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Lubaba Bint Al-Harith (ra): The First Woman After Khadijah (ra)
There is possibly no woman or man through whom the Seerah flows like Lubaba (ra). She is a part of everyone’s story, but her own story deserves its own reverence. The first woman after Khadijah (ra), and the great Aunt of the Ummah.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim. Bismillahir rahmanir rahim. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. wa ala adwana illa ala al zalimeen. wa ala aqeebatu lil muttaqeen. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka ala abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala anhi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Tasneeman kathira. Welcome back to another episode of the firsts. And inshallah ta'ala as we spoke about last week, Al-Arqam ibn Abi Al-Arqam and we said that there is a man, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, a young man who always used to be in the background, but his house became the most famous house in the history of Islam. We now move on to a woman who, subhanallah, the way that I would describe this woman is that she's a part of everyone's story, almost literally, but at the same time, she kind of disappears. She's in the background of all of these stories. And her story alone, you know, in and of itself, which is a remarkable story, is never given its due right. And obviously, you know, we're going to come across a few of those. And no matter how much we speak about these people, we will never give them the honor that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave them and that is deserved to them. But at the same time, you know, this is a woman that I'm particularly excited about covering because I want you to take a look at this family tree. And this is pieced together from various biographies. Okay. This woman is Lubaba bint al-Harith ibn Hazan. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with her. She is the wife of al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu and the mother of the famous Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu anhuma who of course was the first scholar, the first, al-Habr al-Ummah, the great scholar of Islam, the scholar of this Ummah, Abdullah ibn Abbas. Just look at how everything is tied through this woman. And I wanted you to actually be able to see a visual of it to realize that pretty much everyone
or many of the people that we speak about are related to her in some capacity. And that is because her father al-Harith ibn Hazan married multiple times and her mother Hind bint Auf also married at least four times. And so let's go through her family tree for a moment here. Through her relationship or with her relationship to her sisters, she becomes the sister-in-law of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam twice. So first you have Maymuna bint al-Harith radiallahu ta'ala anha, the last wife of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam who was her full sister, who married the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam only after he was able to come back to Mecca after having spent years away due to the persecution. So she is the sister of Maymuna radiallahu ta'ala anha, the full sister of Maymuna radiallahu anha, and the sister-in-law of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam through that route. Her half sister is Zainab bint Khuzaima radiallahu ta'ala anha, who is her half sister through her mother. So Zainab bint Khuzaima is the daughter of Hind bint Auf, and was the only other wife of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam to pass away in his lifetime other than Khadija radiallahu ta'ala anha. So Zainab bint Khuzaima, may Allah be pleased with her, Ummul Masakin, the mother of the poor, known for her charity, known for her generosity. She passed away only a few months after being married to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam in Medina. This is the half sister of Lubaba radiallahu ta'ala anha. So she's the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam's sister-in-law twice, as well as of course being married to the uncle of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, al-Abbas. And then you have Asma bint Umais and Salma bint Umais. Asma bint Umais is her half sister, again through her mother, through Hind bint Auf. And Asma bint Umais is someone we will have a whole episode to, because she was married to Ja'far, Abu Bakr, and Ali. May Allah be pleased with them all.
