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The mother of Anas Ibn Malik (ra), and the first woman to come forth from the Ansar. The stories of sacrifice from her and her husband Abu Talha (ra) make clear why the Prophet ﷺ held this family in such high esteem.
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This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings. As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. I would like to begin by saying that I am a Shaitan, and I seek refuge in the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. And no one is worthy of worship except against the wrongdoers. And the right path is for the righteous. O Allah, bless and bless Your servant and Messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him and upon his family and companions. I want to welcome everyone back after Ramadan to the first. And subhanAllah, as we went into Ramadan, we finished covering really the five most instrumental people to bringing Islam to Medina. In fact, if you look at these five people that we spoke about, and I'm not going to ask you to name them all, but inshallah ta'ala you'll go back and watch them to refresh your memory about how Islam spread through the city of Medina. It starts with these five, and these five are the foundation for all the khair that will come for the next however many episodes we're going to spend with the Ansar of the Prophet ﷺ after him. And there was a particular person, and when I started the series of the first, just so you can know how special this person is to my heart, when I started the series, I actually said to myself, I can't wait to do Umm Sulaym radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. That's how incredible this woman that we're going to cover is. And some of you might have had this experience where you've come up to me and asked me, what should I name my daughter? And I'll tell you, Rumaysa, after Umm Sulaym radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, because she's such a special woman, and as we're naming after the righteous, then we need to inshallah ta'ala honor them in the most blessed of ways. So, what makes her so special, and how are we going to understand her inshallah ta'ala in the best of ways? When you're reading Sahih Muslim, if you get to the chapter of Kitab Fadhal al-Sahaba radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhum, the Book of the Virtues of Companions, subhanAllah, he places her story right after Umm Ayman radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha.
And if there's one person who resembles Umm Ayman radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha in the life of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, it is Umm Sulaym radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. So I want you to think about her, this has not been written anywhere, I'm just saying that as you go through her story, think of all the similarities that you're going to find with Umm Ayman radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. So, you had Umm Ayman in Mecca, who of course migrated with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, but that caring, loving mother that was always looking over his shoulder. Here you have Umm Sulaym radiyaAllahu anha, the Umm Ayman of Medina, that will always be there in the background with the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam, caring for him, making sure that he's fed, listening to his voice to see if she could hear a weakness and a fatigue in his voice so that she can feed him. And this is the character of the woman that we are going to be covering. So her name is once again Umm Sulaym, but she does not have a son named Sulaym. Sulaym was the name of her younger brother. So both she and her sister are named by their younger brothers, the mothers of their younger brothers, and that could be, Allah knows best, because they used to be like mothers to their younger brothers. So from an early age they were called Umm Sulaym and Umm Haram. Umm Sulaym bint Milhan, Umm Haram bint Milhan. And we will talk about her as well, radiyaAllahu anha. So her name is Umm Sulaym bint Milhan. Her actual first name is Al-Rumaysa or Al-Ghumaysa, so with a ra or with a ghayn. Al-Rumaysa or Al-Ghumaysa. Both of them show up actually in authentic narrations, and it could be that both of them are actually appropriate, that you could call her by the ra or by the ghayn, Rumaysa or Ghumaysa. Or Sahla or Malika, these are also names that were attributed to her, radiyaAllahu anha. But as we said, she's most famous for her kunya, the nickname of Umm Sulaym, being the mother of Sulaym, who was her younger brother. Now, Al-Imam An-Nawi, rahimahullah ta'ala, tells us something about her from the very beginning,
which is important in the context of the story. That both she and her sister are considered khalat, considered maternal aunts to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam. Because what you're going to see in the story is an unusual closeness. The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, going and taking naps in her home. The Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, talking to her in that way, treating her in that way. And Imam An-Nawi, rahimahullah ta'ala, he says that Umm Haram and Umm Sulaym, both Umm Haram and her sister Umm Sulaym, كانتا خالتين برسول الله, صلى الله عليه وسلم محرمين إما من الرضاعة وإما من النسب. That these two women were both maternal aunts of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, either through breastfeeding or through actual nasab, through actual lineage. How? These two women are from the clan of Banu Najjar. And I know it's been a while since we've gone through the first, but we talked about how Banu Najjar were the maternal relatives of Abdul Muttalib. So that's why when the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, came to Yathrib, he came to Medina, he had a connection to Banu Najjar because they are considered his maternal aunts. And Umm Sulaym and Umm Haram are from Banu Najjar. And so either they are actually great aunts of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, in that sense, or, which was very common at the time in terms of feeding and foster care, that it was the mothers and the aunts and they would basically be the same thing. And so there is a kinship there between the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and them that makes them mahram to the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam. So that's another thing to understand. However, there is no relationship, no actual relationship before Islam, between the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam, and Umm Sulaym or Umm Haram. But just in terms of the establishing the kinship between them, this is what we have narrated from Imam An-Nawwi, rahim Allah ta'ala, as well as Imam Ibn Abdul Bar. Now, what is her reputation?
Before Islam, she is considered to be one of the most beautiful women of Al-Madinah. She is considered to be exceedingly strong, assertive. She is known for being very assertive, very independent-minded, one of the few literate women in Al-Madinah. Remember, both men and women at that time, you don't find many people that were literate. She knew poetry, she was literate, so she was really someone that had a prized position in that society of Al-Madinah. And of course, Yathrib before the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wasalam. And she was married to, who was considered one of the most noble men, who happened to escape the Bu'ath wars because he was a merchant. And his name was Malik Ibn Nadir. Malik Ibn Nadir was considered one of the richest men of Al-Madinah, someone that matches her in terms of his prominence and his prestige in that society. And when the Bu'ath wars happened, where most of the men killed each other off, he was out in Al-Sham on a trade route. So he escaped the bloodbath, literally the bloodbath, that would happen with the Bu'ath wars before Islam. So she's married to him, a noble man in Al-Madinah. And they have two sons, Malik Ibn Nadir and her have two sons, