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He was the man who operated the equivalent of a soup kitchen in Madinah, and led with courage and generosity without fear of persecution or poverty.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala was by far one of the most entertaining and enriching stories from the Ansar in welcoming the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam to Al-Madinah al-Munawwara. Now before I get started, some of you may have seen the trailer for the Ramadan series, Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alameen, that we'll be inshallah ta'ala releasing daily as well as Qur'an 30 for 30 once again bi-idhnillahi ta'ala. So please do sign up for that inshallah ta'ala at the link that's in the description. And this is the last episode as we said of the first, but the beauty of this is that as I said in the last few weeks, if you understand this group of five, you understand how Islam came to Madinah. This is the story of Islam in Al-Madinah. And one of the beauties of this particular series is that some of the biographies are actually usually very short, but once you start to piece things together, you piece together the story of someone who may not have been given their due in Islamic history. And when it comes to this man Sa'd ibn Ubadah, I want you to remember something very easy. You have the Sa'd of Aus and you have the Sa'd of Khazraj. The Sa'd of Aus, the Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, remember the Ansar were two tribes, Aus and Khazraj. You have the Sa'd of Aus, Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, you have the Sa'd of Khazraj, Sa'd ibn Ubadah. And if these two men became Muslim, then everyone knew Islam was going to come to Madinah. It was resting on these two men. Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, typically his biography is a lot longer in the books. However, with Sa'd ibn Ubadah, we'll find much richness, bi'idhn Allahi ta'ala, in his story. So Sa'd ibn Ubadah, he is the son of Ubadah ibn Dulaym, who was the chief of Banu Sa'dah. So a sub-tribe of Khazraj, which was the larger of the two.
So you had Khazraj and Aus, right, much smaller, at war with each other. One of the sub-tribes of Khazraj is Banu Sa'dah. Now obviously, if you've been to Madinah, that nice beautiful garden is the Saqeefa of Banu Sa'dah. That's their garden, that is their location. So his father was the chief of that sub-tribe, and his mother was a woman by the name of Amrah bint Mas'ud radiya Allah ta'ala anha, from Banu Najjar, who is going to become Muslim, live to become Muslim. His father passes away in the Bu'ath Wars, which is the story of so many of them. His mother lives, accepts Islam, and will find a very beautiful relationship between he and his mother Amrah bint Mas'ud radiya Allah ta'ala anha. So Sa'd assumes the role of the chief of Khazraj. Sa'd of Aus, Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, Sa'd of Khazraj, which is Sa'd ibn Ubadah. Now, As'ad ibn Zurarah was rising up to become sort of the most respectable, unifying person between the two. And you had another person who was about to become the king of Yathrib. They were going to call him literally the Malik of Yathrib, the king of Yathrib. And who was that? Does anyone know? Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul. Literally, they say, As'ad ibn Ubadah will say in one narration, his garment was being tailored, his crown was already in manufacturing, when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam came to Medina. Like he was ready to be the king of this place, and then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and Islam ruined his plans. Right? For which he will be bitter, and he will oppose the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam for the rest of his life.
So, Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul is from Khazraj as well, but he is sort of transcending now Aus and Khazraj. Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, Aus, Sa'd ibn Ubadah, Khazraj. Now, one of the things about Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul is that he spent this time basically campaigning after Bu'ath, and he had the buy-in of the pagan tribes, he had the buy-in of the Jewish tribes, he had the buy-in of all of the different factions in Yathrib to be the king. So, he kind of got along with everybody in that sense. Right? Now, as for this man Sa'd, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, Sa'd ibn Ubadah, one of his nicknames is Sa'd al-Kamil. Sa'd the Perfect, literally. Tells you a lot about him. Sa'd al-Kamil, Sa'd the Perfect. Why? They said Sa'd ibn Ubadah, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, was strikingly handsome, and he was good at everything he did. So, they said that he was good at reading, he was very literate, he was good at poetry, he was good at throwing the spear, he was good at archery, he was good at swimming, he was good at writing, he was good at calligraphy. So, they said there is nothing that we have that distinguishes a person, except that Sa'd ibn Ubadah is the most distinguished of them all. So, he was nicknamed Sa'd al-Kamil, Sa'd the Perfect One. And the most distinguishing factor about him was actually the distinguishing factor of his father, the distinguishing factor of him, the distinguishing factor of his son, and that was al-karam, generosity. They were very generous. So, they were known as the hosts of Yathrib, that when anyone came to that city, if they were poor, if they were traveling, whoever they were, they could come to this family, and this was the family that would sponsor them. So, generosity, al-karam, was the trait of his father,
even though his father was not a Muslim and died before Islam came to them. But that was what he was known for. Sa'd ibn Ubadah, known for his generosity, as we'll talk about, and his son, Qais ibn Sa'd, becomes known for his karam, known for his generosity, as well. And there's something that the scholars mention here, which is that, if you notice, generosity is a trait that is usually transferable through generations. You know, typically, if you meet someone who's generous or who's very charitable, and you ask them why they're like that, they'll say, they'll point to something they learned from their parents. You often see al-karam, generosity, transferred from generation to generation, and a family embraces that as an identity. And this was the case of Sa'd ibn Ubadah, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. His generosity was so acknowledged that Khazraj used to write poetry about his generosity. They said that when there were droughts, Sa'd ibn Ubadah would provide the crops for all of the city of Yathrib. When anyone came through, Sa'd had a guest house for them, literally, for any of the travelers that came through. When there were disasters, he protected the community. He wrote off all the debts of anyone in his tribe, even distant relatives that he was barely related to. And he used to stand every day, this is before Islam, right? He used to stand every day on top of his home, and he had a big home. And he used to call out, and he used to say, man ahabba shahm wal lahm fal ya'ti sa'd. Whoever likes to eat, you know, what would you call it? shahm wal lahm is like the fat and like the meat. Like whoever wants the good stuff comes to Sa'd ibn Ubadah. I've got your meat here, I've got all the good stuff. I'm not just, usually when you gave charity, you gave barley or you gave dates. So Sa'd, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu, would call out before Islam, and would say, whoever wants, you know, a healthy meal tonight, come to my house. And he would open up his house every single day. Now I want to stop here for a moment,
because Usaid ibn Hudair was like Utbah, except that, remember when we talked about Usaid, when he heard the Quran, he listened to it in a way that Utbah refused to. If there is an equivalent to Abu Jahl, when he was Abu al-Hakam, when the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was making du'a for his guidance, and Abu Sufyan, and the nobles of Mecca, that were known for their generosity and used to host the hujjaj, it's actually Sa'd ibn Ubadah. He is their equivalent. He's the closest thing to them in Yathrib, in terms of a noble person that is known to host the outsiders, because this is what the people of Mecca used to, the nobles of Mecca used to compete with, but for insincere reasons. Right? They wanted to host the hujjaj so that they could get a leg up with their tribe. Sa'd ibn Ubadah is their equivalent, except Sa'd ibn Ubadah will embrace Islam. And the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, what? That people are like precious stones. The best of you in the days of ignorance are the best of you in Islam, if you have understanding. So you transfer those good qualities, you transfer those good traits, and you polish them through Islam. So generosity was his trait, and everyone knew it in Yathrib and outside of Yathrib. So Sa'd ibn Ubadah is the last person to become Muslim in this incident that we've spoken about for the last five weeks. Mus'ab ibn Umair radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu comes to Medina with As'ad ibn Zurar radiyaAllahu anhu. The first person to come to the house is who? Usaid ibn Hudair radiyaAllahu anhu. Then comes Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, then Sa'd ibn Ubadah hears about all this commotion going on. He shows up to the party, he says what's going on here? They say, sit and listen to what this man has to say.