SubhanAllah, so this was a woman that married three of the greatest people to walk the face of the earth. And of course was widowed three times in the process. Her sister, Salma bint Umais, also the half sister of Lubaba, may Allah be pleased with her, was the wife of Hamza radiallahu ta'ala anhu. And then after Hamza was martyred, married to Shaddad ibn al-Had radiallahu ta'ala anhu. So married to two great companions as well. So before I go any further, the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam would refer to Lubaba, Maymunah, Asma, and Salma as al-akhawat al-mu'minat, the faithful sisters. So when you hear the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam actually say that name, al-akhawat al-mu'minat, the faithful sisters, he's talking about those four, may Allah be pleased with them, because of how early they came into Islam, and the support that they gave to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, and the way that they believed in Allah and his Messenger salallahu alayhi wasalam. So he referred to them as a group, those four, al-akhawat al-mu'minat, the believing sisters, the faithful sisters. And then you have Lubaba as-Sughra, the younger sister of Lubaba radiallahu ta'ala anha. And this is the mother of Khalid ibn al-Walid radiallahu ta'ala anhu. So she's also the aunt of Khalid radiallahu ta'ala anhu. And of course, as we mentioned, her husband al-Abbas, her children, Abdullah ibn Abbas, al-Fadl ibn Abbas, Ubaidullah ibn Abbas, Quthum ibn Abbas, all of them her children and more. And then lastly, a beautiful story which we'll speak about inshallah ta'ala towards the end. Al-Husayn ibn Ali radiallahu ta'ala anhuma, the great imam, the person who was so beloved to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, one of the most beloved people in the world to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam, was her son through breastfeeding, which we'll speak about inshallah ta'ala. So this is why some of the scholars say that this is the most noble mother-in-law in the history of Islam,
the most noble old person, elderly person, akram ajuz fil-Islam, because everything seems to connect through this woman. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with her. And, you know, she's literally the sister-in-law or the in-law of all of the khulafa rashideen in some capacity, except for Uthman radiallahu ta'ala anhu. But I'm sure that if you put this all together, you can find a link to Uthman radiallahu ta'ala anhu as well. So what's her story? Right? This is the family tree and this is the woman that's a part of everybody else's story. And you can just pull her name out of every biography through some sort of relationship. But what's her story? She's from a tribe by the name of Banu Hilal. Okay, so she's actually Lubaba al-Hilaliyya radiallahu ta'ala anhu, and she's referred to in that way. And Banu Hilal was a tribe that was particularly known for its ability to deal with the extreme circumstances of the desert. They were a Bedouin tribe. They were known for their ability to live under extreme conditions. They were experts in agriculture. So they were amongst those that would grow crops in difficult circumstances. They would, you know, take care of people's cattle and sheep and their camels. So they were known to be, you know, good shepherds as well. People would send out their children to live with Banu Hilal so that they could learn how to deal with rough circumstances. So if you wanted your child to learn the life of a Bedouin, to learn how to deal with difficult circumstances, you sent them to be amongst Banu Hilal. And some of the scholars say that's how Khalid radiallahu ta'ala anhu actually learned the skill set that he learned, the nephew of Lubaba. Because Khalid, you know, grew up amongst Banu Hilal. And that's something that you put on your resume at the time, right, that you grew up and you were raised amongst Banu Hilal because they knew how to deal with the difficulties of the desert.
So Lubaba radiallahu ta'ala anhu, bint al-Harith, she comes out of this reality and she has the characteristics of Banu Hilal. She is a tough, strong woman. A woman who we'll see throughout actually her biography was a courageous woman, was a fearless woman, was a woman with a presence that would instill fear even in the hearts of people like Abu Lahab. Because of the way that she carried herself radiallahu ta'ala anhu, she is the great auntie of the Muslim community. Okay, truly that's the best way to describe her subhanAllah when you talk about her relationship, not just to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, but to everyone else that we mentioned here. She is the aunt of the Muslim community, right. She holds a level of respect and izzah, an honor amongst the Muslims that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam fully recognized. But above all of that, Umm al-Fadl, who of course I should mention al-Fadl being her oldest child, her nickname is Umm al-Fadl. Umm al-Fadl Lubaba has a distinction that is higher than all of these things that are represented through these family ties. And that is that she took pride in being the first woman to convert to Islam after Khadijah radiallahu ta'ala anhu. She even says that she embraced Islam on the same day as Khadijah radiallahu ta'ala anhu. Now realize again, she's an aunt of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam through marriage, right. She's married to al-Abbas, and al-Abbas radiallahu alayhi wa sallam who was close to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and also not too much older than the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So had a relationship with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that was both one of an uncle and a nephew, and also one that was brotherly. But as soon as she heard of Islam, as soon as she heard through the family who was first notified that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam had gone through this experience, she knew the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's character. She loved the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam.
She admired the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. She immediately went to the Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam and embraced Islam. And as it's said in Seerah al-A'lam an-Nubula, Imam al-Dhahabi rahim Allah collects that no one, it was said that no one accepted Islam from the women before her except Khadija radiallahu ta'ala anha. And Ibn Hajar rahim Allah, he says that the only one that could have possibly accepted Islam before her might have been Fatima bint al-Khattab, the sister of Umar. May Allah be pleased with them all. So she immediately goes to the house of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to embrace Islam and she will support the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in his mission from the very start. She also had a very close relationship to Khadija radiallahu ta'ala anha. So she would speak of Khadija radiallahu anha extremely highly. And because of her relationship to Khadija and then her relationship to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam through her husband al-Abbas, she was one of those who used to go and sit with the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam both in Dar al-Arqam as well as in his own house. Right, so imagine in that home where the family of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, some of them are embracing Islam, you know, whether it's the children or the women or some of the men are embracing Islam and the community is growing around the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Lubaba was one of those who was distinguished to go and learn Islam from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam from his house as well as in Dar al-Arqam. And that is not something that many people had the ability to do, especially in Mecca, but being amongst Banu Hashim and having that closeness to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, she took advantage of that. And she is the first of al-akhawat al-mu'minat, the faithful sisters that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam used to refer to.
