# Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr (ra): The Defender of Mecca | The Firsts

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** The Firsts (Sahaba Stories) | The Forerunners of Islam
**Published:** 2025-09-02
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/IEn1_nc8_Ms
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-zubayr-the-defender-of-mecca-the-firsts
**Topics:** History, Life of the Prophet (seerah)

## Description
Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr (ra) was no ordinary child. Born into an extraordinary family, his childhood offered glimpses of the fearless warrior he would become. He lived a long life of piety and courage, serving as a leader in the ummah in one of the most difficult periods of early Islamic history,...

## Chapters
- 0:00 Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr (ra)’s name and family tree
- 10:18 Marriage of Zubayr (ra) and Asma (ra)
- 20:32 Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)’s birth and childhood in Madinah
- 29:06 Father-son relationship of Zubayr (ra) and Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)
- 40:22 Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)’s du’a at the end of every salah
- 46:56 Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)’s first battles at Yarmuk and Tunis
- 54:10 The worship of Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)
- 1:00:59 Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)’s caliphate and al-Hajjaj’s Siege of Mecca
- 1:12:29 Historic conversation of Ibn az-Zubayr (ra) and his mother Asma (ra)
- 1:18:44 The martyrdom of Ibn az-Zubayr (ra)
- 1:21:28 Asma (ra) humiliates the tyrant al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf

## Transcript
**[0:00]** The Qur'an and Sunnah

**[1:00]** The lives of these companions give you something else. And subhanAllah, the person that we're covering today, I thought when I was going to restart this season, when we did Ammar ibn Yasir, that we get more ghaza out of Ammar ibn Yasir (رضي الله عنه) than anything else.

**[1:17]** It actually comes from this companion, Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه). SubhanAllah, everything about his life in the climax gave me personally, as I got to it, so much perspective and so many things that I have taught in the past that were revived.

**[1:37]** And so we have a glorious life that we're studying today, the life of Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه). His kunya, I presume everyone knows what a kunya means by now, abu or umm, so and so, the father of so and so, or the mother of so and so.

**[1:53]** His kunya is actually very interesting. His kunya is Abu Bakr. And his name is Abdullah. And Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه) whose real name is Abdullah. Abdullah ibn Abi Quhafa, Abdullah ibn Uthman. So he is Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr, but his kunya is Abu Bakr,

**[2:10]** after his grandfather (رضي الله عنه). His actual kunya, so he's one of those that has two kunyas, his actual kunya is Abu Khubaib. And Khubaib, of course, is named after the great Khubaib ibn Adi (رضي الله عنه).

**[2:28]** Who if you go back to his biography, and we covered it, subhanAllah, it will occur to you that Khubaib (رضي الله عنه) was the crucified sahabi. And Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr, like his father, names his children after shuhada.

**[2:43]** And so he names his most beloved and oldest son Khubaib. And so he is both in the hadith narrations, Abu Bakr as well as Abu Khubaib. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with him. Allahumma ameen. And something even more interesting is that Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr is the shabih.

**[3:00]** He is the one who resembles Abu Bakr from the companions physically as well. So very interesting. Abu Bakr is his grandfather, (رضي الله عنه). We know like Al-Hassan and Al-Husayn resembled the Prophet (ﷺ). May Allah be pleased with them and send his peace and blessings upon

**[3:16]** the family of the Prophet (ﷺ). So the shabih of Abu Bakr is actually his grandson, Abu Bakr Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr. So this is how we're going to introduce him. I haven't done one of these for a long time, but I had to do it for this one. A family tree. Okay. And no, it's not ChatGPT.

**[3:34]** All right. So it's authentic. All right. Authentically and rigorously vetted. It'll be very hard for you to see it on the screen, but I want you to appreciate his family inshaAllah ta'ala with me as much as you can. First and foremost, his grandfather is Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه).

**[3:53]** You start with that. The one who affirmed the Prophet (ﷺ) through thick and thin, the greatest human being after the prophets who the sun has ever risen or set upon. The one who brought his father Az-Zubayr as a young man

**[4:10]** to the Prophet (ﷺ) to embrace Islam and many of the other companions. The first adult male, Ali (رضي الله عنه) was the first boy. Abu Bakr was the first man. Khadija was the first woman. The first adult male to embrace Islam is his grandfather.

**[4:27]** The one who he's named after Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه). His mother is Asma bint Abi Bakr, who is an incredible woman whose life, subhanAllah, shines in every single person that she's involved with.

**[4:44]** Like she shines in the life of Abu Bakr. She will shine in the life of her husband Az-Zubayr. She will shine in the life of her children. She will even shine in the life of her sister Aisha, an incredible woman, strong, powerful woman who has courage that when you're reading about it,

**[5:03]** you're like, how does a woman with a heart like hers muster up the courage to say the things that she says and how does she take the stances? I mean, this is a woman that stands in the face of tyrant after tyrant after tyrant in her life. So her grandfather is Abu Bakr, who is fearless in affirming the truth.

**[5:22]** His mother is Asma, who is the famous possessor of the two waist belts. That's what we'll talk about inshaAllah ta'ala on the hijrah, right? Who faces Abu Jahl, who was with him throughout his entire life, affirming the truth.

**[5:39]** His father is Zubayr ibn Al-Awam (رضي الله عنه). Az-Zubayr being the fourth, fifth or sixth person to embrace Islam, he embraced Islam as a teenager. He is one of the neighbors of Rasulullah (ﷺ) in Jannah.

**[5:55]** He's one of the neighbors of the Prophet (ﷺ) in Jannah. He's the first person to draw a sword for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala from this ummah because he heard that the Prophet (ﷺ) was attacked and he went running to the Prophet (ﷺ) as a young man holding his sword and he found the Prophet (ﷺ) sitting.

**[6:13]** The Prophet (ﷺ) said, what are you doing? He said, ya Rasulullah, I heard that you were attacked. I heard that someone attacked you and the Prophet (ﷺ) smiled and he praised the love, the courage. Az-Zubayr was the man who Umar (رضي الله عنه) said was like a thousand men of himself.

**[6:28]** Az-Zubayr was one of the only two horsemen in the battle of Badr. Az-Zubayr was the one who Jibreel and the angels wore turbans following his lead in the battle of Badr. That's your dad. That's your father. The disciple, the Prophet (ﷺ) said, every prophet has a disciple.

**[6:44]** Every prophet of Allah has a disciple. My disciple from my ummah is Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) and that's his father. His aunt maternally is Aisha.

**[6:59]** His aunt paternally is Khadija. Who gets to call both Aisha and Khadija aunts? So Aisha is his khala. She is the sister of Asma and Khadija is his amma.

**[7:17]** Is from his paternal side, the great aunt through his grandfather who is the brother of Khadija. So Zubayr, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, ibn Al-Awam ibn Khuwaylid. So Khadija is the paternal aunt. So all of the loyalty and dedication to the Prophet (ﷺ)

**[7:37]** and selflessness and sacrifice, that's coming through his bloodline as well. Aisha (رضي الله عنها), the eloquence, the worship, the brilliance of Aisha (رضي الله عنها), that's coming to his bloodline as well. Okay, it doesn't stop there.

**[7:53]** His grandmother is Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib. Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib, the aunt of the Prophet (ﷺ), who is like Asma and Safiyya are a perfect mother and daughter-in-law combination.

**[8:08]** Because Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib is the woman that also stands in front of men with a spear in her hands, fears no one but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, who raised Zubayr as a single mother, as a single mother, and said, how did you find my son as a fruit or a falcon, right?

**[8:25]** That's Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib, harsh, but because the circumstances made her harsh on her son to raise him to be the man that he would be all by herself, and she was so beloved to the Prophet (ﷺ) that she is the second person who the Prophet (ﷺ) mentioned from

**[8:42]** As-Safa when he called his family and he said, Ya Fatima bint Rasulillah, oh Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet (ﷺ), I can't stand between you and Allah (عز وجل) on the day of judgment. Oh Safiyya bint Abdul Muttalib, my aunt, my beloved one, I can't stand between you and Allah on the day of judgment.

**[9:00]** Like, that is the closeness. And on top of that, Hamza (رضي الله عنه) finally, Hamza, Sayyid Ash-Shuhada, is also his great uncle, (رضي الله عنه). So all of the lessons of shahada and standing up and being present,

**[9:18]** he will line up on the day of judgment behind his uncle Hamza, because he is a shaheed, one of the greatest shuhada of our deen, Abdullah ibn Zubayr. So it's like everyone in his family has a story of sacrifice for the sake of Allah,

**[9:33]** and there's probably no person who you can build that type of a family tree around and see the beauty culminate in his life, (رضي الله عنه). May Allah (عز وجل) be pleased with him and be pleased with his family. Allahumma ameen.

**[9:49]** So he's going to inherit something of all of their characters. He's also going to name each, he's going to name one of his kids after all of them. And he has a particular relationship, even if he was not old enough to be with them. Like Khadijah (رضي الله عنها) died before he was born,

**[10:04]** because he was born after the hijrah, (رضي الله عنه). But that's still his aunt. There's still a connection there that exists. He's going to manifest something of that in every single way. So let's build out the life story.

**[10:21]** In what circumstances is this young man, Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr, going to be born? You have to start off, of course, by going through the life of every single person I already mentioned in detail, but the parents. Let's just pick up from the parents getting married

**[10:39]** and the circumstance that he's going to be born. Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه) had a manhaj, had a methodology in marrying off his daughters. He wanted to marry his daughters not just to people that were religious. He wanted to marry his daughters to people that were going to strive for the sake of Allah.

**[10:57]** He actually wanted his daughters to be involved in the struggle. Aisha (رضي الله عنها), of course, with the Prophet (ﷺ), there's no one who's more fee sabeelillah than Rasulullah (ﷺ) himself. But he wanted Asma (رضي الله عنها) to also be married

**[11:13]** to a man who was going to strive for the sake of Allah. And Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) fits the mold. This is a man who is right at the side of the Prophet (ﷺ) who immediately responded to the call of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and who was ready to put it all on the line.

**[11:29]** One of the first 10 to accept Islam, one of Al-Ashr Al-Mubashshireen bil-Jannah, one of the 10 promised paradise. And he and Asma together are probably, I mean, one of the only couples, if not the only couple, that both became Muslim amongst the first 10 people to embrace Islam

**[11:48]** because Asma (رضي الله عنها) remembered that when Abu Bakr became Muslim, he took Asma the next day, sat her in front of the Prophet (ﷺ) where she embraced Islam as well. So her Islam is super early, Az-Zubayr's Islam is super early.

**[12:04]** Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib embraces Islam on the same day as Hamza, right? So it's not as early, but she's going to live with Asma and Az-Zubayr. And this is a family that's going to strive for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.

**[12:19]** Now, she talks about her situation and how difficult their life was in every single period of their lives. She said, when I got married to Az-Zubayr, I mean, this is bint Abu Bakr. Abu Bakr is a man of status, wealth, everything, reputation.

**[12:35]** She said, when Az-Zubayr married me, he had no land, he had no money, he had no servant, he had nothing except for a camel to get some water, and he had a horse. So what are we getting married with? We got a horse and we have a camel,

**[12:50]** and we're going to make do. So she said, I used to graze his horse, I'd provide fodder for it, I'd look after it, and I'd ground the dates for his camel. And she said, and I grazed the camel, and I made arrangements for it by providing it with water. I would patch up the one leather bucket that we had,

**[13:07]** and I would pound the little flour that we could get our hands on, subhanAllah. And she said, and I wasn't good at baking bread. So some of the women would come, and they would help me bake whatever we could with the bread. And they were sincere women.

