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Urwa ibn az-Zubayr (ra): The First Muslim Historian | The Firsts
While other children dreamed of glory on the battlefield or positions of power, Urwa ibn az-Zubayr (ra) dreamed of knowledge—and he pursued it with unwavering dedication. From a childhood shaped by political turmoil to becoming one of Madinah’s foremost scholars, Urwa's life is a powerful testament to the pursuit of lifelong learning and spiritual leadership.
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Al-Fatihah. Alhamdulillah, we continue in the realm of an incredible family, the family of Az-Zubayr
ibn al-Awwam, Hawari Rasulullah, the disciple of the Prophet (ﷺ). And obviously last week was a very difficult story to bear. And subhanAllah, you read about one shaheed and then you see the stories of the shuhada
one by one. And it's so important to go back to these stories of the martyrs, these stories of the shuhada to constantly sort of replay in your mind that it's the soul.
As Asma (رضي الله عنها) said to her son Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr, that inna hadhihi al-juthat laisat bi shay, that these bodies are nothing but rather we are souls with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Wa la aqeebatu lilmuttaqeen, and victory belongs to the believers. So we talked about the sacrifice of Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما). And subhanAllah, the beauty of the series of the first is that you can see how there
are different personalities that come from the same family that chose different paths and that was to the benefit of Islamic history. So as I mentioned, when you read about the story of Anas ibn Malik (رضي الله عنه),
a man who quoted and gave us stories on behalf of the Prophet (ﷺ) like no other person. His brother Al-Bara (رضي الله عنه), who would not narrate any ahadith but would
fight in the battlefield and that would ultimately save his life, giving him seven more decades while he was martyred, giving his brother Anas seven more decades to narrate the ahadith of the Prophet (ﷺ) to us.
Likewise, when you come to Abdullah, you have the first companion born in Medina, the last khalifa to be a sahabi. So he's the last khalifa to be a sahabi.
You have a brother that would easily claim the title of being the one who bridged the Prophet (ﷺ)'s seerah to the rest of the world.
So the person that we're going to cover today, Urwah ibn Zubayr, is the means by which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave you and I the seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ) and that's not an exaggeration.
So before we talk about him, because last week I was rushing through sort of the Islamic history portion of what happened in this fitna as a whole and who are some of the figures
that came into play, I'll just quickly mention sort of the global shift, if you will, of what's happening in Islamic politics that Urwah ibn Zubayr is going to operate in and
the shift in which Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) was killed. So obviously we've focused quite a bit on this portion of history from Yazid ibn Muawiyah onwards.
Yazid obviously was an evil man and it was under him that you started to have many of the companions that weren't comfortable with his khilafah. You have the martyrdom of Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه), who went to Iraq seeking
some sort of base there. And then you have Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه), who sets up shop in Mecca. So again, Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) encourages Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه)
to go to Iraq where he's getting letters of support and the idea was let's solidify our bases and establish something righteous in the face of what they saw was oppression.
We know what happens to Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه) and the martyrdom, the tragic martyrdom of Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنه).
Now, for some time afterwards comes not just the massacre of Al-Husayn, but a massacre upon Al-Madinah, which was known as Waq'at al-Harrah.
It was a horrible massacre of the people of Madinah, including many of the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). After that, Abdullah ibn Zubayr will manage to solidify pretty much the entirety of the
Muslim world under his rule, with the exception of Ash-Sham. So Ash-Sham, which is greater Syria, maintains sort of the base of Bani Umayyah.
And Bani Umayyah still operates in Ash-Sham and they maintain a lot of power from there and there are going to be a lot of battles that are launched from Ash-Sham against some
of the territories that are run by Abdullah ibn Zubayr. So if you read about what's sort of known as the second fitna, the second civil war,
if you will, amongst the Muslims, you can read about Marj Rahit, which is the second civil war, if you will, in Islam, which takes place when you have some of the remnants of
Bani Umayyah under Marwan al-Hakam, who comes against Abdullah ibn Zubayr and they have a battle that takes place in Egypt as well as Al-Iraq.
Abdullah ibn Zubayr wins that battle and there are several, and it's not actually ibn Zubayr who's there, but it's his authority, if you will, that's fighting over there, pushes back Marwan ibn al-Hakam.
And then in Al-Iraq, you have several power shifts. So you actually have a group known as At-Tawwabin. And At-Tawwabin were the repenters. They were people that were repenting to Allah for letting Al-Husayn down.
And their idea was that they were going to avenge his death. They galvanized, but they are defeated. And then you have Al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, who kills Ubaidullah ibn Ziyad, the one who killed
Al-Husayn. And then finally you have the brother of Abdullah ibn Zubayr. And this is where we'll kind of pick up with the history that we're in now. The brother of Abdullah ibn Zubayr named Mus'ab ibn Zubayr.
So Mus'ab ibn Zubayr, the brother of Abdullah ibn Zubayr takes Iraq. He arrives and he sits on the minbar and he becomes the Amir of the two Iraqs. His rule stretches over Iraq.
So you have a situation now where Abdullah ibn Zubayr is the Khalifa of the Ummah and Mus'ab ibn Zubayr, the brother of Abdullah ibn Zubayr is the Amir governing the two Iraqs.
And the only place that still is not under his rule is Ash-Sham. Now Marwan dies and his son Abd al-Malik takes over.
And Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan is a smart, brilliant leader and it's his power and Abdullah ibn Zubayr's power that are now going to come into clash.
This is sort of the backdrop that we'll explain now where some of these figures come. And the first thing that I want you to notice, subhanAllah, is that every single one of the
children of Zubayr is named after a shaheed. So it's very interesting. Talha ibn Zubayr, the two neighbors of the Prophet (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) said Talha and Zubayr are my neighbors in Jannah.
My two neighbors in Jannah are Talha and Zubayr. Talha named all of his children after Anbiya, after prophets. So he's Abu Muhammad and then he has Ibrahim and then he has Musa. So he named all of his children after prophets.
Az-Zubayr named all of his children after shuhada. So Mus'ab, who is a righteous man, a generous man, a beautiful man in his own right. Mus'ab is named after Mus'ab ibn Umair.
Abdullah ibn Zubayr is named after the first Amir in Islam, Abdullah ibn Jahsh. And then you have Urwah ibn Zubayr and Urwah is named after Urwah ibn Mas'ud, the great
leader from Ta'if, the one who was shot by the arrows of his people for preaching the message of Islam, Urwah ibn Mas'ud.
So let's come into the man that we're going to talk about today, Urwah ibn Zubayr. The reason why you have the seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ) in your hands. The bridge between the companions and the rest of the world.
He's known as the pioneer of Islamic history. The greatest documenter of the history of Islam is this young man (رضي الله عنه).
