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The Prophet ﷺ’s Bodyguard: Mughira ibn Shu‘ba (ra) | The Firsts
A noble leader with a striking presence, he initially resisted the call of Islam and was a chief He came to Islam after a severely checkered past, but never let his flaws stop him from assuming his place in the presence of the Prophet ﷺ. He used his strength and sense of movement to monitor the Prophet’s every move, and came back to Ta’if with the command to destroy their idol.
This episode of The Firsts is part of the “Muslim of Ta’if” series.
The Firsts is a weekly video series that chronicles the lives of the Sahaba (the companions of the Prophet ﷺ) during and after the time of the Prophet ﷺ.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. Let's move on to his nephew, inshallah ta'ala, and let's talk about him, because you have to see it all as one, bismillah ta'ala. After Urwah bin Mas'ud is killed, his children and his widow go to Medina, and his son, particularly Abu Mulayh, says to his people, he says that I will never live with you again after what you did to my father. Like, you know, my father said not to kill in his name, but I'll never live with you, I can't be with you after what you did to my father. So, they make their way to Medina, and all of his children are going to end up dying in Medina, pretty much, all of them pretty much dying in Medina, if not all of them, but they will all die as Muslims. Abu Mulayh, Asim, Dawood, Humam, Abu Murrah, all of these different children that he had, and he had a large set of children. He also had a brother that embraced Islam, whose name was Abdullah bin Mas'ud al-Thaqafi, not the famous Abdullah bin Mas'ud, and who's buried in al-Baqi' and they make their way to Medina. So, the children now make their way to Medina, the chief of Ta'if tried to call his people to Islam, and he has been killed, or the Thaqafi chief has been killed. So you switch over now to al-Medina al-Munawwara. His widow, Maymuna bint Abi Sufyan, will be married by al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, and we're going to talk about al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba. It just so happens that his granddaughter, Humam, his son had a daughter, that is the mother of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi, a very famous, complicated person in Islam,
who was a tyrant, but who also has many historical things that are attributed to him, so that's from his lineage. So his lineage kind of shifts over to al-Medina, and his mother, I'm sorry, his wife, the widow, marries al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba al-Thaqafi. Now let's talk about al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, because he has a whole story, everyone has a story here in how they come in, which is very interesting. Al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba is the only sahabi from Ta'if, the only companion from Ta'if that exists in Medina. No one else in Medina is from Ta'if, so it's basically him and Urwah who came for that short time, and that's it. Al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, the Prophet ﷺ, he said, كَنَّانِ نَبِيُّ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَامًا بِأَبِي عِيسَىٰ that the Prophet ﷺ nicknamed me Abu Isa, and he is from those people that are known as Duhaat al-Arab. Duhaat al-Arab are the most intelligent and most cunning of the Arabs. He was known for his intelligence, he was known for his trickery, and he really wasn't a very good man before Islam. So he employed his trickery in all of the worst ways. Now by the way, this is the bodyguard of the Prophet ﷺ, so to give you the image, he walked in like a guy that's walking around the Prophet ﷺ, that basically assigns himself as a bodyguard. He has a rough past, and he's described as Duhaat al-Arab. He was tall, extremely tall, huge muscles, very wide shoulders, huge legs, his hair was plentiful and he had them tied in four braids, رضي الله تعالى عنه, extremely strong man. And he's basically going to assign himself as the bodyguard of the Prophet ﷺ. Like, Mughira does security, alright? Mughira does security, so anyone that's like a bodyguard can like look to Mughira