**[13:23]** And she says that I used to carry the few date stones that I could get my hands on and plant that for my family. And there's a story that the Prophet (ﷺ) sees her

**[13:39]** one day walking in these difficult circumstances, and the Prophet (ﷺ) offers her to ride along, basically because of the difficulty, she's carrying things on her head. You can imagine the scene of what her life is like. And she thought that, you know, Zubayr is a jealous man,

**[13:54]** even though it's the Prophet (ﷺ). And so when she told Zubayr what happened, Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) said, that the thought of you carrying the date stones on your head is more severe of a burden to me than you riding with the Prophet (ﷺ). So she said, this continued until Abu Bakr (رضي الله عنه)

**[14:12]** sent us a female maid who helped me, and it was as if she freed me from slavery. I felt like I was freed from slavery by the presence of this little help that came to us. That's their life, difficult life. That's just their financial circumstances.

**[14:27]** On top of that, they were amongst those that had to escape to do hijrah to Abyssinia. So Az-Zubayr and Asma lived the early days of their marriage in Abyssinia, as strangers, and they were close to Ja'far. And in Abyssinia, life was not easy either, right?

**[14:46]** We're both young, trying to figure life out. We don't have any familial support. And Az-Zubayr is just doing whatever he possibly can just for us to survive. We're refugees. So marriage begins for us as refugees. Right? They barely got married in Mecca and they were gone to Abyssinia, away from their family support.

**[15:06]** And then we come back to Mecca, and it's time to make hijrah to Medina. Alright? Now this is when, subhanAllah, there is a dimension that I want you to think about, to a story that we all know, that is profound.

**[15:24]** That when the Prophet (ﷺ) instructed the family of Abu Bakr, Asma was entrusted with the waist belt. That an-nitaqayn, right? And she would carry the food, and she was coordinating with the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr,

**[15:40]** where they were along the hijrah, and taking the food to them. She was almost, almost, at the point of delivery with Abdullah ibn Zubayr. She was late term pregnant with her first child. So like, hijrah alone, imagine walking in the mountains of Mecca, all by yourself, under that heat.

**[16:01]** No one to support you. Your father is the second most wanted man. And, you know, the person who's behind you is Abu Jahl, a Fir'awn of this Ummah. You're, let's call it seven months pregnant, six, seven months pregnant,

**[16:18]** carrying the food all by yourself, climbing up these mountains, getting to the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr, giving them food. And her strength truly showed, not just in taking the food to Ghar Thawr, but can you imagine what it was like when Abu Jahl caught her?

**[16:36]** The Fir'awn of this Ummah caught her, and stood her up. And Abu Jahl was the same size as Umar ibn Al-Khattab, he's a huge man. And he stands right on top of this pregnant woman, and Abdullah is witnessing all this in the womb.

**[16:52]** You know, and they say like, what the mother is going through in life is somehow, subhanallah, transitioning to the womb. This is Abdullah's existence in his mother's womb, a Pharaoh with a booming voice on top of her, raising his hand to her, pulling her garment like this, and saying, tell me where they are.

**[17:09]** And Asma (رضي الله عنها) refusing, and Asma saying, Abu Jahl slapped me so hard that my earring flew out, with his huge hands. That type of a hit could cause her to miscarry, subhanAllah, with all of the other circumstances.

**[17:27]** But she maintains the secrets, Abu Jahl does not kill her, therefore she survives, Abdullah survives. And subhanAllah, one of my teachers actually mentioned, subhanAllah, it's not like Abu Jahl was a man who used to restrain himself.

**[17:42]** You see the hikmah and the qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, just like how the Prophet (ﷺ) and Abu Bakr were caught in the cave, but they didn't look under because of the elements on the outside. Allah (عز وجل) spared them. Like, for what reason did Abu Jahl hold back his hand from killing Asma?

**[18:01]** Like, he's killed women, he killed Sumayya, he's killed many other people. And it's not like, I mean, he's going for the Prophet's (ﷺ) throat, Abu Bakr's throat. What's going to cause him to restrain himself? But for some reason, he slapped her, and he yelled at her and demanded answers, and then he left her.

**[18:18]** Or else, there is no Abdullah ibn Zubayr. Right? The baby is in the tummy, she is going through this by herself, and then she makes her way to Quba along the route that the Prophet (ﷺ) instructed her to.

**[18:33]** She arrives in Quba and the exhaustion of being on the hijrah, right? I mean, you went to Abyssinia, came back, and now you're coming to Medina carrying a baby. The exhaustion of this all, right, is enough to cause a miscarriage.

**[18:53]** Now, this also gives you some context. When the Muhajireen arrived in Mecca, some of the tribes, Banu Qurayza and Banu Qaynuqa and Banu Nadhir, some of the tribes, they made a claim that they put a spell on the Muslims

**[19:12]** so that they wouldn't be able to give childbirth. So they wouldn't be able to have kids. So it's like, you're leaving a cruel situation, you're going to a place where you have some Jewish tribes that are saying that we put a spell on the Muslims, they're not going to be able to have kids.

**[19:27]** Now, obviously, these are people who believe in Allah (عز وجل). Did they doubt the Prophet (ﷺ) because of what some people in Medina were saying, that you're not going to be able to have children? No. But it's also distressing when, you know, no one's having children.

**[19:42]** And there are multiple reasons for that. Number one, some of the writers, and a lot of this is conjecture, right, a lot of this is speculation. They say that there were women who some of the secondary sources mention that miscarried. Just from the harshness of the hijrah, right, the harshness of the circumstances.

**[20:01]** But the point is, is that for whatever reason, there were several miscarriages, and it makes sense from the Muhajireen with all of the stress that they were under when they arrived in Medina. And so they're starting to think, perhaps there is a sihr, there is some sort of sorcery,

**[20:16]** and the people that are making the claim that we have suspended the wombs so that the Muhammadans, the people of the Ummah of Muhammad will not give any more birth. We've suspended their wombs, they're celebrating, and they're gloating.

**[20:31]** In this context, it's narrated in Sahih Muslim,

**[20:47]** So she actually gave birth in Quba. Now she's one of the last people to arrive on the hijrah, so there are some Muslims that have been there now, Muhajireen that have been there for some time. But it's at about three months now where the hijrah started,

**[21:03]** the arrival of the Muslims to now this last batch of Muslims that no one's had any babies. And she gives birth to Abdullah ibn Zubayr in Quba. And she begins her nifas in Quba.

**[21:19]** So they then called for the Prophet (ﷺ) to come. And subhanAllah, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, Abdullah ibn Abbas was born in the boycott. Remember, we're talking about the Abadi, Abdullah ibn Abbas was born in the boycott. I remember the Prophet (ﷺ) came and Abdullah ibn Abbas was a source of joy for him.

**[21:38]** And the Prophet (ﷺ) did not even have tamr, he didn't even have a date to use for the tahniq. So he just used his saliva (ﷺ) in the mouth of Abdullah ibn Abbas. And he's the only kid that's like that. The next Abdullah, Abdullah ibn Zubayr, he has another story.

**[21:56]** The Prophet (ﷺ), he comes to him and he put, he put Abdullah ibn Zubayr in his lap. And then the Prophet (ﷺ) called for a date.

**[22:13]** He chewed the date and he put his saliva on it. And then the Prophet (ﷺ) started to rub it on the roof of the mouth of Abdullah ibn Zubayr. And Aisha (رضي الله عنها), she says, So the first thing that entered into the stomach of Abdullah ibn Zubayr

**[22:32]** was the saliva of the Prophet (ﷺ). And the Prophet (ﷺ) felt so much joy. And the Prophet (ﷺ), he grabbed him, he made du'a for him, wa sammahu Abdullah. And the Prophet (ﷺ) is the one who named him Abdullah.

**[22:47]** So he was named Abdullah by the Prophet (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) did his tahniq. And as Ibn Ishaq narrates, the one who called the adhan in his ear was Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه). I'm like thinking about that, subhanAllah.

**[23:04]** The first voice you hear in your ear is Abu Bakr calling adhan. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Like when Abu Bakr says, ashhadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah, he means it in a way that no other human being, no other follower could mean it. Like none of us could mean it.

**[23:19]** Our iman is not equal to that. And there's something profound about that, that that's what he's getting in his ear is the adhan of Abu Bakr. And before he even opens his eyes to the world, the Prophet (ﷺ) is putting the date in his mouth. And the saliva of the Prophet (ﷺ) is entering into his system,

**[23:36]** (رضي الله عنه). And the same child that was in the womb of Asma, when Abu Jahl stood over her and smacked her, causing her earring to fly out, and went through the difficulty of the hijrah,

**[23:51]** next thing you know, Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه), he takes Abdullah ibn Zubayr, and he goes through the streets of Medina, and he holds him up like this. He says, Allahu Akbar! And all the Muslims start to go by and say, Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!

**[24:07]** Why? Because this was a sign that the curse was not real. The sihr did not work. The Muslims had a baby. And so, imagine the scene of Abu Bakr walking with his grandson,

**[24:22]** Abdullah, who's named after him as well, Abu Bakr, and saying, Allahu Akbar! And all of the Muslims walking behind Abu Bakr, and saying, Allahu Akbar! as Abdullah ibn Zubayr is being held in the air. This is the beginning of your life.

**[24:37]** This is the family you come from. You are destined for greatness in every way. And as we said, it's narrated by multiple companions that there's no one who resembled Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه) more than Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما).

**[24:55]** Now on top of that, he had a particular place in the heart of his aunt Aisha. So Aisha (رضي الله عنها) immediately fell in love with this child. And it's narrated that Aisha (رضي الله عنها),

**[25:10]** that she dressed Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما), that she dressed him with some sort of khazz, with some sort of like beautiful garment. So she had like a particular garment that she had for him. And Urwah, who's the brother of Abdullah, said,

**[25:27]** Aisha did not love anyone more than him, except for her husband, her parents, and her brother. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be pleased with her. So Abdullah ibn Zubayr was so close to the heart of Aisha as well. So this is like her child.

**[25:42]** She is his khala. And if you ever read that the kunya, did Aisha have children (رضي الله عنها)? No. But if you ever read about her kunya, it's authentically narrated that she said to the Prophet (رضي الله عنه),

**[25:59]** Ya Nabi Allah, ala tukannini, O Messenger of Allah, will you not give me a kunya? You know, and this is common in Arab culture as well, and other cultures, not just Arab culture. She might call someone, even as a child, right? The father of so-and-so, the mother of so-and-so.

**[26:14]** And it could be their first, you know, their parents, that one day they're expected to name their kids after their parents. But she says to the Prophet (رضي الله عنه), Ya Rasulullah, will you not give me a kunya? And the Prophet (رضي الله عنه) said,

**[26:30]** Take the kunya of your son, Abdullah ibn Zubayr. So call yourself by your son, Abdullah ibn Zubayr. So she is Umm Abdullah. Aisha (رضي الله عنها) has kunya, and this hadith is actually Umm Abdullah, right?

**[26:47]** And that is after Abdullah ibn Zubayr, and this hadith is in Al-Adab Al-Mufrad, and it's an authentic hadith. So what was this child like? Are there anything, is there anything that happens that's going to show us that he's a particular or a peculiar baby?

**[27:02]** Well, for one, his first word was not baba or mama or tamar. His first word was sayf. Sword. That's a sign that the first word that he utters out of his mouth is sword.

**[27:19]** And it's going to fit him later on. And his father, of course, was the first sayf, the first sword for the Prophet (ﷺ), the first one to raise a sword for the Prophet (ﷺ). And it's also narrated about him in Kutub As-Siyar

**[27:34]** that while other children played with toys, like they would fashion things out of the dirt or they'd fashion things with their knitting and whatever it may be, that Abdullah ibn Zubayr had this obsession with just fashioning toy swords. So he was taking wood and he was making wooden swords,

**[27:51]** and he would go out and he would look at his father and he would try to shadow his father and play with his swords as well. So he grew up with that natural inclination towards al-qital, towards fighting and towards battle and bravery and courage and valor,

**[28:07]** which is what you're going to see in his life. So the signs are already there for him before he's even a toddler. He's just an infant and he's already showing signs of his bravery and his courage. He also has an incredible dhikr, an incredible memory,

**[28:23]** an incredible intelligence that shows early on when he's a baby. So they said his speech came extremely early and his memory was extremely early, meaning he could recall things from being one, two, three years old, even as he got older, with precision.