Imam Al-Dhahabi (رحمه الله) introduces him, Urwah ibn Hawari Rasul Allah (ﷺ), the son of the disciple of the Prophet (ﷺ).
And after he mentioned some of the traits of Zubayr, he says, Al-Imam, the Imam referring to Urwah, Al-Imam, the scholar of Medina, Abu Abdullah Al-Qurashi Al-Asadi Al-Madani.
So his oldest son is named after his famous brother, Abdullah ibn Zubayr. So he is Abu Abdullah, Urwah's the father of Abdullah, Al-Qurashi from Banu Asad Al-Madani,
Al-Faqih, the jurist, Ahad al-Fuqaha al-Sab'ah, one of the seven Fuqaha of Medina. And basically this introduces a new layer of people in Islamic history.
The seven Fuqaha of Medina were the seven scholars who were almost all children of companions, who taught Medina, who basically became the authority of Medina.
So if you want to think like before the four Imams, before the four Madhahib, if you said the seven Fuqaha of Medina, the seven jurists of Medina, Urwah was the chief of them that you were referring to. The seven scholars of Al-Medina.
So who is this man? First and foremost, he's not a companion of the Prophet (ﷺ). So it appears that Asma and Az-Zubayr did not have children for a long time after Abdullah.
He was born in the year, most likely the year 23 after Hijrah. And this is right at the end of the Khilafah of Umar and right at the beginning of the Khilafah of Uthman.
So he's actually a tabi'i in his nature, though sometimes he is spoken about like a companion. To be specific, he's a tabi'i still though he's important for us to cover today because
he represents the dual side of Abdullah ibn Zubayr, the other side of Abdullah ibn Zubayr and the preservation of Islamic history. His son Hisham ibn Urwah, he says that I remember my father saying that,
I remember that my father, Az-Zubayr, used to play with me and he used to throw me in his lap and he used to say,
مُبَارَكٌ مِنْ وَلَدِ الصِّدِّيقِ أَبْيَضُ مِنْ آلِ أَبِي عَتِيقِ The blessed child whose father is As-Siddiq and he was fair-skinned, Urwah had very white
skin and he's from the family of Abu Atiq and he said, أَلَذُّهُ كَمَا أَلَذُّ رِيقِي That I love him as much as I love my own. When you say I love him as much as I love my own,
رِيق is technically my saliva, meaning he is me and I am him, he is my being. I love this child of mine, this descendant of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (رضي الله عنه)
and he shares all of the same accolades that we talked about of Abdullah ibn Zubayr in terms of who his ansar, Aisha on one side, Khadija on the other side,
Az-Zubayr obviously, Asma bint Abu Bakr, Abu Bakr, Hamza, the relationship to Safiyyah bint Abdul Muttalib, all of that is also true for Urwah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنهم).
So what was he born into? And his story subhanAllah is a very enjoyable story even from the point that it starts. Urwah was born into chaos. Either the year of the assassination of Umar ibn Al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه)
or when the fitna starts to get bad in his own lifetime and his earliest memory that he talks about and sort of witnessing the politics around him is witnessing his heroic brother.
And you can immediately derive from this that he looks up to Abdullah ibn Zubayr. I mean that's his warrior brother, that's his khalifa, that's the hero, Abdullah ibn Zubayr. Everything noble is embodied in Abdullah ibn Zubayr.
So he says, وقفت وأنا غلام أنظر إلى الذين قد حصروا عثمان (رضي الله عنه) He said, I was there when Uthman (رضي الله عنه) was placed under siege.
And he said, وقد مشى أحدهم على الخشب ليدخل إلى عثمان And I saw one of the people of fitna entering onto a plank about to go and kill Uthman.
By the way, subhanAllah, I think of the children of Gaza who are witnessing what they're witnessing right now. He's too young to fight, but his brother is his hero. So he says, I'm watching this in fear because as a little boy, Uthman is under siege
and a man is coming in to kill him. And he said, فلقيه عليها أخي عبدالله بن الزبير فضربه ضربة طاح قتيلاً على البلاط
He said, so my brother Abdullah rushed out and he met the man courageously and he killed him right at the door of Uthman.
So he said, so I saw him, so I shouted out and I said that my brother, my brother قتله أخي, قتله أخي, my brother killed him.
My brother killed him, like his brother is his hero, he's proud of his brother. So he says, فوثب علي الذين حصروا عثمان So those that had Uthman under siege, they jumped on me, فكشفوني
They stripped me of my clothes and they were about to beat me and kill me. And then وجدوني لم أنبت They realized that I wasn't even a child who had reached puberty at that point. فخلوني, so they left me alone.
At least they had the decency not to kill a child, right? So even though they were upset, like how dare you shout out and praise your brother, the warrior.
This is what he's born into, the chaos and the lowliness of men. And then the hero and the valor of his brother, Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما). So he grew up admiring his brother.
He is the one who narrates much of what we know about his brother, Abdullah ibn Zubayr when he is standing up for his dignity and standing up for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and defending the Kaaba.
He got a firsthand look at all of that. But Urwah is different. He says, رضيت أنا وأبو بكر بن عبد الرحمن يوم الجمل استصغرونا
He said, you know, I and Abu Bakr ibn Abdur-Rahman were turned away on the day of Al-Jamal, the Battle of the Camel because we were too young. And I chose scholarship over battle. I preferred ilm to battle.
This was my path. My brother had that path of You know, I'm paraphrasing here, right but my brother had that path of the warrior. I had a different path in mind, right?