and you can find like some, you can find something from him, right, in terms of how he is. But his story before Islam is actually not a very nice one at all, right? And of course Islam does away with things before and it shows you the redemptive power of Islam. Basically, he left Ta'if and he said that I went out with 13 men from Banu Malik, happened to be the tribe that shot Uruwa with the arrows, the sub-tribe that shot Uruwa with the arrows. So he said I went with 13 of them to Muqawqis, the ruler of Egypt, the Coptic in Egypt, because Muqawqis was known to be generous, so basically if Muqawqis saw people that came to him, Muqawqis would always give you something, he'd send you out, he'd invite you into his palaces, so I went out with them basically to go to Egypt to meet Muqawqis and someone from that group had a relationship with the Muqawqis, alright? And he said that I was the only one that wasn't from their group, right? Now the story of Hudaybiyyah is going to start making sense to you. He said I asked Uruwa ibn Mas'ud, my uncle, for advice. He told me don't do it, no one from your father's people is with you, right? Like at the end of the day, yeah you're all kind of friends and you're from Ta'if, but you're not super close. If anyone gets left out of this, it's going to be you, so it's dangerous for you to go. But he said, you know, basically I decided to go anyway. Alright, everything I'm about to say, remember he wasn't Muslim at the time, so everything he does is not Muslim at all at the time. So he said, so we entered and eventually we tried to get in Muqawqis' face, we tried to visit him in his palace, we weren't allowed by his guards, but Muqawqis came to know about us. He met us in one of the churches at the time and he basically received us, a group
of 14 of us, and the one that he knew from amongst us, that was kind of the leader amongst us, he brought him, he sat him next to him and he said, are all of you from Bani Malik? So the man said, all of us except for one. فَعَرَّفَهُ بِي فَكُنْتُ أَهْوَنَ الْقَوْمِ عَلَيْهِ وَسُرَّ بِهَدَايَهُمْ وَأَعْطَاهُمْ الْجَوَائِزِ وَأَعْطَانِ شَيْئًا لَا يُذْكِرْ He said that basically, you know, they were given so much and they basically excluded me from everything, so they took all the stuff from him and he gave them all sorts of stuff and then he left me out, he said, look, I'm not Muslim at the time, I was angry, I was upset, so, and he's smart, he said, I realized that it would not be a wise idea on the way back for me to try to attack all 13 of them and take their stuff, he said, I came up with something else, don't try this, he said, I basically got a bunch of wine and I offered them something to drink and I told them, I have a headache, so I'm going to serve you guys, I don't want to drink, and he said, I basically got them all drunk, so I got some really good wine on the way in Egypt, put it, poured it for them over and over and over again until they got so drunk, they didn't know where they were and then he said, basically, I eliminated them and I took all their stuff that's Mughirah before Islam, Islam does away with everything before it, so when you see someone that comes out of prison or you hear a story of a man that killed 99 people, Mughirah has a rough past, he didn't believe in Akhirah, he didn't believe in Allah, so he said, I took all their stuff, I tied their camels and I left them behind and he said, basically,
I was like, I'm just going to live the rest of my life now, trading with all of this stuff, I don't need to go back to Ta'if, I'm good, I'm set with the money that I have, until Islam reached him and he wants to become Muslim, look at this story, subhanAllah, so he goes to Medina with all of this stuff, after it's all done, it's been some time, he goes to Medina and he enters into Medina, and I'm telling you man, like the people of Ta'if, you get it, like these people that hurt the Prophet ﷺ, they've all got some character, the Prophet ﷺ is sitting there and Abu Bakr is with him and he sees Mughirah coming, this big man with all of these camels and all of this stuff, and clearly well to do, and even though it's been some time since that action happened, like at this point now, people know what happened, so Abu Bakr says, I'm in Misr, did you come from Egypt? Qultu naam, like basically to say that I know what you did, so he said yeah I came from Egypt, qala na fa'ala al-malikiyoon, what happened to the people from Banu Malik, so it's kind of awkward now, because he has to say that, I mean I got rid of them basically and I took their stuff, I stole their stuff, but he said I wasn't Muslim at the time, this is basically the way that we were in Jahiliyyah, right, I mean that was the life, that's Jahiliyyah life, you don't believe in Akhira, you try to cheat each other, you try to exploit each other, you take people's stuff, they messed me over, so I'm taking them over, you know I took their stuff, and he said, but he said I don't want it anymore, because I want to become Muslim, so he said I want to give it all to the Prophet ﷺ and he can basically use it for the sake of Allah ﷻ, I want to clean my hands, I want to be forgiven, and that's a testimony to his sincerity with the Prophet ﷺ, he's like, take all of the stuff,
