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The Prophet ﷺ’s Brother: Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith (ra) | The Firsts
He was the first cousin of the Prophet ﷺ, and his brother in that he was nursed by the same woman. He was one of the closest and most beloved people to him. When Islam came, he turned his back on the Prophet ﷺ and became a bitter enemy until the very end where after a painful reunification, came a beautiful ending.
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. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. Let me start that over. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. How's the sound? Can everybody hear me? Alhamdulillah. Okay. Alhamdulillah wa rabbal alameen. SubhanAllah, tonight we are going to be talking about someone who the title gives away quite a bit, but it probably confuses some of you. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's brother. Now, if I was to tell you or to put you in Medina, just a year before the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and you see this man from the batch of those that embraced Islam late, who of course are known as At-Tulaqa, as a group, they're the least praiseworthy of the companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as a group because of the lateness of their Islam. But he looks like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he puts his head down, he walks to the masjid, he enters before everybody else, he leaves after everyone else, his eyes are constantly flowing with tears, and then you ask the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who is that? And he says, that's my brother. It would shock many of you, and it even shocked Aisha radiyallahu ta'ala anha. And so we're going to come back to that narration inshallah ta'ala to the end, but let's go to the beginning, and in fact go to the father of this man.
And this man is Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, but not that Abu Sufyan. So I have to keep on reminding you all, because even the narrators of the books mixed up the two Abu Sufyan's frequently. Right? The Abu Sufyan that is the most famous enemy of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who we spoke about last week, Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, and Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith. And multiple times you'll find discussions in the books of which Abu Sufyan they're talking about, because it seems to apply more to Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, this person who we're speaking about today, but the other Abu Sufyan is so much more famous. So let's talk about Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith insha'Allah ta'ala, and actually start with his father. His name is Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib. So this is as close as it gets to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, immediately from the name you know that this is Ibn Amr Rasulallah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the paternal first cousin of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So he's from Banu Hashim, and he's the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's first cousin. His father al-Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib is the oldest son of Abdul Muttalib. Okay, obviously the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abdul Muttalib, right? So between Abdullah, the father of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and al-Harith is a great distance because al-Harith is the oldest son of Abdul Muttalib. And in fact, Abdul Muttalib's kunya was Abu al-Harith, the father of al-Harith, and some of the historians say that for a long time al-Harith was actually his only son. And I want to take you back to an image that some of the books of Sira will give you to sort of start off the story and it will come full circle in the end of the life of Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith. I want you to imagine that day that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala caused Abdul Muttalib to see a dream that would lead him to a zamzam.
And I want you to imagine the sight of Abdul Muttalib digging up the well of zamzam and the only child he has with him is the son of his, al-Harith, who's digging away alongside him and throwing the dirt to the side as they're discovering this miracle of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in the center of Mecca that we still benefit from today. That's the father, al-Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib. Let that scene stick with you until the very end of the life of the man that we're going to be discussing today, his father alongside his grandfather, who's also the grandfather of the Prophet ﷺ, digging away and finding this precious gem of zamzam. He has this son, al-Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib has this son, whose actual name is al-Mughira. al-Mughira ibn Harith ibn Abdul Muttalib. Just like Abu Sufyan ibn Harb. Does anyone remember, by the way, last week what Abu Sufyan ibn Harb's name was? Sakhar. He was the rock. I would have expected some of you guys to remember that at least. Sakhar ibn Harb. Abu Sufyan ibn Harith is Mughira, al-Mughira ibn Harith technically, and Abu Sufyan is the nickname of this man. So who is he and how does he become so close to the Prophet ﷺ and then so distant to where we don't even hear about him most of the time when we speak about him and even those that were closest to the Prophet ﷺ in Medina had never even heard of this man who was such a crucial part of his childhood. Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, al-Mughira ibn Harith, is said to be born in the same year or around the same year as the Prophet ﷺ. First and foremost, he's his paternal cousin. And of course in that society, ibn Amr is as close as a brother. They say that al-Amr, the paternal uncle, is like your father.
And so the son of your paternal uncle is like your brother. Ibn Amr is as close as you get in that society beyond your actual blood brother. So you start with that. He's his actual first cousin, paternal first cousin, from Banu Hashim, from his own family. Secondly, on top of that, he was nursed at the same time as the Prophet ﷺ by the most famous woman who nursed the Prophet ﷺ. What was her name? You can trust your knowledge, it's okay. Some of you murmured it and you were afraid. Who is the most famous wet nurse of the Prophet ﷺ? Halima Sa'diyah, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Halima, nurses the Prophet ﷺ. And at the same time will nurse the first cousin of the Prophet ﷺ, Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, alongside. Hence, the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Sufyan ibn Harith are also brothers. Right? They're brothers through that nursing. So first cousin, his brother. On top of that, he marries the sister of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Jumana bint Abu Talib. He marries the sister of Ali, so the daughter of Abu Talib as well, bringing him even closer to the Prophet ﷺ because we know the Prophet ﷺ's closeness to Abu Talib. And Abu Talib will become like a father figure to the Prophet ﷺ. And so he marries into the family of Abu Talib, bringing him a step closer to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. So first cousin, his brother through nursing. He marries Jumana bint Abu Talib. And they would have a son named Ja'far by the way, not the same as Ja'far ibn Abu Talib, the famous Ja'far, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. And on top of that, he looked stunningly like the Prophet ﷺ. So his actual physical shabah of the Prophet ﷺ was absolutely striking.