Sa'd ibn Ubadah is the last of this group to listen to Mus'ab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu within that single day and become Muslim right away. So it is these five, Mus'ab, As'ad, Usaid, and the two Sa'ds. These five that literally took Medina by storm with Islam and they all became Muslim in one day. This is equivalent to when Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, you know, recruited, essentially made up six of the ten promised paradise. Because Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu as-Siddiq did not just become Muslim, he went and he grabbed all of the others too. He grabbed Uthman radiyaAllahu anhu, Talha, As-Zubair, he grabbed others, Abdurrahman ibn Auf, and brought them to Islam within a day or two. So this is what happens. These five people are going to be responsible for Islam in the entirety of Medina. And subhanAllah when the rumor got out as to what happened in Yathrib, you know, before Twitter, before someone posted it online, the news got back to Mecca and one of the poets stood on Jabal Abi Qubais, big mountain on the outskirts of the Haram. Okay, there's a lot of parables about Abu Qubais, you can Google Abu Qubais, the mountain of Abu Qubais, huge mountain. He stood on it and he shouted out and he says, فإن يسلم السعدان يصبح محمد بمكة لا يخشى خلاف المخالف. If the two Sa'ads become Muslim, Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam does not need to fear any of you. So he shouted it out. So Abu Sufyan went to him and said, what are you talking about? Who are the two Sa'ads? He said, سعد الأوس و سعد الخزرج. The Sa'ad of Aus being Sa'ad ibn Mu'adh, the Sa'ad of Khazraj being Sa'ad ibn Ubadah radiAllahu ta'ala. So if these two become Muslim, you're done. Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam doesn't need to fear you anymore. He's found a new home and this is exactly what's going to happen. So he comes to the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam in the second Bay'ah of Aqaba,
the second pledge of Aqaba along with the 70 and he pledges to the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam and the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam appoints him as one of the 12 chiefs of Al-Madinah. And he's also looked at as sort of the overall leader of Khazraj and the Ansar in general. Now he has one thing that distinguishes him from all of the people that came from Madinah in this regard. Remember this was all happening in private in the days of Hajj. This whole pledge was happening without the Meccans knowing about it. There were some rumors that were starting to spread but at the same time they weren't aware of Bay'at al-Aqaba. They don't really know what's going on and this would have been a perfect opportunity to actually attack them. If the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam allowed them and some of the Ansar wanted to go out and attack the Meccans, hold them hostage. They're not expecting it right now. It's the days of Hajj. They don't know that you have this huge group of Muslims now with you. And the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam said, We were not commanded to do that. So this is all happening sort of privately, right? Now when the Meccans get hold, they went in pursuit of the people of Yathrib. The only person they caught was Sa'd ibn Ubad. So after Bay'at al-Aqaba, after the pledge of 70 of the Ansar to the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam, they went after all of them, the only person they could get a hold of was Sa'd ibn Ubad radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And they subjected him to all sorts of torture. All sorts of torture. Sa'd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu empathized with the Muhajireen because he's the only Ansari who was beaten like the Muhajireen. You know all the stuff that happened to Bilal radiAllahu anhu, Khabab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, you go on and on and on and on. He's the only one from the Ansari that experienced some of that.
Because they held him, they beat him, they tortured him, and they did all sorts of things to him. And he said it went on and on and on and on. And Sa'd radiAllahu anhu describes this moment. He says that, you know, one of the days in my torture, I remember I was brought out in chains, and he said I hadn't eaten for days or drank anything for days, so they dehydrated me, they starved me. And he said, the super handsome man comes forward. So you imagine he's in chains, he's coming out, he said the super handsome man comes forward. You know, mashAllah he has that type of face where like something finally is going to ease. So he said I looked at this man, and I said, In kaana fil qawmi khair, fa fi hadha rajr. He said if there's any good in these people of Mecca, then it's going to be in this person. And he said, so he came close to me, and he said I thought to myself that he was going to rescue me. But then he raised his hand and he smacked me as hard as anyone else did. Right, so like, totally, totally did not meet my expectations. So he said, I said, wallahi ma ba'da hadha fil qawmi khair. There's no good in these people. Like if that guy is going to beat me too, there's nothing left in these people of khair. Right, so he's expecting this man, seems so nice, he's going to let me go, and he just raises his hand and smacks him right across the face. So Sa'd radiyallahu anhu said he got on me and he started to beat me and they started to drag me. And he said, I was just taking it. And then Abu al-Bukhtari, he comes to me, Abu al-Bukhtari and says, Waihaq, woe to you, don't you have any trade partner, anyone that owes you something in Mecca to get you out of this? Any family? Like he's telling him, like get yourself out of this situation. Can't you invoke anybody? Right, Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, remember, he could invoke who? Umayyah. Him and Umayyah were friends. They had trade agreements, right? That's what protected him before. So he's saying, don't you have anyone that you can call upon to get you out of this torture?