and the Prophet ﷺ responds, and he says اما اسلامك ask for your Islam فنقبله, we can accept your Islam, but he says ولا اخذ من اموالهم شيئا لان هذا غضر ولا خير في الغضر, so that money is treachery, stolen money, I don't want anything to do with it, so the Prophet ﷺ said I can accept your Islam, I can't accept that stuff, right, you got to find something else to do with that stuff, and now Mughirah says I was so worried, I said يا رسول الله am I forgiven, and the Prophet ﷺ assured him that everything that happened before Islam, you can be forgiven, but you've got to find a way to dispose of all of that, there's a whole process of, you know, undoing the harm that you did, and different people and all of that, which is kind of assumed in the seerah with these texts, right, that, you know, sending things back to the tribe or something, but your Islam is accepted, you can be forgiven, but that stuff in the past, I'm not taking money that you stole from people in that process, so basically he accepted Islam, he stayed in Medina, he's the only ta'afi, thaqafi, that's living in Medina with the Prophet ﷺ, now come back to Hudayfiyyah, he's standing next to the Prophet ﷺ, armoured up, right, because he says that the Prophet ﷺ went out, وَكُنتُ أَكُونُ مَعَ الصُّدِّيقِ he said that I used to be as close to the Prophet ﷺ as Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه, I basically took it upon myself to be by his side all the time, I wanted to protect the Prophet ﷺ at all costs, and he's smart, he's that guy that knows how to analyse a place, that knows how to read a situation, and he's with the Prophet ﷺ, he says فَكُنتُ أَرْزَمُهُ I was always with the Prophet ﷺ, and then I saw my uncle approach the
Prophet ﷺ in Hudayfiyyah, and my uncle tried to put his hand on the Prophet ﷺ's beard, and I hit the hand of my uncle and I told him if you want your hand back, I suggest you don't put it on the beard of the Prophet ﷺ again, and he said that's when my uncle said to me وَاللَّهِ مَا غَسَلْتُ عَنِّي سَوْأَتَكَ إِلَّا بِالْأَمْسِ that I'm still paying off, still cleaning myself from your mess, because what happened back in Ta'if when he did that was that Urwa ibn Mas'ud was the closest relative to Mughira, so Urwa had to pay all of the blood money and the compensation and basically tried to make peace with Ben-Malik because his nephew was the one that did what he did, so Urwa was like you've got to be kidding me, I'm cleaning up your mess in Ta'if, I just finished last night finally dealing with, I mean obviously it's a figure of speech, but I just finished cleaning up your mess in Ta'if, and now here I am in Hudayfiyyah and you're the one knocking my hand and standing next to the Prophet ﷺ, like talk about a moment where it all comes back in my face, he's like I'm different now, and of course he is from the companions of Bay'at al-Ridwan, from the companions of those who took the pledge with the Prophet ﷺ under the tree, and who Allah ﷻ mentioned that he was pleased with, so his Islam is sincere, his repentance is sincere, but what a past, Urwa has a past, he's got a past, right, and these are the only two like Muslims of Ta'if that we know at this point that are with the Prophet ﷺ. Fast forward, how does it all come full circle now with the two of these figures involved? The Prophet ﷺ placed Ta'if under siege and he left them, and he made du'a that Ta'if would come back to him as Muslims, that Allah
would eventually guide them. Urwa comes back to his people and they killed Urwa ibn Mas'ud radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu when he called them to Islam, that was after the siege of Ta'if. They thought to themselves, uh-oh, we just killed Urwa ibn Mas'ud and now he's with the Prophet ﷺ, he's aligned with the Prophet ﷺ, let's hurry up and send a delegation to Madinah so that we can basically come to peace with the Prophet ﷺ. We don't want like what we did to Urwa to cause a war between us and the Prophet ﷺ and Madinah, so they send, subhanAllah, so Urwa actually achieves what he wanted, this is minal mu'minina rijalun sadaqah, the truthfulness of intention. They only went to Madinah because they were afraid of the repercussions of killing him. So they sent 13 men to Madinah as a delegation to the Prophet ﷺ to basically make peace with the Prophet ﷺ. So 13 ta'ifis come to Madinah to meet the Prophet ﷺ in Madinah with everything that they did. Imagine if you were the Prophet ﷺ. You people stoned me, spit on me, almost killed me, put me through the worst of the worst. Now you're coming into my city and everybody here would understand. And you killed my emissary, you killed Urwa, your own chief who I sent back to you as a Muslim. Imagine if you're the Prophet ﷺ. Now it's time for revenge, right? It's payback time for all that you did. No. The Prophet ﷺ is about to enter into Ramadan and he hears about the delegation that's coming. Mughira comes to the Prophet ﷺ and he says, Ya Rasulullah, abna'u umumati uridu an ukrimahum. He said, Ya Rasulullah, these are my cousins.