And there's a very famous narration that's kind of put in the books of uluw al-himmah the books of raising your aspirations You know the last khutbah I talked about da'f al-azm what Ibn al-Qayyim talks about of weak aspirations
So this narration you'll hear it often in the books of uluw al-himmah, which means people that dream high So it kind of contrasts like how you think about their goals today Versus how youth used to think back then that they say Urwah, Ibn Zubayr,
Mus'ab Ibn Zubayr, Abdullah Ibn Zubayr, Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan that these four men Were young and they were all together So three children of Ibn Zubayr, Abdullah, Urwah, and Mus'ab and then Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan
So Abdullah says, I wished to be the prince of the two harams One day I'm going to be the leader of the two harams I will be in charge of Makkah and Al-Madinah and Mus'ab said, I wished to be the prince of the two Iraqs
Mus'ab says one day I'm going to be the prince of the two Iraqs Because back then Kufa and Basra were the two Iraqs. You call them the Iraqs And then Abdul Malik says, I wished to be the Khalifa. As for me, I'm gonna be the Khalifa of it all
And Urwah says, I wished to be the Khalifa of knowledge. I'll take knowledge and I'll avoid all of that Kind of shows you like the way that people back then are dreaming, right? Like you got these young men that are talking about doing incredible things in the world
Whereas, you know when young people today talk about their goals in life, what do they sound like, right? So this is a narration that often shows up in the books to just talk about like the way that these people used to aim
But there is a stronger narration, subhanAllah, which actually has a good isnad to it. It's interesting Because it involves someone else. That in the hijr of the Kaaba one year right outside the Kaaba in
You know in in the place where Ismail (عليه السلام)'s hijr is Mus'ab, Urwah, Abdullah ibn Zubayr and Abdullah ibn Umar were together and
Abdullah ibn Zubayr mentioned that one day he's going to be the Khalifa And Mus'ab mentioned that one day he's going to be Amir al-Iraq And Abdullah ibn Umar says, أما أنا فأتمنى المغفرة
He said as for me I just seek the forgiveness of Allah and Urwah said as for me I just seek knowledge and to be away from all of this And so it just shows you subhanAllah and the narrator says that فنالوا كلهم ما تمنوا
Every single one of them got what they said they were gonna get like they were people that put aspirations ahead of them And then they sought those aspirations But it just shows you again like
Where people are right in their young age and how they thought big and it kind of gives you like that imagery like of People in Islamic history that did great things. They didn't wait until they were old to figure life out
Right, you look at the story of Muhammad al-Fatih before he conquered, right? Constantinople, right? He's a 15 year old on his horse saying one day I'm going to
Open Constantinople and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made it happen for him five years later That's uluw al-himmah. That's people that think big But what you seek is often different so
Hisham Ibn Urwah, he says that my father used to say to us so Hisham is The most frequent narrator of hadith from his father Ibn Zubayr Hisham is his best son in that sense. Urwah has a son named Hisham
Hisham Ibn Urwah is in pretty much every narration from Aisha (رضي الله عنها), right or many of them They come to us through Hisham Ibn Urwah Hisham Ibn Urwah says that one day my father said to us when we were young people
Qala ma lakum la tata'allamun Said what is it with you that you don't seek knowledge? He says in takunu sighar qawmin yushika an takunu kibar qawmin
You might be young people today, but one day you're going to be the old people amongst your people like today You're the kids of your people One day you're gonna be the elders of your people and he says wa ma khayr shaykh an yakun shaykhan wa huwa jahil
What's the point of a shaykh meaning an old man if that old man is jahil if that old man is an ignorant man? So he was telling us like don't wait until you're old to start seeking knowledge to start listening to start reading Quran too many people
Push off their Islamic goals until later on in life He's saying figure it out while you're younger and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will put you in an honorable position And that's exactly what happened to him
He was (رضي الله عنه) a man who loved all of the circles of knowledge from the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) so there wasn't a sahabi that was narrating hadiths from the Prophet (ﷺ) or stories from the Prophet (ﷺ)
or a circle of knowledge in any of the masajid that he was in whether it was Medina or Egypt at some point or Iraq except that Urwah was in the front row And he was paying attention and he was trying to collect everything that he possibly could he was
Known for being a person of haybah a person who who had that that awe when anyone saw him He was extremely handsome. He was well-dressed. He was clean. He was well-groomed
There are literally about seven or eight narrations in Siyar A'lam an-Nubala about just the types of clothes that he used to wear So he used to wear like the best of clothes the best of turbans. He was well-groomed
It says actually narration. He used to shower every day. So obviously back then that's not, you know, like the thing right? But he used to take his bath every day and he used to come to the masjid and he used to wear his finest jubbah And he carried himself in a way that resembles Abdullah ibn Abbas
(رضي الله عنهما) If you remember Abdullah ibn Abbas the young scholar Urwah kind of looked at him as his guy like this is my prototype and this is the model that I want the young scholar Right, so he would come to the masjid
and in fact he went to see Abdullah ibn Abbas once when Abdullah ibn Abbas was the governor of Basra and he quoted a poem to him and
The poem was amit bi arham ilayka qaribatin wa la qurba bil arham ma lam tu kharib He says that there are ties of kinship to you that are close indeed, but kinship is worthless unless you draw it near
The meaning of the poem in brief is like someone might be related to you There are ties of kinship that are close to you But those ties of kinship mean nothing unless you make it a point to establish the relationship amongst your family members
So he's a family member to Ibn Abbas in the grand scheme of Ahl al-Bayt right in the grand scheme of how their family ties work So Abdullah ibn Abbas looked at him and he said who said this who said that poem? So he said Abu Ahmad Ibn Jahsh
We did a first episode about him like three years ago, by the way The brother of Abdullah ibn Jahsh the poem the the the Sahabi who was blind and had his home stolen from him So he said Abu Ahmad Ibn Jahsh and Ibn Abbas said and do you know what the Prophet
(ﷺ) said to him when he said that poem So he said no He said that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to him Sadaqta you've told the truth and
He said to Ibn Abbas said to him what brought you to Basra and he said that our situation has become difficult and he explained to him sort of the debts of Az-Zubayr and the difficulty that they were in and
So Abdullah ibn Abbas took care of him at that time in his life and basically provided for him To make his way to Egypt and to settle there for some time I just give you that side of him just to say give you the idea of a person who is
Constantly looking for the companions and learning from them, but he has one advantage That no one else has and this is where your Islamic history comes from It wasn't in the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ). It wasn't in a masjid in Baghdad
It wasn't in a masjid in Ash-Sham the seerah that you read comes from Conversations between Urwah and Aisha (رضي الله عنها)
Almost the entire seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ) from the perspective of Aisha (رضي الله عنها) is gathered from Conversations between Urwah (رضي الله عنه) and his auntie Aisha (رضي الله عنها)
And Imam Az-Zuhri he says a narration from Qubays Ibn Dhu'ayb He said that we would gather in the masjid at night. This is in Al Medina
So he said Mus'ab and Urwah the two children of Az-Zubayr and then Abu Bakr Ibn Abdur-Rahman Ibn Abi Bakr Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan grew up in the same circles by the way
He used to be a student of knowledge amongst them. So Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan was their friend growing up Abdur-Rahman Ibn Miswar, Ibrahim Ibn Abdur-Rahman Ibn Awf and he goes on and he names all of these companions So he says that some of us would sit with Zayd Ibn Thabit
and Zayd Ibn Thabit was the leading figure in Medina when it came to fatwa and judgment and the issues of inheritance and Then some of us would go and we'd sit with Abu Hurayrah and he said Urwah would take all of that knowledge
Like Urwah (رضي الله عنه) would sit with all of the companions and take that knowledge But he said Kana Urwah (رضي الله عنه) Yaghlibu na bi dukhuli ala Aisha The difference between us and Urwah was that when we all finished with the halaqas
He would go and he would enter into the house of Aisha So unfair right like he just got to go hang out with his aunt and collect narrations from her Whereas we had to go through the process of seeking permission and then sit behind the curtain
Urwah would go every single day and he would sit with Aisha (رضي الله عنها) and He would enter upon her freely and he would ask her about everything that happened between her and the Prophet (ﷺ)
When I say everything that happened between her and the Prophet (ﷺ), you're going to see that this is no exaggeration he would sit with her and SubhanAllah
She would take him and she would point him to the exact place that the Prophet (ﷺ) used to make his qiyam and She would say that the Prophet (ﷺ) used to lie down here and I used to lie down here and this is where
My feet would stop and his head would reach (ﷺ) Can you imagine like you've been reading seerah your whole life and hearing the seerah and this is the conversation Between aunt and nephew about what it was like to live with the Prophet (ﷺ)
And one of my favorite ones subhanAllah because it's in the subtext. It's in Bukhari Where you know Aisha (رضي الله عنها) says Qabbala ba'da nisa'ihi, thumma kharaja ila as-salah (ﷺ) wa lam yatawadda
Aisha (رضي الله عنها) says that the Prophet (ﷺ) kissed one of his wives and then he went to the salah and He didn't perform wudu basically to say that it was okay to have like, you know A touch or this is one of the proofs that the madhahib that would allow it right?