So he said to Abu al-Bukhtari, he said, when Jubair ibn Mut'im ibn Adi would come to Yathrib, or al-Harith ibn Harb comes to Yathrib, I am their host. Those two men, when they come to Yathrib, they're very powerful names in Mecca. Jubair is of course a nobleman. So when they come to Mecca, I'm the one that hosts them. So Abu al-Bukhtari said, why don't you tell your torturers then, Abu al-Bukhtari's like trying to give him advice while he's being tortured, tell them about your relationship with those two. So he said, I did. So he said then, my persecutors, they went to Jubair and they went to al-Harith and they asked them if it was true and both of them said, indeed, this is our host when we go to Yathrib. Sa'd ibn Ubadah is a generous man, he's a noble man, and when we go to Yathrib, when we go there, he's the one that hosts us and he's the one that opens to us and facilitates for us our trade routes and things of that sort. So they let him go. Finally, they let him go because he invoked the names of those two men. So Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu makes it back to Yathrib after the rest of the group, after a long period of torture. And when the Prophet ﷺ makes hijrah, and the Prophet ﷺ does mu'akha, he pairs off the brothers from the muhajireen with the brothers from the ansar. He pairs off two to Sa'd ibn Ubadah. He pairs off al-Miqdad and Khabbab ibn al-Arat radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum. Al-Miqdad, who last week we talked about again, that person from the muhajireen that lit the fire under the feet of the muhajireen always, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum, noble companion. And none other than Khabbab ibn al-Arat radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum. And both of them actually lived in the house of Sa'd ibn Ubadah for three whole years.
So he hosted them for three years while they obviously were able to eventually get up out of that situation and to have their own home. So this is now him in al-Madinah. He also, because of his power, he and Abu Dujanah, and a man by the name of Mundhir ibn Amr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum, they were the ones that actually were able to break the different idols that were left around al-Madinah. So they were the ones that were given the instruction to go around and to break the rest of the idols that remain in al-Madinah. So the Prophet ﷺ comes to Madinah, Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum has this position, right? And the Prophet ﷺ recognizes this position, and before Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul accepts Islam at face value, because remember he never really became Muslim, he only became Muslim when it was convenient to do so, when he figured if you can't beat them, join them, right? So let me try to destroy them from within. So up until Badr, he wasn't even pretending. The munafiqeen were not even pretending to be Muslims up until the Battle of Badr. After Badr, when they started to sense some momentum, they then pretended to be Muslims and to wreak havoc from within. So Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul was still sort of holding out. And he's from the same tribe as Sa'd ibn Ubadah, he's from Khazraj. So Sa'd ibn Uzaid radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, he gives us this narration to sort of give us the atmosphere of Madinah at the time. He says the Prophet ﷺ rode a donkey having a saddle with a velvet covering, and he put me behind him. Sa'd ibn Ubadah was a little kid at the time, so he said he put me behind him, and we went to visit Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum. So we're on our way to visit Sa'd ibn Ubadah, and while we're on our way to go visit Sa'd ibn Ubadah, the Prophet ﷺ passes by a gathering, and it was people surrounding Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul.
So he says that this gathering had some Muslims, it had some of the mushrikeen, and it had some of the Jews. So it had some of the Muslims, the polytheists, and the Jews sitting together. So it's a mixed gathering at the time, and they're sitting, and Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul is in the middle of that gathering. So the Prophet ﷺ, he turned his donkey towards him, and he started to approach the gathering. So he says Abdullah ibn Ubayy ibn Salul covered his nose with his upper garment, and he said, laa tughabbiru alayna, like don't bother us with the dirty stuff. Dust of your donkey. Get away from us. So he's basically shooing the Prophet ﷺ away, he's trying to humiliate him, as he's the newcomer to Al-Madinah, but he's making it about the donkey. The Prophet ﷺ didn't ride fine camels and fine horses, he's riding a donkey. So he's saying laa tughabbiru alayna, go away from us. Don't bother us with the dust of this donkey. So the Prophet ﷺ, he simply got off of the donkey, he walked towards them, he gave them salam, and the Prophet ﷺ said to them, can I talk to you about Islam? Will you hear me out? And the Prophet ﷺ started to recite some of the verses of the Qur'an, and he was about to do da'wah. So the Prophet ﷺ is beginning his da'wah to this group. Now remember, the Prophet ﷺ is the de facto leader of Madinah at the time. But Abdullah ibn Ubaid ibn Salul is hostile, and the Prophet ﷺ is respecting that space. He's trying to win him over. He's trying to win over some of those people that are around him, more importantly. So the Prophet ﷺ starts to recite the Qur'an, and he responds, and he says to him, listen, oh strange man.
He said, first he says, if what you're saying is true, then nothing is better than what you are saying. But he said, otherwise, he said, don't bother us in our gathering. Go back to your place, and whoever wants to hear your message can come to you. We're not interested in hearing you. If what you have is good, then great. But don't bother us. We didn't ask you to come here and start talking to us about your message. So go back to where you are, and give those stories that you have, right? When people come to you. Now Abdullah ibn Rawaha, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, was a Muslim, and he was in that gathering. So Abdullah ibn Rawaha stands up and he says, Ya Rasulullah, we want to hear what you have to say. Then they started to fight all amongst each other. The Muslims in that gathering, the polytheists in that gathering, the Jews in that gathering, they all started to fight amongst themselves about whether or not they wanted to hear the Prophet ﷺ speak. Rasulullah ﷺ, he simply quieted them down, made them calm, and then the Prophet ﷺ said salam and he left them. So Salman Uzaid says, we continued on our way to Sa'd ibn Ubadah. And when we got to Sa'd ibn Ubadah, the Prophet ﷺ says, Ayy Sa'd, alam tasma' ma qala Abu Hubab. Oh Sa'd, have you not heard what Abu Hubab, Abdullah ibn Ubaid bin Salul, has said? And he said, Ya Rasulullah, excuse him for now, because Allah has given to you what he has given to you, and he envies you for that. And he says, the people of Medina had gathered around him and they were just about to place the crown on his head. But then he was prevented by the truth which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given to you, and he's grieving out of his hasad, out of his envy. And this is why he's behaving in this way. He's saying to Rasulullah ﷺ, give him some time, and insha'Allah ta'ala he'll come around. But this is his tribesmen, right?
And this sort of gives you the atmosphere of Medina at the time. Now as for Sa'd radhiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, he's going to continue in the path of generosity. And there's a very interesting du'a, because Sa'd radhiAllahu anhu basically asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be rich. But this is what he used to say. He used to say, Allahumma habli hamdan, wahabli majdan, la majda illa bi fa'al, wala fa'ala illa bi maal, Allahumma la yuslihunil qaleel, wala aslihu alayhi. Very interesting du'a. He says, O Allah, allow me to be in a position of goodness, allow me to be in a position of honor. And he's saying that there is no honor except in one that can give. And you can't give unless you have money. And he's saying, O Allah, I'm not fit for little, nor is little fit for me. Like I need to still have my position, Ya Allah. Don't take away my wealth, Ya Allah. I get it that some people have their path to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But he's saying, Ya Allah, I know myself, it'll be a fitna for me. It'll be a fitna for me to be poor. So let me be in this position where I can still give, and I can still be generous, and I can still continue to serve. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him that. Sa'd radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anhu remained very wealthy. And he basically operated Madina soup kitchen. His kitchen, his place was open every single night. And subhanAllah, on the day of khandaq, or during khandaq, not the day of khandaq, it was his reserve of tamar, of dates and food, that basically lasted for weeks for the Muslim army before it ran out. So when they starved, the last remaining storage that they had was actually what Sa'd radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anhu had stored. So he was the one that was spending on the people. He was the one that was taking care of the people. Now Ibn Salim rahimAllah ta'ala has another narration. He said,
وَكَانَ أَهْلُ السُّفَّةِ إِذَا أَمْسَوا إِنطَلَقَ الرَّجُلُ بِالرَّجُلِ وَالرَّجُلُ بِالرَّجُلَيْنِ وَالرَّجُلُ بِالجَمَاعَةِ He said that at night time, every night, you had Ahl al-Suffah, the people that were sleeping in the masjid, which you asked about last week, and I promised you I'll talk about. Who are Ahl al-Suffah, and why are there people in the masjid that are sleeping? Once Madina became a town that attracted people from all over the world, Ahl al-Suffah were the people that were coming and staying in the masjid until they got on their feet and could make their way. They're not the muhajireen. They're not the poor amongst the ansar. They're the people from Yemen, the people from other places around the Muslim world that are now coming to be a part of this community. And they're there for a temporary phase, like Abu Hurayra radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, until Abu Hurayra had his house next to the masjid. Okay, so Ahl al-Suffah are these people in the masjid. They're basically temporarily homeless people and the masjid acts as a shelter for them. So Ibn Sirin says every night a person would come and they'd take one person from Ahl al-Suffah to their house to serve them. Another man comes and he takes two of them to his house to serve them. And then another person who might be generous, right, might take a group with them. He said, ask for Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. He says, فَأَمَّا سَعْدِ بِنُ عُبَادَ فَكَانَ يَنطَلِقُ بِثَمَانِينِ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ Sa'd used to take 80 people with him every night. 80. So he'd go to the masjid. He'd basically take the whole group. 80 pretty much was whoever was left after everybody else took someone home for the night. Sa'd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu said, come to my house. So every night he's got 80 people eating dinner with him. Right, so that is the generosity of the smi'ah. And it continues. When Rasulullah ﷺ came to al-Madinah, he stayed in the house of who? We're going to talk about him. Who was the man that hosted the Prophet ﷺ in his house in al-Madinah? Abu Ayyub al-Ansari radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu.
Right, who we'll have a full biography on inshaAllah ta'ala when the time comes. Once the Prophet ﷺ went to Abu Ayyub's house, every single night someone would knock on the door and they'd have all these trays of food. This is from Sa'd ibn Ubad. And then they said that once the Prophet ﷺ established his homes, that the buffet of Sa'd used to follow the Prophet ﷺ to his homes. And Rasulullah ﷺ would donate and give and give and give what was being given to him. But Sa'd radiyaAllahu anhu insisted on basically following the Prophet ﷺ with his food. Sa'd radiyaAllahu anhu was a man who loved to feed the people. Afshu salam wa at'imu ta'am. Right, spread salam and feed the people. Sa'd radiyaAllahu anhu took on feeding the people as his main identity. Was Sa'd feeds the people. It's a beautiful identity to have. And when Ramadan comes up, Allahumma billighna Ramadan, may Allah allow us to live to see it. What's the dua that you say to someone after they feed you, you break your fast at their home? I see it mumbling. Can someone just tell me the dua from the beginning? Aftara'indakum wa sa'imun wa akla ta'amukum al-abrar wa sallata'alaykum al-malaika. Right? So those who have observed their fast, have broken their fast with you. And may Allah reward you for providing food for the pious. And may the angels send their peace upon you. By the way, we have alhamdulillah a series that will be coming out from Dr. Tahir Wyatt, Hafidahullah ta'ala about Ramadan duas. The week before Ramadan, he's going to cover the duas that we say in Ramadan and the deeper meanings behind them. This dua is learned from the Prophet ﷺ to Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu anhu. Because Sa'd basically brought the iftar of the Prophet ﷺ to him regularly.