Let me be the one to honor them. Can I have the honor of receiving them? And it's after obviously what he did to them. And so part of what's implied in that, I kind of did something really bad to them before. Maybe this is a way that I can also, because they're from Banu Malik, I can also kind of make peace with them. Let me be the one to receive them in Medina, kind of win back the hearts, come back to that agreement with them, sort of bring back the tribe. The Prophet ﷺ said, okay. But with a condition. He said, what's the condition? The Prophet ﷺ said, pitch a tent for them right in the corner of the masjid. Why? They can hear us reading the Qur'an, they can watch us pray so that their hearts can soften. SubhanAllah. Da'wah. Da'wah. I'm not interested in revenge. Let them just see us in our element. Can you imagine Ramadan with the Prophet ﷺ in Medina? Just let them watch us in Ramadan. At this point now the community's developed, right? People from all over the world in Medina. Let them come, set them up right next to the masjid so that they can hear the Qur'an and so that they can watch us pray. The story still takes many twists and turns. If you were to read in Sunan Abu Dawud, what has been narrated about Ta'af, you can see about how weird the conversation becomes with the Prophet ﷺ and Banu Thaqeef. I mean, you've got some nerve with everything you did to the Prophet ﷺ to come here with any expectations, right? With any type of demands. They come to the Prophet ﷺ and after they've kind of seen it and Islam is starting to enter into their heart, they say, alright listen, we'll become Muslim but we have all these conditions. What are your conditions?
They said, zina, we're not giving that up. Adultery, fornication, sorry. Prophet ﷺ said, what's haram is haram. I can't make haram halal. I can't tell you, no you can continue to commit adultery and just be Muslim as a condition of your Islam. And he said, no noble people will continue to do this. Like it's not noble. SubhanAllah, there are so many different conversations that happen here. There is one man who came and he had ten wives. So he said, I'm keeping all ten of them. The Prophet ﷺ said, no you're not. He said ﷺ, amsik minhunna arba'a wa fa'arik sa'irahunna. Islam limited this. You have to divorce six. So, alright, we don't like this but we'll keep talking. Riba, usury, interest, we want to keep doing it. We trade in riba, that's how we make our money. Now you can imagine, like the Prophet ﷺ could say, Mughirah, can you just finish the rest of these off the way you did back in Egypt? I'm kind of tired of you guys. Go back, get out of here. Like you're crazy to think this. They said, riba, we still want to deal in riba. The Prophet ﷺ said, lakum ra'usa amwarikum, la tadlimuna wa la tadlamun. Look, you have the profit of what you earn. You don't wrong and you don't be wronged. Right? Riba is not halal. Riba is not going to be halal for you in any situation. Okay? So we have that. Shout out to a continuous charity, sponsorship. Look them up. No riba. Okay? So no zina, no riba. They're like, alright, this is really, like, alright. They say to the Prophet ﷺ, we're not going to fight with you. No jihad, no zakah. We're not going to spend money.
So no battles. We don't want to get involved in any battles. And no zakah, no sadaqah. The Prophet ﷺ is listening to them. And the Prophet ﷺ says, okay. Umar ﷺ was like, wait a minute. These are hypocrites. We're going to take them out. The Prophet ﷺ says, listen. Sayasasaddaqun wa yujahiduna idha aslamu. I know how these people are. Once they become Muslim, they're going to fight alongside us and they're going to give their zakah. They're going to give their sadaqah. Like, don't worry, Umar. I know what I'm doing here. Right? They said, five times a day salah, we don't want to pray. What do you want? We'll say la ilaha illallah, Muhammadun Rasulullah. Like, we'll ally ourselves to you. But no prayer, no sadaqah, no fasting, no fighting. We still do zina. We still do riba. Like, what kind of Islam is this? The Prophet ﷺ says, listen. Asif Allah is so beautiful. He says, la khaira fee deena laysa feehi ruku'a. What good is there in a religion with no prayer? What good is there in a religion with no prayer? They said, alright, we'll negotiate with us. We don't like five prayers. Can we do two times a day? Prophet ﷺ says, you know what? Fine. Pray twice a day. Umar is like, you're rocking my world here. This is not what we're used to. Right? We're used to, when someone says, you're becoming Muslim, it's five times a day, out the gate. What are you doing? Just pray in the morning and evening. The Prophet ﷺ says, sufi saloon. They're going to pray, Umar. Just pray. Let them get over this hump. I know what they're doing. They're from faqeef. They're tough. We've dealt with them enough. Right? Then, at the end, the Prophet ﷺ, he says, they said, alright, what's the last thing? He said, your idol, allat, has to go. You can't worship an idol anymore. You would think that's the most common sense part of this, is get rid of your idol. They said, absolutely not.
