As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. wa al-'udwani ila ala al-dhalimeen. wa al-'aqeebatu lil-muttaqeen. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka ala abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin sallallahu alaihi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim tasliman kathira. I want to welcome you all back to the first, we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to join us with our beloved mothers and our beloved Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam ala firdawsil a'la Allahumma ameen. Tonight insha'Allah ta'ala we're going to be covering the last of our mothers that we have a full lecture about, Maimuna bint al-Harith radiyallahu ta'ala anha. And I actually wanted to say subhanAllah that I thought about whether or not I could do a whole lecture on her radiyallahu ta'ala anha or if it would have to be one of the first shorts like we did with Zainab bint Khuzaimah radiyallahu ta'ala anha because there isn't too much information on her. But I think that the value of her story not just in who she was radiyallahu ta'ala anha but also in the seerah that we learned through her story radiyallahu ta'ala anha. So if you think about the last few weeks as we've covered them, we learned seerah through the life of Zainab bint Jahsh radiyallahu ta'ala anha, a critical moment in the revelation of the Qur'an. Obviously through Aisha radiyallahu ta'ala anha, tons of seerah. Through Hafsa radiyallahu anha, there were very specific seerah events that we went through. And then we went through Juwayriya radiyallahu anha and her story is inherently tied to the Ghazwa of Ban al-Mustaliq, the battle of Ban al-Mustaliq. And then last week, who did we cover? Just so I know you all are still awake. Safiyyah radiyallahu ta'ala anha, who is inherently tied to Khaybar, right? And tonight insha'Allah ta'ala we're going to be covering the story of Maimunah bint al-Harith radiyallahu ta'ala
anha and her story is inherently tied to Hudaybiyyah, the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah and the first entrance of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to Mecca after many years, after escaping persecution sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So before we get to Maimunah bint al-Harith radiyallahu ta'ala anha, I wanted to actually talk about her tribe. And she comes from one of the most intriguing and interesting families in the entire seerah and we covered the life of her sister through this lens as well. Her sister is Umm al-Fadl Lubaba bint al-Harith radiyallahu anha. Lubaba is basically referred to as the mother of the companions. Why? Because Lubaba radiyallahu anha is not just the immediate mother of Abdullah bin Abbas radiyallahu anhuma but the amount of people that are related to this family from the companions of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is tremendous. So I'm going to actually pull up a chart that we pulled up for Lubaba radiyallahu ta'ala anha instead of recreating it and talk a little bit about who Maimunah is in regards to the family that she comes from. So both Maimunah and Lubaba are daughters of a woman by the name of Hind bint Auf. And Hind bint Auf is known in the history books as akramu ajoozin fil ard, the most noble elderly person in the history of the world, specifically from the women in regards to her in-laws. She's the only person to be the mother-in-law of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam twice. She also at some point is the mother-in-law of Abu Bakr, Ja'far, Ali, Hamza, and many other of the noble companions. Now she doesn't live to see all of these in-laws but in regards to who she's related to, she's known as the most noble woman in history by virtue of lineage. So when you talk about her in-laws, again being the mother-in-law of the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, through two different ways. So if you look at this chart, you'll see Hind bint Auf in the middle. And Hind bint Auf, there's a discrepancy in history whether she lived to see the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or not, meaning whether she lived to see him as a messenger of Allah, whether she lived to see Islam or not. So some of the books will mention her as a Muslim, others will say that she died before the advent of Islam. But this woman, Hind bint Auf, was married four times, at least four times, and she had at least nine children, okay? And then you talk about the in-laws and the grandchildren, it gets very interesting. So this very neat chart that's easily understandable that we put together should put it all inshallah ta'ala in context for you. Her first husband, Al-Jazir al-Zubaydi, and she has from him Mahmiya, and Mahmiya is a companion of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam who passes away after the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So, not a very well-known companion, but one companion. Then after him, she marries Al-Harith ibn Hazm. Al-Harith is the father of Lubaba bint Al-Harith, who is the mother of Abdullah ibn Abbas, and she is known as the first woman to embrace Islam after Khadija radiyallahu ta'ala Anha. In fact, Lubaba radiyallahu anha says, I embraced Islam on the same day as Khadija. First woman to embrace Islam after Khadija radiyallahu ta'ala anha is Lubaba radiyallahu ta'ala anha, the mother of Abdullah ibn Abbas. You have her sister, Maymunah bint Al-Harith radiyallahu anha, our mother who we're going to be speaking about today. And then you have some children that are not very well-known that likely passed away before Islam. Then she marries, after Al-Harith ibn Hazm, Khuzayma ibn Al-Harith
al-Hilali. And from Khuzayma ibn Al-Harith, she has one daughter named Zaynab, Zaynab bint Khuzayma, our mother radiyallahu ta'ala anha, who passed away six months after being married to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. So, she has another daughter that marries the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam as well. Then she marries, after him, Umais. And Umais is the father of Asmaa bint Umais. Asmaa bint Umais is the same woman who married Ja'far. Then when Ja'far was martyred, she married Abu Bakr. Then when Abu Bakr was martyred, she married Ali. Subhanallah. So, that's one woman, and that's also her daughter. And then she has Salma bint Umais, who is the wife of Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with them. And Awn ibn Umais, who dies in the Battle of Al-Hara, who's also a Muslim, radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, ajma'in. And then when you continue all the way to the side, you'll see that there's a solid line between Al-Harith and Fakhita bint Amr, radiyallahu ta'ala anha. So, these are the stepchildren of Hind bint Auf. Lubaba as-Sughra is the one who I want you to pay attention to, because Lubaba as-Sughra was married to Al-Waleed ibn Al-Mughira, and they had the child Khalid ibn Al-Waleed, radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. So, basically, the same woman, Hind bint Auf, was the mother-in-law of the Prophets, I assume, twice, Abu Bakr, Hamza, Ja'far, Ali, and also, by extension, the grandmother-in-law of Al-Hassan wa'l-Husayn, radiyallahu ta'ala anhum, ajma'in. So, she has a pretty amazing family tree, and I show you this, not because I expect any of you to remember a single word of it, but just to show you the way that these tribes used