And so the Prophet ﷺ finished eating his iftar from Sa'd ibn Ubadah and he said to Sa'd ibn Ubadah, aftara'indakum wa sa'imun wa akla ta'amukum al-abrar wa sallata'alaykum al-malaika. So we learn this prayer from Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, or the Prophet ﷺ to Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And there's this, subhanAllah, something very beautiful about this as well that one time, Sa'd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu collected the delicacies of 40 different animals and provided, the Prophet ﷺ barely used to eat, right? I mean, barely used to eat. And he basically put the delicacies from these 40 animals in this big feast table in front of the Prophet ﷺ. And Rasulullah ﷺ said, ma hadha ya Sa'd? What is this, oh Sa'd? He said, ya Rasulullah, I took the best of all 40 of these animals so you could have the best of it and eat from your fill. Whatever you don't want, I'll give it away inshaAllah ta'ala. But I want you to have first, the first bite of it. So you take what you want, after you're done with it, ya Rasulullah, I'll take the rest of it and I'll serve it to the people of Medina. Something that I read in the book, subhanAllah, that really, that actually ibn Asakir, he narrates this in his tarikh. He says that the mother of Harun Rashid, comes way later, right? Harun Rashid, the mother of Harun Rashid. Her name was Khayzuran. Khayzuran, she was a very famous woman, very noble woman. Remember, Harun Rashid is known for wealth and giving and this is kind of in his family, it was a family of royalty. So Khayzuran, the mother of Harun Rashid, when she heard this hadith of what Sa'd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu did for the Prophet ﷺ, bringing 40 animals and saying to Rasulullah ﷺ, take from it what you want and then I'll give the rest of it. But I wanted you to have your share of what you want from 40 different animals. That she called for the descendants of Sa'd. She ordered for the descendants of Sa'd ibn Ubadah. She said, find me his descendants.
And then she basically gave a huge share of her wealth to them. And she said, none of you will ever be hungry in my lifetime. So I'm going to spend on all of you. So no one from this family should ever be hungry because of the love of Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu anhu and caring for our Prophet ﷺ. You notice, subhanAllah, with every one of these sahaba, there's a story that comes later on where someone remembers them, bikhayr, remembers them in good. Either the Prophet ﷺ or someone else. So imagine generations later, the mother of Harun Rashid says, wait a minute, where are the descendants of Sa'd ibn Ubadah? I know they're around, bring them to me, gives them some wealth and says, you can never be hungry in my lifetime. Because of this beautiful gesture from Sa'd ibn Ubadah to the Prophet ﷺ. And one time, in fact, Sa'd ibn Ubadah got mad at Abu Bakr and Umar ibn Ubadah. Because his son Qais, Sa'd was on a business trip and Qais, his son, was giving away all the money from the household and all of the food. And they basically told him, you know, like, hold on to something, wait for your father to come back. So that he can tell you if this is okay, right, for you to give all of this. And he was mad, he said, who are these two trying to turn my son into a bakhir, into a stingy person? Like, this is our reputation, we feed the people. Right, so Qais, his son, he's teaching his son, when it comes to feeding the fukara, take everything from my house, constantly. Keep on feeding and giving and feeding and giving. Now Sa'd is a character, he really is a character. I mean, he has some of these moments with the Prophet ﷺ that are very interesting. One of them, Qais actually narrates, he says, zarana Rasulullah ﷺ fi manzilina. The Prophet ﷺ came to visit us one day. So the Prophet ﷺ called out, assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah. He gave salam. Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah. So he said, my father responded, raddan khafiyya, in a very low voice. Wa alaykum assalam wa rahmatullah.
So Qais said, I'm looking at my dad, and the Prophet ﷺ goes with a slightly more elevated voice, assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah. So Sa'd goes, wa alaykum assalam wa rahmatullah. So he's like Rasulullah ﷺ said it a third time, which was his sunnah. Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah. And the Prophet ﷺ started to walk away. So he said, then Sa'd radiyallahu anhu rushed to the door, and he went and he caught the Prophet ﷺ. And he said, Ya Rasulullah, inni kuntu asma'u taslimak wa aruddu alayk. He said that I heard you, O Messenger of Allah, when you were saying salam, and I was responding to you, raddan khafiyya, li tukthira alayna min assalam. I was responding to you in a low voice because I wanted you to keep sending salam on us. So I was just saying in a low voice so you could keep on saying, salamu alaykum, salamu alaykum, salamu alaykum. To hear it from you over and over again to get the blessing of your salam. And that's why you have another special narration where the Prophet ﷺ, one time was seen, he went to the house of Sa'd. And again, the house of Sa'd is very prominent in Medina. SubhanAllah, till now the Saqeefa is very prominent. He went to the house of Sa'd, and Rasulullah ﷺ said, Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, thumma rafa'a yadayhi. And then the Prophet ﷺ raised his hands on the outside of his home, and he said, Allahumma ja'al salawatika wa rahmatika ala Sa'd ibn Ubadah. And in one narration, ala ali Sa'd, O Allah, send your prayers and mercy on Sa'd and his family. Like the Prophet ﷺ actually did it in a dua form. The Prophet ﷺ sending salawat on him in his lifetime, subhanAllah. Sending prayers upon him in his lifetime. He's also someone who we learn, jazallahu khaira, the Prophet ﷺ mentioned about him, jazallahu al-ansara anna khaira, may Allah reward the Ansar on our behalf. And he specified, Sa'd ibn Ubadah radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So this is sort of the mantra of Sa'd, right?
That's one big part of his life, I want you to put on the side now. Generosity. The second one, Sa'd was a very jealous man. Extremely jealous man. Ghira. He had a lot of honor, a lot of jealousy. He has that sort of royal personality, right? That noble personality. And so you have a narration, which some of you might have heard before. But again, you got to piece it together. So you know the personality that's being spoken about. And the Prophet ﷺ was trying to teach the ethics of criminal law, right? Al-hadd and not being vigilantes and taking things into your own hands. So the Prophet ﷺ mentioned, arayt al-rajula yajidu ma'mra'atihi rajulan ayaqtuluhu? If a person finds his wife committing zina, committing adultery, should he kill him? And the Prophet ﷺ said, no. There has to be a process of this. So he said, bala ya rasulullah. He said, I swear, ya rasulullah, bala wal-lathi ba'athaka bil-haq. Yes, O Messenger of Allah, by the one who sent you with the truth. And the Prophet ﷺ said, isma'u ila ma yaqulu sayyidikum. Listen to what your chief is saying. And Sa'd r.a went on and he said, if I ever saw that happen, Sa'd r.a starts talking about these different types of things. So before I say anything else, because I know how this works, I'm not justifying honor killings. We have a paper at Yaqeen Institute about the evil of honor killings. This was an expression of his honor and his jealousy, right? His ghira, over his wife, right? Over his spouse. Like, you know, no, I'm going to handle my business. And Sa'd r.a said, if I ever saw the situation like that, and he pointed to the sharpest part of a sword. He said, it's being handled with this. I'm not waiting on anybody. And the sahabah are like, oh my God, you know, how can he say that in the presence of Rasulullah ﷺ? Rasulullah ﷺ said, ata'jaboona min ghirati Sa'd. Are you amazed by the honor of Sa'd?