They said, if we try to get rid of the idol, the idol is going to destroy us. Halakna. We try to hurt that idol, and allat was, by the way, a huge idol, built of stones. We try to hurt allat, allat is going to destroy us. Umar ﷺ couldn't, like, hold himself. Umar ﷺ says, way haqa ya kinana. Kinana was the one speaking on behalf of him. Arajulun ahmaqa, literally, are you stupid? Are you really that thick-headed? What is wrong with you? He says, atakhafuna min hijara, you're afraid of stone? You're afraid of these rocks? You built that idol. You think that idol is going to be able to hurt you? And kinana responds to him, he says, lam na'tika ya ibn al-khattab. We didn't come to you, oh ibn al-khattab, we're talking to Muhammad ﷺ, leave us alone. Let us negotiate here with the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ is showing patience with them. He says, yuhdam, the idol has to go. They said, ya Rasulullah, everything but that. He said, yuhdam, the idol has to go. Like, I can't negotiate with you on idol worship here. They said, fine, look at how thick-headed they are. They said, arsun man yahdimuha min indik. Send someone else to destroy it, because we're not going to destroy it with our own hands. Because a lot is probably going to hurt someone if you try to destroy it. Like, it's still in them, the ignorance is still in them. Prophet ﷺ says, fine. Mughira, go with them. So, Mughira ibn Shu'aba, after killing 13 of them in Jahiliyyah, never gone back as a fugitive. Mughira is like, oh, I'd love this. I'm going to go back with them to destroy a lot. Go back with them to destroy the idol. So, Mughira goes, Khalid, رضي الله عنه, says, I'm coming with you. Because they don't trust, obviously, the way this can go. I mean, this could easily turn into like, alright, you remember what you did back in the day. Take them out on the way, right? Mughira goes with them. And they get to At-Ta'if.
And Mughira starts to climb up a lot. When I say this guy is a character, this man is a character. SubhanAllah. So, Mughira is climbing up a lot because of the huge stone. He puts his hand up and then he goes, and then they all go, and they're like, oh, his hand is paralyzed. And Mughira goes, ah, my back. They're like, a lot, a lot, a lot. And then Mughira goes, basically, you silly people. And he said, I told you this thing can't do anything to you. And he starts beating down a lot and he destroys it. Just to show them how silly their idol worship was and how everything that they thought about a lot was not real. And so in that, subhanAllah, you have the rest of them. So now you have Irwa, you have Mughira, you have the children, and they all are now Muslims. And Ta'if finally starts to taste the sweetness of Islam as a taqif enters into Islam. I want to give you just in conclusion here, inshaAllah ta'ala, a few things about Mughira ibn Shu'ba. Your character doesn't, you know, there's something about you. Your character is refined in Islam. But Mughira was a smart man. And his whole life, subhanAllah, the man was brilliant. He literally stuck to the Prophet ﷺ, set himself up as the bodyguard of the Prophet ﷺ, standing in front of the door of the Prophet ﷺ, moving with the Prophet ﷺ. And you find, subhanAllah, he narrates so many ahadith about the wudu of the Prophet ﷺ, about the travel habits of the Prophet ﷺ, about all of these different things with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And after the Prophet ﷺ passes away, I want to leave his story with the death of the Prophet ﷺ to the end. Umar ﷺ who put him in charge of Al-Bahrain, and he was the governor of Bahrain for some time.