to marry together. Now, this tribe is known as the tribe of Banu Hilal. If you ever hear the attribution Al-Hilali, Banu Hilal, a very famous tribe amongst the Arabs, Banu Hilal are known as the in-laws of Banu Hashim. So, Banu Hashim and Banu Hilal have many inter-marriages. I'm giving you this to give you a little bit of context to the marriage of Maimunah to the Prophet ﷺ. Banu Hilal was a distant tribe from Banu Hashim, but from the overall umbrella of Quraysh, and till today, by the way, Banu Hilal, do we have any Moroccans here? Anyone from Maghreb? No one from Maghreb? We just made the masjid look really, really bad on our YouTube stream. We welcome all Moroccans here. The whole ummah is Moroccan after the World Cup, right? Much of Morocco are descendants of Banu Hilal. Much of Morocco are descendants of Banu Hilal, because if you read the history of Abu Zayd Al-Hilali, about 300,000 of those who settled in Maghreb are actually descendants of this one tribe of Banu Hilal. Some of the most famous names, in fact, probably the most famous name from North Africa is Umar Al-Mukhtar Al-Manifi Al-Hilali. Umar Al-Mukhtar, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, when I say radiyaAllahu anhu, knowing he's not a companion, but we know how great he is in our history, and it's okay to say that about some of the mujaddideen, the revivers of our history, is a descendant of this tribe, Taqiyyuddin, Muhammad Taqiyyuddin Al-Hilali, a great scholar, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la have mercy on him, also a descendant of this tribe, and again, entered under Abu Zayd Al-Hilali, and by the way, you also have some of them in Andalusia, who then migrated over to Al-Maghreb, as well as Al-Iraq, but anyway, a pretty big tribe, and they are the tribe that is married to Banu Hashim. The
in-laws of Banu Hashim are Banu Hilal. They were primarily a nomadic tribe, and they were known for having a lot of skills, living in the desert, and living out in the open, so they used to be a tribe that used to rear some of the warriors of Quraysh, and prepare them for battle. Amongst them, of course, Khalid Ibn Al-Warid radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, who we will talk about in some detail. Now, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had a title for the sisters that we mentioned. He called them Al-Akhawat Al-Mu'minat, the Believing Sisters. Al-Akhawat Al-Mu'minat. So if you hear the term Al-Akhawat Al-Mu'minat, the Believing Sisters, it is referring to the following. It's referring to Lubaba bint al-Harith, Maymunah bint al-Harith, Zaynab bint Khuzayma, Asma bint Umays, and Salma bint Umays. Lubaba, the mother of Abdullah ibn Abbas, Maymunah, the wife of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Zaynab bint Khuzayma, who died earlier, also was one of the wives of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Asma bint Umays, who was the wife of Ja'far Abu Bakr and Ali, and Salma bint Umays, who was the wife of Hamza, and then the wife of Shaddad. So these are the Believing Sisters in Islam, and you can go back and pause the stream, and inshaAllah ta'ala you can look at that chart, and you can memorize those names, because they are all powerful women in Islam, and from the early believers in the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So we said, Umm al-Fadl, Lubaba, used to pride herself in saying that I became Muslim the same day as Khadijah. That she became Muslim immediately after Khadijah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, and Abdullah ibn Abbas radiyaAllahu anhuma says that my mother was openly declaring her Islam and always in salah from the very beginning, meaning as long as I can remember her, from the very beginning of Islam, and
of course Ibn Abbas was not alive when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam first received the message, but he remembered her as a Muslim throughout, and we know that her husband, al-Abbas radiyaAllahu anhum, ta'akhar, he was delayed in embracing the message of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So let's talk about Maymunah through the lens of the biography of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah is six years after hijrah. Six years after the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the companions from Mecca had left Mecca with a severely bitter taste in their mouths. They had not done Umrah for six years, they had not seen their homeland for six years, all they had done was withstand some of the major attacks that were being prepared from Mecca constantly over and over again, from Badr to Uhud to Khandaq and everything in between, the skirmishes in between. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam sees the dream of him entering into Mecca and he sees it as a bushra, he sees it as a glad tidings. We know that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the companions make their way towards Mecca and they get stopped at Hudaybiyyah which is not that far from Mecca and there the proceedings take place where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam enters into the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. Now we know that many of the companions were heartbroken that they couldn't do Umrah that year and that they had to wait an entire year to be able to do Umrah once again and the very famous story that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when he commanded the companions to exit the ihram, they did not move and then Umm Salama radiyaAllahu ta'ala told the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that if you go out and you shave your head and you sacrifice that they will know that this is the end of this Umrah. This is also where Bay'at al-Ridwan
took place, the pledge of the companions under the tree who Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said he was pleased with and this is the year that Allah opened the doors of da'wah for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. It was a fatah, it was a conquest not through military means but in that the treaty secured the ability of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to call people to Islam within the region of Arabia and beyond without being threatened or hindered by any type of military force from Mecca. Seven years after hijrah the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam does what's known as the Umrah of Qadha, the make-up Umrah of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And this is where the story of Maimunah is going to come in. And who can tell me what month in the seventh year after hijrah the Umrah of Al-Qadha, the make-up Umrah of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam took place. I'll give you a clue, we're in it right now. So this month is basically the anniversary month and in fact we find that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam made ihram for all four of his Umrahs in the month of Al-Qadha and three of his Umrahs were performed in this particular month preceding Dhul-Hijjah. So he comes SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in the seventh year after hijrah with two thousand of the companions. This was one of the happiest moments of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's life. Can you imagine the joy of these people who had been run out of Mecca seven years ago and had not seen their homeland for seven years and they left fleeing death, right? Including the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he was pursued and threatened with assassination SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam until the very moment. And you remember the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's last moments when he's leaving Mecca that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam turns around and he looks