And subhanAllah, you find that those that were described as having the greatest shabah, the greatest physical appearance of the Prophet ﷺ, first and foremost, Ibrahim ﷺ. Prophet ﷺ and Ibrahim ﷺ resembled each other almost exactly, to the point that when the Prophet ﷺ even saw him, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was struck by his appearance on the night of al-Isra' al-Mi'raj. So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ resembles his grandfather. The Prophet ﷺ resembles, or rather, who resembles the Prophet ﷺ amongst the companions? Ja'far ibn Abu Talib, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Ja'far radiAllahu anhu looks so much like the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And then you have Uthman ibn Affan, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, who also had a great resemblance of the Prophet ﷺ, even though he wasn't from his direct family. And in Madinah, you had Mus'ab ibn Umair, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, who resembled the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And of course, it was one of the wisdoms and one of the reasons why the mushrikeen thought that they had killed the Prophet ﷺ in the Battle of Uhud, because they killed Mus'ab, or they saw Mus'ab fall. And so those that saw Mus'ab fall thought that for a moment they saw the Prophet ﷺ fall. And then finally, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ's own grandson, al-Hasan ibn Ali, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, resembled the Prophet ﷺ the most. Add to that list this sixth name, Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, the brother of the same age that resembled the Prophet ﷺ the most. So much so that they said that when he was in Ash-Sham, when he went to greater Syria, and it could be on the same journey that the Prophet ﷺ went, because the Prophet ﷺ went with Abu Talib, that when they would see Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, they would immediately say that this is his cousin, this is his brother, because he looks exactly like the Prophet ﷺ. So imagine now, first cousin. I'm going to emphasize these for a reason.
First cousin, brother, married into the family of the person who is like the father to the Prophet ﷺ. Looks exactly like the Prophet ﷺ. Add to that now, him and the Prophet ﷺ were connected at the hip growing up. They were closest friends. They loved one another. They used to gift one another. They attended each other's weddings. Like I mean you go through and you just think about the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his quality of silatul rahm, of upholding the ties of kinship, and you imagine how he must have treated this man, and what their relationship is like. They used to bring gifts to one another from their journeys. So all of the things that are expected between blood brothers, you find it between the Prophet ﷺ and this man Abu Sufyan ibn Harith. On top of that, he's known for his eloquence. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ of course was beautifully eloquent. And Abu Sufyan ibn Harith was extremely eloquent. He's also known for his manners. I mean people rub off on each other. So he has excellent manners. Of course no one to the extent of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, even in Jahiliyyah, but he has excellent manners. To go on, he's someone who used to author poetry, where he would speak about the beauty of tribes, and the beauty of lofty personalities. So he was a sha'ar, he was a poet. And his poetry was extolling the Arabs, speaking about the best qualities of the tribes of the Arabs, and speaking about the best qualities of some of the noble people in Mecca at that time. So you have a picture in your mind about what their lives are like in Mecca, and you're probably thinking to yourself, how come I never heard of this man? And you're not alone. Because as soon as the Prophet ﷺ receives the message of
La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah ﷺ, he was expecting that of the first people to embrace him and support him would be this man. He was expecting ﷺ that his brother, whom he showed nothing but goodness, nothing but the best of character, would be the first person to recognize in him ﷺ, what others were recognizing of him ﷺ. He was expecting that he'd have his support, and it deeply devastates the Prophet ﷺ, that when the Prophet ﷺ calls Banu Hashim, Abu Sufyan ibn Harith turns his back on him, and all of that love becomes hatred. He completely flips on the Prophet ﷺ. And by the way, when you think about that initial conversation of the Prophet ﷺ and Waraq ibn Nawfal, when Waraq says, your people will run you out, and the Prophet ﷺ doesn't, he's like, my people will run me out, he's talking about Ahlul Mecca as a whole, the people of Mecca as a whole. The people he least expects it from ﷺ are the people that are closest to him, his own family. Right, like no way Banu Hashim would run me out, Banu Hashim would reject me. My uncles, my cousins, my aunts, they'd reject me. Remember, Abu Lahab was so close to the Prophet ﷺ, that the Prophet ﷺ's two daughters are engaged to his two sons. They share a wall, like they are deeply embedded together in this family of Banu Hashim. And the Prophet ﷺ is expecting Abu Lahab to help him. He's expecting Abu Lahab to say, I've got you. You know, we've got too many connections at this point, to where even if Abu Lahab would have been skeptical of the message of the Prophet ﷺ, you are my nephew, of course, you're my neighbor, my nephew, in-laws, I mean, it doesn't get tighter than that. But Abu Lahab, of course, rejects the Prophet ﷺ in the most bitter way. And that causes deep pain to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. To hear that from his uncle, Abu Lahab,
after all that he invested into that relationship. This is another man who has another dynamic with the Prophet ﷺ that devastates the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. And I'm telling you from right now, you're going to see the pain of the Prophet ﷺ in his not speaking about him, and in his not wanting to look at him later on in life. That's the human part of the Messenger ﷺ. Which is still part of the blessing of having his example, because even in his pain, he doesn't wrong people, but he does feel pain. So Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, doesn't really understand, subhanAllah, the amount of hatred that's consuming his own soul. And the Prophet ﷺ cannot fathom why his brother, why this person who's so close to him, suddenly flips on him the way that he does. And subhanAllah, the scholars mentioned that, you know, there are multiple things, that if you kind of read into the language of Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, because he authors many poems against the Prophet ﷺ. But there's envy, right? You and I are kind of brothers, we're doing things together, our whole lives, married at the same time, having children at the same time. There's a dynamic here, and that dynamic is inevitably ruptured by this, right? Now you're a Prophet, right? So if you think about sort of the tribal mindset, the tribes didn't want to give a leg up to Banu Hashim, because that means that our tribes will never be able to match a tribe with a Prophet. So you're my brother, we are equals in society in a way, and then now you're a Prophet of Allah, so it's a lot of envy, it's definitely a disruption, it's envy, there's something that's consuming his soul of that. But there's also this level of, you mess things up in Mecca, that you'll start to hear in the language of Abu Sufyan. Like, why did you bring this to us? Everything was good, you had everything right, you were the most praised man in your society,