They use this hadith but the Prophet (ﷺ) would kiss Aisha (رضي الله عنها) And he wouldn't renew his wudu (ﷺ) But Aisha said the Prophet (ﷺ) kissed somebody and then she smiled and
Urwah says man hiya illa anti? like who is it other than you? Qala fadhahikat and so she just started to laugh Right, like that's the beauty of how the seerah is being captured
That she's saying things. He's like, oh, I know who you're talking about. You're talking about yourself and Aisha (رضي الله عنها) laughing and lovingly Imparting the narrations of the Prophet (ﷺ) one by one
when the Prophet (ﷺ) entered when he left how he lived his life (ﷺ) and Urwah (رضي الله عنه) memorizing and writing memorizing and writing. SubhanAllah while everybody else is out there fighting these big wars and battles
Urwah is in the house of Aisha Memorizing and writing memorizing and writing and asking every single question that he can not just about the Prophet (ﷺ) But also learning from Aisha (رضي الله عنها)
Herself and he has this beautiful narration He says that one time I came to visit Aisha (رضي الله عنها), my aunt and I saw her in her place of salah and
She was reading and she was making du'a and she was crying She was reading famanna Allahu alayna wa waqana adhab as-samum Verse in Surat At-Tur that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala showed us mercy and he protected us from a grievous punishment
So he said I entered into the house of Aisha (رضي الله عنها) Li usallim alayha, I just wanted to say salam to her, it was like a habit and I found her in this place
Standing and reading so he said so I waited for a bit and she wasn't leaving that same ayah She kept on reading the ayah and crying and making du'a
He said so I went to the souq, I was like, let me go get some business done While Aisha (رضي الله عنها) finishes her qiyam. So he said I went to the souq I bought my stuff dropped it off came back to her house
Entered into the house and he used to enter freely into her house And he said I found her in the exact same place reading the exact same ayah Crying and weeping famanna Allahu alayna wa waqana adhab as-samum So that's his experience
With Aisha (رضي الله عنها) and his absorption, you know the way he absorbed her knowledge Was unlike any other human being Khalid an-Nizar he says that a'lamu an-nas bi hadith Aisha
That the three people most knowledgeable in the hadiths of Aisha meaning those who took the most knowledge from Aisha were three Urwah wa Amrah wa al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
Urwah and then Amrah (رضي الله عنها) the freed female servant of Aisha and Then al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr. So these were the three people That had the most in terms of quoting
Aisha and of the three the most Accurate and the most detailed and the one who would quote Aisha word for word without missing a letter was Urwah Urwah wouldn't miss a letter and subhanAllah listen to this narration that he says
He says I had a realization laqad ra'aytuni qabla mawt Aisha bi arba'i hijaj He said four years before Aisha (رضي الله عنها) died. I had this realization to myself Listen to what he says
qala law matat al-yawm ma nadimtu ala hadithin indaha illa waqad wa'aytuhu If Aisha was to die today four years before she passed away, I
Would be satisfied that I've memorized every single hadith that she had. I haven't missed a single hadith from her at that point and Aisha (رضي الله عنها) would say that if I die I'm satisfied that knowledge will not be lost because of Urwah
This is the man that we're talking about the transmitter between Aisha (رضي الله عنها) and the rest of the ummah. Now I want to share a story here subhanAllah But this one's actually like painful in its own way
Because what was Aisha (رضي الله عنها)'s kunyah? Like what was her nickname? We talked about this last week I'll give you a clue. It's about the guy that we talked about last week.
Umm Abdullah, right? Umm Abdullah. The mother of Abdullah because the Prophet (ﷺ) said name Yourself after your son Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr, right?
So she had such a love for Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr that she was technically she's like I am the mother of Abdullah Right. So even though Urwah was there and Urwah was the one that's going to transmit most of the narrations Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr is her favorite, right?
But there was once Something that happened that while Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr was around that Aisha (رضي الله عنها) you know was giving away things and making certain judgments and Umm
Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr didn't like something that she did So he said That wallahi if Aisha doesn't stop Giving these gifts like this and and managing her money this way. Let's put it this way
It's just an what we know from the narration is money management and she was old at that point He said if Aisha wallahi if Aisha doesn't stop managing her money this way, I'm going to declare her incompetent
Like Abdullah is saying like I'm her son. I'm gonna take over her money so I can do it myself You know our mother Aisha (رضي الله عنها) she doesn't take stuff like that, right she's not going to accept a
Comment like that from her son her nephew Abdullah So when they told Aisha (رضي الله عنها) what Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما) said she said did he really say that?
Said yes, he really said that she said that he really say that. Yes. She said wallahi. I'll never talk to him again There's a long hadith by the way long narration Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr heard that and he said oh my god, I'm doomed
Right like Aisha is never gonna talk to me again so He starts sending people to basically beg Aisha (رضي الله عنها) to forgive him. Right? I'm sorry
I said that and subhanAllah the reason why it hurt Aisha (رضي الله عنها) so much was what? Because she loved him so much. He's like her son So like how dare he insult me that way in public, right?
