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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Wa lil'alwani ila anzalimeen. Wa l'aqeebatu lilmuttaqeen. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa barik ala abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam tasliman kathira. So bi'idhnillahi ta'ala, our next three lessons, I wanted us to take a look at three remarkable people that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam met specifically on the Hijrah. And of course we're starting the Hijri year and even though Muharram is not when the Hijrah happened, Umar radiallahu ta'ala anhu ordered that the calendar be started from this place for a reason, because the Hijrah really marks a turning point in Islam and it allows us a moment bi'idhnillahi ta'ala to reflect on something very special when it comes to our deen. And the people that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam met all have a very specific trajectory that happens in this Hijrah. And keep in mind that this migration of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was full of miracles. From the very beginning to the moment that he arrives in Quba' sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, nothing is normal about these encounters. Even the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam's encounters with the birds and with the spiders and the way that the creation is being dictated to protect the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam proceeds on this journey with a lot of sakinah, with a lot of tranquility. Completely tranquil, with full trust in Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Even in a moment when he has the least protection, when he is at the most risk in terms of his life as a Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is proceeding
with full trust in Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, la tahzan inna Allaha ma'ana. O Abu Bakr, do not grieve, Allah is with us. And you're going to see that in these various incidents that take place with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. The first one especially being my favorite one that we'll start with, bithnillah. And before we talk about her, who was traveling with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on the Hijrah? So just a quick recap. Who's with him, alayhi s-salatu wa s-salam, on this journey? Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And who else? Does anyone remember? The guide. Does anyone remember the name of the guide? So his name is Amir ibn Fuhayrah. Amir ibn Fuhayrah radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. A freed slave of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu anhu. He was a shepherd who Abu Bakr had freed from slavery and he remained dedicated to as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu anhu. And he died as a shaheed after the Hijrah in Bitr Ma'una. And you can find actually his story. We covered his biography somewhere in the episodes, somewhere in the 60s. If you go back in the playlist, bithnillah ta'ala, we actually did a whole episode on Amir ibn Fuhayrah because he's considered from as-Sabiqoon al-awwaloon. He's considered from the forerunners because he embraced Islam very early on in Mecca and has a miraculous death as well. So you have the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu. Abu Bakr's children, Asmaa and Abdullah, are responsible for the food and for the news, right? So they're kind of monitoring and meeting the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and Abu Bakr in different parts of the journey. Amir ibn Fuhayrah radiyaAllahu anhu. And there's one more person. I don't expect anyone to know this name up until now, but his name is Abdullah ibn Urayqit. Very interesting man. He's also one of the daleels, one of the guides of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu. And he is the one who actually crafts
the path for the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam in the Hijrah. So he was the one that came up with the game plan basically, the roadmap. Amir ibn Fuhayrah is going to stay with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu until the very end, until they make it to Medina. Asmaa and Abdullah are kind of, you know, checking in and out and meeting them at different points of the journey. And then you have Abdullah ibn Urayqit. Abdullah ibn Urayqit was actually not a Muslim. Very interesting man. He was someone that Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu saw a lot of integrity in. I mean, you have to have a lot of character to resist the bounty on the head of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam in this journey, and you're not even a Muslim. So he's someone who has a lot of integrity. He's trustworthy. He's a friend of Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu, and he's an expert of the desert. And because he's not Muslim, Quraysh will not suspect him walking around. He's known to not be a Muslim. So when he's walking around and crafting the path and giving instructions from afar, he's someone who's not suspicious. He will take the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam and Abu Bakr and Amir ibn Fuhayrah to a point just outside of Mecca, and eventually he'll turn back to Mecca. So he doesn't make the entire journey. Now, what a shame if this man died not as a Muslim, right? Alhamdulillah, he later on embraced Islam around Fatah, Mecca, and became one of the companions as Al-Dhahabi radiyaAllahu anhu records about him. So again, just for the sake of knowing the names, obviously the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. Who else? Abu Bakr. Who else? Amir ibn Fuhayrah. And then fourth, Abdullah ibn Urayqit radiyaAllahu anhum ajma'in. So these four people are traveling outside of Mecca initially, the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam with these three, and starting to plot their way out. Now obviously, Quraysh has plotted a horrible plot, and the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam is really going to be attacked from different directions here. They're going to try to find the Prophet