By the way, go back to Allah Loves, one of the episodes, Allah Loves Honor. It's not jealousy in the like crazy madman sense, okay? It's a sense of honor and protection. It's something that's noble, not something that's crazy, right? Which is how it's often used today. Ata'jaboona min ghirati Sa'd. Are you amazed by the honor of Sa'd over his family? And he says, wallahi la'ana aghiru minhu, wallahu aghiru minni. He said, I have more ghira than Sa'd. I have more honor and protection over the believers than Sa'd. And Allah has more than that. Okay? So this protective sense of the family and this protective sense of people, this is a noble characteristic. But Sa'd radiyaAllahu anhu, of course, was talking about, you know, the sense of, you know, his own position, his own power and things of that sort. Okay? So that's one thing about Sa'd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu as well. Now, another incident where you see Sa'd the proud man, in the sense of some of those traits, is when the Prophet's, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, daughter, Zaynab radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, when her son was dying. And Rasulallah Sallallahu alehiwassallaam, went to visit his grandchild. And when the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, held his grandchild. Rasulallah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam went with Sa'd ibn Ubadah and Mu'adh ibn Jabal. So we know the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, crying over his own son, Ibraheem. This is the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam crying over his grandson. So the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam holds his grandson. And as he is holding his grandson, He starts to cry. Sa'd says to the Prophet ﷺ, Ya Rasulullah, ma hatha? What is this? What is this? We're not used to this, right? Remember, these people had these certain like customs and traits, right? So crying was, wait a minute, what's happening here? Ma hatha, Ya Rasulullah? And he is the one who narrated when the Prophet ﷺ said,
Hadhi rahmatun ja'alahu allahu fee qudubi ibadihi wa innama yarhamu allahu min ibadihi arruhamaa. That this is a mercy that Allah has put in the hearts of His servants. And Allah has mercy on those who show mercy. So this is a praiseworthy trait. The crying, the compassion that we have over those people is something that Allah ﷻ puts in our hearts. Okay? So this gives you a little bit of the prototype of Sa'd, radhiAllahu anhu, right? And the personality of Sa'd. Remember, Usaid, As'ad, Usaid, Sa'd ibn Mu'adh, Sa'd ibn Ubadah, very different personalities. Each one of them has a very different type of personality. In any case, Ibn Abbas, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhuma, says that the Prophet ﷺ in every battle, so now we get to some of the incidents of the Sirah, every battle the Prophet ﷺ had the Muhajireen behind one banner and the Ansar behind another banner. He said that the banner of the Muhajireen would be carried by Ali, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. The banner of the Ansar would be carried by Sa'd ibn Ubadah, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Why? Because As'ad passed away, Sa'd ibn Mu'adh passed away. So especially after As'ad and Sa'd pass away, Sa'd ibn Ubadah is looked at as a person as Sayyid al-Ansar, the leader of the Ansar as a whole, not just the leader of Khazraj anymore, but the leader of the Ansar as a whole. Now, he participates in most of the major battles. The only dispute is whether or not he missed Badr because there's a narration that he was stung by a snake and he was very sick so he did not participate in Badr. But we find him in some of the other incidents. One of them, remember, as we said, and of course as Ramadan is coming up, it's time for us to think about forgiving one another, that there was an incident in Hadithatul Ifk, the slander of Aisha, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. He was the one who stood up in response to Sa'd ibn Mu'adh. Sa'd ibn Mu'adh stood up and said, whoever slandered Aisha, radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu, if he is from Aus, we'll take care of him,
and even if he's from Khazraj, we'll take care of him. And Sa'd ibn Ubadah, he got stirred up. And Aisha is the one who narrates him. She says, may Allah forgive him. Like he got caught in the moment. May Allah forgive him. GhafruAllahu lahu. And he stood up and he told them, no, you're not touching Khazraj. And we'll take care of Khazraj and we'll take care of Aus. And then Sa'd ibn Mu'adh calls out, ya' ibn Aus and Sa'd ibn Ubadah calls out, ibn Khazraj, and that's where the fight starts to happen. The sons of Aus and the sons of Khazraj. They start to argue and quarrel amongst themselves. So subhanAllah, the external enemy could not cause them to divide, but the internal fitna distracted them in a crucial moment, right? Which shows you that that is always something that can paralyze the people. He also, you know, makes a mistake in Fath Makkah, in the conquest of Makkah. Now the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he's coming forth in Makkah, he has the Muhajireen and he has the Ansar, right? How many people came with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Fath Makkah, in the conquest of Makkah? 10,000. So about 4,000 of those 10,000 were Ansar. About 700 of them were Muhajireen, and the rest of them made up the people that became Muslim, you know, after Amul Wafood, after the year of the delegation, the other Muslims that had joined in Al-Madinah. So the Ansar make up the larger group, right? The Ansar make up the larger group. Now, when they are marching forward, Khalid ibn Walid radiyallahu anhu has one banner with the Muhajireen. Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyallahu ta'ala anhu has the other banner of the Ansar. And Sa'd ibn Ubadah was the one who shouted out that today is the day of revenge. Today we will make the Haram halal, and that we will, we're going to take revenge on these people.
Abu Sufyan heard that and he complained to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now remember, Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyallahu anhu was the one Ansari who was tortured, right? By the Muhajireen. And when Abu Sufyan complained to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not humiliate Sa'd. He said, He said, Sa'd made a mistake. He took the banner from Sa'd. He gave it to Ali radiyallahu anhu. That's it. So it's now Khalid and Ali that are leading with the banners of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And one narration is Zubayr radiyallahu ta'ala anhu as well. So Sa'd radiyallahu anhu had that strong personality, but it came into benefit in many different parts of the life of the Messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And it was him radiyallahu ta'ala anhu in the famous incident after Fatah Mecca of Hunayn, where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam called Sa'd because he's the leader of the Ansar. There is no more Sa'd ibn Zuhra, there is no Sa'd ibn Mu'adh. And he said to Sa'd ibn Ubadah, what is it that I'm hearing from the Ansar about them thinking something? And Sa'd ibn Ubadah was the one who told the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that the Ansar are saying that we gave up our lives for you Ya Rasulullah and the Meccans are coming, the Muhajireen, I'm sorry, these later people, they weren't mad at the Muhajireen, they were mad at the later people, and you're giving them from the spoils of war. So he's the one who actually shares that with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked Sa'd, and what about you? What about you? He said, innama ana rajulun min qawmi, I'm a man of my people. Meaning I feel the same way. And he's the one who the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says to gather the Ansar in one tent, where that infamous conversation, where that famous conversation takes place where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says, what is it that I'm hearing from you, O Ansar? And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam tells them that I'm going to be returning back with you to Al-Madinah.