at Mecca and he cries and he says, oh Mecca, you are the most beloved of Allah's earth to me and had your people not expelled me I would have never left you. Well SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam loved Mecca. And now seven years later the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gets to enter back in and this is part of the treaty that was made with the people of Mecca. They had three days to do Umrah. Now when they come in, they come in with a ton of joy. And Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is also not naive and he knows that these people have broken treaties before. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam arrives at Mecca with two thousand. He leaves two hundred of the two thousand armed but on the outskirts of Mecca. So they stay about eight miles away from the Haram. Why? Because that's obviously a means of protection to ward off an attack should they break the treaty and attack the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the companions while they are doing Umrah. So they come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and they tell the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that we know you, As-Sadiq Al-Amin, the trustworthy and truthful one to never break a treaty. And you said that you would do Umrah unarmed and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam assured them that these men would stay on the outskirts of Mecca. They weren't going to perform Umrah while they had their weapons. Right? That this was a safety precaution and that this wasn't breaking the treaty because they're staying on the outside of the Haram. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam enters with 1,800 companions at one time. This was a place where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had left with a hundred or so companions persecuted and now 1,800 are entering and they're doing Talbiya out loud. And the agreement was that Quraysh had to go outside of the Haram to give them the Haram all to themselves. I want you to just kind of understand the atmosphere a bit. So Quraysh has to go to the hills and they're watching from the mountains and they're watching
with a lot of anger. Why? Because the Muslims are coming forward and saying, لَبَيْكَ اللَّهُمَّ لَبَيْكَ لَا شَرِيْكَ لَكَ لَبَيْكَ Right? That we associate no partners with Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. Sayyidina Ali Ibn Abi Talib RadhiAllahu Ta'ala Anhu is coordinating between the Meccans and between the Muslims. This gives you a little bit of insight into why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that we should uncover our shoulders and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that the first three rounds let the men walk fast because it was a display of strength. Right? So the men come in until today almost marching. Right? You're supposed to. Now of course you're doing this in place because you can't move very fast when you're doing tawaf because of the amount of people. But the idea was that the Muslims came in and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam enjoined the men to walk very fast and to show strength as they chanted the talbiya in the first three rounds of tawaf and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam taught to run in the dip between, in the sa'i. A lot of people wonder those two green lights. That is where there used to be a dip in the valley. So you were to show strength when you were going in and out of that place. I know that a lot of people think that's the only place Hajar ran. It actually has nothing to do with that. This is the place where the valley used to dip in the time of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and so the men were to show that strength going in and coming out, rising from the valley in sa'i. They then shaved their heads at Marwah and they sacrificed 60 camels and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he goes to the outskirts and he and the 1800s stay behind and the 200 men leave behind their arms and they go and they do umrah as well within that three day period. So this is a really joyous occasion
for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and the companions. It's a dream come true, literally fulfilled and the atmosphere is one of joy and it's also a moment of da'wah in and of itself. Some of the Meccans are watching this and their hearts are being moved towards Islam because they are seeing in front of them the difference between the Muslim umrah and the way that they were doing their pilgrimages with their idols. And so you'll start to see that in this incident some of the people come to Islam just by witnessing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and his companions in umrah. Now, enter Maymunah bint al-Harith radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. Maymunah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha's name was, who can tell me the name that's been changed the most times? Barrah, good. Barrah is the name that we've seen has been changed over and over and over again. As the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, tuzakki nafsaha, this is a means of overly claiming purity. Barrah means free from sin, right, or free from any misdoing. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam forbade the name Barrah. Her name was also Barrah bint al-Harith, which was a common name amongst the Arabs. She had two husbands before the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Her first husband was a man by the name of Mas'ud ibn Amr al-Thaqafi. And Mas'ud ibn Amr al-Thaqafi divorced her before Islam. And then her second husband was a man by the name of Husband. Some of the narrations say a man by the name of Huwaytib, Huwaytib ibn Abd al-Uzza, or, and it could be the same person, Abu Rahm, Abu Rahm ibn Abd al-Uzza, Abu Rahm ibn Abd al-Uzza. And Abu Rahm ibn Abd al-Uzza was one who opposed the message of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam from the early days, and he died as a non-Muslim. So it's not clear when Maymunah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha accepted Islam, but at some point she accepted Islam.