salAllahu alayhi wa sallam in this desert from multiple directions, and there's a huge bounty on top of them. We'll talk about the bounty inshAllah ta'ala in the next lesson, but let's start off inshAllah ta'ala with the first person that is tied to this hijrah that the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam is going to meet along the way. Now in the year of the hijrah, there's a tribe that is known as Banu Khuza'a, and Banu Khuza'a was suffering that year from drought and hardship. Banu Khuza'a is an interesting tribe because they were considered the primary tribe, the leading tribe in Mecca before Quraysh, and then Quraysh takes the leadership, and Banu Khuza'a settles the outskirts of Mecca for the most part. And this is the tribe who later on in Islam, this is the tribe that is attacked in violation of the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. Remember, Sulh Hudaybiyyah, the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah was broken by the Meccans because there was a ceasefire and all allied tribes on both sides were not to attack each other. An allied tribe to Quraysh ambushed people from Banu Khuza'a, which was allied to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, and that was what nullified Sulh Hudaybiyyah, the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah, and paved the way for Fatah, Mecca. So it's an interesting tribe, Banu Khuza'a, a tribe that's allied to the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, and whose people are known to be a noble people at the time, and they settled much of the outskirts of Mecca at the time. Now, the person that we're going to be speaking about today is an old woman, and her journey to Islam is tied specifically to this journey of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, and she is known for giving the most beautiful description of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam that we have, right? And there are many beautiful descriptions. There's the description of
Hind ibn Abi Hala in the Shama'il, but her description, subhanAllah, with its authenticity and with its eloquence and with its beauty and simplicity, is truly remarkable. And she's going to meet the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam on this journey. Her name is Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala anha. Her actual name, because that is a nickname, her actual name is Atika bint Khalid al-Khuzaiyyah. Atika bint Khalid al-Khuzaiyyah. So we have another Atika from the seerah of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam. Now, this woman is a Bedouin woman. She resides on the outskirts of Mecca with her husband, Abu Ma'bad. And I want you to have a picture of each person that we're going to talk about because the profiles are very different here. I want you to imagine, if any of you have ever been to the Arab world when you are going outside of the city and you see someone set up a tent and they're selling some tomatoes. They've got like a single crop that they're selling, or they have a particular type of drink that they're giving out to people or that they're selling, and they're really, really disconnected from civilization. So I want you to think about the story of Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala Anha. That Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu anha is from Khuza'ah. Her people are struggling at this time. This was a difficult year upon them. And she was known to care for the wayfarers. This is a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because when you hear Allah azawajal talk about those who take care of a'abir wa sabir, the one who is a wayfarer, a wayfarer is a stranded traveler. So what Umm Ma'bad would do is that she would basically see people that were traveling through these difficult terrains and she would serve them. She'd serve them water. She had some sheep, some goats. She would milk the goats for the travelers. She would offer them shade for some time. Whatever she could do to support these people as they were going through. And this is from