So this is the role that Sa'd ibn Ubadah, radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, is playing. Now in the end of the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, subhanAllah, it's very interesting. Before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam got sick, Sa'd ibn Ubadah got sick. Before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam got sick in his last days, Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu got sick. And it was during that illness that Ibn Umar radiyaAllahu anhu says, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam went to visit Sa'd ibn Ubadah. So he wasn't sick yet, Sa'd was sick. And he said he took with him Abdur-Rahman ibn Auf, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas and Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, so some of the leaders of the companions to go visit Sa'd in the Saqifah, in that area. Now when you go to Madinah, I want you to connect to that place over and over and over again. So Sa'd was in the Saqifah and he was very sick. And Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam entered and he saw that Sa'd was between consciousness and unconsciousness, meaning he was going in and out. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked, Aqad qada? Has he died? Aqad qada? Has he died? Has he died? And they told the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that he's in and out of consciousness. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam burst into tears. SubhanAllah, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is crying over Sa'd radiyaAllahu anhu just because Sa'd is sick. I want you to see the rahmat, the heart of your messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So Ibn Umar radiyaAllahu anhu says, Bakayna, we cried from the buka'a of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We cried so much that the tears were flowing from the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. We knew how much he loved Sa'd ibn Ubadah. And so we started to cry out of his crying. And then we said to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, You know, one time, remember it was Sa'd who was asking the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Ma hadha? Why are you crying? Like we're not used to this. You know, why are you crying? And here the sahaba, they see the passion of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the love of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the emotion of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam over Sayyid al-Ansar, the leader of the Ansar, Sa'd ibn Ubadah. So they said, Ya Rasulullah, what do we do? Is this okay? And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Inna Allaha la yu'adhibu bidama'il ayn, wala bihuzni alqalb, walakin yu'adhibu bihada. He said, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that Allah does not punish for the tears of the eyes, nor for the pain of the heart, but he punishes for what this says. Meaning similar to what he taught, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when his son passed away, that inna al'ayna la tajma' wa inna alqalba la yahzan. The eyes shed tears, the heart feels grief. But we don't say except that which is pleasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is basically telling the sahaba, cry as much as you want. Cry as much as you want. This is the rahma that's put in your heart. And this is, by the way, in Bukhari and Muslim. They knew the status of Sa'd ibn Ubadah with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam really on that day. Like for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to be that emotional over his sickness, was very moving to them. And Subhanallah, Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam gets sick. And Sa'd missed the sickness of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam with his own sickness. So Sa'd was in the saqeefa, dying. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was in his masjid dying. Right, his home, dying. In the house of Aisha radiAllahu ta'ala anha. So the people were between ziyarat-e-Sa'd and ziyarat-e-Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Visiting the two, waiting for the news of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Can you imagine how debilitating that is in Medina as well? Also adds another layer of grief to them. Obviously the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is their object of love and ultimate emotion and adoration. But Sa'd is sick, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is sick. This seems to all be falling apart, right? So they're between the two houses. But of course the main focus is on the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la would decree that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would die and Sa'd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu would live.
This was the decree from that. So before the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam got sick, he went to visit Sa'd and cried over his sickness. Sa'd radiAllahu anhu would recover and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would pass away. Now, once the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam dies, in the saqeefa of Banu Sa'dah, the Ansar were about to appoint Sa'd ibn Ubadah as the khalifa of the Muslims. I want you to know how significant of a man this is. They were about to appoint him as the khalifa. And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's wasiyya was clearly to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, specifically and Quraish, right? But the Ansar, you know, this is new territory for them. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is passing away. So they knew Aus Khazraj, they knew the leaders amongst them. They're about to give their allegiance to Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So Abu Bakr and Umar and Abu Ubaidah al-Jarrah go to saqeefa to basically solve the problem. And you remember Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu is the unparalleled leader of the people. When Umar radiAllahu anhu is shouting in the masjid that whoever says the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is dead, I'm going to kill him. Everyone gathers around Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu. So Abu Bakr can solve the problems. Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu can walk into any gathering. And he can subhanAllah with his hikmah, with his wisdom, stop anything, right? Or move anything in the way that it needs to be moved. So Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, you know, he described his situation. He said, we went there, he said, I was going to speak, but then everything I was going to say, Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu said it and he said it better because I would have lost the Ansar. Meaning I would have come in a little bit aggressive and I would have lost the Ansar. Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu with his hikmah, with his wisdom, with his tone, with his posture. Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he comes to them and he sits amongst them.
And the discussion ensues about who's going to lead after the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. At one point they say, how about this? Minna ameer wa minkum ameer. You appoint your leader, the muhajireen, we'll appoint our leader from the Ansar. Is that what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wanted? To already have a split ummah now? This is how they used to function as Ous and Khazraj and they killed each other off, right? So how about we appoint one from our side, one from your side? We'll have one from the muhajireen, one from the Ansar. And Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, as he's sitting with them, Sa'ad radiAllahu ta'ala anhu says, don't you remember when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, law salaka an-nasu wadiyan, wa salaka al-ansaru wadiyan, la salaktu wadi al-ansar. That if the people went in a direction and the Ansar went in a direction, I would take the valley of the Ansar. But Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu reminded them that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that, quraish wulatu hadhil amr, fabarru an-nas tab'un li barrihim. That quraish is to inherit this amr, this affair of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had basically given all of the indications that it should continue amongst the muhajireen in this regard, right? Now, Sa'ad radiAllahu ta'ala anhu responds and he says, sadaqt nahnu al-wuzaraa wa antum al-umaraa. You've told the truth. You are the umaraa, you are the leaders and we are the wuzaraa. Wuzaraa being like we're the prime ministers and you're the leaders, right? So you're right, this should be amongst the muhajireen and we will follow. And that's where we saw Usaid ibn Hudair, his beautiful speech last week when we talked about it, when Usaid radiAllahu ta'ala, or two weeks ago when Usaid radiAllahu anhu said, we were the Ansar of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he was a muhajir. We will be the Ansar of the khalifa of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the way we were his Ansar. Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu said, so I've got two men, Umar and Abu Ubaidah, and you give your bay'ah to either one of them.