At some point she accepted Islam, and the implication is that it was later than her sisters that she embraces Islam, but at some point she embraces Islam, probably because of the circumstances that she is in, being married to someone who is opposed to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Mecca at that time. Now her situation now, being divorced and now widowed two or three times, and not particularly known for her beauty, and not in a position of wealth, and not in a position of power, is that she's considered from the Mustad'ifat, she's considered from the weak ones of Mecca. Why? Because she really doesn't have any major means of protection. The closest thing that she has to protection are her brother-in-laws, al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, and Ja'far radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, at some point, but of course Ja'far is not settled in Mecca, only al-Abbas is settled in Mecca. And then interestingly enough, her nephew Khalid ibn al-Wareed, her nephew is Khalid ibn al-Wareed radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, Khalid is not a Muslim yet, and of course was one of the staunch opponents to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, following in the example of his father, was one of the first to oppose Islam, but Khalid was very close to Maimunah. Alright, and this is an important part of the story, because it's impossible for us to capture in text how these marriages softened hearts and solidified certain alliances, and maybe hastened the Islam of certain people. So, she's someone who doesn't really have anyone to be by her side, to protect her, she's vulnerable, and again, she's not particularly sought after for marriage. So she has a very interesting story, she basically starts to tell her relatives that she's interested in being married to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And so she tells Ja'far radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, Ja'far radiAllahu Anhu being her brother-in-law, that she would wish to have nasab, she would wish to have a family tie to Banu Hashim, the way her sisters did. She's Hilaliyya, she's from Banu Hilal, and all of her sisters are Hilali as well, they're from Banu Hilal and they're all married to Hashimites. So it's her gentle way of saying to Ja'far, like, do you think the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would take interest in someone like me? I wish I could be related to Banu Hashim the way my sisters are. She also tells Umm al-Fadl, her sister Lubaba, that she's interested in the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, would the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam marry me? And then finally, Ja'far radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu goes to al-Abbas radiAllahu Anhu and tells al-Abbas that Maymunah is interested in the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Of course her name was Barra bint al-Harith, and do you think the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would marry her? And again, she's considered one of the Mustada'ithat, the weak ones of Mecca. She's in a very precarious situation, being in Mecca without a husband, and Allah knows if she's going to be married in that situation or not. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is there for Umrah, right? The Umrah of Al-Qadha, and it's a joyous occasion. Al-Abbas goes to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So al-Abbas would be who to her? I know you guys lost the family chart. How is al-Abbas related to her? Someone tell me, please. Or else I'm going to repeat this whole lecture on you all. Brother-in-law. Lubaba is the oldest sister. She is the youngest sister, Lubaba to Maymunah. And basically, now al-Abbas, her oldest brother-in-law, is going to come to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, his nephew,
and tell the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that Barra is interested in marriage. Now it's important to note that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not like to turn away anything from al-Abbas. Al-Abbas was someone who the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam held near and dear to his heart, and he did a lot for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Anytime al-Abbas makes a request of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, in general, that means the request is going to be taken with great honor. So for example, it was al-Abbas that came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and told the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Abu Sufyan is a man who is very proud, so when he entered into Mecca, he basically gave the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam the way that he could address Abu Sufyan to make him feel respected and honored, to bring the hearts together. So al-Abbas goes to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he tells him about his sister-in-law, Darra bint al-Harith, that she has been widowed once again by the death of Abu Rahm. She is alone, and she is no longer sought after, and he says to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Are you interested in marrying her, O Messenger of Allah? Would you marry her, O Messenger of Allah? And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam accepted that proposal. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, it appears that this message came to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam before he actually entered into Mecca, or in the very beginning of his Umrah. Either he is meeting al-Abbas, making the preparations of Umrah, or he has entered into Umrah, and his uncle comes to him and basically says that she is proposing herself in marriage to you, O Messenger of Allah, would you take her as your wife? And she is the woman, according to multiple Mufassireen, Qatada and Az-Zuhri, amongst others, that Allah Azawajal is speaking about when he says, وَامْرَأَةً مُؤْمِنَةً إِنْ وَهَبَتْ نَفْسَهَا لِلنَّبِيِّ So if you read this in the Qur'an, a believing woman who presents herself to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
When you are looking at the wisdoms of the marriage of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to different women, in this situation, you have a woman that presents herself to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and Allah Azawajal praises her by virtue of calling her Mu'mina, as she is from Al-Akhawat, Al-Mu'minat, the believing sisters. So Ja'far radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, is coming to her with the news that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has accepted her proposal. She is waiting for the answer. She knows that her uncle has gone to speak to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and she knows that Ja'far, and Ja'far is so beloved to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, has gone to speak to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. She is waiting on her camel from a distance to hear the news of whether or not the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has accepted her proposal. So Ja'far radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu comes to her, and she could tell from his coming that he had good news, and Ja'far radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu says that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has accepted the proposal. She gets down from her camel in joy, and she says, البعير ومن عليها لرسول الله that the camel, and that which is on the camel is for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Like I want to even gift my camel to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, because I have nothing else to express my joy that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would marry me. So this is the month of Dhul Qa'dah, seven years after Hijrah, and what year are we in, Hijri right now? Fourteen what? Fourteen forty-four, good. So how many years does that make? I'm not making you all do math right now, I don't feel like doing math either, I just got off of flight. But you get the point, okay. So it's not, subhanAllah, it is not that far removed from the death of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, right? This is towards the end of the life of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, towards the end of his mission, and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam accepts her proposal,