the good akhlaq, the good qualities that existed in some of the simple people before Islam. Okay, and so this is something that we learned from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam that people are like precious stones. خِيَارَكُمْ فِي الْجَاهَلِيَّةِ خِيَارَكُمْ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ There are good qualities that existed in people before Islam. And so this is a good quality that they have, that she is a woman that serves people as they are along the way. And subhanAllah it just so happens that she sees the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, Amir ibn Fuhayrah radiyaAllahu anhu, and Daliluhum, their guide Abdullah ibn Urayqat. And they come to her khayma, her tent, and they ask her if she has anything to drink. She has no idea who these four men are. And they ask her where her husband is, and she mentions that her husband has gone out, Abu Ma'bad has gone out, and that this is a difficult time upon them, that we don't have laa qaleel wa laa katheer, we don't have a little nor do we have a lot. We can barely squeeze a few drops of milk these days, and we can barely find a few pieces of meat and a few pieces of bread to get by ourselves. So this has been a difficult time upon us, and Abu Ma'bad has gone out in search of some of that rizq, in search of some of that sustenance. Now, when she sees the condition of the Prophet ﷺ and Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu and Amr ibn Fuhayrah and Abdullah ibn Urayqat, she's being kind to them, but at the same time, she has nothing to offer them, except for the shade of her tent. So the Prophet ﷺ says to her, do you have any goat or any sheep that has some milk in it? And she says, I swear by your mother
and father that if I had any milk in any goat, anything to offer you, I would offer it to you. Not knowing who the Prophet ﷺ is, just because she's kind to the wayfarers, she's kind to the strangers. And subhanAllah, think of the incident, Rasulullah ﷺ sees this you know, very skinny goat in the corner, right, that appears to offer absolutely nothing, and the Prophet ﷺ says, what is that one over there, a goat or a sheep? And she says to the Prophet ﷺ that it can barely sustain itself, it has nothing to give anyone else. And the Prophet ﷺ says to her, do you mind if I milk it? Do you mind if I milk its udders? She looks at the Prophet ﷺ and she's looking at this animal, she knows her animal, she's a Bedouin woman, she says to the Prophet ﷺ, go ahead, but there's nothing out of it, you know, you're going to squeeze the udders of the sheep to get anything out of it, but you're not going to be able to get anything. And of course we know that from the narrations of the Messenger ﷺ, that he was able to put his hands on the udders of a goat or a sheep or a cow that would not produce milk, and the Prophet ﷺ would say, Bismillah, and it would suddenly fill with milk. And this is what happened in the story of Abdullah bin Mas'ud radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, when the Prophet ﷺ was with Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu, and Abdullah bin Mas'ud said, this is the only thing I have, and the Prophet ﷺ says, Bismillah, and its udders fill, and the Prophet ﷺ gives Abdullah bin Mas'ud some of its milk, and he gives Abu Bakr some of its milk, and he drinks from it himself ﷺ, and that was the beginning of the Islam of Abdullah bin Mas'ud radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, when he says to the Prophet ﷺ, علمني من هذا القول, tell me what these words are that you said. And the Prophet ﷺ said, انك غلام معلم,
that you are a learned young man, and he goes following the Prophet ﷺ down to Mecca to embrace Islam. So here, Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu has seen this happen before. The Prophet ﷺ, he takes that animal, he says, Bismillah, he touches its udders, and then suddenly it touches its udders, and then suddenly it fills with milk. And the Prophet ﷺ asks for a large container. So he takes the container himself ﷺ, and he milks it until he fills the container, and he tells them to drink. First, Umm Abid radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, to drink. Umm Abid radiAllahu anhu is shocked, she doesn't know what she's witnessing here. Atika bint Khalid, she drinks from it. And the Prophet ﷺ says to Abu Bakr to drink, and the Prophet ﷺ says to Amr bin Fuhayrah to drink, and the Prophet ﷺ says to Abdullah bin Urayqit that the daleel, the guide of the people, is also their servant, and should drink from them as well. He deserves from it as well, so he tells Abdullah bin Urayqit to drink from it as well. And the Prophet ﷺ milks it, and he fills the container again, and he offers it again, and he drinks himself ﷺ, until each one of them had drank from that milk. And it is on this journey that you hear the beautiful words of Abu Bakr as-Siddiq radiAllahu anhu, فَشَرِبَ النَّبِي حَتَّرْتَوَيْتَ. The Prophet ﷺ, my beloved one, drank that milk until I became full. Like, I was thirsty, but when I saw the Prophet ﷺ thirsty, due to this difficult journey, when he drank that milk ﷺ, and I loved him more than I loved myself, when I looked at him and he drank that milk, alhamdulillah. It was as if I had become nourished. I was no longer thirsty when I saw the Messenger ﷺ. Now, after the Prophet ﷺ does this, Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is watching this all happen, and she asks the Prophet ﷺ, what is your name? The Prophet ﷺ says,
Abdullah. She says, we're all the Ibad of Allah. Now the Prophet ﷺ, in one of the recorded narrations, he gives her the name eventually, but the point is that he's a wanted man, and he's still within the confines of Mecca. So the Prophet ﷺ departs from their home, and Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala anhu is there, and this one animal, this one sheep that the Prophet ﷺ leaves behind, is still giving its milk, and Abu Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala anhu comes home, after the four guests have departed. And subhanAllah, here you have, again, this beautiful description. Abu Ma'bad comes in, and he sees the situation, and he says to her, what is it that happened today? Did anything different happen today? I mean, what's this special blessing that we are witnessing? And she says, la wallahi illa anahu