**[28:39]** Like he remembered the early days of his childhood. And as Ibn Hajar rahimahullah mentions that of the miracles of him that Abu Bukhari records two hadiths from him that he narrates when he's only three years old. Who remembers things from when they were three,

**[28:54]** except for these little flashes and things of that sort. He remembers two hadiths from the Prophet (ﷺ) from when he was only three years old. (رضي الله عنه وعن أبيه) On top of that, his father had a lot to do with cultivating that strength

**[29:13]** and basically making him a mini Zubayr. Abdullah is a mini Zubayr in every way. Physically, he has the stature of his father, he has the same mindset as his father, he grows up with the same interests as his father, he is a mini version of his father.

**[29:28]** And there's a beautiful narration in Sahih Muslim that Az-Zubayr brought him when he was seven or eight years old. To give bay'ah to Rasulullah (ﷺ) So that he could go and he could give bay'ah to the Prophet (ﷺ) formally,

**[29:44]** like he could pledge his allegiance to the Prophet (ﷺ). So he comes to the Prophet (ﷺ) looking like a little man, like eight years old, ready to give bay'ah to the Prophet (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) smiled when he saw him coming towards him, then he gave him bay'ah. So the Prophet (ﷺ) smiled when he saw,

**[30:05]** like it was interesting to see this young man, this seven, eight year old that looks and feels like a grown man and has the maturity of a grown man, looking like a little Zubayr walking towards the Prophet (ﷺ), like his father who is the disciple of the Prophet (ﷺ) and putting his hand in the hand of the Prophet (ﷺ),

**[30:22]** and giving his allegiance to the Prophet (ﷺ). Alright, well it gets more interesting. You know when we were talking about Abdullah ibn Zubayr, I'm sorry, Abdullah ibn Abbas, it was very sweet, like he'd go and he'd bring the wudu of the Prophet (ﷺ)

**[30:38]** and the Prophet (ﷺ) would grab him close and the Prophet (ﷺ) would make du'a for him. Abdullah ibn Zubayr is different. There is an incident where the Prophet (ﷺ) did hijama,

**[30:55]** so he extracted the blood from him (ﷺ) and he instructed Abdullah ibn Zubayr to go throw the blood away. Alright, you already know where the story is going. Okay, so he comes back to the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ) says,

**[31:14]** what did you do with the cupping, the blood, ya Abdullah? Abdullah says, I put it in a place that I don't think anyone will find it. See, I put it in a place that I don't think anyone's ever going to find it. It's like an eight-year-old, by the way.

**[31:29]** And the Prophet (ﷺ) looks at him and he says, perhaps you drank it? Did you really drink the blood? I told you, this is where it's going. This kid is different. But this is the blood of the Prophet (ﷺ), still it's not the order of the Prophet (ﷺ),

**[31:47]** so let's not think like this is the thing to do here. Perhaps you drank it? So he put his head down and he said, yes, O Messenger of Allah. He said, yes, O Messenger of Allah. And listen to the answer of the Prophet (ﷺ). He said, woe to you from the people and woe to the people from you.

**[32:05]** Woe to you from the people and woe to the people from you. Woe to you from the people and woe to the people from you. What does it mean? Like, you don't really understand the implications of what it means to have the blood of Rasulullah (ﷺ) inside of you.

**[32:23]** There's so much that the ulema talk about in the sharah of this. Look, all the tragedy that happened with the family of the Prophet (ﷺ) and Husayn (ﷺ) and everything like that. When you're the blood of the Prophet (ﷺ), there's...

**[32:38]** carry something, right? Like this isn't a small thing that just happened. So, woe to you from the people and woe to the people from you. Woe to you from the people and woe to the people from you. Abu Asim says,

**[32:53]** They said that the strength that Abdullah had was from this blood that he drank. They said that the blood, like the strength that Abdullah ibn Zubayr had was very unnatural. And they used to attribute it back to that incident. Like, he's the only one that we know that pulled something off like this.

**[33:10]** Alright? But that he had a supernatural almost strength from that moment with the Prophet (ﷺ). On top of that, Ibn Abi Mulaikha says about him, He says, By Allah, I never laid my eyes on a man who was more well built,

**[33:26]** whose skin sat on his flesh like his skin did, and whose flesh was on his muscles like it was, and whose muscles were upon his bones. He was like a man of perfect stature. He was very interesting, subhanAllah. Like, everything about him. Now, Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) was a huge man.

**[33:44]** When he used to sit on his horse, his feet used to almost touch the ground. One of those gigantic men. Abdullah ibn Zubayr said like just from a physical perspective, subhanAllah, the way his flesh was, as if it was a miracle from Allah (عز وجل).

**[34:00]** As well just the way he was physically built, and you will see this through his life, (رضي الله عنهما). Now the miracle of this all as well is that he never actually got to fight alongside the Prophet (ﷺ) in a battle, because he was too young. So all of this like praise and recognizing that this young man is special, right?

**[34:19]** He never got to be alongside the Prophet (ﷺ) in battle. But what does he recall from battle? His memories of battle are the following. He says when Khandaq happened, I was with my grandmother, Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib.

**[34:35]** The women and the children were hidden away in a house, right? Obviously, the men were digging the trench and trying to fight off the opposing army. And then there was the khiyana, the treachery that happened from within, where the tribes decided to go and attack the women and the children.

**[34:52]** So he said, I remember when I was with my grandmother, and we were ambushed, and the man that was with us was Hassan ibn Thabit, (رضي الله عنهم). Hassan ibn Thabit froze up when we got, you know, accosted by this enemy, right?

**[35:08]** And so the soldier comes into the house, my grandmother, Safiyyah, innaha Safiyyah. So the Prophet (ﷺ) would say, innaha Safiyyah. Safiyyah grabbed a pole, tells everyone be quiet. When he walks in, she cracks him across the head with the pole.

**[35:25]** She beats him to death. And then she picks up his body and throws it out so that the people that came with him thought that there was an army. Within, and they all go running away.

**[35:41]** That's grandma. Okay. Family's different. InshaAllah, ahl al-Ghaza are different. Family is different, right? That's grandma. Safiyyah, (رضي الله عنها), by the way, on the Battle of Uhud was also trying to fight. And the Prophet (ﷺ) was, you know, she was trying not just to fight the opposing army,

**[35:59]** she was trying to fight the Muslims that were fleeing. Threatened them to get back on the battlefield. That's grandma. That's what he remembers from grandma. Then he remembers, he said, and I saw my father, Az-Zubayr. And this is, subhanAllah, a conversation later on, where Az-Zubayr asks Abdullah when he's older,

**[36:20]** do you remember seeing me on the day of Banu Qurayza? Do you remember? And Az-Zubayr said, yeah, I remember. I mean, Abdullah says, I remember you. I mean, Az-Zubayr has moments in Khandaq where he takes on the boogeyman,

**[36:35]** where he's going forward and the Prophet (ﷺ) is praising him, right? He says, I remember seeing you on Khandaq. And I remember seeing you on that day of Banu Qurayza. And the Prophet (ﷺ) praising Az-Zubayr and saying, every prophet has a disciple, my disciple is Az-Zubayr.

**[36:53]** My disciple is Az-Zubayr. And Az-Zubayr said, ya bunayya, oh my son, do you know what the Prophet (ﷺ) told me that day? He said, what did he tell you, dad? He said, the Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, may my mother and father be sacrificed for you, may my mother and father be sacrificed for you.

**[37:10]** Which the Prophet (ﷺ) doesn't say to anybody. Like the Sahaba say that to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said, I remember that day and you might have seen me that day, like the bravery, the courage of Az-Zubayr standing up and doing things that no one else was doing. And like, imagine this conversation later on with his son.

**[37:26]** Like he's almost telling him, like, if you're wondering where I got like this zeal from, the Prophet (ﷺ) said to me, may my mother and father be sacrificed for you, may my mother and father be sacrificed for you. So all of his memories are memories of struggle from every single person in his family.

**[37:46]** He grows up with that. He grows up accustomed to that. And he sees the rank that his mother and his father and his grandfather Abu Bakr and his grandmother Safiyyah, he sees the rank that they have with the Prophet (ﷺ). And that's something that's nurtured in his heart very early on.

**[38:06]** There's something else very interesting about him that he inherited from his father. Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr did not narrate many ahadith. We're going to talk about his brother. We're going to do a whole lecture on his brother next week, inshaAllah ta'ala. And it's a full halaqa, not 20-30 minutes. We're going to do a whole lecture on his brother next week, inshaAllah ta'ala.

**[38:24]** Who was the scholar. He's the warrior, his brother's the scholar. These pairings exist in the seerah. Anas ibn Malik and Al-Bara ibn Malik. Like one is the scholar, one is the warrior. It exists in a few of these pairs in the seerah. So Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr was not someone that was really into the collecting of ahadith

**[38:44]** and sharing what he heard from the Prophet (ﷺ). There are narrations, a few of them direct from him, and about 30 or so from him from someone else. So from his father narrating from the other companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). But he said that,

**[39:00]** I said to my father, I said to my father, Az-Zubayr, I hear you narrating from Rasulullah (ﷺ) like so-and-so and so-and-so. Oh my father, I noticed that you don't share things that the Prophet (ﷺ) said,

**[39:16]** the way that other people do. Meaning like Az-Zubayr was very cautious. He's a warrior, he's one of the earliest Muslims, he's close to the Prophet (ﷺ). But he's not sharing what the Prophet (ﷺ) said. And he said, because I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say,

**[39:32]** whoever lies about me, then let them choose their place in hellfire. Whoever says something about me that's not true, then let them choose their place in hellfire. So it was a caution, a fear, I was too afraid. That's the awe. SubhanAllah, personalities are different. Like who had more awe of the Prophet (ﷺ) than Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما).

**[39:50]** But that led to a very particular disposition. The awe of Az-Zubayr is like, let me stick to the battlefield and let me not indulge the sayings, lest I get something wrong and I undo all of the good that Allah (عز وجل) allowed me to do.

**[40:06]** So Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr adopted a similar disposition to his father in this regard. Where he's like, look, let me be in the battlefield, let me do what I have to do. But he's not someone that's going to quote the Prophet (ﷺ) too frequently.

**[40:22]** We do have an authentic narration about his salah that Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما) would say at the end of his salah that his du'a at the end of every salah was, and we'll write this in the description inshaAllah of the video.

**[40:38]** La ilaha illallah wahdahu la sharika lahu, lahu al-mulk wa lahu al-hamd wa huwa ala kulli shay'in qadeer, la ilaha illallah wa la na'budu illa iyyah, lahu al-ni'ma wa lahu al-fadl wa lahu al-thana'u al-hasan, la ilaha illallah mukhlisina lahu ad-deen wa law kariha al-kaafiroon

**[40:56]** So it's a very powerful expression of la ilaha illallah. Obviously what we say that Allah has no partner, no associate. To him is all the dominion, to him belongs all praise. He's able to do all things. There is no power and no strength except that which is with Allah.