And they're like, what? Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is like, no, this is not happening. And then all of them agree on Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, and that was where the pledge of khalifa went to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Now you read a lot of narrations about discomfort and if people were upset coming out of that gathering, but the point is to the credit of Sa'd ibn Ubaidah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, even if there was conversation at that time, there was no rebellion from the Ansar. There was no rebellion in Medina against Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. They united under Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in a very troubling time, trying to figure out what they're going to do after the most paralyzing loss of the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So I know that Isha is coming up, so I'll try to rush through the rest of this inshaAllah ta'ala. So Sa'd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, afterwards, he lived a relatively quiet life in Asham after that, and he passes away in Asham, and there are multiple narrations about his passing away, but none of them have a sahih sanad to them. So all we know is that he passed away in Ghouta in Asham. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it easy for the people of Ghouta, specifically and of course the people of Asham. And his son Qais goes on to become a famous general and warrior in Islam. Now what is his legacy? And this is something that I really wanted to end on because it's so beautiful and powerful. What is his legacy? Beyond the personality, beyond this huge personality in the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And I want you to understand and appreciate the greatness of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam as a leader. He did not try to break people or mold them in a way that would be in opposition to what their natural disposition was. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam benefited and grew them in their genius.
Like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam didn't try to make Khalid radiAllahu anhu less of a warrior. He didn't try to break the leadership of Sa'd ibn Ubadah. He didn't try to mold Abu Bakr into Umar or Umar into Abu Bakr. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam was able to accommodate these personalities and create this perfect community, right? So what is it about Sa'd radiAllahu anhu afterwards that is his greatest legacy? SubhanAllah, all of the ahadith that survived him, about him, or that he narrates have to do with his mom. All of the hadiths of Sa'd ibn Ubadah are about his mom and in a very specific way. His mother's name, Amrah bint Mas'ud radiAllahu anhu, who converted to Islam. She died while Sa'd was on an expedition with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam on the expedition of Duma. Sa'd was very close to his mom. SubhanAllah, this man loved his mother. Sa'd ibn Ubadah's love for his mother was a beautiful relationship. So when they were out in Duma, Sa'd got the news while they were in the battle that his mom passed away. He was so sad, so hurt. So he comes to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he says, Ya Rasulullah, inna ummah Sa'd matat. Ya Rasulullah, the mother of Sa'd passed away. Wa inni uhibbu an tu salli alaiha. I want you to pray on her. You know, she died in Medina and we're out in battle, so they're obviously not going to hold her out. They washed her and they prayed janazah on her and I want you to pray on her, Ya Rasulullah. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told them, I will. And when they got back to Medina, Umm Sa'd is one of those people who the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam redid her janazah. Not that the first one was invalid, right?
But the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam added to the blessing where he went with Sa'd and they prayed on her once again, separately. And this is where these narrations just get really beautiful. Sa'd asks about the last moments of his mother. What was she saying? What was it like? So they said that we went to her and we said to her, you know, ulsi, give your will. You inherited a lot of property, right? A lot of wealth. You're a rich family. So give your wasiyya. She said, fima ulsi, innama almaru ma'alu Sa'd. I don't want to give any wasiyya. Just give it all to Sa'd. He'll know what to do with it. Right? Like I love it because Sa'd was known to take on this identity of generosity. Whatever they had, he spent it for Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this was the last thing that Sa'd hears that his mother said to give the wasiyya. Fima ulsi, you know, give the money to Sa'd. So when Sa'd heard that, he went to the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He said, ya Rasulullah, hal yanfa'uha an a'tasaddaqa anha? O Messenger of Allah, is it going to benefit her if I give sadaqa on her behalf? So the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, yes. So he started to take the best of their gardens. And he started to take the best of their wealth. And he started to say, this is for Um Sa'd. This is for Um Sa'd. This is for Um Sa'd. This is for Um Sa'd. He starts donating all that's left over for his mother. In another hadith, he comes to the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He says, ya Rasulullah, if my mother made an oath and she died without fulfilling it, can I fulfill it on her behalf? The Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, aqdihi anha? Go ahead and fulfill it on her behalf. So we learn about giving sadaqa on behalf of our parents from Sa'd ibn Ubadah and his mom. We learn about fulfilling the oaths and the debts of our parents from Sa'd ibn Ubadah and his mom. And finally, the most famous narration of Sa'd ibn Ubadah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu.
He comes to the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he says, ya Rasulullah, matat ummi, my mother passed away. Fa ayyu sadaqati afdal? What's the best charity I can give on her behalf? I'm trying to figure out what I can keep on giving on her behalf. So Rasulullah Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, alma' water. So Sa'd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he started to dig the wells and he said, hadhihi lu'mmi Sa'd. This is for the mother of Sa'd. The hadith of building a well on behalf of your parents comes from Sa'd ibn Ubadah. This is actually the narration. So subhanAllah, how many people in Ramadan will build wells for their parents? Addalu ala alkhair kafa'ilihi. The one who guides to good is like the one who does it. This is the reward of Allah to the generous. That he set a precedence of generosity that continues after he passes away. RadiAllahu ta'ala anhu. May Allah have mercy on him and be pleased with him and all of the ansar of our beloved messenger Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. InshAllah after Ramadan, we'll start at some point and we'll go to Umm Sulaym, the mother of Anas ibn Malik and the family of Anas ibn Malik. May Allah be pleased with them all. JazakumAllahu khaira. I know we're at the time of Isha, so we'll skip the questions for tonight. SubhanAllah wa alhamdulillah. Ashhadu wa la ilaha illa lant. Astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk. Wa salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah.
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