marra bina rajulun mubarak. She said that it's only that a blessed man has passed through this tent, and his situation was like this, and his situation was like that. And Abu Ma'bad, her husband, says to her, go ahead, give me his description, ya Ummi Ma'bad. And this is where you're going to find that description coming. Before I read the description, because it's worth reading, and we won't go into the great detail of it, the way that you would in a typical shama'il class, you know, there's something that the scholars mention about the Bedouin. The Bedouin who lives out in nature. You think about someone that lives out in nature, they tend to be a lot more observant of that nature. And if you compare articulation with that experience, then you get some of the most beautiful descriptions of nature. So Ummi Ma'bad radiAllahu anhu has a woman who lives out in nature, and she knows how to describe things and articulate what she is seeing of the creation of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so she's about to give a full description of the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, every single detail of the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, even though she only interacted with him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam for a few moments. And this shows you the type of presence the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had, and the effect that he would leave on you if he came in your presence sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to behold our Messenger sallAllahu alayhi wasallam with our own two eyes and to be joined with him alayhis salatu wassalam. So I want you to now think about this conversation happening in a beat up old tent in the outskirts of Mecca that is now recorded in history that we read as the most important description of the most influential man in history sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. This conversation between husband and wife in this abandoned tent. And she goes on to describe the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. She said that I saw this man and she says his cleanliness was remarkable. Now subhanAllah there's something here that's important which is that if you're traveling on a difficult journey you're not going to be clean, right? Your clothes are going to be raggedy, it's going to show, the effect of travel will show on you. But she's praising the immaculate appearance of the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. She said he was incredibly clean. And she says ablajul wajh, his face was luminous sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. I want you to think of yourself in the next few minutes inshAllah as if you're looking at him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, seeing him walk into your tent alayhis salatu wassalam. His face was luminous. And she said a beautiful hasan al khalq, just a beautiful creation all together.
She says that he didn't have a stomach that was bulging, nor did he have a head that was shaped in any different way, a smaller head. Wasim, Qasim, the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam was handsome and he was perfectly proportioned sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. She says fee aynayhi daaj, that the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had wide eyes. So she described the overall, the shape of the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, perfectly proportioned, completely clean. His face was lit up sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And now she's going to start to describe his face alayhis salatu wassalam. She said he had wide eyes alayhis salatu wassalam. And then she said wa fee ashfarihi wataf. The Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, on top of having wide eyes, he had long eyelashes alayhis salatu wassalam. And she said describing his voice sallAllahu alayhi wasallam, wa fee sawtihi sahal. The Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had a sharpness to his voice. You know when you were listening to the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam speak, there are no microphones here, but it was a perfect pitch. And that's something subhanAllah that we can't understand now, even as you read the description, but it was a perfect pitch that he had sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And he had a sharpness to his voice alayhis salatu wassalam. Wa fee anuqihi sata. The Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had a long neck. What was the neck of the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam described like? The neck of a gazelle sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. So let the picture complete in your head and may Allah azawajal allow us to see him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And she continues wa fee lahyatihi kathatha. That the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had a thick beard. And she goes on and she says that the Prophet sallAllahu
