How much debt did my brother leave behind? How much debt did he have? So I told him alf alf, a thousand times a thousand how much is that? Now you guys are really tired I just wanted 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
million is not an Arabic word, all right? alf alf 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 radiAllahu anhu Hakim Nuh Hizam says I'll take care of half of that five hundred thousand 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 radiAllahu ta'ala anhu 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 inshaAllah 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 Nuh Hizam radiAllahu ta'ala anhu comes on the day of Arafah and Hakim Nuh 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 Nuh Hizam radiAllahu ta'ala anhu raising his hands to the sky and weeping in dua 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 Allahumma a'tiq riqabana min an-nar Allahumma a'tiq riqabana min an-nar 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 dua on that day with what had happened with Hakim they said Rabbana hatha abduk qad a'taqa abidak wa nahnu abiduk fa a'tiqna 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 when he was passing away and Bukhari says 120 years half of his life in Jahliyya 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 qala la ilaha illallah qad kuntu akhshaka wa ana alyawma arjuka la ilaha illallah qad kuntu akhshaka
wa ana alyawma arjuka la ilaha illallah I used to fear you and now I have hope in you la ilaha illallah I used to fear you and now I have hope in you so these were the last words that were narrated from him radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and he was buried in Al-Baqi' next to our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam as Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala destined him born in the Ka'bah 120 years later dies in Al-Madinah al-Murawwara with a life of sadaqah and charity and spending but a lot of regret as to why he didn't do it earlier and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 al-Hakim al-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 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 even though the Prophet ﷺ was in his 60s he has a few narrations with Sayyiduna Umar ﷺ that I'll end with because it comes to something very powerful and related to the moment Umar ﷺ loved him he became like an immediate close friend of Umar 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 used to say when he would say evil أما ما عشت أنا وهشام بن حكيم فلا يكون هذا if it wasn't for me and Hisham bin Hakeem being alive this would pass right we're the ones we're kind of in charge here we got to 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 it's one that we can take some wisdom from and perhaps you've heard it Hisham Nu'urwa he narrates from Umar ﷺ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ هِشَامًا حَكِيمًا حِزَامًا يَقْرَأُ سُرَةِ الْفُرْقَانِ عَلَى غَيْرِ مَا أَقْرَأُهَا Umar says that one day we were sitting and then Hisham started leading the salah and Hisham was reading Surah Al-Furqan different than the way that I was reading it so think about yourself in Ramadan when MashaAllah Hafidh Iqbal and Ahmad and Hamza start reading in those different qiraat and you go are you sure all right are you sure this is okay so with Umar he's listening to him and Umar never heard this recitation of Surah Al-Furqan and he's older than Hisham Hisham is like a younger brother to him and he says وَكِتُّ 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 Nuh 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 Nuh 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 عَلَى 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 إِقْرَأْ read so Hisham Ibn Hakim Nuh Hizam read Suratul Furqan to him and then the Prophet ﷺ said to Umar إِقْرَأْ read so Umar رضي الله عنه read and the Prophet ﷺ said هَكَذَا أُنزِلَتْ هَكَذَا أُنزِلَتْ this is how it was sent this is how it was sent إِنَّ الْقُرْآنَ أُنزِلَ عَلَىٰ سَبَعَةِ أَحْرُفٍ فَقْرَأُوا مِنْهُ مَا تَيَسَّرُ the Prophet ﷺ said the Qur'an 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 all right so this was the way that this all kind of functioned at the time but why do I mention Hisham? so this is a very famous narration about Hisham رضي الله عنه Ibn Hakim Nuh Hizam 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 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 أَشْهَدُ 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 dunya Allah will torture the people who torture people in this world إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُعَذِّبُ الَّذِينَ يُعَذِّبُونَ النَّاسَ فِي الدُّنْيَا Allah will certainly 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 Hakim al-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 subhanahu wa ta'ala اللهم انتق من الظالمين may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala avenge our brothers and sisters may Allah compensate them may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala overcome the enemies and the oppressors اللهم آمين may Allah have mercy and be pleased with Hakim al-Hizam رضي الله تعالى عنه and allow us to approach the dunya in the way that he approached the dunya seeking the akhirah may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala open our hearts to that which is righteous may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala free our minds free our hearts from greed may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to see the beauty of the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم and his example early on in our lives and to follow it to the best of our ability and may Allah عز و جل gather us with the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم with his family, with his companions, with the صديقون, the شهداء, the صالحون اللهم آمين وصلى الله وسلم وبركة على نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
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