and Ibn Abbas SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam narrates that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam married her in Ihram. Which is why the longest portion of Maimunah's biography is the debate about whether the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam married her in Ihram or not. Okay? Because it's a serious fiqhi problem, because we know that when you go to Umrah and Hajj, you can't get married when you're in Ihram. Right? And I used to laugh when I used to go through the rules, the restrictions in Umrah and Hajj, like you know you can't get married, and then someone actually tried to pull it off one year with me, and I was like, okay, now I actually have to drive home this point that you know it's haram to do a nikah while you're in Ihram. You can't conduct a marriage while you're in Ihram. So the scholars debated about whether or not the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam actually married her in Ihram or not. And this is a long debate in the books of fiqh, and Ibn Abd al-Barr and Ibn al-Qayyim and Zad al-Ma'ad and others, basically take the narrations from Abu Rafi' who was older than Ibn Abbas, as well as her narration herself that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam actually married her after he did tahallul. So after he left the state of Ihram. Abdullah ibn Abbas was young at the time, so when he's saying it, right, that is his perception, but Maimunah herself has a narration where she says that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam married me after he got out of his Ihram, after his tahallul, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had three days to do Umrah, and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam recognizes this as an opportunity, as he always does, to try to bring the hearts of the non-Muslims of Mecca to Islam, to try to mend ties. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam basically suggests, and this is according to some of the books of Sira, that they delay his time in Mecca, and they do the wedding in Mecca, the waleema in Mecca, so that the non-Muslims of Mecca can attend, the powerful ones of Quraysh, and especially from Banu Hilal, and this can be a moment of coming together. Instead, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was rejected, and was told, we don't care for your waleema,
we want you out of Mecca, this has been enough of you. Three days was enough, and this was obviously deeply hurtful to them, to see, after trying to eliminate the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam all these years, the Muslims coming and doing talbiyah, and performing their Umrah. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam goes to a place, which is known as Sarif. You're going to have to remember this place InshaAllah Ta'ala, because it's going to come back up in the story InshaAllah Ta'ala. Sarif is a place outside of the Haram, it's about 13 miles away from the Kaaba, from Al-Masjid Al-Haram, 13 miles away, right on the road to Medina. Meaning when you drive in or out of Mecca, to Medina, you're going to pass through Sarif, inevitably. It's on the way to Medina, regardless. So basically the idea is, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam chooses, the place that's closest to the Haram, but still not violating the treaty, where he had three days SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam to perform the Waleemah. And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam performs the Waleemah, the wedding, over there. Some of the non-Muslim men and women still attended, and amongst those relatives, who was not yet Muslim, or who had just become Muslim, was a Hilali man by the name of Khalid bin Walid, So here's where it gets very interesting, and I know that almost every time we have a lecture for the first, there are comments, when are you going to do Khalid bin Walid? When are you going to do Khalid bin Walid? Khalid, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, was later on, so we have to respect the timeline that we're going by. But many people think Khalid bin Walid, radiAllahu anhu, became Muslim and fathed Mecca. And that's not true. Khalid, radiAllahu anhu, actually embraced Islam in this time period, of the Qada'a Umrah of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And this is derived by insinuation, that some of the scholars mentioned, that perhaps the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's marrying Maimunah, radiAllahu anhu, actually catalyzed somewhat the Islam of Khalid bin Walid. That Khalid, radiAllahu anhu, was intelligent,
he was already close to becoming Muslim, but the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam marrying Maimunah, brought him even closer to Islam, and perhaps was a part of his embracing Islam. But we know that Khalid, radiAllahu anhu, embraced Islam, in this incident, or within this incident, of the Qada'a Umrah, the make-up Umrah of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, seven years after Hijrah. So they held a Waleema in Sarif, with the Muslims that came for Umrah, and obviously this added to the joy of the Muslims, that came from Al-Madinah to perform Umrah, and this was a means of softening the hearts, as we said, of those that were still left over in Mecca. Al-Abbas, radiAllahu anhu, acted as the representative, of Maimunah, radiAllahu anhu, obviously being like her oldest brother-in-law, as well as the uncle of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now her name was what? Please tell me what her name was? Dharrah. Good. Alright, I know I just traumatized some of the Arab kids in here, Dharrah is like, get out, right? Dharrah is her name. SubhanAllah, as we said, it's very interesting, Juwayriya's name, Zainab's name, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did not like, that a person calls himself Dharrah, or he didn't like that they say, He left immunity, or he left purity, when he would leave the home of Dharrah, and so he changed the name. But her name is a special name, okay? Her name is Maimunah, alright? Now Maimunah has a very particular connotation, a very particular name. Does anyone know what the name Maimunah actually means? Any Maimunahs in here, by the way? No Maimunahs? We don't have Moroccans or Maimunahs at Valley Ranch. Anyone know what the name Maimunah means? You think you know. You think, okay. Maimunah means mubarakah, means blessed. Maimunah, a mubarakah, blessed.
And many of the scholars say the reason why the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam named her Maimunah is because her marriage coincides with the joy of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam being able to enter Mecca for the first time in seven years. Alright? So it's actually a name of bushra, Maimunah, glad tidings, barakah, that there's blessing in that marriage, and blessing in her because it solidifies, it seals the joy of that incident of coming to Mecca for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So I have to shout out Maimunah bin Sheikh Mohammed al-Shanawi, Maimunah bin Sheikh Mohammed al-Faqih, and if I forgot any other Maimunahs, may Allah bless all of the Maimunahs, but those are the first two that come to my mind. It's a blessed name, mubarakah, blessed. And it's one of joy and happiness, and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gave her that name in a way that suggests that it coincides with that. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam comes back to Medina, and at this point, not only does Maimunah radiAllahu ta'ala return with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, but it's also around the time that Umm al-Fadl, al-Abbas, Abdullah ibn Abbas, the family of al-Abbas, all return back to Medina with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam around this time. And so they would spend three years with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, the last three years of his life. And basically, this is where you have the legend of Abdullah ibn Abbas, a 10-year-old, up until 13, who's now going to spend the rest of those three years with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, trying to get as much from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as he possibly can. Abdullah ibn Abbas riding behind the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, fetching the wudu' of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, shadowing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam for three years comes as a result of this culmination of incidents. And one of the most famous narrations that we have is the narration of Abdullah ibn Abbas, who basically plotted to sleep at his aunt's house
on her night with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So Abdullah ibn Abbas said, I waited for the night of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam with my aunt, Khalti Maimuna. So he's related to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in two ways, his cousin, but Maimuna is his khala, Maimuna is his aunt. He said, I waited until the night that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was going to spend the night with her, and I asked my aunt, Khalti Maimuna, if I could spend the night with her on that particular night. So Maimuna asked the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam if Abdullah could sleep with us that day, and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam he said, of course. Now, did they have a guest room in the hujurat? Where are you going to put this kid? Right? I mean, the rooms of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam were so small that when he's doing qiyam, he's tapping the legs of his wives, right? So where is he going to sleep? He's going to sleep with them. How? Abdullah ibn Abbas says, so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and Maimuna laid vertically, and he said, and I slept horizontally on the bed, at their feet. So he's like, I was staring at the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's basically there to study the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam knows it. He says, Waqultu li khalati, idha qama Rasool Allahi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, Look, if the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam gets up and I'm sleeping, wake me up. I'm here to study his qiyam. This 10-year-old is here to study the qiyam of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, so he's watching the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he's spending the night at the feet of Rasool Allah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and our mother, Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala Anha, and then he narrates the beautiful qiyam of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, how the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam got up, how he recited the last 10 ayahs from Surah Ali'Imran, the way he did his wudu, the way that he prayed his night prayer, all of that comes as a result of Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala Anha letting him spend the night