**[41:11]** To him belongs all blessing and kindness and all praise. And we are sincere in our faith and devotion to him, even if the disbelievers detest it. So this was his du'a at the end of every salah, and it's an authentic narration in Sunan An-Nasa'i. There's also an authentic narration that he says

**[41:28]** that the Prophet (ﷺ) said about Al-Ka'bah, that it's only called Al-Bayt Al-Atiq because no tyrant has ever conquered it. that one of the reasons why it's called, or the reason why it's called Al-Bayt Al-Atiq, one of the names of the Ka'bah is Al-Bayt Al-Atiq,

**[41:46]** which speaks to freedom. It's because freedom. Because no tyrant has ever been able to conquer it entirely. So there are bouts and there are moments, but every tyrant who had a reign over it, it was short-lived and Allah (عز وجل) disposed of them.

**[42:05]** And on the Day of Judgment, towards the Day of Judgment, Allah will swallow an army that tries to take the Ka'bah. Right? So he narrates that from the Prophet (ﷺ) and this is something that's going to be directly relevant to his life when he becomes the guardian of the Ka'bah.

**[42:21]** Right? Because he will establish his khilafah in Mecca when the time comes for him to do so. So these are the few narrations that we have from him. Now, what are his traits? So what does he look like as he becomes an adult now? All right?

**[42:36]** Uthman ibn Talha says about him, He said that he cannot be competed with in three things, in three things, in bravery, worship, and eloquence. There are three things that you could not compete with him in. Shaja'a, his bravery,

**[42:53]** his ibadah, and his balagha, his eloquence. That he had incredible bravery, worship, and eloquence. Adh-Dhahabi rahimahullah says, It was said that the example of Ibn Zubayr's courage was given. That basically when you wanted to draw a parable or an example of courage,

**[43:12]** you compared someone's courage to Ibn Zubayr. You would say that this person is courageous like Ibn Zubayr. So he was that standard of courage and bravery. And one of my favorite incidents, because it always intersects with Umar (رضي الله عنه) in some way,

**[43:28]** he was kind of, you know, he was becoming a teenager in the life of Umar (رضي الله عنه). When Umar becomes the khalifa. And Umar (رضي الله عنه) was such a big man that when Umar would walk on the road, the kids would run away.

**[43:45]** All right, why? It's like Paul Bunyan stature. Like think of the road shaking like this big, big man (رضي الله عنه), that as he is marching (رضي الله عنه), just the stature of Umar was so intimidating that the kids would run away from him.

**[44:02]** They were afraid of Umar (رضي الله عنه). So, and this is what the Prophet (ﷺ) said, it's not just the kids, by the way, if shaitan sees you on a path, then shaitan will take another. Right? If shaitan sees you on a path, then shaitan will take another. I'm not saying your kids are shaitan. I'm not saying children are shaitan.

**[44:17]** I'm saying that, you know, it's like everything's afraid of Umar (رضي الله عنه). He's such an imposing man (رضي الله عنه) in his stature. All right? So one day he's walking, and the kids are playing and they're fooling around, and they run away when Umar (رضي الله عنه) walks,

**[44:33]** and Abdullah ibn Zubayr stands up right on the road. So Umar (رضي الله عنه), you can imagine him coming to him, and he comes down to him, and he says, What's wrong with you, Ibn Zubayr, why didn't you run away like the other kids?

**[44:49]** Like, why didn't you, what's wrong with you, Ibn Zubayr, why don't you run away like the other kids? All right? He's testing him. He said, O Amir Al-Mu'mineen, Why should I run away from you? I did not do anything wrong He said, I did not do anything wrong so that I should run away from you.

**[45:04]** And the path is not too narrow And the path is not too narrow for both you and I to stand on it for both you and I to stand on it There's no reason for me to get off the road I didn't do anything wrong And there's plenty of room on this road

**[45:19]** for both you and I to stand on it To say that to Umar as a 10 year old takes some serious courage What do you think Umar did? Do you think Umar picked him up and humbled him? Umar

**[45:34]** He picked him up and he hugged him and he started to celebrate and he said This is the son of his father This is the son of his father just like Az-Zubayr This is the son of his father This is the son of his father I like this kid This is the type of strength that we need to see

**[45:50]** So that kind of shows you his He has a confidence to him and it's not an arrogance But that shuja'a shows in everything subhanAllah in his life And it was very intentionally cultivated And some of it was miraculous And Allah (عز وجل) put it inside of him

**[46:05]** That he really didn't fear anyone but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Truly does not fear anyone or anything And you're going to see that when he's 10 years old And you're going to see that when he's 70 years old It's remarkable courage to stand up in front of a tyrant And subhanAllah this is the man

**[46:20]** whose mother stood up to Abu Jahl while she was pregnant with him Right, and could have died Like, a word of truth in front of a tyrant Umar (رضي الله عنه) of course is not fitting this I'm talking about later on in his life when he stands up to a tyrant He does not fear anyone but Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

**[46:37]** So when are we going to get to see this kid in battle? Okay, and see what he's really about His first word is sayf Plays with wooden swords He's clearly not afraid of anyone His body is remarkably strong Like his stature, his posture

**[46:52]** His strength is unbelievable When are we going to see it? Imam Adh-Dhahabi rahimahullah ta'ala He says that the first time that you start to see the mention of him in battle was his father, Az-Zubayr took him to the battle of Yarmouk

**[47:07]** You can go back and read about Yarmouk It's one of the most severe battles in the history of Islam He said Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) put him on a horse So he's not old enough to fight yet

**[47:22]** But he was there in Yarmouk with his father witnessing it in the middle It's like he was accustoming him acclimating him to the dust of war Right? And Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) was the man

**[47:37]** who penetrated the Roman army so strongly on the day of Yarmouk that he went right through and he sliced right through until he found himself at the back of the army and then he sliced right back through in front of the army and Abdullah was with him that day

**[47:53]** So you're going to see subhanAllah like a deja vu moment that happens with Abdullah Like this is what he remembers from his father I'm on my dad's horse and he goes bolting through the Roman army comes bolting back and he's absolutely intact

**[48:09]** in terms of his body (رضي الله عنه) and this is before the battle even starts So when does Abdullah When does Abdullah start to see his first action on the battlefield It actually happens as the Muslims start to

**[48:25]** fight with the Romans in North Africa so it's Egypt and then it is Tunis in particular the area of what would be Tunis today Tunisia today There's a very particular battle that's there

**[48:41]** He has these conversations that he has with his father because him and his father were fighting each other in these battles under Sayyidina Umar (رضي الله عنه) For one Umar (رضي الله عنه) when he sent Az-Zubayr to Egypt in particular to Amr ibn Al-As

**[48:57]** He included him as one of those men who are like a thousand men who's like a thousand men He's like I'm sending you four men who are equivalent to a thousand men and it was Az-Zubayr, Miqdad Ubadah ibn As-Samit Muhammad ibn Maslama

**[49:13]** So the four men, Umar (رضي الله عنه) said each one of them is like a thousand So he got to go back out with his father in Egypt and he says that I said to my father By Allah I see on your body what I don't see on any other human being

**[49:29]** I see on your body what I don't see on any other human being What's he talking about? Az-Zubayr was marked up He's wounded up in every place So Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) said By Allah, there's not a single wound

**[49:45]** except with Rasulullah (ﷺ) and for the sake of Allah He said I swear by Allah, every one of these marks you see on my body was with the Prophet (ﷺ) for the sake of Allah There isn't a single one of these marks

**[50:01]** and subhanAllah it's narrated from Urwah that Az-Zubayr had three wounds on his body that were so large that you could put your hand in them Right? There was a missing of flesh Two of them were from Badr

**[50:17]** and one of them was from Yarmouk and that's the body of Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) for the sake of Allah for the sake of Allah and at some point Abdullah inherits his sword and the sword of Az-Zubayr the same sword that Abdullah

**[50:33]** ibn Az-Zubayr will fight with when he is martyred decades later is the sword that Az-Zubayr carried on the day of Badr and it still had the dent the dents from Badr So he's coming into his own in this regard

**[50:49]** and it comes out in the battle for Tunis or in the area of what's modern day Tunis Qairawan Now by the way Ibn Hajar rahimAllah he says that there is this battle now where Ibn Az-Zubayr is fighting on his own

**[51:05]** and the Muslims were about 12,000 and they were up against up to 200,000 Romans It's a huge huge huge discrepancy and the leader of the Muslims that day was Abdullah ibn Sa'd the leader on the other side

**[51:21]** was a man named Jurgir the commander on the other side was a pompous man named Jurgir so Jurgir called out and he called out to his own army and he said whoever kills the leader of the Muslims he said whoever

**[51:37]** oh my soldiers whoever kills the commander of the Muslims and he named him Abdullah ibn Sa'd I will give him a hundred thousand dinars and I'll marry him to my daughter I will give him a hundred thousand dinars and I'll marry him to my daughter So Abdullah ibn Sa'd

**[51:53]** he heard this and kind of ruffled him right it got him a bit scared so Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr said don't be afraid he said you know what call out with the same announcement that he made to your army

**[52:09]** so Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr now is like giving instructions for the first time this is the first battle we actually see him in action so he says order an announcer to announce whoever kills Jurgir I'll give him a hundred thousand dinars and I'll marry him to my daughter whoever kills Jurgir I'll give him a hundred thousand dinars

**[52:25]** and I'll marry him to my daughter to kind of mess with Jurgir let him know we're not scared of you then he said to Abdullah ibn As-Sa'd he said listen I have an idea he said they don't know me yet they don't know who I am

**[52:41]** send with me thirty men thirty men and I'm going to walk right up to Jurgir and he might think that I'm a messenger I'm just a messenger right, being sent by he's like are you sure I'm sure

**[52:57]** Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr says to the thirty men protect my back watch my back and they start to walk so the army parts its way and Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr said so we got to Jurgir and he was sitting on a throne I mean exactly how you would imagine

**[53:13]** and he had all these women that were fanning him right, pompous, super pompous super arrogant and he says what do you want and Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr said I actually want to kill you right, so Jurgir gets up fights him

**[53:29]** he kills Jurgir and then he shouts out Allahu Akbar and the thirty men that are with Abdullah shout out Allahu Akbar so the Muslims hear it on the other side so they start shouting Allahu Akbar so the huge army starts to flee right

**[53:45]** that's his first battle where he actually shines on his own he then went on to fight in the naval expeditions in the conquest of Constantinople which is of course modern day Istanbul so he was part of that

**[54:01]** army that encroaches into what is modern day Turkey so he has that part of his resume alright, what about his Ibadah Abdullah ibn Abbas says if you would like to look at the prayer of the Prophet

**[54:17]** (ﷺ) then start with the prayer of Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr Ibn Abbas said if you want to follow the Salah of the Prophet (ﷺ) then imitate the Salah of Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr that's a man who

**[54:33]** prays like the Prophet (ﷺ) he's not just talking about where he puts his hands and the Fiqh of it he's also talking about the Ibadah, right the spirituality of Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr and here's

**[54:49]** where you start to see some of the beautiful narrations, Mujahid says that when he would stand up for a prayer he looked like a pole and the birds would come and they would land on him because he was so still, he achieved a certain

**[55:05]** stillness in his Salah that he was like a pole as he was in his Salah, this was by the way the Salah of Abu Bakr that stillness in prayer was something that he is resembling of his grandfather

**[55:21]** in that regard and he was so motionless and he was so into his Salah one of the nicknames that he achieved was Hamamat Al-Masjid the pigeon of the Masjid because

**[55:37]** they said two things, so I was reading into this that there's a point when everyone leaves the Masjid and it's only the birds that are around, he's still there so he was still so dedicated to his dhikr that he was still there and plus the landing of the pigeons and the birds on him when he

**[55:53]** was praying because of the stillness that he had it's narrated about him that Ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) would recite in one rak'ah Al-Baqarah, Ali Imran, An-Nisa, and Al-Ma'idah that he would read in a single rak'ah all the way from Al-Baqarah

**[56:09]** up to Al-Ma'idah his qiyam was out of this world I found a very interesting narration about him, subhanAllah, it's in Adh-Dhahabi and Abu Nu'aim that narrate about him that he used to divide he used to divide his nights into three nights

**[56:25]** into three nights, he used to divide his nights into three nights, one night standing one night in ruku and one night in sujood one night he spent more time in qiyam another night he spent more time in ruku and a third night he spent more time in sujood

**[56:41]** that's like the fiqh of the heart understanding like how to diversify your spirituality, there's a sweetness in every one of these positions that he was realizing in his tahajjud in his qiyam, so he's not just some warrior in the battlefield, right? this is a man who was striving against himself at night

**[56:57]** who was striving against himself at night between the different portions of salah, there's a famous story about him and by the way this is true subhanAllah for the different children of Zubayr that one day while he was

**[57:13]** praying that a snake fell on one of his kids so he's in his salah and a snake fell on one of the kids and obviously the whole house, like everyone started to scream and yell and get the snake out of there and throw it out

**[57:29]** and he was still in his salah so his wife got mad at him because when he finished the salah so Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) he said, I heard some noise during my salah, was everything okay? she's like your son almost died

**[57:45]** she's like what happened, you know there was a snake that fell and Abdullah ibn Zubayr didn't even realize, right? the commotion that was around him was diminished because of the engagement that he had in his salah (رضي الله عنه)

**[58:01]** one of my favorite narrations about him, next time you go to hajj or umrah I want you to remember this, may Allah write it down for you, Mujahid rahimAllah says, there wasn't a single ibadah that people found hard except that Abdullah ibn Zubayr wanted to do it that there wasn't a single ibadah

**[58:17]** that people found hard except that Abdullah ibn Zubayr wanted to do it and he wanted to master it so he says, and one time the Ka'bah flooded that one time the Ka'bah flooded so what did he do? what do you think he did?