you're married to Khadija radiAllahu ta'ala anha, you just solved one of the greatest disputes in the history of our people in Mecca, with the Kaaba, with the rebuilding of the Kaaba, and the placing of the stone. Everyone loves you, our family is doing well, why are you visiting this pain upon our family? Why are you messing things up? And that's a mindset that you can think about, like this is really inconvenient, and I hate you for messing up our setup. Like we were in khair, we were doing well, Banu Hashim was doing well, Mecca was well, and then you came with this religion, and it complicated everything. So his hatred of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was not just one where it was being forced, it was a genuine hatred that he had of the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, genuinely a brother who turns his back on the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is grieving, is grieving. Why? Because the same man who he grew up with, subhanAllah, would not miss a single battle against the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, and was actually the main poet against the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. So this is where the books kind of get mixed up. When you read about the poetry of Abu Sufyan against the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in Mecca, it's actually talking about this Abu Sufyan, not the famous Abu Sufyan ibn Harb. This Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, who did not spare a moment, subhanAllah, as the scholars say, he used his tongue and he used his sword against the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam for 20 years, and did not spare the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, did not spare him the pain that would come to him, and if you kind of read the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, how he deals with these relatives of his, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam doesn't talk about them. Right? So, you know, I did, subhanAllah, khutbah in the old masjid, I think it might have been the last khutbah, where I talked about the brother of Khadijah radiyAllahu ta'ala anha, who they called Shaytan Quraish, Naufal, who would hurt the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam so much, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam did not want to come face to face with him in battle. Imagine, he loves Khadijah so much,
and her brother is trying to kill him, in Badr. So the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam avoids these people, and he doesn't spend so much time, like he's not giving these long lectures in Medina, about these people that personally harmed him. And some of the scholars say that, of the wisdom of that as well, is that there are people that were after the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam personally, and there are people that were trying to kill the message of Islam. And the focus of the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, was more proportionately, right, towards those that were trying to kill the message of Islam. You had those that were close to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, and that really wanted to strike him. But there's no doubt that this Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, was not as damaging to the cause of Islam, as Abu Sufyan ibn Harbin, Abu Jahl, Amr ibn As at the time, and Khadim Walid. But he's a personal, you know, brother turned enemy of the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, and that devastates the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. It'll also give you a little bit more context. If you remember, Hassan ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam would tell Hassan ibn Thabit uhjul mushrikeen, fanna Jibreel ma'ak, respond to the disbelievers because Jibreel is with you. There are literally pages and pages of poetry between Hassan and Abu Sufyan. This Abu Sufyan, the brother of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Where they're sending messages back and forth at each other, and people are parroting their poetry at each other. Imagine that, subhanAllah. And here's the context that I want you to think about. Remember, Hassan ibn Thabit's specialty in poetry was basically shredding you apart, shredding apart your tribe. I mean, he talked about your parents, he talked about your tribe, he talked about your appearance, he talked... He had very mean poetry about people, right? And it was justified in certain contexts. I remember when Hassan said, I've got this, and he wanted to respond to the mushrikeen,
the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, but how will you spare me? Why? You can actually find in an explicit narration, because if he starts going after the family of Abu Sufyan ibn Harith, who's he going after? He's going after the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Inevitably. He's going to talk about Banu Hasim, he's going to talk about Abdul Muttalib, he's going to talk about Abu Talib, he's going to talk about... He's going to talk about his appearance, he looks like the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. You can't attack this man without attacking the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in the style of Hassan ibn Thabit radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So that's why when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam brought up the concern to him, Hassan ibn Thabit said, the very famous words that, Ya Rasulullah, don't worry, I will extract you. كما تسل شعرت من العجين The way that you extract a hair from the yeast. Like, I'll get you out of there. When I respond to them. So Hassan is like, I'm a master poet, I know what I'm doing. And so he would attack everything about, around Abu Sufyan ibn Harith and Abu Sufyan himself. But be sure to spare all of the aspects that would also imply an insult to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And that's the mastery of the poetry of Hassan radhiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So just to give you some more perspective, because if you were to just read the reaction of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam to Abu Sufyan later on in life, you're like, wow, like, isn't that a little harsh? He is the main guy that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is saying, respond on behalf, right? Respond on behalf of the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, oh Hassan. So Hassan's having to reply to him, the brother of the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, who is authoring poetry about, you know, upon poetry, upon poetry with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. So what changes? He fought the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in every battle. The Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam never came face to face with him in battle. He never talked to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in any of these incidents. Like they never actually had a face to face conversation from the time that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam
announces his prophethood and Abu Sufyan becomes an enemy to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Their relationship is completely fractured. So you're talking about, you know, 40 years, four decades together, literally from birth until that moment, to two decades of not speaking to each other, and one brother who's constantly aggressing against, you know, showing aggression towards the other brother. So what's the change here and when do you start to see the switch in this story? And the turn in this Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith, the brother of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, the cousin of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Well, first of all, you go to the siblings. So all of his brothers and his sister embraced Islam before Fatih Mecca, before the conquest of Mecca. So he's going to be the only one that's going to wait all the way until the end. And subhanAllah, his oldest brother Naufal fought the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in Badr, was freed as a captive and then became Muslim and went back to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam as a Muslim. And some of the scholars say that he's the oldest convert in the seerah. Like he was so old when he embraced Islam that it was like he was literally at the brink of death. He embraced Islam and that was it. That's the oldest brother of Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith. Then you find that he has another brother named Rabi'a. He embraces Islam as well sometime between that gap of Uhud and Fatih Mecca. He has another brother named Abdi Shams, which of course is a haram name, who comes to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam sometime around Hudaybiyyah and he embraces Islam. The Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam changes his name to Abdullah. So you have Naufal, Rabi'a and now Abdullah. And finally his sister Arwah ibn al-Harith embraces Islam. So he's the last one out, the last one who hasn't embraced Islam from all of his siblings.
On the other side, the children of Abu Talib are all embracing Islam, right? So you have Talib, Aqeel, obviously Ja'far, Ali, Umhani, Jumana and Rayta. The children of Abu Talib all are embracing Islam including his own wife who's leaning in that direction. She has no enmity with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. She knows the goodness of the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. She can't even understand the enmity of her husband to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. She doesn't get it. This is a very unique relationship between these two men. Between the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and him. So his own wife, it's unclear when she embraced Islam but she clearly had no say in the affair. If she did so privately, Jumana bint Abu Talib, or if it was something that was communicated to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. But clearly she doesn't understand why her husband is holding out and fighting the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam so long. So now the story comes from Abu Sufyan himself. He says that it's the time of Fatih Mecca and basically the last holdouts in Mecca know it's over. So Abu Sufyan, he's saying that I realize as the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam arrives in Al-Ju'afa, which subhanAllah is, it's actually the valley where Allah promised the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam he'd return to Mecca. إِنَّ الَّذِي فَرَضَ عَلَيْكَ الْقُرْآنَ لَرَادُكَ إِلَى مَعَامِعَاتٍ That's actually the valley right outside of Mecca where Allah promised the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam that he'll come back to Mecca. He realizes when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is set up now with the army, with all of the Muslims that it's over. And it's time to give this up. And he says that, you know, I'm kind of looking around at the situation. And I said, من أصحب ومع من أكون? Who am I going to accompany? And, you know, who am I going to be with? I feel trapped.
So he said, so I went to my wife and I went to my son Ja'far. So my wife Jumana and my son Ja'far. And I told to them or I said to them that, look, I don't know what's going to happen at this point. And I don't know what I'm supposed to do. So Jumana responds to him and says قَدْ آنَ لَكَ أَنْ تُبْصِرَ أَنَّ الْعَرَبَ وَالْعَجَمَ قَدْ تَبِعَتْ مُحَمَّدًا وَأَنتَ مُوضِعٌ فِي عَدَاوَتِهِ وَكُنْتَ أَوْلَ النَّاسَ بِنَصْرِهِ So, you know, his wife even says to him, like, wake up. The Arabs and the non-Arabs, the whole world is embracing this man, Muhammad sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And you're the one insisting on his enmity. And you should have been the first person to support the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Like his own wife is saying to him, what's wrong with you? Why are you even waiting till now? Like, even the way that you're approaching this whole situation is embarrassing. So he's saying that his own wife starts to shame him and say, what happened to you? And why did you wait until now? And basically, he said that I was just covered in shame. Like his wife is saying to him, isn't it time for you? Like, why did you wait until this moment? Why did you put us in the situation to where now 20 years later, you're of this last batch of people to embrace Islam, even after people have embraced the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, far and wide from the world, right? You've got tens of thousands of people now Muslim and here you are his own brother. You should have been the first person to do so. So he said that I was extremely embarrassed, ashamed. And he said, I didn't know how the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was going to receive me. Like, I don't even know how to approach this conversation. SubhanAllah, it's very painful when he even talks about his own situation here. Like, how do I even approach the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam after having done all of this harm to him and after who we were?