when it was her night with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. We also find that when Khalid ibn al-Walid radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu comes back to Al-Madinah as a Muslim, that many of his narrations, in fact, exist in the house of Maimuna, his aunt, his khala, with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and so he maintained that qaraba, that closeness with his aunt Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala Anha, and with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now what are some of her ahadith with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and by the way, before I mention anything further, usually there is a narration about Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala Anha that shows up here. You know, about Aisha radiAllahu Anha not liking someone. Aisha radiAllahu Anha seemed to have no problems whatsoever with Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. In fact, I couldn't find a single narration of any of the wives of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam not liking Maimuna radiAllahu Anha, and there could be many reasons for that, right? Perhaps they didn't feel threatened by her in any way because again, she was considered from the Mustad'ifat, from the weak people of Mecca, but we only find a word of praise from Aisha radiAllahu Anha towards her and nothing else when she married the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So what are some of her ahadith with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam? She narrates many of the ahadith of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in his qiyam, in his night prayer, as well as in his ghusl and in his wudhu. How the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam used to do wudhu, how he used to do ghusl, how he used to pray his qiyam. And so she narrates for example, in her closeness, She said that, you know, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam used to pray qiyam next to me while I was laying down in bed and he was so close to me that his thawb sometimes would fall on me while he was praying SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And she mentioned that it was during her period to basically reject some of the strict and rigid opinions of the Jewish tribes of Medina that had made it
seem that the woman was impure at that time altogether. So she specifically mentions that that was that time and that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam embraced her, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam allowed himself to touch her while he was praying and that there was no sense of najasa, no sense of impurity that rubbed off on him in any way SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So she was refuting some of the stricter rules of tahara that some of the people were implying also existed within Islam once they moved to Al-Medina. She describes the salah of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in great detail. So some of the most detailed descriptions. She says for example that, that, that when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam used to do sujood, that he would spread his hands in a way that I could see the whiteness of his armpits, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So we take that from her narrations, radiAllahu ta'ala anha. She narrates many of the masaa'il of women's tahara, of women's fiqh. She narrates the ghusl of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in great detail. So obviously the only way that we could get the ghusl of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is from those who were in his home SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. So she narrates his ghusl in great detail and there's some of the most detailed narrations about him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in this regard. qalat wada'tu li rasoolillahi SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam ghuslan wasatartuhu, that I used to prepare the water for the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in his ghusl and I used to be his sitr, I used to screen him while he would do his ghusl and then she narrates how the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam step-by-step would perform his ghusl. She narrates some of the masaa'il, some of the questions in regards to the types of food that are permissible and the types that are not permissible. So there's some narrations from al-Aliya binti Subaya that I had some sheep at Uhud and they began to die and I entered upon Maymunah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha and mentioned it to her and Maymunah radiAllahu
Anha said if you would have taken their skins and made use of them that would have been better for you and I asked her is that lawful and she went on to narrate from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam that it was indeed lawful. She narrates some of the famous ahadith about al-Madinah, the masjid of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and his sujood SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and his janaza, how he used to lead janaza. So the very famous hadith, salatun fee masjidi hadha afdalu min alfi salatin fee ma siwahu min al-masajidi illa al-masjida al-ka'ba. In this narration the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam says al-masjid al-ka'ba. So the famous hadith that one salah in this masjid of mine being the masjid of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is better than a thousand salahs outside of this masjid except for al-masjid al-ka'ba, al-masjid al-haram in Mecca. And then she has another narration which is a very interesting narration and it's narrated by Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma. Qala akhbaratni Maymuna anna Rasulallahu SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam asbaha yawman wajiman. Maymuna, my aunt, told me that one day the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up and he looked like he was struck with grief. Fa qalat Maymuna ya Rasulallah laqad istankartu hayyataka mundul yawm. That Maymuna said to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, ya Rasulallah, I see that your mood is very different today. Hayyataka, it's like, araka thaqeelan, as they say in the sharh, you look heavy, like you're burdened with something. I can tell that something is different about you. And by the way, some of the scholars of Shama'il say about describing the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, look at how much ihsan the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam showed to his family, that if the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was short in his greeting or did not have his typical smile, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, that his family knew something
was wrong with him. Like he entered with such joy into his home, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, that even Aisha radiAllahu anha in hadithatul ifk, in the slander, she said that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam would only ask me, you know, how are you today, and he was short in asking, and she knew something was wrong. So this shows you the beauty of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam when he entered into his home, that his hay'ah was off, his mood was off, and she recognized it right away. Faqala SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, inna Jibreel kana wa'adani an yalqani layla, falam yalqani ama wallahi maa akhlafani. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam had promised me that he would meet me tonight, but he didn't show up at the time that he promised to meet me. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was upset, or was feeling distressed, that Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam had not come to meet him, and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said that Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam never breaks his promises. Meaning if Jibreel tells me to be at a place, Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam will always be there at that place at that time. So she said, Fadhala Rasoolallahu SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam yawmahu thalika ala thalik. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam spent the whole day down, distressed, in grief. And then, Thumma waqaa fee nafsihi jirru kalb. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, as he was sitting, it occurred to him that there was a dog under the cot. So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam commanded that the dog be out of the house, and then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam washed that area, and then as soon as he did that, laqiyahu Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam. Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam came to him, faqala lahu qad kunta wa'attani an talqani albariha. The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said to Jibreel Alaihi Wasallam, you had promised me that you would meet me yesterday, last night at this time. Faqala Jibreel, ajal walakinna la nadkhulu baytan feehi kalbun wala soora.