But it shows you the human side subhanAllah. So Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr starts sending people to request from Aisha
To you know to speak to him to forgive him and Aisha (رضي الله عنها) She says, you know, I swore by Allah that I'd never speak to him again
Khalas like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna break my vow. It would be sinful for me to break my vow So she was like lost. I don't know what to do because I made a vow and I'm not gonna talk to him and
Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr would seek permission to come in and she would ignore him. She was hurt and he was hurt so what he does is He asks for some people to come with him and Aisha (رضي الله عنها) had behind her curtain
(رضي الله عنها), a place where you know, people could come and ask her questions at designated times of the day Whereas Abdullah or Urwah could just walk in but other people they sat behind the curtain in the hijrat and in
Her hijrah in particular and they asked questions from there so Abdullah waited until the next time where other people were gonna go sit behind there and He said I'll come in with them
So basically there were two men, Miswar and Abdur-Rahman and They're wrapping their sheets amongst themselves and Abdullah wrapped himself in the same way They asked permission to come in. Aisha (رضي الله عنها) said come in. She doesn't know that Abdullah ibn Az-Zubayr is there and
You know, they requested to speak and they told her that the Prophet (ﷺ) You know forbade people from cutting off their loved ones and they started to mention some of these ahadith to Aisha (رضي الله عنها)
To increase, you know sort of to get her to take back what she said about Abdullah and Aisha (رضي الله عنها) she starts to weep and She she starts to say
You know, but I made a vow like I swore I took an oath and she said like these oaths are serious Like I don't know what to do with this oath that I took and then Abdullah When when she does that like he couldn't hold himself
So Abdullah like bursts into the room and he grabs her (رضي الله عنها) And they start to cry together and he starts to apologize to her and he starts to say. Oh my mother. Forgive me I'm sorry. I didn't mean it and
Aisha (رضي الله عنها) she says, you know, I want to but I made a vow. What do I do? So eventually obviously Aisha (رضي الله عنها) is a person of fiqh
She said, you know, I took this nadhr when nadhru shadid and the oath is is a serious oath eventually she freed 40 slaves 40 people from slavery right which is basically the equivalent of everything that she had
I mean she put everything towards that Wa kanat tadhkuru nadhraha ba'da dhalika fatabki That she used to remember always that oath that she took and she would cry
Until her khimar would become completely wet and she would say why did I take that oath? Why did I take that oath? So this is a little bit of the human side that you can see between Aisha (رضي الله عنها) and her nephews
That's Abdullah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) and his relationship as for Urwah (رضي الله عنه) He is the one who's patiently narrating and one of the things that happens is that he started to spend so much time with her
That he inherited her fiqh he inherited her eloquence So Ibn Abi Zinad, he says ma ra'aytu ahadan arwa lish-shi'r min Urwah I never saw someone read someone more poetic than Urwah (رضي الله عنه)
Fa qila lahu ma arwaka lish-shi'r So it was said to him. How are you so eloquent? How are you so poetic and He says don't you know who my aunt is? Don't you know who my aunt is?
And he says that there isn't a single ma kana yanzuru biha shay'un illa anshadat fihi shi'ra That my aunt Aisha nothing would happen to her except that she'd make a poem about it Aisha (رضي الله عنها) was so eloquent
Anything that happened in the world or anything that happened to her personally? She'd make an oath She would make a poem about it and Urwah says I've met The Khulafa and I've met the most eloquent of the Arabs I never met anyone more eloquent than Aisha (رضي الله عنها)
So she rubbed off on him (رضي الله عنه) and the earliest documentation of Seerah is Urwah narrating from Aisha if you go through Sahih al-Bukhari
If you go through Sahih Muslim if you pick up the books of ahadith and you see the narrations of Aisha How often are you going to see Urwah and some subtext where he talks about how he collected that narration from Aisha?
(رضي الله عنها) so he absorbed Aisha So this is the first thing we're gonna talk about the documentation a little bit further inshallah ta'ala a little bit But he absorbed Aisha (رضي الله عنها) to the point Said four years before she died. I said if she dies, I've got every hadith
Before she passes away but then He was strategic with his marriages He was strategic with his marriages how he's strategic with his marriages he went and he married Sawdah bint Abdullah ibn Umar
So he married the daughter of Abdullah ibn Umar So he gets that access there Then he married as well the granddaughter of Umm Salamah
(رضي الله عنها), Umm al-Mu'minin who from a fiqh, I mean who's more knowledgeable than Umm Salamah right like another encyclopedia of knowledge Umm Salamah (رضي الله عنها), Al-Hakeemah (رضي الله عنها)
So through that he gets access and he asks all these questions and subhanAllah, you know As one of the writers says about Urwah that every relationship he made in his life was based upon ilm
Everything was based upon knowledge that he had one interest and he was radically dedicated to that interest he just kept on collecting and collecting and collecting and collecting whatever he could and
Meeting the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ). So he would narrate from all of the Abadilah He has narrations from Abdullah ibn Zubayr, Abdullah ibn Abbas, Abdullah ibn Umar and Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As
He has narrations from Abu Hurayrah and Zayd. He has narrations from Ahl al-Bayt, from Ali, from Al-Hasan, Al-Husayn (رضي الله عنهم). He's collected narrations from all of them and Imam Az-Zuhri (رحمه الله) Who officially is the first
The first one commissioned to collect the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ) in history He says that I met Urwah fa'idha Urwatu bahrun la yunzaf So I met Urwah and I found him to be an ocean that has no bounds
I never met a person like Urwah ibn Zubayr. And so I collected the ahadith that I could from him As much as I possibly could Now what happens in Islamic history to where he becomes the collector of seerah?