So he said, so I said to my servant, you know, let's go ahead to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and let's meet him at his tent. So he says to him that, you know, look, I'm going to have you go out front and I'm going to wrap my face because I don't know if the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is going to kill me or not. I don't know if the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is going to kill me or if someone else is just going to see me and kill me. Like, there's a lot of bad blood here. I've done a lot of harm to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And it's not like, you know, he's one of the leaders of Quraysh and someone that, no, it's like, look, this is just a really bad personal situation too for what he did to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and what he did to the Muslims. So he said, so I went to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I kind of had my face wrapped. So he said that I told my servant when we got close to the encampment, let's leave the camel and let's just walk on foot because that way, right, it's not going to be, it's not going to cause commotion when I come in. So I don't want to cause any commotion as I'm entering into the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And it represents sort of a spirit of humility, right, that I'm not coming to fight the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I'm coming to apologize to him. I'm coming to embrace Islam. So he said that I reached to the area of the tent of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. So he said that I went up to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I uncovered my face and subhanAllah, he said, فَلَمَّا مَلَأَ عَيْنَيْهِ مِنِّي أَعْرَضَ عَنِّي بِوَجْهِ SubhanAllah. He said the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam looked at me and he turned away. Couldn't look at me. He said I went again and I looked at the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and he turned away. He wouldn't make eye contact with me. Here it is. He didn't kill him. He didn't harm him. But here you are 20 years later.
Like now, now you're waking up to it. Like what's wrong with you now? And the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is so hurt by him. So he says he kept on turning his face away from me. So he said that when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam did that, like I tried to look at him a few times. I tried to make facial. I tried to get, you know, eye contact with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I tried to get my face to his face and he keeps on turning away from me. He said that at that point, I thought to myself, you know, Atadhakkaru birrahu warahimahu. That, you know, I would remember the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, the way he loves his family and the honor of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam to his family and his mercy. And I thought to myself, surely. Quntu laa ashukku anna rasoolallahi sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam wa ashabahu sayafrahoona bi islami farahan shadeeda. Liqarabati bi rasoolillahi sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I knew that at some point, like it was going to dawn upon the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam that he would be in so much joy that I became Muslim because of how close I was to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. But, you know, he looked at the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam didn't want to look at his face. Clearly, there's no aggression, there's forgiveness, but not now, right? 20 years later and clearly there is an opportunism here, right? And we said this, subhanAllah, that this is a complicated batch of converts. Even Abu Sufyan ibn Haram, very complicated convert, right? Because it's coming to the very end, but this is my brother. All that pain you caused me. So he said that, you know, when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam kind of turned away from me and he didn't want to look at me, right? He didn't want to make eye contact with me. He said that the Muslims noticed and the way the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam turned away from me was very different. So the Muslims started to get angry as well and annoyed by my presence. What are you doing here? Like, we know who you are. You know, we know what you did to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. So he said, so then Abu Bakr radiAllahu ta'ala anhu basically came up to me
and he told me to get lost. Umar, I looked at Umar radiAllahu anhu pleading for, you know, some level of sympathy. He said, Umar was harsher to me than Abu Bakr. He said, leave, get out of here, right? Like, again, you're going to be from the tulqa. We're not going to kill you, you're going to be forgiven. But all this that you did, all this damage that you did, leave the gathering. And then he said, then one of the young Ansar, you know, and the Ansar are these youth that love the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I mean, he, he went off on me. So he said, this young Ansari man, who I didn't even know, stood up and he started to say everything that he could possibly say in the book and he said, ya adu wallah, oh enemy of Allah, you are the one who hurt the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. You are the one who carried your enmity to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam from every end of the earth. And so he said that. I went back to my uncle, Al-Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala, and after that I was like, wow. Like, that was, that was not the worst case scenario because the worst case scenario was death. But he knows that he got what he deserved, right? He gave this enmity to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and the companions loved the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam more than they loved themselves and they saw the deep pain of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Which shows you, subhanAllah, again, Fatih Makkah, there are a lot of dynamics, right? Remember the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam excused Bilal and Ammar for how they felt about Abu Sufyan ibn Harb. Right? Here, there is a level of just human pain here. That look, it hurts to look at you at this point after everything that you did. You're going to be forgiven but this is too much. You've done a lot to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. So he goes to Al-Abbas, the uncle of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and the uncle, his own uncle, right? Al-Abbas ibn Abdul-Muttalib. And Al-Abbas is a young uncle who is closer to being a brother to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and to Abu Sufyan ibn Harb. And he tells Al-Abbas what happens and Al-Abbas comes to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam
and he pleads with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam on behalf of him and on behalf of another man named Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah. Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah is the son of the paternal aunt of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. He is the one who was standing with Abu Jahl and he was egging on Abu Talib to die upon Kufr. Remember Abu Jahl was telling Abu Talib are you on the religion of Muhammad or on the religion of Abdul-Muttalib? So next to Abu Jahl was this man, another cousin of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam named Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah. So both of them kind of went to Al-Abbas because his mother is Atika bint Abdul-Muttalib so he is a cousin and here you have Abu Sufyan who is also a cousin. He said look can you talk to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam like this is, we want to apologize for everything that we have done to him. So Al-Abbas comes to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam Ya Rasulullah ibn Ammik wa ibn Ammatika your cousin, your paternal cousin being Abu Sufyan and also Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah and you know this is your family and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is saying look they'll be forgiven but I'm not really interested at this point right and just pretending like none of that happened there has to be some level here of acknowledgement and he says he said as for my cousin Abu Sufyan this was the man that attacked my honor and as for my other cousin Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah he's the one who said to me in Mecca what he said when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was crying over the body of Abu Talib at the time of death Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah mocked him and now they're becoming Muslims so it's like okay they can become Muslim but this is like what do they expect here what type of reception are they expecting