So this is the very famous hadith that, yes, but we, the angels, do not enter a home that has a dog or a sculpture. In this situation, soora can mean one of the prohibited means, not photography, one of the prohibited means of the imitation of Allah's creation. So this is the hadith that we get it from, the story of Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala anha. Another beautiful incident that you find from Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala anha is the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam on the day of Arafah. What do you do on the day of Arafah when you're not in Arafah? You all need to have some confidence in your answers. You got this. Fast, right? You fast on the day of Arafah. We're coming into the hijjah. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la allow us to be amongst those who observe Arafah. Allahumma ameen. You fast on the day of Arafah, right? The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam did one hajj with the Muslims after Islam. He gets to Arafah, it's burning hot, scorching heat, and they don't know if the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is fasting or not, because the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam immediately went into dua, and Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam had his hands up all day, so you could see his underarms SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and he never put his hands down. They are struggling in the heat because you couldn't worship like the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala anha, she says, that some of the companions were fasting, and they were getting exhausted on the day of Arafah, so they were watching the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and they were falling apart on the day of Arafah, but no one had the nerve to go tap on the shoulder of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam and say, O Prophet of Allah, are you fasting right now? So they just kind of assumed, we don't want to bother him in his dua, right? They just assumed that he was probably fasting. So Maimuna radiAllahu ta'ala anha, look at the favour she does for the Ummah, she caught it, so she says, I sent to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam a cup of milk. So the
Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, as it was handed to him, he understood what was happening, so the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam raised it in the sky, and then the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam drank from it, and then all of the Sahaba started to drink. Like they were waiting for that moment to see if the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was fasting or not fasting, so he didn't need to give a dars, he just had to drink some milk SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and that would be the greatest got milk commercial of all time, right? All of the Sahaba started to drink water, started to drink whatever it is that they could find because they were burning, and look at the adab of the companions of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, even under that scorching heat on the day of Arafah. So she narrates radiAllahu ta'ala anha some of these incidents, some of these moments with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, almost all of them have to do with the concept of ibadah in some capacity, and she narrates about 70 ahadith from the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Okay, so it's not a huge number, but it is also significant in some of the important ahadith that we have in our tradition. After the death of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, she's one of those who lived a very frugal life, a very rough life, and chose that for herself. And zuhud, asceticism, was the way of the wives of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam after they had been exposed to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and she of course was someone who was used to that lifestyle even in Mecca, and there's a very interesting narration about her that she used to frequently have to resort to loans. Now that's looked down upon, right? To take loans is looked down upon, and imagine you're the wife of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and she would frequently take qard hasana, but she would pay it back. But some of the companions didn't like that. So they told her that, ya ummul mu'mineen, oh our mother, it's not befitting that you would take loans, you know, at this rate. Takes a loan, she pays it back, takes a loan, she pays it back. She clearly was living almost her entire life on borrowed money, radiAllahu ta'ala anna, subhanAllah. This woman who has a
home with the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in Jannah, but this is what her life is like in dunya. She's living off of borrowed money. And she says, laa atruku al-dain wa qad sam'atu khalili SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Just pause with this. She says, I'm not going to leave off being in a state of debt when I heard my best friend SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, khalili SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, right? Khalili is an endearing way to refer to someone, and that's how she's referring to him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. I heard khalili, my close friend, say, ma min ahadin yaddanu dainan fa'alimallaha annahu yuridu qadaa'ahu illa addaahu Allahu anhu fid dunya. This is an interesting hadith that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, that there's no one who takes a loan, and Allah knows that he intends to pay it back, except that Allah would facilitate him paying it back in this dunya. This hadith comes as a result of that context. What she means is that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam used to condemn people that intentionally went into debt and never had an intention to pay people back. And I think this is important for people to understand because some people are afraid so much of al-dain, of debt, which is important to try to not be in a state of debt frequent and often, but they might take some of those ahadith that are very, very harsh and condemning and scolding and apply them to themselves when they fully intend to pay back a debt. And the ahadith where the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam condemns the one who takes debt is the one who borrows money and knows that he's never going to pay it back and does not intend to pay it back at all. So she's saying that some of those ahadith that you're using against me have absolutely no bearing upon me. So she continues to live in a pretty humble status, not being someone that lives like a queen after the death of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now you also find from her radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha that she was one of those who used to free slaves frequently. So she freed many slaves, something very beautiful, but it shows you
ihsan, excellence, that when she would free a slave, she would make dua for them before she let them go. So it wasn't even just purchasing someone out of captivity and letting them go, but taking the time. Our mother radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha would take the time to make dua for them as she would set them free. And she surrounded herself by students, primarily female students radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, and her family who would narrate on her behalf. And some of those narrations are from her freed slaves, and many of those that she freed went on to become scholars and hadith narrators. So you find that from those who narrated from her. Abdullah ibn Abbas radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, obviously. Abdullah ibn al-Shaddad, who was her nephew radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Alia ibn Subayy, who was a freed slave radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. And you'll find often Mawla Maymunah. You'll find it in the narrations, the freed slave of Maymunah narrating a hadith. So you find Abdulrahman ibn Yasar, Mawla Maymunah. Muslim ibn Ziyad, Mawla Maymunah. So you'll find this in the books of hadith, that so-and-so the freed slave of Maymunah, so-and-so the freed slave of Maymunah, so-and-so the freed slave of Maymunah. Which shows you something very beautiful, subhanAllah, about our tradition as a whole. In fact, one of the beautiful narrations that I saw was a freed slave of Maymunah narrating from a freed slave of ibn Abbas. Umair Mawla ibn Abbas. So this idea of people not just being freed from captivity, but going on to become scholars and narrators of this ummah as well, and to lead the ummah in the greatest tradition, which is al-ilm, which is knowledge for this ummah. Now after the death of the Prophet ﷺ, she used to do hajj every single year. So if you were to calculate that, that she probably has under her belt about 50 hajjas, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. So she was one of those who used to love to go to al-hajj. May Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la facilitate
for all of us. Hajjun mabroor, Allahumma ameen. And Aisha, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, used to call her al-mar'a at-taqiyya or al-mar'a as-saliha, the righteous woman, the pious woman. The righteous woman, the pious woman. I mean that's high praise coming from as-siddiqa, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. Aisha, radiyaAllahu anha, saying al-mar'a as-saliha, al-mar'a at-taqiyya, the pious woman, the righteous woman. And Aisha, radiyaAllahu anha, has some of the highest praise for Maymunah when she says, kaanat Maymunah min atqaana wa awsalu nar al-rahm. That Maymunah, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, out of all of us, meaning the wise, the Prophet, salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, was of the most pious, and she was of the most regular in establishing the ties of family. Which gives you a little bit of context into the Banu Hilal and Banu Hashim. That Maymunah, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, used to establish the ties of kinship. She used to establish the ties of kinship with her relatives, not just her closest relatives, but even her farthest relatives. She would spend on them, and she would take care of them, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, and that was part of her righteousness. Ibn Sa'id mentions that her relatives used to frequently visit her, and one of her relatives once visited her, and he smelled like alcohol, like khamr. And Maymunah, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, did not allow him to enter near, and said, go to the Muslims and purify yourself, and that was part of the ways that her righteousness is being praised in this regard. That while she was good to her relatives, she did not privilege her relatives to a part, or to a point, in which she was transgressing the rules of Allah.