Ibn Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu, he speaks about this, Abdullah ibn Abbas, he speaks about this, this reality in Mecca. He says that, you know, as long as he remembered his mother was openly declaring her Islam and always in a state of Salah. So he said, kuntu ana wa ummi minal mustad'afina minal nisa'i wal wuldan, that I and my mother were from the mustad'afin, we were considered amongst the weak in Mecca, who embraced Islam and who suffered as a result of embracing Islam. Through Lubaba radiallahu ta'ala anhu, Umm al-Fadl, Abu Rafi' who was the servant of al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu, Abu Rafi' the free slave of al-Abbas also embraced Islam and began to practice secretly. So Lubaba was open about her Islam. Abu Rafi' who was the free slave of al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu, practiced Islam secretly. And of course al-Abbas himself radiallahu ta'ala anhu, you know, there's a difference of opinion as to when he embraced Islam. When did he embrace Islam privately? When did he publicly embrace Islam? Or at what point does he embrace his religion, the religion of his nephew and become who he became radiallahu ta'ala anhu. But it definitely was not as early as Lubaba. She used to make dua for al-Abbas to come to Islam and she used to make dua for him to abandon al-Riba. So she had a purity in that she hated the practice of usury. And this is something that we find from these noble people that their fitrah aligned with what was to come of revelation, their natural disposition, their natural inclination already aligned with what was to come through revelation. And Riba which really took the form of late fees and burdening people in debt through late fees more than anything else in Mecca.
Riba was something that she hated and Riba was something that al-Abbas was famous for. And that's why you see when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam abolishes the Riba, interest in usury, he particularly says those that owe to al-Abbas are forgiven for their interest in their usury. Why? Because al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu was a rich merchant. And he used to give out loans, he used to have a lot of debt that was owed to him. So she would make dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to guide her husband al-Abbas both to come to Islam and also to abandon Riba even though Riba would not be forbidden for years after she would pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for that. She would prompt al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu to embrace the religion of his nephew. Now I want to give you some context to this because it's important to understand the home dynamics here. What would make it easier, or not easier because I don't want to detract from her Islam, but what makes Lubaba radiallahu ta'ala anhu so open to Islam right away? And al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu so closed off initially. Al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu wanted to follow in the mold of Abu Talib. And so Abu Talib of course protected the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, took care of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, served in the best way that an uncle could. Gave his life protecting the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam once revelation came to him. The rest of the life of Abu Talib is shielding the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam from harm. And al-Abbas of course picked up the reins of that responsibility when Abu Talib passed away. And that's why al-Abbas radiallahu anhu is the one who took the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to take bay'ah, to take the pledge of the people of Medina, of the Ansar. Al-Abbas was the representative, he was the protector of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But al-Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhu was living in the mold of Abu Talib and that he wanted to be the protective uncle that was still loyal to his tribe.
So he's the Hashemi before anything else, the Qurashi, the Hashemi before anything else, the Hashemite who loves his nephew and takes care of his nephew. Not out of feeling that his nephew is a Prophet of Allah or not necessarily protecting him for that reason, but protecting him because that's what good uncles and good fathers do at that time. This is a tribal society. And so I'm going to be noble like my older brother Abu Talib and take care of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and almost express an indifference to his religion more than anything else. And that's, you know, Abu Talib did not used to speak against the religion of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. But it was almost with an indifference, like I don't care what his religion is, he's my nephew and I'm going to take care of him. So while Lubaba is becoming more and more, you know, convicted in her faith, Al Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu is holding back for some time from the religion of Islam. And this includes during the boycott, which was, of course, the most difficult period in the life of the tribe, at least, of Banu Hashem, a difficult time for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The effects of which, you know, Abu Talib would, of course, his death would be induced. Khadijah radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu would die as well due to the extreme circumstances, the hardships of the boycott that would be placed on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And of course, Banu Hashem and Banu Mutalib. And SubhanAllah, it was during this boycott that you found that the morale of the community was also, you know, taking a major hit. They've been through persecution. They've been through all sorts of hardship. They've seen the likes of Sumayya radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu killed. They have, you know, they have people that have escaped persecution to go to Abyssinia.