after all of this pain subhanAllah by the way side note Abdullah ibn Abi Umayyah would end up dying a shaheed in the battle of Ta'if subhanAllah so he actually dies a martyr even though he was alongside Abu Jahl prompting the kufr trying to get Abu Talib to say words of kufr at the time of his death here you have Abu Sufyan and Abu Sufyan is still just like I don't know what to do so anyway Al Abbas tells Abu Sufyan what happened Abu Sufyan says to him listen can you intercede further can you talk to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam can you make things right with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and he says to him who are you going to leave me to and he says who is that Al Abbas says listen it is what it is I'm not going to say to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam any more than what's been said but he said what I know of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is that look let the time heal it's going to be okay as time goes on at this point he says that I went to Ali radiAllahu ta'ala my brother-in-law and his cousin remember this is a Hashemi affair now and he said to me very similar things that look it is what it is and just give it time the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam will forgive you but don't expect this like reception after all that you did to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam without some level of an acknowledgement there has to be something here after all of this he says to Ali or he goes back to Al-Abbas and he says to him listen if you can't soften the heart of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam towards me then at least ask the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam or restrain that man from denouncing me like see if the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam can make the companions calm down with me as well because the companions saw the way the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam responded to him and now they all want a piece of him right they all kind of want to say something to him so the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam gave that to him and the uncle
of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam ensured that look no one is going to harm you this isn't about anyone harming you or getting revenge on you but time has to go on and there has to be a level of acknowledgement here and there is going to be some moments of forgiveness here this is all moving very quickly so he says then the next day came dakhala alaihi sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam nisaa'u bani abdi al-muttalib wa dakhalat ma'ahun zawjati so he says that the women of Quraysh entered upon the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam seeking forgiveness and amongst them was my wife and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam forgave them all no problem whatsoever and he says so I was hoping to catch a sight of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and to see if there was going to be a little bit of a softening so basically the way that he describes it every time I was in the presence of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam he softened a little bit but he said that the pain was still there it wasn't the same he wasn't giving me alayhi sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam that full look that full you know that full love that I was expecting from him so he says describing his own pain he said so at that point he said that I said to myself that if it continues this way I'm just going to take my son Ja'far and I'm going to disappear from the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I'm going to I'm just going to go out in the desert until I die of hunger and thirst like I'm just I'm going to get out of his face I'm going to remove myself from the situation out of all the pain that I caused to the messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam if things don't change so then he says finally in the conversation with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam when the women had said to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam asked his forgiveness and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam forgave them said I came to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I apologized
to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I said ash-hadu la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu anna muhammadan rasool Allah so that was the first time the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam actually heard the shahada from his mouth right like it was it's a little bit different now the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam listens to him and he says la tathreeba ya rasool Allah there's no blame on me O messenger of Allah the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said la tathreeba ya Abu Sufyan there's no blame on you O Abu Sufyan and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam told Ali ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu ta'ala anhu that go teach your cousin wudu and salah and basically catch him up to speed on his Islam go take care of your cousin so he said but I still didn't see the smile of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and he said I wanted so bad for the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam to smile at me he still didn't smile at me now there is a direct conversation you're forgiven Ali go take care of him but the pain is clearly still there right so then he said the day of the Fatih came and he said that I went close to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam along with his family on the day of Fatih Mecca the day of the conquest itself and he said that every time nathara ilayya natharan huwa aliyanu min dhalika nathar like his sight towards me started to soften up sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam like you started to see that the heart was reopening back up to me and some of those that childhood was coming back and all that they had together and it was getting softer but he says he said I was just hoping for the moment that he smiled at me like I was waiting for the smile of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I still didn't get it and I knew sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam again that I was grateful just to be forgiven and to be in the company of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam but I knew that it was going to take time so he says that after fatih mecca I came to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I said some poetry to him subhanAllah all those