Now, the most beautiful thing about her, so those of you that went to sleep in the last 20 minutes, this is the part where you wake up. She lives longer than all of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ. So, she sees the death of all of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, and she was settled for the most part in Mecca. Some of the scholars said, because of the amount of Hajj and Umrah that she was doing, but she was in Mecca, pretty much all the time. Now, when she was in Mecca, and this is 60 plus years after Hijrah, 62 or 65 years after Hijrah, meaning she's outlived all of Khulafa' Rashideen, outlived all of the wives of the Prophet ﷺ, she got sick. But then as she got sick, she said, أَخْبَرَنِي صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَامًا أَنَّنِي لَا أَمُوتُ بِمَكَّةٍ That my husband, the Prophet ﷺ, told me that I'm not going to die in Mecca. So, SubhanAllah, what she ends up doing is she says, take me to Sarif. Where is Sarif? Someone remind me. Where she married the Prophet ﷺ. So, she said, take me back to Sarif. So, she goes to Sarif, and they take her to the exact location of the greatest memory of her life. And she married the Prophet ﷺ 65 years prior to that moment. And that was still a place that she was tied to. SubhanAllah, you talk about the Prophet ﷺ entering into a person's life. And she remembered that beautiful moment where the Prophet ﷺ married her. And she said, take me back to Sarif. They took her to Sarif. And she dies in the same place that she married the Prophet ﷺ.
And SubhanAllah, this is a very powerful story because Maymuna did not have the same prominence as some of the other wives of the Prophet ﷺ. On top of that, the generation that knew her had passed away. And so, it was very common at that time for some of the younger people, the Tabi'een, to not know someone in particular. And we find that Abdullah ibn Abbas ﷺ, he led her janazah. And while they were carrying her, he said, هَذِهِ مَيْمُونَةِ هَذِهِ أُمُّكُمْ This is Maymuna. This is your mom. SubhanAllah, like reminding the ummah, this is Maymuna. This is your mom. إِذَا رَفَعْتُمْ جَنَازَتَهَا فَلَا تُزَعْزِعُوهَا وَلَا تُزَلْزِلُوهَا So when you carry her, don't be rough. Don't shake her. Like, have some respect for this body that you are about to place into the ground. This is your mom, Maymuna. SubhanAllah. رضي الله تعالى عنها And ibn Abbas ﷺ led her salah. Khalid ﷺ, her nephew, lowered her into the grave as well. So she was placed in the grave by ibn Abbas and Khalid, and he led her salah. Yazid ibn al-Assam, he says, وَدَفَنَّاهَا فِي الْظُلَّةِ الَّتِي بَنَا بِهَا صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمَ فِيهَا We buried her in the exact place that the Prophet ﷺ spent his wedding with her, the exact place of the tent. And I want to actually put it up on the screen, inshaAllah ta'ala. This is the grave of our mother Maymuna رضي الله تعالى عنها Now if you've been to Hajj or Umrah with me, I've taken you to this place. It's literally on the outskirts, it's on the way to Medina. So if you go about 13 miles outside of the Haram, when they let you, there isn't even a parking lot.
It's just kind of hustled, nestled right next to some apartment buildings. You know, on the way, there's like a grocery store next to it. Kids playing soccer and they have like this abandoned office, you know the offices that will tell people not to come here, not to do this. So they have an office and like no one's even there most of the time. And I'm not saying you go there to make du'a to her, to do anything that's of course in opposition to the sunnah. But it's really profound and powerful because that place where she's buried is exactly where she was with the Prophet ﷺ. And it's a beautiful story for us to connect ourselves to as well with our mother رضي الله تعالى عنها. So this is our mother Maymuna, may Allah be pleased with her. The last wife of the Prophet ﷺ to die in the year 62 after hijrah. She was in her 80s at that point, well into her 80s at that point. We don't have an exact age for her رضي الله تعالى عنها. May Allah be pleased with her and be pleased with all of our mothers. And join us with our beloved Prophet ﷺ. Allahuma Ameen. Inshallah ta'ala I'm going to go ahead and end it because we have Salatul Isha. So we'll go ahead and we'll make adhan and we'll pray.