And now the cruelty of boycotting this tribe so that they could starve to death, so that they die, you know, away from the people, starve to death. They don't have basic goods. They die in, you know, while being stigmatized in that society, of course, and all of that pain is then thrust on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that you did this to your people, right? If you renounce your religion, then your people don't have to go through this anymore. This was a difficult time in the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and everyone from the family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had to go through this boycott, whether they accepted Islam or not. So the entirety of his tribe, Alaihi Salatu Wasalam, is suffering the consequences of this boycott. And it was here that Lubaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, Umm al-Fadl, may Allah be pleased with her, who was, you know, so close to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, so close to Khadija radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, watching Khadija radiAllahu Anhu, you know, die as a result of the boycott going through what was happening. It was here that Lubaba radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu became pregnant with a child. And in the midst of the most difficult days of the Prophet's life, Alaihi Salatu Wasalam, it was here during the boycott, actually, that Umm al-Fadl gave birth to Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhuma. So Abdullah Habr al-Ummah, the scholar of this Ummah, was born in the boycott, okay, during the boycott, during the most difficult days of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's life. Some of the scholars say that that's, you know, that is one of the reasons why the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam loved him so much. You know, when you're in difficult circumstances and Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la sends you a blessing like that, then you enjoy that blessing, you appreciate that blessing that much more.
And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you know, of course, was extremely sad, you know, and distressed by the situation of the boycott. But when he would see Abdullah ibn Abbas, he would, you know, be overjoyed. He'd play with him. He loved him so much because he came at a certain time as well. And SubhanAllah, when he was born, Lubaba asked for Abdullah to be brought to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to do the tahniq, which is to take the date and to rub it on the roof of your mouth and the roof of the child's mouth. And they didn't have any dates. SubhanAllah. So this was a tahniq, but there was no tamr, there was no dates. In the time of the boycott. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he took saliva from his mouth and he put it in the mouth of Abdullah without anything but his own saliva, mixing with the saliva of Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma. And Mujahid Rahimallah said, Abdullah is the only child with that distinction. SubhanAllah, who would grow up to become such an eloquent scholar, a person who the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would hold and say, Allahumma faqihhu fiddin wa allimhu ta'weel. And he would, you know, ask Allah to grant him knowledge and wisdom and understanding of the religion and proper interpretation. All of these things that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would make dua for Abdullah. And that's how the relationship starts between the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, who would always be a light for this ummah. OK, so SubhanAllah, that's where he was born. And, you know, of course, the years of Mecca went by. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam makes hijrah. And when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam makes hijrah, Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu stays behind with his family in Mecca. So at this point, Al-Abbas has not embraced Islam, at least publicly. OK, for sure, not publicly. He may have embraced it privately. And then the Battle of Badr comes. So Lubaba is experiencing now that she's experienced the death of Khadija
radiAllahu ta'ala anha. She's experiencing the separation from, you know, her nephew and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who, of course, was so beloved to her because of who he was, alayhi salatu wasalam. And, you know, now they're in Mecca and the Battle of Badr, you know, breaks out. And Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhum went out with the mushrikeen of Mecca. He went out with the disbelievers of Mecca, even though he was the one who protected the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam took the bay'ah, when he took the allegiance from the pledge from the people of Medina. Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhum still had to go out with the noble ones of Mecca to, you know, to this fight of the Battle of Badr. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he said before the the fight, before Badr actually would even take place, he said that there's some people from Mecca, they've been brought out by force. They have no interest whatsoever in fighting us. So if you see them, don't kill them. Instead, just just, you know, capture them and bring them to the prisoners. Right. But do not kill them because they're not here to kill you. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam mentioned Abu al-Bukhtari ibn Hisham and Al-Abbas. So he said these two men are not interested in fighting us. They're not there to kill us, but they were forced by their people to go out. So Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhum, surely, you know, he came out to the Battle of Badr and he did not raise his hand one time against the Muslims. He was captured quickly, brought to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had to still treat him in the same way that everyone else's relatives were being treated. He could not, Alaihi Salatu Wasallam, show favoritism to his uncle, even though he knew his uncle's heart was different. And so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