so Abdul Malik ibn Marwan Who technically it was his khilafah up against the khilafah of Abdullah ibn Zubayr He grew up with Urwah. He grew up in the circles of hadith. He grew up in the circles of ilm
And basically after the war is over now after Abdul Malik ibn Marwan takes charge and takes control of everything He actually wants to settle things between the family of Zubayr what's left of them and himself and
so he honors them as a point of reconciliation and he brings Urwah to him and He has subhanAllah he's carrying the sword that Abdullah ibn Zubayr used to carry
Now this is a very difficult thing for Urwah to accept Because even though it wasn't Abdul Malik ibn Marwan that killed Abdullah ibn Zubayr at the end of the day This is still under his sub power somehow
It's Al-Hajjaj right who does things that Abdul Malik ibn Marwan often has to censure him for and hates what he does But still at the end of the day like this is happening under your rule. So yeah, they grew up together They all knew each other growing up because they grew up in the halaqat of ilm in the in the circle of knowledge
But this is difficult But Abdul Malik ibn Marwan clearly wants to honor Urwah and what remains so he brings forth Urwah and
He has the sword of Abdullah ibn Zubayr and he returns the sword of Abdullah ibn Zubayr to Urwah after all the chaos and after the dust of the battles have have Commenced or have been completed and he hands it to him and he asked him
Yeah, Urwah do you recognize the sword of Az-Zubayr and he says I do and he says what marks are on it So he says this is a mark from the Battle of Badr and these two marks are from
the Battle of Yarmuk and then he gives him that sword he returns the sword back to the family of Az-Zubayr and Basically what ends up happening after that Urwah does not take a position
It doesn't become a governor, you know a ruler in any way under Abdul Malik ibn Marwan But Abdul Malik Treats him like the scholar that he actually is so he writes him questions and letters
Asking him to clarify issues of fiqh and he asks him questions about the Prophet (ﷺ) And so the earliest manuscripts of seerah are actually letters that Urwah is writing to Abdul Malik ibn Marwan
explaining issues of the seerah explaining things from the Prophet (ﷺ) and He is the first as At-Tabari says to compile and to write the seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ) So the first writer first collector of the seerah in this regard
Well, you know you hear Ibn Hisham, Seerah Ibn Hisham and then Ibn Ishaq and all of the early writers They're all drawing from Urwah ibn Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما) and he is the best in the seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ)
And he's patient with that scholarship and he writes and he teaches the entire ummah Keeping himself away from any type of fighting any type of civil wars any type of infighting
He just writes and he teaches (رضي الله عنهما) and he has a very powerful SubhanAllah Sentence that he says he says Rubba karimatin dhullin ihtamaltuha awrasatni izzan tawila
He said it might be that a word of humiliation that I bore with patience Gave me long-lasting honor in the sight of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala like I wasn't hot-headed. I understood what was at stake
Instead of picking up a sword and not doing what I was supposed to do I Dedicated myself to that ilm and I spread that knowledge of the Prophet (ﷺ) to everywhere that I possibly could And it might be that what other people would probably mock him and say how are you gonna do that?
How are you gonna let this go? What are you gonna do next? What are you gonna do here? Urwah just kept himself dedicated to knowledge altogether and as a result His fiqh his transmission of the seerah became the most authoritative in the world
Umar ibn Abdul Aziz (رحمه الله). He said ma ajidu a'lama min Urwah ibn Zubayr He said never met a man more knowledgeable than Urwah ibn Zubayr. And this is coming from a man who met sahaba
Lived with the sahaba of the Prophet (ﷺ). And he said I found the most knowledgeable To be Urwah ibn Zubayr and There's one subhanAllah this incident that takes place where Umar ibn Abdul Aziz when he takes charge of the khilafah
And he would keep Urwah close to him he delayed the the Asr prayer slightly and
Urwah says he starts to quote to him the hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ) of when Jibril (عليه السلام) came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and He led the Prophet (ﷺ) in prayer
Okay, and Umar ibn Abdul Aziz says to Urwah I'lam ma tuhaddith ya Urwah. Wait a minute Urwah be careful. What are you saying?
Wa inna Jibril huwa aqama li Rasul Allah (ﷺ) waqt as-salah. Are you saying Jibril (عليه السلام) led the Prophet (ﷺ) in salah? like Umar ibn Abdul Aziz was a bit shocked by the hadith and
Urwah went on he said kadhalika and he went on to say Bashir ibn Abi Mas'ud narrated from his father who narrated from Aisha and he went on to say that Rasul Allah (ﷺ)
kana yusalli al-Asr that the Prophet (ﷺ) would pray Asr that Jibril (عليه السلام) came and he led him in salah at this time and he basically Gave Umar ibn Abdul Aziz the exact time in which the salah of Asr should be prayed
So he Achieved this great state of honor. He did subhanAllah. He wrote his own fiqh as well He wrote his own jurisprudence his own fatawa
And Hisham ibn Urwah says that he burnt those two books. He burnt his own books on The day of Al-Harrah and then he regretted that he regretted burning his own books
And he said li an takun indi ahabbu ilayya min an yakun li mislu ahli wa mali He said for me to have these books would be more beloved to me than my family and my wealth Some of the scholars say he did that because he was afraid that his fiqh would be imposed on the ummah
That he was afraid that his fiqh would be imposed and subhanAllah. This is similar to Imam Malik (رحمه الله) Who was given the offer that your Muwatta your book be hung in the Kaaba
Right and become the authoritative book of jurisprudence the authoritative book of law And Imam Malik (رحمه الله) is like who am I but the people should be bound by Malik
And by the way subhanAllah much of Muwatta is Imam Malik narrating from Hisham ibn Urwah narrating from Urwah Ibn Zubayr So the son of Urwah Hisham ibn Urwah was a teacher of Imam Malik. So the same idea that we shouldn't
You know impose the fiqh of a person on other people All right I'm gonna share two more narrations about his knowledge then I'll move on to some of the stories about him subhanAllah that we can Truly benefit from bismillah in our personal lives The last one that I'll share here is Abdur-Rahman ibn Humayd
He says I entered the masjid with my father Fara'aytu an-nas kathir yatammar un ala rajul I saw the people all crowding around this man Fa nadhartu fa idha huwa Urwah fa ajibtu wa ajabtu
I told him and and I was surprised so he said yeah bunayya Look at the way to Ashab Rasul Allah (ﷺ) yas'alunahu. Oh my son. Do not be amazed I saw the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) would ask Urwah like they would come to him as students
Which is very very very rare He was not a Sahabi. He's a tabi'i But the Sahaba were coming to him because of what he knew from Aisha and what he knew through his own absorption
Of knowledge to ask him. All right. Now let's talk about his ibadah. And this is where subhanAllah we take from him something so profound for ourselves Number one his recitation of the Quran and
So what was his recitation of the Quran and it had been narrates that? Kana yaqra'u kulla yawm rub' al-Qur'an rub' al-Qur'an fil mushaf Nothering way upon be he Layla
Says that he used to read one-fourth of the Quran every day from the mushaf and then he would stand up in Qiyam And he would recite it from memory
So every day one-fourth of the Quran reading from the mushaf in the daytime and then one-fourth of it at night and Ma taraka al-qiyam min laylatin
Wa la laylatin that there is no night that he ever gave up that habit any night Including the night that his leg was amputated So this is what we're gonna talk about the night that his leg was amputated. We'll come back to that inshallah
He also had the habit of siyam fasting And he had the habit that he would fast every day except for the two Eids Eid al-Fitr and Eid
So he's one of the rare companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) who fasted every single day except for those two days We're gonna talk about that ruling by the way in the time when we get to Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As All right, but just keep that in mind
for now And he also had this habit with his charity, which was the opposite of most other people there is the story in the Quran of Ashab al-jannah idh aqsamu right the the people who had the garden and
They made the oath that they're going to hoard Everything that grows from the trees before anyone can come and pick from their trees Allah blessed a group of people with fruits in their garden
Because of the righteousness of their father their father used to donate and they decided let's pick all of the fruits Before the poor people come and take from that garden Urwah wanted to be the opposite of that and Urwah (رضي الله عنه) was a man who
SubhanAllah had many gardens and who inherited much from his father So he would do the opposite. Kana idha kanat ayyam rutabihi He would be a person who when his dates and his fruits would become most ripe
Adhina lin-nas an yadkhulu He would call the people to come and to take from his garden So ya'khudh Oh, ya'khudh and the people would all pick from his garden They would take with their bags full
So he wanted to be the opposite of the people who Allah condemned in the Quran and Allah kept on blessing him with putting More and more and more in his garden. So he was a man (رضي الله عنه) who was a man of Sadaqah
And he was a man who would teach with wisdom And he was a man who who said that good deeds have sisters and sins have sisters And so if you see someone doing good
Then know that that good deed has siblings and if you see someone doing evil then know that that evil deed Has siblings as well meaning all of these things affect one another
So where is the most popular story from him and I want you to pay very close attention to the story bi'idhnillah This is subhanAllah a story that you've probably all heard and you didn't realize who the man in question was
Urwah (رضي الله عنه) one day went out to Ash-Sham to greater Syria To visit Al-Walid ibn Abdul Malik with his son so
He's going on this journey and he started to feel sick on that journey and it appeared like he was bit by something on the journey so when he got to Ash-Sham
He said laqad laqina fi safarina hadha nasaba like he quoted the ayah of the Quran about how exhausting this journey was So picture this he arrives the scholar that everyone's waiting for he has his son with him on the horse
He seems off. He seems nauseous and then his leg starts to change colors Okay So what ended up happening is that something, you know bit his leg?