years his poetry was against the messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and he said la amruka inni yawma ahmilu rayatan li taghliba khaylul laati khayla muhammadi he said that by my life I remember when I carried that banner to give victory to the army of allat over the army of Muhammad sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and he says hadani ya hadin ghayru nafsi wa nalani ma'allahi man tarratu kulla muttarradi he said that Allah subhanAllah ta'ala or I could not guide myself until someone other than me guided me and took care of me to the same person who I used to drive out with all of my might and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said to me anta tarattani kulla muttarrati indeed you drove me out with all of your might like subhanAllah you used all of that against me so the poem kind of fell flat but okay you're forgiven I get it it's over right let it go you're a Muslim now you're one of the Sahaba but it's not like the old days yet then subhanAllah what happens Hunayn comes and he said I wanted to prove to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam that I'm with him now that I'm back right I'm his brother and I'm back to him and you can kind of hear in his words he's embarrassed about himself and he's also realizing subhanAllah that the forgiveness of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and the fact that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam did not exact any revenge on him so he said on the day of Hunayn he said when everything was falling apart and people were fleeing and it got chaotic because remember the battle of Hunayn there were a bunch of traps so the army of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam got hit from all different directions and it basically got divided into multiple groups and only a few people around the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam on that day right one of them some of the narrations Abu Sufyan ibn Harith and here now Abu Sufyan ibn Harith and so when Hunayn happens he says
that I saw it being chaotic and I wanted to show the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam that I was serious this time that I was going to have his back the way that I should have had his back when he first announced his Islam when he first announced his Prophethood so he said that in the middle of the battle when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was on his on his animal and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was you know swinging his sword on his sword and he said the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was like a towering mountain like the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam did not flee from the battlefield and he said Al Abbas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was holding the reins of the Prophet sallAllahu alahii wa sallam's mule and standing to his side he said I went to the other side of the animal of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and I held the other side of the reins and I started to fight on behalf of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in the middle of this battle because remember they're all covered up the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam says to Al Abbas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam who is this man who is this man that's like sticking to it and who's fighting and who's who's on the side of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and Al Abbas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam says your brother Abu Sufyan and that's when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam finally says like basically Alhamdulillah you know welcome to my brother may Allah bless my brother and he said go forth and Allah is with you and Abu Sufyan says that I fought alongside the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and we fought all the way through the battle of Hunayn and that's where there's an embrace finally an embrace between the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and Abu Sufyan ibn Harith at that moment and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam says these words to him that were extremely precious to him
he said to him that I hope now that he's a replacement for me for Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala anhu because there was no person Hamza radiAllahu anhu was the closest relative to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and he was killed in Uhud and Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala anhu when he was also the foster brother of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam when he died it was extremely painful to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam so when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is embracing his brother like finally he has him back and it's actually him he said I hope that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gifted me him in place of Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala anhu for the pain that was caused to me from the death of Hamza radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam says about him or you know he loved Abu Sufyan the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam you know mentioned to him or guaranteed him al-jannah so al-Abbas said have you forgiven him Ya Rasulullah he said I've forgiven him and I ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant him al-jannah then you start to see the next chapter of the story so what's it like bringing this man back who is deeply sorrowful for the pain that he caused the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and introducing him to a madani society of strangers that took on the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam in the midst of his great pain the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said Abu Sufyan ibn Harith Sayyidu Fityani the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam praised him but he didn't praise him because of who he was before all that you see when you're talking about a lot of those that embraced Islam in this episode of Fatih Mecca many of them were very average in their practice of faith like they weren't distinguished by their practice of faith amongst them by the way was Abu Sufyan ibn Harith who we talked about last week like you don't find narrations of Abu Sufyan ibn Harith radiAllahu anhu in Quran and in tahajjud and in salah and you know dedicating himself to the
masjid you got these tales not these tales you've got these stories of him now on the battlefield right that's where Abu Sufyan was ibn Harith but this man takes a different type of turn he wants to make up for all that time that he was an enemy to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and what should have been in the first place so he comes back to Medina and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam now has completely opened up to him once again and so the sahaba looked the way the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam treats him and the same way that the sahaba initially shunned him because they saw the pain of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam now the sahaba are honoring him because they see the way the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam is honoring him and treating him like his brother once again the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam assigns him a pension of a hundred wasks from annually and a narration 30 uh shares from uh from it for Jumana who would outlive him so he comes back into Medina and he's being integrated reintegrated into the society of Medina as the brother of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam as a deep companion of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam as someone beloved to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wasallam who is brought to live near the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and what's going to happen to his life Abu Sufyan ibn Harith at that point becomes basically a person who lives in the masjid for the rest of his life subhanAllah a person who falls in love with the Quran so he becomes distinguished by the Quran starts to recite the Quran day and night and he basically doesn't talk to anybody kind of becomes a hermit comes to Medina and imagine subhanAllah suddenly you've got a man that looks like the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam who's walking to the masjid and the narrations say