alayhi wasallam's eyes were stark in their contrast. That he had the whiteness of his eyes sallAllahu alayhi wasallam extremely white and the blackness of the inside of his eyes were extremely black. So the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam's eyes had a perfect contrast sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. Azaj, she said that the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had an arcing of his eyebrows. Akran, and his eyebrows were so thick sallAllahu alayhi wasallam that it was as if they met but they didn't meet because the eyebrows had such volume on him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And she continues to say shadeedu sawad al-sha'ar that the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam's hair was extremely black, extremely dark. And she goes on now to describe the way that he carries himself sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. She says insamata fa alayhi al-waqar. When he's quiet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam then he's covered in glory. Like when he was silent it was as if he had an aura to him of honour, of glory. And she goes on to say wa in takallama samahu wa alahu al-baha. This is very hard to translate but when he then spoke it was as if that honour and that glory had a light that was coming out of it. So subhanAllah it's like when he was silent and you were looking at him you were captured by the aura of the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. But then once he started to speak it was as if this light started to come from him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. ajmalu n-naas wa abhaahu min ba'id wa ahsanuhu wa ajmaluhu min qareeb. She says about the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam that he was the most beautiful and captivating of people from afar. When you saw him from afar like you would stop what
you were doing and you would look at him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam like who is this man that is coming to us sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. wa ahsanuhu wa ahmaluhu min qareeb. And when he came close to you he was even more beautiful min qareeb when he came close to you like you were even more captivated. Now what did the sahaba describe? They couldn't even look at the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam when he was right in front of them. He had such beauty and such jalal alayhi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam such glory to him that when he came too close to you what would you do? You'd put your head down. And that's what Ali radiAllahu anhu says like I couldn't look at the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam when he was right in front of me. It was very hard to actually stare at him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam because he had such an imposing presence sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. So he was even more beautiful and the scholars mention that usually you know the more magnifying you get the more the flaws become apparent. And so what Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu anhu saying that as beautiful as he was from afar and as captivating as he was from afar when he came closer to you sallAllahu alayhi wasallam then it was unbelievable. And she goes on to say hulw al-mantiq that the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam had beautiful speech that he had this beautiful logic when he spoke sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And she said that his speech was not too short nor was it too long. And she describes she says that it was as if his speech were like the beads of a necklace that were falling. Like perfect proportion so he had the right pitch sallAllahu alayhi wasallam and his words came out perfectly alayhi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam and she continues to describe him and she says that when the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam would speak in qala sami'u li qawlihi wa in amra tabadaru ila amrihi. When he spoke no one else had anything to say. Everybody listened to what he had to
say sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And if he gave a command then they were quick to respond to his command sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And she continues to describe the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam and she says that he was dignified alayhi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. He was respectful and the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam that he wasn't one who would frown. When we read abasa wa tawalla she's saying that the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam was not abas wa la mufannad. He was not someone that had a difficult type of presence nor was he someone that would refuse. So as much glory and as much honor and as much respect as he commanded alayhi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam from everyone that was around him the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam showed that respect to everyone that was around him as well. Right? He didn't let that translate into a harsh disposition even though he had such a presence alayhi sallAllahu alayhi wasallam that when you were with him you would shrink. And that's what these people are saying, the companions are saying radiAllahu ta'ala anhum, when they saw him they would shrink. But the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam's kindness would open up the pathways to still be able to interact with him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. So she said I've never seen a man before him or after him like him. I mean how many people have passed through this tent? How many of the creation of Allah, the khalq of Allah have I seen? She said wallahi this is the most remarkable human being that I have ever seen. And her husband who was Abu Maabad, he says that I swear by Allah this is sahib Quraish. Hatha sahib Quraish. That's the companion of Quraish that they always talk about. Meaning they'd heard about this thing happening in Mecca but you know think about the disconnect. It's not that Mecca's so far away but they weren't really involved in the affairs of the people in this regard. That's who they're