if he loosened the, you know, the chains on Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhum, the cuffs on Al-Abbas, he said loosen them for everyone. Right. It's not just Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhum. Everyone has to have it loosened up. And when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam collects ransom, of course, lets people leave. He cannot show favoritism to his uncle because he loves his uncle. And so when he goes to his uncle, he tells his uncle to ransom himself. Just, you know, you're a rich man, ransom yourself. So he, you know, Al-Abbas tells the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, I don't have that kind of money. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, Fa ayn al maal lathi dafantahu anta wa um al fadl? Where is the money that you and your wife, um al fadl, hid away? You stored away. And you said to her, if I'm killed in this battle, then save this for al fadl, Abdullah and Quthm. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is telling Al-Abbas about a conversation that he had with Lubaba, um al fadl in Mecca. And there is no way that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would know about that conversation. So Al-Abbas says, Wallahi ya RasoolAllah, I know that you are Allah's messenger, because this is not a thing that anyone except for um al fadl and myself knew. Just me and Lubaba had this conversation. There is no way that you would have known about this had you not been a messenger of Allah. So he told the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to, you know, if he could count the 20 uqiya, which was a weight that he took from him in the battle, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, I can't because that's the spoils of war. So what was taken in the battle itself doesn't count. And that's when Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu ransomed himself with a promise, with the money that he had hid away with um al fadl. And that's when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala actually revealed verse 70, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in surah number eight,
Ya ayyuhal ladheena aamanu, ya ayyuhal nabi qulli man fee aydikum min al asra an ya'lamallahu fee qulubikum khayra, yu'tikum khayran mimma uqhidaminkum wa yakhfir lakum wallahu ghafoorun raheem That, O Prophet of Allah, say to the captives that are in your hands, if Allah knows of any good in your hearts, then he will give you something better than what was taken from you and he will forgive you. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is most forgiving, most merciful. So in surah al-Anfal, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam to say to him that this will come back to you anyway, if you are a believer, right? So if you have iman, if you have faith in your heart, then anything that you gave to ransom yourself, know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will give you more than what was taken from you. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive you as well. And Allah is all forgiving, most merciful, most forgiving, most merciful. So let's get back to Um Al-Fadl, okay? Lubaba. This is this happens with Al-Abbas. He's out in Badr and, you know, he went out, forced to stand on the other side of his nephew, alayhi salatu wasalam, never intended to hurt him. He would never hurt the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam or hurt the Muslims and even was wrongly accused. And even was willing to be killed instead of kill or hurt on that day. But, you know, before Al-Abbas would get back to Mecca, those that were not taken prisoners made it back. OK, so Abu Sufyan and some of those that fought that did not die in Badr were able, of course, to flee from Badr and make it back to Mecca before the prisoners would make it back. So Abu Rafi, who we said was the freed slave of Al-Abbas, he narrates this incident. He says, I was sitting and Um Lubaba was sitting and Abu Lahab, Abu Lahab, none other than Abu Lahab, was pacing around the room. OK, so imagine the scene.
And he as he paces around the room, waiting for news of what happened at Badr, he sits down and he says he put his back on my back. I mean, you can just imagine the scene. Um Al-Fadl is sitting in the room. Abu Rafi is sitting there and Abu Lahab, you know, sits down and puts his back to the back of Abu Rafi, waiting for someone to come back from Badr and to give the news. Then he says Abu Sufyan approached. So Abu Lahab stood up, you know, obviously excited, wanting to know the news, anxious to know the news. And he said, what happened? He said, what happened? What happened to Abu Sufyan? Give me the news. What happened in the Battle of Badr? So Abu Sufyan, he said, you know, we went to fight them and we found that they were people that were small in number. But the quantity of those people did not match their courage. They killed us however they wanted to kill us. They captured us however they wanted to capture us, meaning we were completely overmatched by the Muslims, even though they were much smaller in number. And he said, and they had these huge men alongside of them that were fighting and we couldn't do anything to them. So they would strike us, but we couldn't strike them. So Abu Rafi, he got excited, obviously, because he's a Muslim and, you know, he was a vulnerable Muslim. No one was going to touch Lubaba because of who she was. But Abu Rafi, he saw this and he stood up and he started to say tilka wallahi hi al malaika, tilka wallahi hi al malaika, I swear by Allah, that's the angels, that's the angels. You fought the angels. You fought the angels. And he said that out of such excitement that Abu Lahab punched him and he said, Abu Lahab got on top of me and he started to beat me to a bloody pulp. So the blood started to flow from Abu Rafi as Abu Lahab was punching him. And, you know, he said he almost died.