**[58:33]** he swam in tawaf he swam in tawaf imagine the scene, you remember the covid scene, right, of the one person doing tawaf, like imagine the scene people are looking at him like he's crazy like he does, he always

**[58:49]** pushes himself to the next level so imagine the scene of a man swimming in tawaf (رضي الله عنه) so yes it's permissible for you to swim in tawaf, just don't lose your ihram in the process of swimming in tawaf but we take it from that as well

**[59:05]** there are also numerous narrations about his sawm, about his fasting it's actually a very interesting chapter of sawm al-wisal to fast consecutive days which the prophet generally did not like that people would connect days

**[59:21]** meaning they don't break their fast in between but some of the ulama they say because it's narrated from people like Ibn Zubayr he would fast sometimes for days that he would fast sometimes for days seven days and beyond without having anything to break

**[59:37]** numerous questions here, was it because he couldn't find anything, was it because he was in the battlefield was it because he was distracted was it because the prophet fully prohibited it all of that is up for debate but it just shows you his siyam was something that was also remarkable as well, and his sadaqa

**[59:53]** was remarkable as well he said that I don't know, and this is what he learns from his mother and from his aunt a chapter from every single person, he says I don't know who was more generous my mother Asma or my aunt Aisha, he said as for Asma as soon as money came into her house she gave it away

**[1:00:09]** as for Aisha my aunt Aisha she liked to collect the money until it became something significant and then give it away right so there's one person who gives sadaqa quick and another person who gathers the sadaqa and and gives it all at one time subhanallah I see that

**[1:00:28]** time is speaking of time it's already catching up to me so I'm going to have to skip some of this and push it inshallah to next week some of the narrations with him and his mother Aisha so that's his ibadah also of his ibadah is that he became a scholar of the Qur'an and he's one of the people that when Uthman

**[1:00:45]** (رضي الله عنه) assembled the commission to standardize to make the copies of the Qur'an that he was one of the youth that were called to write the manuscripts of the Qur'an and to to certify the manuscripts of the Qur'an back to his courage and how he deals with the fitan

**[1:01:02]** the tough times and how that shines towards the end of his life he was one of those companions that was alongside his father guarding Uthman (رضي الله عنه) when Uthman gets placed under siege so just like you had Ali and Al-Hassan

**[1:01:18]** and Al-Husayn you had Az-Zubayr and you had his son as well Abdullah and others right trying to guard Uthman (رضي الله عنه) in that moment and he suffered in that process guarding him trying to protect him when they eventually

**[1:01:34]** stormed the house of Uthman (رضي الله عنه) and assassinated him he suffered 26 wounds on that day and he used to say how that he used to look at those wounds and he used to say that these 26 wounds were for Uthman and I hope that these will be counted as my greatest deeds or some of my greatest deeds with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

**[1:02:02]** we move on and as the fitna takes over and we come to these dark phases where there's confusion and chaos and oppression to a very unique position that he's going to have as the fitna breaks out and you have the assassination of Uthman and

**[1:02:22]** then you have the battles that take place and then you have the assassination of Ali (رضي الله عنه) and you have everything that happens that we have covered especially into the life of Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه) Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr was one of those who took a stand against Yazid ibn Muawiyah

**[1:02:42]** when Yazid ibn Muawiyah was appointed as the khalifa and he refused to give him bay'ah so he was one of those who refused to pledge and who took a stand if you go back to the life of Al-Husayn when Husayn (رضي الله عنه) received the letters to go out to Iraq to go out to Kufa and to perhaps find a people that would

**[1:03:03]** be willing to give him strength Ibn Az-Zubayr told him it's good for you to go there you go to Iraq I'll hold it down in Mecca basically Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr was establishing himself in Mecca while Al-Husayn was to go and establish himself in Iraq so this was

**[1:03:19]** coordinated in that regard now Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr announces his revolt and he starts to take bay'ah from the people it shows subhanAllah the personality like you can't crush a disposition like that everything we talked about him

**[1:03:37]** in his childhood and tell him to succumb to tyranny so he starts to announce his position in Mecca and they start to basically arm themselves and gather themselves in Mecca I'm skipping some details because both him and Al-Husayn

**[1:03:54]** actually had to escape Medina in order to find themselves in Mecca in the first place and then to establish themselves and to start to build of course Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه) intended to build the base and that did not happen but he actually started to build his base in Mecca so I'll give you the important

**[1:04:13]** details to get us to the cream of the story subhanAllah to where we can take so much perspective and I apologize in advance for delaying Salat Al-Isha further than it's already delayed when Yazid sent an army under Muslim ibn Uqbah who they used to call

**[1:04:28]** Mujrim ibn Uqbah who went to Medina and killed thousands of people thousands of companions and committed all sorts of horrific crimes that were not known amongst the Muslims and that's the sad part when Muslims do this to other Muslims right you wonder

**[1:04:44]** like how does this even happen the battle of Al-Harrah he kills thousands of people and then on his way to Mecca so his intention is to go to Mecca he dies suddenly so he actually did

**[1:05:01]** what he did in Medina and then he made his way to Mecca to basically confront Abdullah ibn Zubayr and when Abdullah ibn Zubayr was building in Mecca to insulate himself and to build a base against that tyranny and he dies along the way so there's a man by the name of Husayn ibn Umair that takes charge at that point

**[1:05:18]** and he surrounds Mecca and they fought on the outskirts of Mecca and they wouldn't let them in but this was actually the first siege of Mecca that took place in the life of Ibn Zubayr so there's a siege that happens later that he'll lose his life in

**[1:05:37]** but Mecca comes under siege and this is in the year 64 after Hijrah and this man carrying along in the same spirit of that evil starts to shoot catapults at Mecca right towards the Ka'bah towards the

**[1:05:53]** Muslims that are in Mecca and you have men women and children that are being killed in Mecca and they remained under siege for months so here you have Abdullah ibn Zubayr and he's setting up tents around the Ka'bah for the wounded and he's really rising to the occasion

**[1:06:11]** to handle the mission that he has at that moment and these people are firing catapults at Mecca and they have no concern even if the cloth of the Ka'bah would catch fire

**[1:06:26]** and the tents would catch fire so that evil of lighting people on fire of killing people he's witnessing this himself and he is leading the revolt leading the protection of Mecca around them remember he has the narration about Al-Bayt Al-Atiq it's precious to him to guard what he has in terms of the sanctity of Mecca

**[1:06:44]** in any case they're able to fight off that siege and beat back that army and Ibn Zubayr starts to witness that his Khilafah extends beyond Mecca and what many Muslims SubhanAllah would

**[1:07:00]** not realize is that his Khilafah actually became the dominant Khilafah in the world in his lifetime it spreads to Yemen it spreads to Egypt it spreads to Iraq his brother starts to lead under him it spreads to almost every part of the

**[1:07:15]** Muslim world with the exception of Ash-Sham which is still a stronghold of Bani Umayyah they mint coins in the name of Abdullah Ibn Zubayr his Khilafah becomes an acknowledged and accepted Khilafah

**[1:07:31]** most of the Sahaba live under his protection live under his care and he does so with nobility he does so with honor just as you would expect from a man of that character and that worship and that Ibadah okay so what happens next and I'll leave the details perhaps for

**[1:07:50]** another day inshallah ta'ala there are multiple attempts where you have people trying to galvanize many revolts this is the nature of fitna and to fight against him and so you have a group that culminates in Iraq you have a group that culminates

**[1:08:05]** in Medina at some point you have these groups that culminate that are trying to fight his rule at that time where it becomes important for us is when a particular tyrant now makes his way to Mecca and that tyrant is Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf

**[1:08:24]** and Al-Hajjaj comes under the command of Abdul Malik to Mecca and he will place Mecca under siege for four months and this is from Dhul Hijjah of the year 72 after Hijrah to Jumada Al-Awwal

**[1:08:42]** in the year 73 and subhanAllah there is so much chaos and he does not care to even attack during the months of Hajj and to put the Muslims under severe difficulty

**[1:08:58]** Abdullah Ibn Zubayr maintains the Khilafah from Mecca he's the first one to do so from Mecca and the last one to do so from Mecca he recognizes the special place that he's in in those moments but here's where it starts to get interesting what does Hajjaj do he prevents all food from entering into Mecca starvation like I said subhanAllah you

**[1:09:18]** read these episodes with a different lens now in the wake of Gaza the people start to starve and he throws catapults launches things at the Ka'bah launches things at at Abdullah Ibn Zubayr at the people

**[1:09:34]** and some of those who are with Al-Hajjaj like common sense Muslims right like they still claim to be Muslims and they're they don't really they're like wait what if we hit the Ka'bah he says well we don't mean to hit the Ka'bah it's not our intention and it just so

**[1:09:50]** happened that several times there was one time that lightning came and it blew up 70 of the catapults that were operating or 70 of the men that were shooting the catapults towards Mecca and it killed them and so the army sort of took a step back and said wait what are we doing and or is it like

**[1:10:09]** we're fighting Allah now and he says no Al-Hajjaj says lightning strikes are from the Qadr of Allah it always happens and he even cited the death of the son of the Prophet (ﷺ) and Al-Khusuf and lunar eclipse and he says we shouldn't connect signs of nature to what's happening so keep on going

**[1:10:26]** so this happens more than once where natural things are happening to the army of Al-Hajjaj and they continue to do so and it gets to the point that they ran out of food in Mecca and they only had Zamzam to survive Mecca just so you know that our Ummah

**[1:10:42]** has been through some difficult difficult times and so they run out of food and they run out of water and they only have Zamzam to survive and they became so weak that they couldn't even carry their swords anymore at some point to fight off the onslaught. Amr ibn Dinar he says about Abdullah ibn Zubayr he

**[1:11:03]** said he was in his 70s at this point but SubhanAllah he was always the strongest in his fighting and it's as if he did not deteriorate in his youth or in his health in any way but when the time for Salah would come he would put down his sword and he would

**[1:11:18]** pray no matter what was happening. He said one time the Ka'bah got struck and a piece of the masonry of the Ka'bah flew and it went right between the beard and the neck of Abdullah ibn Zubayr almost ending his life and he didn't even move. His clothes caught fire and the people put the fire out and he stayed in his Salah.