There was some kind of poison that was in his leg and it required an amputation So he developed gangrene and it required an amputation Khalid ibn Nibhan used to quote this story
They used to say back then they didn't have anesthesia. Can you imagine someone getting a limb cut off without anesthesia and now look? Right subhanAllah. Now you see it all the time in the people of Gaza, right the amputations without anesthesia
May Allah make it easy for them. Allahumma ameen so I remember SubhanAllah vividly like we used to tell this story years ago You say can you imagine the amputations without anesthesia because it's so unimaginable that that could happen
But now we see it happen all the time subhanAllah with everything that's happening. May Allah azawajal Give them the reward of these people and the rank of these people as well. Allahumma ameen So what did they used to do back then when someone had to get an amputation?
Without anesthesia, what would they do? Anybody know What is it They would have them make salah no
We're getting to that But what was the like y'all were thinking about this too religiously now The logic the logical thing back then was they didn't have anesthesia. So they say drink wine
Right you drink wine until you basically, you know get too drunk to realize what's happening to you right So he told them go ahead and drink some alcohol
Because that's the equivalent of anesthesia back then. All right, so you're gonna lose your senses and Yeah, we know you're a scholar and you know, but everyone's gonna understand right? You've got gangrene This thing is spreading into your leg. It's gonna spread into your body if we don't amputate your leg, you're going to die
So he said no, so I'm not gonna do that. He said there's no cure that comes through disease referring to khamr Like then we're gonna have to cut it off. I mean like time is of essence
We're gonna have to cut it off and that's when he said he said listen wait, so I pray Just let me do salah and then while I'm doing salah. I want you to cut from my leg So that was his idea to deal with
the situation so he goes into prayer and subhanAllah they take They take the saw. I mean, that's what they that's the word that's used right to chop off his leg and
He says wait until I'm in sujud in particular right because that's when I'm deepest into my focus and you can take my leg
Pause here and subhanAllah this family of salah Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنه) his father was martyred while he was praying Zubayr was martyred while he was praying. He was killed while he was praying
Abdullah was martyred while he was praying in front of the Kaaba like what type of salah do these people pray? All right, Hamamat al-Masjid. That was Abdullah. Zubayr was the pigeon. What type of salah do these people pray? right
But subhanAllah, that's his this is the family. It's something in the du'a something in the training of Az-Zubayr and Asma so he goes into his salah
He goes into his sujud and they come to him and they cut off his leg And he said wallahi the only thing that came to him was and it says in Arabic
Like the only grimacing that came from him he didn't even scream as they sawed off his leg while he was in salah Right And he kept on praying and he didn't even leave his salah
So his leg was amputated during his salah without anesthesia without alcohol so they Wrapped up his leg
Bandaged him up and then subhanAllah in the same journey It's like when Allah decides to test a person subhanAllah in the same journey while he's going through that ordeal his son was playing around the horse and
And the horse kicked his son in the face and killed him So like while he's still getting bandaged up after losing his leg and hobbling with one leg
They're also gonna tell him that his son has died So this is like a really devastating moment right to happen to such a great human being so SubhanAllah, they go to him and they tell him what happened and
Al-Walid actually calls him to like put on like a like an official way to break the news to him, right? So he tells them may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Replenish you or compensate you for the loss of your leg
So alhamdulillah, I have three limbs and Allah took one All right. Alhamdulillah I had four limbs and Allah took one leaving me three. Alhamdulillah He said and I want to ask Allah to compensate you
For the loss of your son right away. He says inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un He said alhamdulillah. Allah azawajal gave me four kids and he took one. He's still merciful. He left me three
So he left me three limbs out of four and he left me three kids out of four and he actually Verbalized it in a du'a and this du'a is authentically narrated from him said Allahumma
Kana li arba'atu atraf Fa akhadhta tarafan wa abqayta atrafan thalatha wa kana li banun fa akhadhta banan
Wa abqayta banin wa la in kunta qad akhadhta fa laqad a'tayta wa la in kunta qad ibtalay ta fa qad a'afayta He said Oh Allah. I had four limbs
You took one of them and you left me three and Oh Allah. I had four sons You took one of them and you left me three and he said Allahumma Oh Allah
If you have taken then you have indeed given and if you have tested then you have indeed blessed. I Have no complaints with you. Ya Allah. Can you imagine subhanAllah that mindset and
Here you have the saying that we had with Khalid ibn Nibhan (رحمه الله) The shibah the the what resembled the saying Ibrahim Ibn Talha Who's Ibrahim Ibn Talha?