Abu Lahab was a huge man and he was, you know, hitting him with all of his might, so angry just having heard the news of what happened in Badr. And at the same time, finding out Abu Rafi had the nerve to celebrate the victory of the Muslims over Quraysh on that day. So what does Lubaba do? This woman, Lubaba radiAllahu ta'ala anha, she grabs a tent pole and she takes the tent pole and she she cracks Abu Lahab right on his head, in his face with that pole. And Abu Lahab's head completely splits open and the blood starts to flow from Abu Lahab's skull. And she stands on top of Abu Lahab and she says, Aqawita alayhi ya Abu Lahab, istaghwayta alayhi an ghaaba anhu sayyidu Do you think you're stronger than him, O Abu Lahab? Are you taking advantage of him just because his sayyid is gone? You think Al-Abbas is gone so you could do whatever you want to Abu Rafi? He's not yours, you don't get to treat him like this. And she hit him so hard with the pole that Abu Lahab couldn't get up and the blood was flowing from his head. And instead, subhanAllah, just imagine the scene, right? This is Tabat Yada Abi Lahab in Wattab, the only enemy of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam whose punishment is, I mean, who's named alongside his punishment in the Quran. And this woman is the one that sends him to hell in that sense, right? Who pops him upside the head, who has the strength and the courage to hit him upside the head with a pole. And Abu Lahab couldn't do anything about it. And because of the severity of the crack in his head, you know, he immediately had to get treated. And subhanAllah, he died just a few days after that. So if you want to know the story of Abu Lahab, who Allah Azawajal tells us about his punishment, the one who stood up in front of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam at Safa and said, Tabban laka ya Muhammad alayhi salatu wasalam said to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam those horrible words, may you perish. And Allah responded to Abu Lahab that way.
The one who would strike him and kill him and put, you know, send him to that next phase of his existence, which we know is a miserable existence because of what Allah Azawajal has told us is none other than this woman Lubaba Umm al-Fadl radiAllahu ta'ala anha. So you're starting to see the Hilaliyya come out in her radiAllahu ta'ala anha. This is not a woman who was afraid of anyone or anything. This was a noble woman that carried herself in such a powerful way. Al-Abbas, of course, came back and she continues to prompt al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu to embrace Islam. And as we said, we don't know when exactly al-Abbas embraced Islam. Imagine this household that includes the child, Abdullah ibn Abbas, that family that's so beloved to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but they're held back in Mecca because they never actually formally or al-Abbas never formally embraced Islam. When did al-Abbas embrace Islam? Almost two decades after his wife, he finally publicly embraces Islam after the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, shortly before Fatah Mecca. So not long before the conquest of Mecca, al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu embraces Islam and moves along with his family to Medina to live with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for the last three years of his life. So I want to give this some context. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam married Maymunah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu as he was coming to Mecca for the first time. And this was one of the blessings, the gifts of Maymunah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and who she was. And al-Abbas was the one who married Maymunah, his sister-in-law, the sister of Lubaba, Umm al-Fadl, to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. After the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam married Maymunah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, they all moved back to Medina. OK, so Maymunah obviously is a wife of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu finally is able to settle in Medina. And Umm al-Fadl, Lubaba, may Allah be pleased with her, and all of her children are able to settle in Medina. We know what's going to happen with Abdullah ibn Abbas. For the next three years, you're going to have this young man from the age of 10 to 13 shadow the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wherever he goes and whatever he does. Right. So for the next three years, Lubaba will send off her son and her son will stay by the side of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam through everything. And so that's why you have the narration of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam riding with Abdullah ibn Abbas on the back of his riding animal and speaking to him and saying, Ya Ghulam inni wa'allimuka kalimat, Oh, young man, let me teach you some words. Ihfadallahi yahfadak ihfadallahi tajitutu jaahak until the end of the very famous hadith, be mindful of Allah and Allah will protect you. Be mindful of Allah and you will find him in front of you until the end of the hadith. So you start to find this connection, this this beautiful connection that develops between Abdullah, her son and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in those three years. You also have, you know, a person, a young man who asks permission to sleep in the house of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the night that his aunt, RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anha Maymuna is with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So you have Abdullah, her son, who will go and sleep at the feet of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Maymuna RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anha and will carefully observe the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's qiyamul layl his nighttime habits to narrate it to us and to teach us what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did with his qiyamul layl and how he woke up for his qiyamul layl. You have the young man that became the wudu of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He would fetch the water for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would intend to make wudu, he'd already find that the water has been prepared for him. He'd say, who did it?