**[1:11:37]** Completely undeterred it's time for Salah he would pray and then he would take his sword once again and he would fight and he would fight and he would fight. Ten thousand men were in his army and eventually they fled and he finds himself

**[1:11:55]** alone. SubhanAllah this is this happens over and over and over again right. The lone warrior that stands in the battlefield that continues to yield his sword by himself and it gets so bad on Mecca that even some of his children Hamza and Khubaib

**[1:12:14]** they go to Al-Hajjaj privately like they know that he would not accept to go and plead with him. They go privately to try to plead with him to stop this and he won't. So Mecca is under siege and the people are dying and this is where

**[1:12:30]** SubhanAllah you have the heaviest conversation. One of the heaviest conversations I mean how do you start to even compare that we have in our in our tradition. It's the narration of Abdullah ibn Zubayr with his mother Asma. Asma is a hundred years old she's still

**[1:12:48]** alive and she's in Mecca suffering as well and you have SubhanAllah the 73 year old man now walking into his mother alone, embattled, no one there to support him and asking

**[1:13:06]** for nasiha. He asks he takes his brother Urwah and he enters upon his mother and she treats some of his wounds. The hundred year old woman treats some of his wounds and he says,

**[1:13:24]** how are you oh my mother and she said like we're in pain and Abdullah ibn Zubayr responds and he says that verily in death there is relief. Like we're right at the end

**[1:13:40]** alhamdulillah where we're going to die soon and we'll finally escape this pain and she says to him that oh my son I swear by Allah I don't want to die until I see one of two things for you

**[1:13:59]** either you're granted shahada so I'll seek your reward with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala or Allah (عز وجل) will grant you victory and I'll find the coolness of my eyes in that. Like I'm a hundred years old I don't

**[1:14:17]** want to die until I see one of these two outcomes that Allah grants you shahada or victory. At that point Abdullah ibn Zubayr he says, oh my mother the people have let me down they betrayed me

**[1:14:39]** and they're offering me terms anything that I want from this dunya what do you think I should do? They're telling me give up and they'll give me everything of this world what should I do? She said oh my son you know better for yourself

**[1:14:59]** if you know that you're upon truth, then stay upon that truth. Your companions were killed upon that truth. And do not submit your neck to Bani Umayyah so that they can play with your neck.

**[1:15:14]** Don't submit your neck to Bani Umayyah so that they can play with your neck. And if it is that you want that dunya that they're going to offer you, And if it is that you want that dunya that they're going to offer you, then what a miserable servant you are.

**[1:15:29]** And she says, Oh my son, to be struck by a sword in dignity Oh my son, to be struck by a sword in dignity is better than a hundred lashes in humiliation.

**[1:15:45]** It's better for you to lose your life in dignity than to take a hundred lashes in humiliation. A hundred-year-old mother saying that to her child. What has this woman seen? So, keep going.

**[1:16:01]** So he said, Oh my mother, that Allah (عز وجل) put in you what He loves and put in me what He loves. He said, Oh my mother, I'm afraid they're going to mutilate me or crucify me.

**[1:16:20]** And this is where she says, Oh my son, verily a sheep does not feel the skinning after the sacrifice.

**[1:16:42]** So he says to her, you know, to come to her and to give him a hug for the last time. So she feels his armor. I mean, this is like at the point where we know we're going to die. So she says, Oh my son, what is this shield that you have?

**[1:16:58]** So he said that it's my armor. She said that what you're seeking no longer requires that. Let it go. She said,

**[1:17:14]** Because I don't want your armor to show if you're killed. Don't worry about your armor, but tighten your waist belt, protect your private parts when it happens. So he kissed her head and her feet.

**[1:17:29]** And he said, Oh my mother, do not stop making du'a for me, whether I'm alive or whether I am dead.

**[1:17:44]** I swear I will never leave it. Not in your life, nor after your death. And then she raised her hands and she said, Oh Allah, I have submitted him to your command.

**[1:17:59]** And I'm pleased with your decree. And she said, Oh Allah, have mercy on him for the long nights that he spent in qiyam at night and his weeping in the darkness. And the days of fasting in Mecca and Medina.

**[1:18:20]** And the obedience that he had to his parents. So he kissed her head. He kissed her hand. He kissed her feet. He took his last shower. And he wore his perfume.

**[1:18:36]** And then he went to the Ka'bah to once again fight for his last bout. He was 73 years old and he was fighting an army by himself. They said there was only one man, whose name was Abdullah ibn Al-Mu'ti' And Abdullah ibn Al-Mu'ti' was a man who fled Waq'at Al-Harrah, the battle in Medina.

**[1:18:56]** And he regretted fleeing the battlefield in Medina. And so he said out of his tawbah that he would be the last one to leave the side of Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr. And so he said, That I'm the one that fled on the day of Harrah. I'm not going to flee.

**[1:19:11]** A free man does not flee more than once. And so here he was and he fought until the very end. And when the time of Salah came, he stopped fighting to pray. They stoned him while he prayed.

**[1:19:28]** He fought them until Maghrib and then he prayed Maghrib. And while he was praying Salat Al-Maghrib, they stoned him in the back of his head during his Salah. And they stabbed him to death while he had just finished his Salah in the vicinity of the Haram.

**[1:19:47]** Right in front of the Ka'bah. I'm sorry I took so much time. Abdullah ibn Umar (رضي الله عنهما), he comments on this. And he says, subhanAllah, the strangeness of the moment. The people that killed him had the nerve to say Allahu akbar.

**[1:20:06]** Chanting Allahu akbar. And he's like, I remember when he was born and Abu Bakr was holding him and the people were saying Allahu akbar. And like, who are these people to think they can say Allahu akbar. Which just shows you how twisted people can become. Killing a man like this and saying that.

**[1:20:22]** But he had the last laugh. Pay attention to this, subhanAllah. Al-Hajjaj wanted to make an example out of him so he crucified him. Took his body and he hung him up in front of the Ka'bah. He crucified his dead body. Not like this, but crucified him in front of the Ka'bah.

**[1:20:38]** And it just kept on going wrong for Al-Hajjaj. There was a fragrance, a sweet scent that came from the body of Abdullah ibn Zubayr. That was so beautiful that those that killed him were starting to regret it. They were like, why is there a sweet musk that's coming from his body?

**[1:20:54]** So Al-Hajjaj said, take a dead cat and tie it to his body. So that the rot of the cat will overtake the sweetness of the smell of his body. And it didn't work. Abdullah ibn Umar and others, they said, let the man's body down.

**[1:21:14]** Like, why are you crucifying this man? Why are you putting the family through this? Why are you leaving him in this state? And he said, not until his mother comes and begs me to take him down. And Asma (رضي الله عنها),

**[1:21:32]** Abdullah ibn Umar was trying to stop her from going to see her son. I mean, she's a hundred year old woman to see her son crucified and in that image. And you think about the people of Gaza, subhanAllah, when we see the bodies and it hurts us. Imagine a mother.

**[1:21:47]** Imagine someone who brought that body into this world and the pain that it causes them. So Abdullah ibn Umar is trying to stop her from going to see it. Just like the Prophet (ﷺ) tried to stop Safiyyah from seeing the body of Hamza on the day of Uhud. Like, just keep the memory that you have.

**[1:22:03]** You don't have to see the body all messed up in that regard. So he goes to her and he says to her, listen, subhanAllah, these bodies are nothing, and the souls are with Allah (عز وجل). These bodies are nothing. It's the souls that are with Allah (عز وجل).

**[1:22:19]** Like it's as if he's talking to us right now. Like, yeah Asma, these bodies are nothing. These bodies are nothing. It's the souls that are with Allah (عز وجل). And you know what she responded? She said,

**[1:22:35]** What would stop me? If the head of John, Yahya (عليه السلام), was gifted to an adulteress from the adulteresses of Bani Israel. Like a prophet of Allah was beheaded. Yahya (عليه السلام) was beheaded.

**[1:22:50]** I understand these concepts. I know it's souls and not bodies. And Ibn Umar (رضي الله عنه) goes to his body and he says, Imagine he's addressing him as he's crucified. Because he's hanging up in front of the Ka'bah.

**[1:23:06]** He says, I only know you as a soul that was always fasting, that was always praying, and that was always establishing your kinship. And you were a part of the ummah that is the best ummah,

**[1:23:24]** but you encountered the worst of it. You encountered the worst of the best ummah. And people started to say what Ibn Umar said. So Hajjaj, it's backfiring on him. He's trying to make an example of a body. And I want you to pay attention to Gaza today.

**[1:23:39]** He's trying to show the strength of his cruelty. Until Asma (رضي الله عنها) walks up to his body in front of the people. A hundred-year-old woman. And she says,

**[1:23:56]** Isn't it time for this knight to be brought down? Isn't it time for this warrior to be brought down? And Hajjaj, eventually the shaming of him and the public turning against him. Because of the public disgust.

**[1:24:12]** Not because of decency. They bring down the body. And Allah (عز وجل) does not just grant him that shahada. But very importantly, remember she said that I don't want to die until I see you either in shahada or victory.

**[1:24:27]** She dies just two weeks afterwards. A natural death. Coming back together in this regard.

**[1:24:42]** What do I want us to take away from this dear brothers and sisters? And I took way too long and I apologize. It's not bodies, it's souls. We're souls, not bodies. This was one of the major incidents of doubt in the community. Of doubt.

**[1:24:57]** Where people had a faith crisis. People had a faith crisis over this. How could Allah (عز وجل) allow this to happen? And you had a group called Al-Qadriyya that denied divine decree. And they said Allah doesn't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And that's why things like this happen.

**[1:25:12]** And it messed with people. And they started to question Allah (عز وجل). And they started to question themselves. But those are the moments that you re-anchor yourself in.

**[1:25:27]** These bodies are nothing. This whole material world around you is nothing. It's the souls that are with Allah (عز وجل). May Allah (عز وجل) send His peace and blessings. And be pleased with the Prophet (ﷺ) and his family and his companions that showed that sacrifice.

**[1:25:47]** And may Allah (عز وجل) be pleased with the people of Gaza. Who we see their bodies being torn apart in ruthless ways. And we see them being starved. And may Allah (عز وجل) allow their souls to celebrate and to gather. And to be pleased in a way that brings us, bi'idhnillahi ta'ala, pleasure as well.

**[1:26:04]** That we are united with them. And may we not lose heart and lose hope. Remember that the shuhada of Uhud only wanted to come back. So that they could keep the people going. May we not lose heart and not lose hope. And keep ourselves.

**[1:26:19]** And pay attention to those signs. That sweet scent that comes from the body. Despite the rot of genocide and torture. May Allah (عز وجل) keep us strong and keep us firm. And may Allah (عز وجل) give victory to our brothers and sisters.

**[1:26:35]** And keep them strong and keep them firm. And may Allah (عز وجل) free Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa. And allow us to pray in it while it is free. And allow us to be amongst the dignified. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala.