Remember Talha named all of his children after anbiya after prophets Az-Zubayr named all of his children after shuhada Ibrahim Ibn Talha Ibn Ubayd Allah came to him and he said to him Abshir fa inna Allaha qad ja'ala ibnaka fil jannah
Said glad tidings to you your your son has preceded you to al-jannah And it may be that your leg has also preceded you to al-jannah
You all remember the famous clip from Khalid ibn Nibhan (رحمه الله) the soul of our soul when he was Comforting and consoling one of the girls of Gaza who lost her leg and said Ammu your leg preceded you to jannah
This is the type of conversation and this is the league of people that would have these types of conversations SubhanAllah, so he is a person who resembles
Who resembles what we're seeing today and who comes from that same legendary practice of salah From his father and then his brother that he witnessed that only the righteous have may Allah azawajal give us salah like that
And may Allah give us patience like that. Give us prayer and give us patience like that and perspective like that Allahumma ameen And Al-Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, he loved him. He felt bad by the way SubhanAllah, so people would would come to console Urwah Ibn Zubayr
Right, they were seeing him with his leg missing and they were seeing him with his son having died and he would repeat the same Things to them alhamdulillah Allah gave me four limbs He only took one and Allah azawajal gave me four kids. He only took one alhamdulillah. I'm okay
Al-Walid Ibn Abdul Malik, SubhanAllah He he says that sometime after that there was a man that came to him This is narrated in the books of Seerah, a man that came to him and he said to him I used to be the richest of people
I used to have wealth. I used to have children. I used to have everything and then he said That I moved to this place and then this flood came this massive flood came and it
Took away my entire family and all of my wealth except for one camel and one child And he said so while the flood came and I had that one camel and that one child he said that I
I went after my camel to rescue the camel and then as I was coming to get my child the wolves descended on my child and they ate my child and then the camel
kicked me in the face and I went blind. Just like subhanAllah the worst nightmare, bala on top of bala on top of bala and he said Go and tell Urwah ibn Az-Zubayr what happened to you so that he understands that whatever hardship he went through someone went through worse
Like his heart and his mind was like however bad you have it somebody else has it worse, right? However bad you have it somebody else has it worse. Not that Urwah was complaining about losing his leg or losing his son But subhanAllah this man comes to him shortly after he lost all of his children
He lost all of his wealth and he lost his eyesight in the process When we come to the the death of Urwah ibn Az-Zubayr (رضي الله عنهما) SubhanAllah these these small texts
Urwah used to sit with the companions after salat al-isha and the closest person to him Abdullah ibn Hasan says
That Urwah used to sit every single night after isha with Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali Zayn al-Abidin (رضي الله عنه) One day we're gonna do very soon inshallah
We'll do a whole breakdown on Zayn al-Abidin Ali ibn al-Husayn, but this is Ali the son of Al-Husayn Right, and he is a legend in Islamic history as well So they would sit together after salat al-isha in the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ)
And one night they started to talk about the injustice of one of the Jawran min ja'iri Bani Umayyah they just say one of the governors of Bani Umayyah and the oppression of one of the governors of Bani Umayyah and
How they were frustrated that they couldn't change the injustice So subhanAllah it's also very relevant to us that they were talking to them amongst themselves about their frustration of being unable to change it And He says ya Ali
innama ya'tazil ahl al-jawr said oh Ali whoever leaves off the people of the oppression wallahu ya'lamu minhu sakhatahu that Allah knows in him that he hates that oppression and
He leaves them then it might be that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will spare him from the punishment of that person so because of that
He went and he moved away from the masjid of the Prophet (ﷺ) and he settled in al-Aqiq, Wadi al-Aqiq and he built what is known as the fortress of Urwah ibn Zubayr
And by the way, if you all can put it up on the screen in the AV room The fortress of Urwah ibn Zubayr subhanAllah you can actually go and you can see it today I actually went there myself and I saw it today. So this was the house of Urwah ibn Zubayr and he left the masjid because he was
Disturbed by some of the politics and the oppression that he was seeing at that time and of course the people started to mock him and they said you went you built yourself a palace and you took all the ilm over There and you're teaching people over there and you know avoiding that thing and he said
that lahiya that I saw that their masajid were full of distraction and wa aswaqahum lahiya wal fahisha fi fijaajihim aliya
He said that I saw that their mosques were full of distraction. Their markets were full of Like backbiting and evil talk and the indecency was up in their streets. So he said I left all of that
To get away from the fitna seeking al-afiyah from Allah subhanAllah seeking to be protected from Allah azawajal to be safe from Allah So he built his home in Wadi Aqiq which still stands today in the valley of Aqiq and he also
Dug a well and subhanAllah that that well of Urwah if you drink from the water of it They say in the books It says in Siyar A'lam an-Nubala that there is no water that's sweeter than the well of Urwah and truly today
SubhanAllah, there is no water that is sweeter than from the well that was dug by Urwah (رضي الله عنهما) and The day and and he would die in the year of 94
After Hijrah the day of Friday yawm al-jumu'ah in the year 94 They call that year the year of the fuqaha the year of the fuqaha Why because that was a year in which many many many ulama died
Many of the scholars died and Urwah ibn Zubayr was considered as we said Right the most knowledgeable of the Fuqaha as-Sab'ah and the day that he died Something very interesting happened Urwah used to fast every day as we said
he was one of those people who would fast every single day except for the two Eids and The day that he was dying. He was fasting and SubhanAllah at some point during the day His family was telling him like they saw him getting very sick and he was very old
they were telling him to break his fast to drink something to take something and Urwah said You know, I have a feeling that I'm going to break my fast from the water of al-kawthar I'll pass
That's the day of jumu'ah and subhanAllah right before maghrib time because he wanted to die fasting It was his wish to die sa'im to die fasting right before maghrib time He passed away on the day of Friday on the outskirts of al-Madinah al-Munawwarah
(رضي الله عنه) Leaving behind subhanAllah a legacy of seerah to where every single one of us has benefited from Urwah ibn Zubayr without even realizing it Took that path of ilm that path of scholarship
Decided to operate in the background and became the founder in many ways of Islamic history the foremost author of the seerah of the Prophet (ﷺ) the link between us and that
private quarter of Aisha (رضي الله عنها) to where we can have that inside access to Aisha (رضي الله عنها) and the Prophet (ﷺ) in their innermost
You know secrets and with the most beautiful stories of the Prophet (ﷺ) So may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with him and may Allah azawajal allow us to take
From the advices that he gave especially to the young people subhanAllah when he mentioned that one day You're going to be the elders of your people and what good is there in an ignorant old man?
So seek to be people who have higher dreams who have higher aspirations and who take ilm who take knowledge bi'idhnillahi ta'ala Early on in your life so that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will honor you in your elderly age
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala honor us in our youth in our old age Allahumma ameen May Allah have mercy on the martyrs and may Allah azawajal replenish all of those who have lost their limbs and their loved ones
With something better in al-jannah and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala guide us to the way of the Prophet (ﷺ) as he preserved It for us and preserves it in those who seek it Allahumma ameen inshallah ta'ala next week
We will talk about Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-As (رضي الله عنهما) jazakum Allah khayr wa salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh You