Abdullah did it. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would hold him and make dua for him. So this is the son of Lubaba, RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anha and what he serves, the role that he will play in the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And obviously the mother, the wonderful mother, the aunt who is there, Lubaba Umm al-Fadl RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anha. She used to visit the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam frequently in Medina, just as she did in Mecca. And obviously there is a lot of time to catch up on. And her sister, Maymuna, is now married to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And she also did hajj with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So Hajjatul Wada' which was the farewell hajj of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Maymuna RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anha, I'm sorry, Umm al-Fadl RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anha accompanied the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And this is this is a very important point to understand the blessing of this family. Just like you have the narration of Abdullah on the back of the animal with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and then narrating the qiyam of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Most of the narrations or a large number of the narrations of the Prophet's Hajj alayhi salatu wasalam come from al-Fadl who was riding also on the back of the animal with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam throughout the Hajj. So throughout the Hajj, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam kept al-Fadl with him. And so we have all of these narrations about the one Hajj that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did in Islam through al-Fadl. Just as we have all of these narrations through Abdullah, both of them raised by this magnificent woman, Um al-Fadl Lubaba radiAllahu ta'ala anha. You have a famous incident that happened in Hajj that, you know, that Um al-Fadl is directly behind. And, you know, subhanAllah, if you if you've ever been to Hajj, you know that the heat can sometimes really, really become a burden. And I want you to imagine being in Arafah
and under the hot sun of Arafah and not knowing whether you should be fasting or not. So in Medina, they started fasting Arafah well before, right? I mean, they've been fasting Arafah now for seven, eight years before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Hajj. And now they're making Hajj with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And this is the first Hajj of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with them. And they notice that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has not eaten or drank anything. And that he's just making dua. He's exerting himself in dua. He put his hands up, alayhi salatu wasalam, after salah, and he continued with his hands up. Never once do his hands come down, alayhi salatu wasalam. And so the sahaba are, you know, coming around the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. They don't want to interrupt his dua. Look at the adab that they have, the manners that they have with the Messenger alayhi salatu wasalam. They don't want to interrupt him and ask the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, should we be fasting or not? And at the same time, they're getting dehydrated. It's hot. They don't know if they can break their fast or not. Umm al-Fadl, Lubaba, may Allah be pleased with her. She sees the scene happening. And so she takes a, you know, she takes a glass of milk, laban, literally, and she hands it to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, so that there could be an intervention without there having to be an intervention. If the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam turned it away, then obviously they know they're supposed to be fasting. And this was after Asr, so they've already spent hours wondering if they should be fasting on the day of Araf or not. When Umm al-Fadl hands him the glass, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam knows exactly what is happening. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he raises his glass to the sky, and then he drinks from it, alayhi salatu wasalam. And as soon as he did that, everyone starts to take a drink because they knew now that they didn't have to fast on the day of Arafah, if they were actually in Arafah.
And that was the wisdom and the participation of Umm al-Fadl radiAllahu ta'ala anha as well, who had that vision, who understood what was happening and saw a way and enjoyed a closeness to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to get the Sahaba out of that bind. The last thing that I'll mention here is the beautiful story behind her connection to Al-Husayn ibn Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, the beloved one of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so if you look back at this map, you end up now with this one connection, Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. How is it that she's able to nourish Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu? Ibn Sa'ad narrates this, and this is narrated in other places as well, that she had a dream one night, and she told the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the dream the next day, and this was shortly, this was right after they moved to Al-Madinah. She told the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ya'las al-Alaihi, I had a dream. An interesting dream. She said, I had a dream that a part of your flesh was in my home. It was an interesting dream, right? So part of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was in my house, but not the whole of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And so when she said that to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, she didn't know what to make of that. She said, Fatima radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is going to give birth to a child, and you are going to give birth to a child, and you will breastfeed your child as well as the child of Fatima. And who was the child? Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So it was a bushra, a glad tidings, that she would breastfeed a child from Fatima radiAllahu anhu, and at that point, actually Quthum was already, was born before Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So you will breastfeed a child along with Quthum, your child. So this was a late birth in the life of Umm al-Fadl, right? This was not an expected birth. It was a late birth, but SubhanAllah,