**[1:26:50]** Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala. Bi'idhnillahi ta'ala.

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- [Urwa ibn az-Zubayr (ra): The First Muslim Historian | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/urwa-ibn-zubayr-the-first-muslim-historian-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Umar (ra): The Prophet’s ﷺ Shadow | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-umar-the-prophets-shadow-the-firsts.md)
- [Qutham ibn Abbas (ra): The Prophet’s ﷺ Lookalike | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/qutham-ibn-abbas-the-prophets-lookalike-the-firsts.md)
- [Ubaydullah ibn Abbas (ra): The Rich Little Brother | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ubaydullah-ibn-abbas-the-rich-little-brother-the-firsts.md)
- [Fadl ibn Abbas (ra): How The Prophet ﷺ Made Him Lower His Gaze | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/fadl-ibn-abbas-how-the-prophet-taught-him-to-lower-his-gaze-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Abbas (ra): The Ocean of Knowledge | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-abbas-the-ocean-of-knowledge-the-firsts.md)
- [The Four Abdullahs (ra) Every Muslim Should Know | Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-four-abdullahs-every-muslim-should-know.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Ja’far (ra): The Story of My Mother’s Ancestor | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-jafar-story-of-my-mothers-ancestor-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Kulthum bint Ali (ra): Daughter of Nobility and Tragedy | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-kulthum-bint-ali-daughter-of-nobility-and-tragedy-the-firsts.md)
- [Zaynab bint Ali (ra): A Voice of Courage | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-ali-a-voice-of-courage-the-firsts.md)
- [Loving Husayn (ra) and Hating Yazid](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/loving-husayn-and-hating-yazid.md)
- [Husayn ibn Ali (ra): Redefining Victory in Karbala | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/husayn-ibn-ali-redefining-victory-in-karbala-the-firsts.md)
- [Hasan ibn Ali (ra): The Beloved Grandson of the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hasan-ibn-ali-beloved-grandson-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Ammar ibn Yasir (ra): A Legacy of Sacrifice | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ammar-ibn-yasir-a-legacy-of-sacrifice-the-firsts.md)
- [Tamim al-Dari (ra): The Palestinian Sahabi That Met Dajjal | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/tamim-al-dari-the-palestinian-sahabi-that-met-dajjal-the-firsts.md)
- [Jarir ibn Abdullah (ra): The Yusuf of this Ummah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/jarir-ibn-abdullah-the-yusuf-of-this-ummah-the-firsts.md)
- [Adi ibn Hatim al-Tai (ra): From Christian King to Companion | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/adi-ibn-hatim-al-tai-from-christian-king-to-companion-the-firsts.md)
- [Abbad ibn Bishr (ra): The Friend of the Qur’an | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abbad-ibn-bishr-the-friend-of-the-quran-the-firsts.md)
- [Thabit ibn Qays (ra): Promised Jannah After A Sin | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/thabit-ibn-qays-promised-jannah-after-a-sin-the-firsts.md)
- [Zayd ibn al-Khattab (ra): The Quiet Brother of Omar (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zayd-ibn-al-khattab-the-quiet-brother-of-omar-the-firsts.md)
- [Tulayha ibn Khuwaylid (ra): From False Prophet to Shaheed | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/tulayha-ibn-khuwaylid-from-false-prophet-to-shaheed-the-firsts.md)
- [Ka’b ibn Zuhayr (ra): The Story of the First Burda | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/kab-ibn-zuhayr-the-story-of-the-first-burda-the-firsts.md)
- [Thumama ibn Uthal (ra): The most powerful Muslim of his time? | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/thumama-ibn-uthal-the-most-powerful-muslim-of-his-time-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Muhammad ibn Maslama (ra): The Knight of Rasulullah ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/muhammad-ibn-maslama-the-knight-of-rasulullah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [A Foiled Conspiracy: Umayr ibn Wahb (ra) & Safwan ibn Umayyah (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/a-foiled-conspiracy-umayr-ibn-wahb-and-safwan-ibn-umayyah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Children of Ta’if Who Stoned the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-children-of-taif-who-stoned-the-prophet-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Abu Mahdhura (ra): The Kid Who Mocked Adhan | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-mahdhura-the-kid-who-mocked-adhan-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Abu Bakra (ra): The Freed Slave of Allah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakra-the-freed-slave-of-allah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Jinn Who Became Muslim | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-jinn-who-became-muslim-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Addas (ra) of Ta’if: The Brother of Yunus (as) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/addas-of-taif-the-brother-of-yunus-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Prophet ﷺ’s Bodyguard: Mughira ibn Shu‘ba (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-prophet-bodyguard-mughira-ibn-shuba-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Urwa ibn Masud (ra): The Chief Who Resembled Isa (as) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/urwa-ibn-masud-the-chief-who-resembled-isa-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Most Honored Man By The Prophet ﷺ: Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-most-honored-man-by-the-prophet-abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [When Allah Guided the Children of Abu Lahab | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/when-allah-guided-the-children-of-abu-lahab-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Hakim ibn Hizam (ra): When Money Stops Mattering | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hakim-ibn-hizam-when-money-stops-mattering-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Mothers of the Prophet ﷺ: Amina and Halima al-Sa’diyya | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-mothers-of-the-prophet-amina-halima-al-sadiyya-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [The Prophet ﷺ’s Brother: Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith (ra) | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-prophets-brother-abu-sufyan-ibn-al-harith-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (ra): Forgiving the Enemy | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb-forgiving-the-enemy-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Ikrimah ibn Abi Jahl (ra): The Pious Son of Pharoah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ikrimah-ibn-abu-jahl-the-pious-son-of-pharoah-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Amr ibn al-As (ra): The Conqueror of Egypt | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amr-ibn-al-as-the-conqueror-of-egypt-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Amr ibn al-As (ra): His Wicked Father and “Better” Brother | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amr-ibn-al-as-part-1-his-wicked-father-and-better-brother-the-firsts-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Khalid ibn al-Walid (ra): The Legendary Military General | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khalid-ibn-al-walid-ra-the-legendary-military-general-the-firsts.md)
- [Khalid ibn al-Walid (ra): Becoming the Sword of Allah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khalid-ibn-al-walid-ra-becoming-the-sword-of-allah-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Saeed al-Khudri (ra): The Jewel of Madinah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-saeed-al-khudri-ra-the-jewel-of-madinah-the-firsts.md)
- [Rabiah ibn Kab (ra): Falling in Love with the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/rabiah-ibn-kab-ra-falling-in-love-with-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Saeed ibn Amir (ra): Haunted by Murder | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saeed-ibn-amir-ra-haunted-by-murder-the-firsts.md)
- [Khubayb ibn Addiy (ra): A Prisoner of Many Miracles | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khubayb-ibn-addiy-ra-a-prisoner-of-many-miracles-the-firsts.md)
- [Asim ibn Thabit (ra): Protector of Faith | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asim-ibn-thabit-ra-protector-of-faith-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Dujana (ra): The Red Bandana | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-dujana-ra-the-red-bandana-the-firsts.md)
- [The Amwas Plague | The Firsts Documentary Special](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-amwas-plague-the-firsts-documentary-special.md)
- [Burayda ibn al-Husayb (ra): An Unlikely Convert | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/burayda-ibn-al-husayb-ra-an-unlikely-convert-the-firsts.md)
- [Suraqa ibn Malik (ra): The Bounty Hunter |  The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/suraqa-ibn-malik-ra-the-bounty-hunter-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Ma’bad (ra): The Description of the Prophet ﷺ |  The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-mabad-ra-the-description-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari (ra): A Voice Like No Other | Sahaba Stories (The Firsts)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-musa-al-ashari-ra-a-voice-like-no-other-the-firsts-sahaba-stories.md)
- [Abu Huraira (ra): The Preserver of Hadith | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-huraira-ra-the-preserver-of-hadith-the-firsts.md)
- [Tufayl ibn Amr (ra): The Hidden Legend | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/tufayl-ibn-amr-ra-the-hidden-legend-the-firsts.md)
- [Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman (ra): The Secret Keeper | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hudhayfah-ibn-al-yaman-ra-the-secret-keeper-the-firsts.md)
- [Maymunah bint al-Harith (ra): A Blessed Wedding | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/maymunah-bint-al-harith-ra-a-blessed-wedding-the-firsts.md)
- [Safiyya bint Huyayy (ra): A Heart of Gold | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/safiyya-bint-huyayy-ra-a-heart-of-gold-the-firsts.md)
- [Juwayriya bint al-Harith (ra): A Blessing to Her People | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/juwayriya-bint-al-harith-ra-a-blessing-to-her-people-the-firsts.md)
- [Zaynab bint Jahsh (ra): The Longest Arm | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-jahsh-ra-the-longest-arm-the-firsts.md)
- [Hafsa bint Umar (ra): Saved by Devotion | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hafsa-bint-umar-ra-saved-by-devotion-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): Legacy and Life after Rasulallah ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aisha-bint-abu-bakr-ra-legacy-and-life-after-rasulallah-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): Slander and Death of the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aisha-bint-abu-bakr-ra-slander-and-death-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): The Love Story | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aisha-bint-abu-bakr-ra-the-love-story-the-firsts.md)
- [Aisha bint Abu Bakr (ra): The Early Years of Sacrifice | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/aishah-bint-abu-bakr-ra-the-early-years-of-sacrifice-the-firsts.md)
- [Kulthum ibn al-Hadm (ra) and Sa'ad ibn Khaythamah (ra): The Hosts of Masjid Quba | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/kulthum-ibn-al-hadm-ra-and-saad-ibn-khaythamah-ra-the-hosts-of-masjid-quba-the-firsts.md)
- [Jabir ibn Abdullah (ra): The Orphan With 7 Sisters | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/jabir-ibn-abdullah-ra-the-orphan-with-7-sisters-the-firsts.md)
- [Hanzala Ibn Abi Amr (ra) and Jameela (ra): When Angels Bathe You | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hanzala-ibn-abi-amr-ra-and-jameela-ra-when-angels-bathe-you-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Abdullah ibn Ubayy (ra): The son of the Chief Hypocrite | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-abdullah-ibn-ubayy-ra-the-son-of-the-chief-hypocrite-the-firsts.md)
- [Amr ibn Al Jamuh (ra): No Limping in Jannah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amr-ibn-al-jamuh-ra-no-limping-in-jannah-the-firsts.md)
- [Asma Bint Yazid (ra): The Orator of the Women | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asma-bint-yazid-ra-the-orator-of-the-women-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Waraqa bint Abdullah (ra): The Martyred Hafidha | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-waraqa-bint-abdullah-ra-the-martyred-hafidha-the-firsts.md)
- [Ubayy ibn Ka'b (ra): The Master of all Reciters | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ubayy-ibn-kab-ra-the-master-of-all-reciters-the-firsts.md)
- [Muadh Ibn Jabal (ra): Most Knowledgeable & Beloved | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/muadh-ibn-jabal-ra-most-knowledgeable-and-beloved-the-firsts.md)
- [Zayd ibn Thabit (ra): The Scribe of the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zayd-ibn-thabit-ra-the-scribe-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Nusaybah bint Ka'ab (ra): The Woman Warrior | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/nusaybah-bint-kaab-ra-the-woman-warrior-the-firsts.md)
- [Hassan Ibn Thabit (ra): The Master of All Poets | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hassan-ibn-thabit-ra-the-master-of-all-poets-the-firsts.md)
- [Ka'ab Ibn Malik (ra): The Greatest Story of Repentance | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/kaab-ibn-malik-ra-the-greatest-story-of-repentance-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah Ibn Rawahah (ra): The Warrior Poet | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-rawahah-ra-the-warrior-poet-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Darda (ra): The Scholar Who Wouldn't Sleep | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-darda-ra-the-scholar-who-wouldnt-sleep-the-firsts.md)