He put him in charge of Kufa, and he put him in charge of Basra. So Umar ﷺ who used him as a governor three times, I mean he's a very capable man. And Bahrain, some of the people didn't like him because they felt him to be a little bit too tough. And Umar liked him because he was tough. Alright, so they plotted against him. And there was a group of men, they said Umar hates people who bribe, right? So look at the plot that they came up with. They said that, this group of businessmen, they said that we're going to give 100,000 to one of us, and that person go to Umar ﷺ and say, hey Mughira took this from Baytul Mal, from the treasury, and he bribed us with this, and we wanted to bring it back to you out of nobility. So they came to Umar ﷺ in Medina, said we got 100,000 dirhams, Mughira bribed us in Bahrain, and we want to kind of turn him in and give this back to you. So Umar ﷺ calls on Mughira. Mughira walks in, says what's going on? Umar ﷺ says these people are saying you bribed them with 100,000 from Baytul Mal. He said yeah, where's the other 100,000? So what are you talking about? He said I gave you 200. And he starts like frightening the man, and the man basically breaks under pressure and tells the whole story, that he lied about the whole thing. So Umar ﷺ said why did you do that? And he said because I wanted them to know that lying never benefits them. So I wanted to sort of put him back in their place. Right, that that's not going to work. So Umar ﷺ put him in charge of many different cities. He sent him as an emissary to many different leaders. He was the messenger from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ to Rustum, before the battle of Qadisiyyah, the leader of Persia. He lost an eye in the battle of Yarmouk under Khalid ibn Walid ﷺ. So he was someone who was fierce in the battlefield. He was one of those, subhanAllah, who when the fitna happened in the Sahaba, he completely left the fitna. He didn't want to take any side. So he left everything, sort of public life, for years until that all blew over. And then he went on to once again
become the governor of Kufa during the time of Muawiyah. And he would pass away in Kufa 50 years after hijrah. Now subhanAllah he said he was just so smart. And he just had this intelligence and this street smart to him. And that's sort of, again, that type of person you want around you to sort of read people's body language, read behavior, that bodyguard of the Prophet ﷺ. So he said he used to be so cunning. And he said there was only one man that ever tricked him. One man that ever tricked him. And that was that Mughirah wanted to marry someone. And as he was about to marry this woman, he asked this man, he said, you know, what do you think? Should I marry her? And the man responded and he said, she's no good. I saw her kiss a man. So Mughirah said, oh, okay. So he moved on. Then the next day he saw her married to him. So Mughirah said, what happened? He said, I saw her kiss her father. So Mughirah says, you're the only person in my life who ever outsmarted me. All right, you tricked me. But he passed away, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, in Kufa. And subhanAllah there's so much about him. Jabir radiAllahu ta'ala anhu said, sahibtu al-Mughirah radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, falaw anna madinata laha thamaniyatu abwab la yukhraju min baabin minha illa bimakr la kharaja min abwabiha kulliha. He said that I was with al-Mughirah. He said, if Madinah had eight doors and no one could escape, except through, you know, plotting and using some sort of scheme. He said, I would trust that Mughirah would get out of all eight of them. That's how smart he was, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And when he passed away, subhanAllah, he had several kids. The best of his kids was Urwa ibn al-Mughirah. So he named one of his children after his uncle, Urwa ibn Mas'ud. And his son, Urwa ibn al-Mughirah, became a governor and a scholar as well. The last thing I'll mention here, in his trickery, was the most beautiful trick that he ever played. Mughirah was the bodyguard of the Prophet ﷺ. He loved to always watch
the Prophet ﷺ's back. So he said that when the Prophet ﷺ died, he was kind of in this dilemma, because the family of the Prophet ﷺ was around him. Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Basically, Banu Hashim had taken the duties of washing the body of the Prophet ﷺ and caring for him. And I was used to always being next to the Prophet ﷺ. Look at this love. He said, but I didn't want to violate the space of the family. So for the first time in the Prophet ﷺ's life, and he as a Muslim, he has to stand back. The washing is happening. He's used to standing in front of the door of the Prophet ﷺ. I can't stand guard there anymore. I can't guard him with my body. And subhanAllah, in Ta'if, what was it? The Prophet ﷺ didn't have anyone to guard him except for Zayd ibn Haritha. And here, this Ta'ifi man is like, I wanted to be with him. So he said, here's what I did. He said, when they brought the Prophet ﷺ's body to his grave, he said, I accidentally dropped my ring in his grave. Why? Because he said, I wanted to be the last person to touch the body of the Prophet ﷺ. So he used to say, I'm the last person to ever touch the body of the Prophet ﷺ. And Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhu knew what I was doing, but he let it go. Like I wanted to have that closeness to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so he used to say, I'm the last person who ever touched the Prophet ﷺ. These are two men, Urwa ibn Mas'ud al-Thaqafi and Mughir ibn Shu'ba al-Thaqafi, the two first men from Ta'if that sort of take that turn with Ta'if. InshaAllah ta'ala we'll continue later on and speak about the other dimension, which are the children and the freed slaves of Ta'if as well.
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