that he would stay in the masjid and he would pray even in the hot summer all the way until the latest time and then he would stay in the masjid from dhuhr and asr and he would pray and he would pray and he'd recite the Quran and his eyes welling with tears and he doesn't talk to anybody just kind of comes in and he was the first person in the masjid the last person to leave it and that's where the narration of Aisha radiAllahu anha comes Aisha the wife of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam who's not familiar with all that history right she was too young she wasn't around when all that was happening she sees suddenly this brother of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam who's coming head down to the masjid constantly reciting the Quran constantly repentant to Allah subhanahu wa'ta'ala and Aisha radiAllahu anha is kind of astonished by him and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam says do you know who that is oh Aisha she says no I don't and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam introduces him and says that's Abu Sufyan ibn Harith ibn Ammi that's my cousin and he's the first person he's telling Aisha he's always the first person to enter the masjid and he's always the last person to leave the masjid and his eyes never leave his sandals that's how the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam explains this person to Aisha that's my brother Abu Sufyan ibn Harith khalas that's it he had a long life of hurting the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and now he just wants to make up for it and he's immersed in his ibadah if you saw him walking around Medina he's always looking down he's walking in the masjid he's praying he's reading Quran he's leaving the masjid and this man who had this large personality and was a poet against the Muslims
to himself completely and the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam loved him treated him with respect and honor and of course the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wasallam did not live long after that you know that time when he would come back from Fath Makkah and when the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam passed away I mean you can imagine now the pain of Abu Sufyan ibn Harith knowing that he missed out on that bulk of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam's life in Islam and he never had that chance to really support the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam beyond the battle of Hunayn and you can find some of the most beautiful poetry you know from Abu Sufyan for the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam at the time of his death he says it's just a beautiful saying that you know I spent my entire night in grief weeping over the greatest disaster the greatest tragedy to ever hit the face of the earth the death of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and the saddest night in history is the night that it was announced that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam had passed away so the messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wasallam dies and all you have is this man now who's coming to the masjid coming out of the masjid maintaining this ibadah throughout the time of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu he maintains this lifestyle and then during the Khilafah of Umar bin Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala anhu he goes out to Hajj and when he goes out to Hajj the barber as he was shaving his head he struck what was like a cyst in the head of Abu Sufyan
al-Harith so you know the blade hit it and it caused him an infection so he basically gets sick from Hajj during the beginning of the Khilafah of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and he comes back to Medina and eventually the sickness from the infection of his haircut in Mina is what's going to cause his death and that's why they actually would refer to him as a shaheed a very unique case of shahada but here's one of the most unique stories that you'll find from the companions of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam when Abu Sufyan felt like he was about to die people saw him doing something very interesting he basically went to the Baqi' the graveyard next to the grave of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam where the companions are buried and he dug his own grave so he's the companion who dug his own grave he dug his own grave and he was still healthy enough to where it looked like he had a chance at recovery but he went to the Baqi' and he dug his own grave and people were surprised like what is it right what are you doing and he said Allahumma laa abqa ba'da rasoolillahi sallAllahu alaihi wasallam wa laa ba'da akhi wa atbi'ni iyahumah said oh Allah I don't want to live after the death of my of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and my brother any longer let me follow in their ranks let me join the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and my brother his brother Naufal had just passed away shortly before that so basically now he's saying at this point now I just want to be with the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam right and he went he fashioned his graves how imagine walking into the Baqi' and seeing a sahabi digging his own grave and saying I'm going to be buried here three days later he's laying in his home and his family comes around him and his family is weeping and he says to them subhanAllah
so don't cry over me because he said I swear by Allah that I have not sinned from the day that I became a Muslim so you don't have to worry about me I'm okay because I did not commit any wrong since the day that I accepted Islam and subhanAllah indeed he died in Al Medina and was buried and if you go to the area of the family of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam it's actually the closest area of the Baqi' to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam you'll find the grave of Abu Sufyan is within that section of the closest relatives to the Messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wasallam was the one who led his salatul janaza and I can tell that a lot of you like how come we never heard of this man and what do we make of the response of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam to him and his ending subhanAllah I want you to actually appreciate for a moment that when you look at the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and you look at the mercy that was in his heart and you look at the way that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam dealt with the different people in his own life that when you hear Allah azzawajal telling you that if you are harmed then know that those who came before you were harmed and we know how much it hurts you to hear them say about you what they say know that you will not be hurt in the way that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam was hurt by Abu Sufyan al-Harith so that's one thing number two the fact that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam still forgave him number three that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam still shahida lahu bil jannah actually witnessed for him and guaranteed for him al-jannah after all of that that he did to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam number four the way that the man subhanAllah dedicates his life
to the masjid of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam to the Quran in those last days and then dies in that state of repentance it shows you subhanAllah that there's the tragedy of sibling rivalry that exists from Cain and Abel to Yusuf and his brothers and now the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and a very close brother of his and it shows you that if it takes you time to forgive someone subhanAllah after hurt that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam also felt deep hurt and deep pain from his own brother but it also shows you the great reward of that at the end of the day and this is subhanAllah a man Abu Sufyan ibn Harith radiAllahu ta'ala who had a good ending and who died in the way that he should have started in that mission alongside the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to be pleased with him and to be pleased with the companions and to send his peace and blessings upon our messenger of Allah sallAllahu alaihi wasallam and his family and his companions Allahumma ameen inshAllah ta'ala next week we're going to talk about Hakeem Nuhizam radiAllahu ta'ala another one of those people that was close to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wasallam before Islam but held out and embraced Islam at the very end jazakumAllahu khaira wasalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh
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