talking about. And he says walaqad hamamtu an ashabahu sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And I hope that I can be his companion and if I find a way then I'm going to take that way. And Abu Maabad would investigate later on and hear about the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam in al-Madinah and both he and Umm Maabad would go and they would officially declare their Islam with the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. Now while this incredible incident is happening in the Hijrah where the Prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam is going to stop in the tent of this woman Umm Maabad and what khair, what barakah, what blessing had visited her. Asma' radiAllahu ta'ala anha was worried about their situation in Mecca and there was a voice that called out in Mecca, that cried out in Mecca and they could not trace where the voice was. It's extremely hard to translate these poems but jazAllahu rabbun nasi khaira jaza'ihi rafiqayni halla khaymati Ummi Maabadi. Huma nazala bilbirri wartahala bihi faaflaha man amsa rafiqa Muhammadi. Salu ukhtakum an shatiha wa inaiha fa innakum in tas'alu shata tashhadi. It's a beautiful poem that may Allah sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam send his blessings upon the protector of the people, the friends who came to the tent of Umm Maabad. They came with their beauty and then they left successful and prosperous as the one who was a follower of Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And you should ask Umm Maabad about her shat, about her sheep and about her container. And even the sheep itself would bear witness to Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. If you went to and you asked it about the situation that happened. And one of the narrations is that when Hassan ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu heard what had happened there, that there
was almost a voice that was saying to the people of Mecca, how miserable are you that you let this man leave from your rank? How miserable are you that you let Muhammad sallAllahu alayhi wasallam outside of your vicinity? And you allowed him to make hijrah. And so Hassan ibn Thabit radiAllahu anhu said, لقد خاب قوم زال عنهم نبيهم وقدس من يسري إليهم ويغتدي ترحل عن قوم فزالت عقولهم نبي يرى ما لا يرى الناس حوله ويتلو كتاب الله في كل مشهد وإن قال في يوم مقالة غائب that Hassan radiAllahu anhu said, what a miserable fate of a people whose prophet has escaped them. And instead how blessed are those who go out to receive that prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam and that he left the people who basically were undeserving, who basically did not have the blessing of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala upon them to be able to maintain him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam and instead went to a people who were more deserving of his company alayhis salatu wasalam and a prophet, nabiyun, yara ma la yara nasu hawlahu, a prophet where people would see things from him that no one else would see sallAllahu alayhi wasallam wayatlu kitab Allahi fi kulli mashhadi and he would recite the book of Allah in every single instance sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. Now what ends up happening subhanAllah, this is really incredible. So as we said, Banu Khuza'a, this tribe would be an ally tribe to the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And so later on, the treaty of Hudaybiyyah will be broken because this tribe will be attacked. Now as for Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala anha and Abu Ma'bad, what ends up happening to them? So Umm Ma'bad's brother, whose name is Hubaysh, Hubaysh ibn Khalid, becomes Muslim as well. And he's actually one of the few
people who were shuhada of Fath Makkah. You don't hear about martyrs of Fath Makkah because Fath Makkah was a complete opening of Makkah with absolutely no bloodshed, right? But Hubaysh was on the way in Fath Makkah and he lost his way and he was ambushed and killed by the other side before the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam arrived to Makkah radiAllahu anhu. So he's one of the few people that you'll ever hear about being shuhada al-Fath and this is the brother of Umm Ma'bad. And Abu Ma'bad and Umm Ma'bad would live long after the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam as well. And subhanAllah there is one narration that Ibn Hajar mentions in his Isaabah, which is incredible. What happened to the sheep? I mean the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam blessed its udders, right? So what happened to that sheep? I mean did it just stop once the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam left? And instead he writes that that particular sheep continued to bear milk all the way until 18 years after hijrah, the year of the famine, and it was still bearing milk from that dua of the prophet sallAllahu alayhi wasallam from that one moment in the hijrah with him sallAllahu alayhi wasallam. And so this is Atika bint Khalid Umm Ma'bad radiAllahu ta'ala anha who passed away of a natural death and who gives us that beautiful description of the messenger sallAllahu alayhi wasallam.
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