- [Salman Al Farsi (ra): Back to Persia | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/salman-al-farsi-ra-back-to-persia-the-firsts.md)
- [Salman Al Farsi (ra): The Truth Seeker | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/salman-al-farsi-ra-the-truth-seeker-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Salam (ra): The Righteous Rabbi | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-salam-ra-the-righteous-rabbi-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Ayyub Al Ansari (ra): The Host of the Prophet | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-ayyub-al-ansari-ra-the-host-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Al Bara' Ibn Malik (ra): The Underestimated Hero | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/al-bara-ibn-malik-ra-the-underestimated-hero-the-firsts.md)
- [Ubadah ibn al-Samit (ra): A Man Equal to a Thousand Men | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ubadah-ibn-al-samit-ra-a-man-equal-to-a-thousand-men-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Haram (ra): When Dreams Come True | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-haram-ra-when-dreams-come-true-the-firsts.md)
- [Anas ibn Malik (ra): In Service of the Beloved | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/anas-ibn-malik-ra-in-service-of-the-beloved-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Sulaym (ra): Her Dowry Was Islam | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-sulaym-ra-her-dowry-was-islam-the-firsts.md)
- [Sa'ad Ibn Ubadah (ra): The Generous Chief | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saad-ibn-ubadah-ra-the-generous-chief-the-firsts.md)
- [Sa'ad Ibn Muadh (ra): The Man Who Shook The Throne | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saad-ibn-muadh-ra-the-man-who-shook-the-throne-the-firsts.md)
- [Usayd Ibn Hudayr (ra): Transformed by the Quran | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/usayd-ibn-hudayr-ra-transformed-by-the-quran-the-firsts.md)
- [As’ad Ibn Zurara (ra): The First Convert of Madinah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asad-ibn-zurara-ra-the-first-convert-of-madinah-the-firsts.md)
- [Loving the Ansar | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/loving-the-ansar-the-firsts.md)
- [Mihja, Umayr, and Ubayda (ra): The Martyrs of Badr | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/mihja-umayr-and-ubayda-the-martyrs-of-badr-the-firsts.md)
- [Umm Kulthum Bint Uqbah Ibn Abi Muayt (ra): The Enemy's Daughter | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-kulthum-bint-uqbah-ibn-abi-muayt-the-firsts.md)
- [Zinneera (ra) and Aflah (ra): The Tortured Ones | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zinneera-ra-and-aflah-ra-the-tortured-ones-the-firsts.md)
- [Amir Ibn Fuhayra (ra): The Guide on the Hijrah | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/amir-ibn-fuhayra-ra-the-guide-on-the-hijrah-the-firsts.md)
- [Anisa, Al-Numan, and Amir (ra): On A Boat From Abysinnia | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/anisa-al-numan-and-amir-ra-on-a-boat-from-abysinnia-the-firsts.md)
- [Rayta Bint Al-Harith (ra): Poisoned on the Way | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/rayta-bint-al-harith-poisoned-on-the-way-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Khalid Ibn Sa’id Ibn al-'As (ra): A Dream of the Prophet | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khalid-ibn-said-ibn-al-as-ra-a-dream-of-the-prophet-the-firsts.md)
- [Subay'a Al-Aslamiyya (ra): The Iddah of a Widow | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/subaya-al-aslamiyya-ra-the-iddah-of-a-widow-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Nuaym Ibn Abdullah (ra): Redirecting History | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/nuaym-ibn-abdullah-redirecting-history-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Ukasha ibn al-Mihsan (ra): He Beat You To It | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ukasha-ibn-al-mihsan-ra-he-beat-you-to-it-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Zaynab Bint Khuzayma (ra): The Mother of the Poor | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-khuzayma-ra-the-mother-of-the-poor-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Abu Ahmad Abd Ibn Jahsh (ra): The Other Blind Companion | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-ahmad-abd-ibn-jahsh-ra-the-other-blind-companion-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Jahsh (ra): An Accepted Prayer | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-jahsh-ra-an-accepted-prayer-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Shurahbil Ibn Hasana (ra): The Scribe and Commander | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/shurahbil-ibn-hasana-ra-the-scribe-and-commander-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Utbah ibn Ghazwan (ra) | The Humble Governor | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/utbah-ibn-ghazwan-ra-the-humble-governor-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Ayyash ibn Abi Rabiah (ra) - The Guilt Trip That Led To Captivity | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ayyash-ibn-abi-rabiah-ra-the-guilt-trip-that-led-to-captivity-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Atika bint Zayd (ra) - The Wife of Many Martyrs | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/atika-bint-zayd-ra-the-wife-of-many-martyrs-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Abdullah ibn Hudhafah (ra): The Man Who Wouldn't Flinch | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-hudhafah-ra-the-man-who-wouldnt-flinch-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Khunais ibn Hudhafah (ra): The First Husband of Hafsa (ra) | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khunais-ibn-hudhafah-ra-the-first-husband-of-hafsa-ra-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Al-Shifa bint Abdullah (ra): The Healer and Scholar | The Firsts Shorts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/al-shifa-bint-abdullah-ra-the-healer-and-scholar-the-firsts-shorts.md)
- [Musab Ibn Umair (ra): The Man Who Gave It All | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/musab-ibn-umair-ra-the-man-who-gave-it-all-the-firsts.md)
- [Abdullah Ibn Umm Maktum (ra): After Abasa | The Firsts with Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-umm-maktum-after-abasa-the-firsts.md)
- [Abu Jandal, Abdullah, & Suhayl Ibn Amr (ra) : Switching Sides | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-jandal-abdullah-suhayl-ibn-amr-ra-switching-sides-the-firsts.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): His Leadership, His Legacy, His Death | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-his-leadership-his-legacy-his-death-the-firsts.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): The Opening of Jerusalem | The Firsts with Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-ra-the-opening-of-jerusalem-the-firsts-with-dr-omar-suleiman.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra): 10 Unique Virtues | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-10-unique-virtues-the-firsts.md)
- [Omar Ibn Al Khattab (ra) - The Convert Who Changed The World | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/omar-ibn-al-khattab-the-convert-who-changed-the-world-the-firsts.md)
- [Khawla Bint Hakim & Uthman Ibn Madhun: The Righteous Couple | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khawla-bint-hakim-and-uthman-ibn-madhun-the-righteous-couple-the-firsts.md)
- [Miqdad Ibn Aswad (ra) : Better Than A Thousand Men | The Firsts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/miqdad-ibn-aswad-better-than-a-thousand-men-the-firsts.md)
- [Hamza Ibn Abdulmuttalib (ra): The Lion of Allah | The Firsts by Dr. Omar Suleiman](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/hamza-ibn-abdulmuttalib-the-lion-of-allah.md)
- [Abdurrahman Ibn Awf (ra): A Generous Soul](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdurrahman-ibn-awf-a-generous-soul.md)
- [Abu Ubaydah Ibn Al Jarrah (ra): The Trustworthy One](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-ubaydah-ibn-al-jarrah-ra-the-trustworthy-one.md)
- [Sawda Bint Zama’a (ra): The Prophet’s Joy](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/sawda-bint-zamaa-ra-the-prophets-joy.md)
- [Saalim Mawla Abu Hudhaifa (ra) : The Imam of the People of Quran](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saalim-mawla-abu-hudhaifa-the-imam-of-the-people-of-quran.md)
- [Abu Hudhaifa Ibn Utbah (ra): Seeking Another Status](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-hudhaifa-ibn-utbah-seeking-another-status.md)
- [Talha Ibn Ubaydillah (ra): The Living Martyr](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/talha-ibn-ubaydillah-the-living-martyr.md)
- [Asma Bint Abi Bakr (ra) : The Possessor of Two Waist Belts](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/asma-bint-abi-bakr-the-possessor-of-two-waist-belts.md)
- [Zubayr Ibn Awwam (ra): The Disciple](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zubayr-ibn-awwam-the-disciple.md)
- [Saffiyah Bint Abdul Mutallib (ra) : A Warrior Aunt](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saffiyah-bint-abdul-mutallib-a-warrior-aunt.md)
- [Umm Habiba (ra) - Part 2: Royalty Redefined](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-habiba-ra-part-2-royalty-redefined.md)
- [Umm Habiba (ra): A Dream Come True (Part 1)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-habiba-ra-a-dream-come-true-part-1.md)
- [Umm Salama (ra): A Legacy of Wisdom (Part 2)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-salama-ra-a-legacy-of-wisdom-part-2.md)
- [Umm Salama (ra): A Separated Family (Part 1)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-salama-a-separated-family-part-1.md)
- [Najashi - Ashama Ibn Abjar (ra): The Righteous King](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/najashi-ashama-ibn-abjar-the-righteous-king.md)
- [Jafar Ibn Abi Talib (ra): Flying in Paradise](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/jafar-ibn-abi-talib-flying-in-paradise.md)
- [Abu Dharr Al Ghifari (ra): Living and Dying Alone](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-dharr-al-ghifari-ra-living-and-dying-alone.md)
- [Abdullah Ibn Masood (ra): A Mighty Legacy of Qur'an](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abdullah-ibn-masood-ra-a-mighty-legacy-of-quran.md)
- [Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas (ra): His Prayers Always Answered](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/saad-ibn-abi-waqqas-his-prayers-always-answered.md)
- [Uthman Ibn Affan (ra) - Part 2: The Possessor of Two Lights](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/uthman-ibn-affan-the-possessor-of-two-lights-2.md)
- [Uthman Ibn Affan (ra): The Possessor of Two Lights](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/uthman-ibn-affan-the-possessor-of-two-lights.md)
- [Zaynab Bint Muhammad (saw): The First Daughter (ra)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaynab-bint-muhammad-the-first-daughter.md)
- [Lubaba Bint Al-Harith (ra): The First Woman After Khadijah (ra)](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/lubaba-bint-al-harith-ra-the-first-woman-after-khadijah-ra.md)
- [Al-Arqam Ibn Abil Arqam: The House of Islam](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/al-arqam-ibn-abil-arqam-the-house-of-islam.md)
- [Suhaib Ibn Sinan Al Rumi (ra): From Persia, to Rome, to Paradise](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/suhaib-ibn-sinan-al-rumi-from-persia-to-rome-to-paradise.md)
- [Bilal ibn Rabah (ra): The Voice of Certainty](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/bilal-ibn-rabah-the-voice-of-certainty-the-firsts.md)
- [Khabbab Ibn Al Aratt (ra) - Under Burning Hot Coals](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khabbab-ibn-al-aratt-under-burning-hot-coals.md)
- [Sumayyah (ra): The First Martyr](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/sumayyah-the-first-martyr.md)
- [Zayd Ibn Al Haritha (ra): Loved and Liberated](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zayd-ibn-al-haritha-loved-and-liberated.md)
- [The Plague that Killed Sahaba and the Coronavirus](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-plague-that-killed-sahaba-and-the-coronavirus.md)
- [Abu Bakr (ra) - Part 3: There Will Never Be Another One](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakr-part-3-there-will-never-be-another-one.md)
- [Abu Bakr (ra) - Part 2: Setting His Own Standards](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakr-al-siddiq-part-2-setting-his-own-standards-lecture.md)
- [Abu Bakr (ra): Second to None in the Pursuit of God](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/abu-bakr-al-siddiq-second-to-none-in-the-pursuit-of-god.md)
- [The First Family - Part 2: From Love to the Pain of Death](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-first-family-part-2-from-love-to-the-pain-of-death.md)
- [The First Family: The Beautiful Marriage of Ali and Fatima](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-beautiful-marriage-of-ali-and-fatima.md)
- [Ali ibn Abi Talib (ra): Courageous & Steadfast](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/ali-ibn-abi-talib-courageous-and-steadfast.md)
- [Umm Ayman (ra): The Woman Who Never Stopped Caring](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/umm-ayman-the-woman-who-never-stopped-caring.md)
- [Khadijah (ra): His First Love, Our First Mother](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/khadijah-his-first-love-our-first-mother.md)
- [Waraqa Ibn Nawfal: The First to Confirm Prophethood](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/waraqa-ibn-nawfal-the-first-to-confirm-prophethood.md)
- [Zaid Ibn Amr (ra): A One Man Ummah](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/zaid-ibn-amr-a-one-man-ummah.md)
- [Trendsetters, Revivers, and Strangers](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/trendsetters-revivers-and-strangers-the-firsts-series.md)
- [The Firsts | The Forerunners of Islam](https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/the-firsts/the-firsts-the-forerunners-of-islam.md)