she had flowing milk at this point. And you also just notice that the way the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam spoke, you know, of Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and you're going to see, you know, an incident that comes out of this as well. But, you know, just the dream that a piece of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam was in the house of Umm al-Fadl, and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam said, Husayn radiAllahu anhu is from me, right? Like Husayn is a piece of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, radiAllahu anhu wa alayhi wa sallam. I mean, it shows you the love the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam had for this family, which we spoke about when we talked about Ali and Fatima and their children. May Allah be pleased with them all. So the dream came true. Fatima radiAllahu anha gave birth to Al-Husayn, and Umm al-Fadl was the mother of Al-Husayn through breastfeeding. She would nurse Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu to assist Fatima radiAllahu ta'ala anha in her task of being a young mother. And one day, she is carrying Al-Husayn. So just imagine this beautiful scene, put yourself in Medina. She's carrying Al-Husayn, and of course, when the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam used to see Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would be so excited, right? You saw Al-Hassan wa Al-Husayn, the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would immediately become grandpa, right? I mean, he'll get down from the manbar, he'll sit them on his lap, they'll climb his back in sujood. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would run to them, they would run to him, he would hold them, he would always be seen carrying them, he would kiss them, he would laugh with them. There was a love that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam had for them that was very special, right? So imagine the scene, here comes Umm al-Fadl, she's carrying young Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam sees her, sees her and sees him and starts to cuddle, Al-Husayn starts to play with him, starts to throw him. And then guess what? Al-Husayn urinates all over the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. This is an actual story, right? Al-Husayn radiAllahu anhu urinates
on the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. So the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, you know, tells Umm al-Fadl to hold him while he could clean that urine. And Umm al-Fadl, she spanks Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu for doing that to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, for urinating on the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. And the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam says to her, because when she spanked Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he started to cry, the baby started to cry. The Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam actually says to her, subhanAllah, he says to her, athaytani fee ibni, you've hurt me with my son, right? You made my son cry and you've hurt me by hurting my son. May Allah have mercy on you. SubhanAllah, this is what the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam is saying about Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu with just this tap, right? Like just for him crying as a baby in a very natural incident, right? And so then what then, subhanAllah, of those who murdered Al-Husayn radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, right? And this is something that we have to claim. It's a part of our history. It's something we have to hold in our hearts as well, right? And how hurt the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam would be by that, as Ibn Al-Jawzi rahimAllah makes a connection to this as well. So, you know, she lightly, she spanks Al-Husayn, the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam says, athaytani fee waladi, you know, you hurt me by hurting him. You shouldn't have done that. It's okay. And the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam gives the hukum, the ruling, that when a boy who is exclusively breastfed urinates, then you can sprinkle, you can sprinkle the area of the water and that there's a distinction between the urine of the baby boy and the urine of the baby girl. Some of the ulama, they talked about wisdoms of that, you know, that there is a loosening of the restrictions when it comes to the urine of the baby boy, as opposed to the baby girl, as long as the baby boy is not eating solids yet. And I'm not gonna get into the fiqh of baby urine here. All right, just to understand the context of this, but, you know, appreciating the story of this,
that this was the closeness that Lubaba Um Al-Fadl, radiAllahu ta'ala anha, had to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and his family, right? Literally, the mother of Al-Husayn, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, through breastfeeding. And this is where you find that narration that becomes a famous narration to be used in the books of fiqh, is through this incident between Um Al-Fadl and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, and his beloved Husayn, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So this was the way that she lives around him. Other than that, what we have narrated about her and narrated through her, she narrated about 30 ahadith from the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. And this is collected through, of course, her son, Abdullah ibn Abbas, through Anas ibn Malik, through Umair, through some of those famous companions. But there's really only one hadith, which is the famous hadith, which is the hadith we just mentioned, subhanAllah. That incident between Um Al-Fadl and Husayn and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, which shows her closeness to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. This woman lived, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, Um Al-Fadl, until the Khilafah of Uthman, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and she died in the Khilafah of Uthman, radiAllahu anhu, and was prayed upon and buried in Al-Baqi' May Allah subhanAllah be pleased with her and have mercy upon her and reward her for all of the support she gave to our beloved messenger salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and so many early luminaries of Islam. May Allah subhanAllah ta'ala allow us to meet with the great aunt of this ummah, you know, who bore the scholar of this ummah, Abdullah ibn Abbas, and gave us so much through her children. May Allah subhanAllah ta'ala reward her for all of her sacrifices and all of those sabiqoon al-awwaloon. Allahumma ameen. InshaAllah ta'ala I will see you all next week. JazakumAllahu khayran
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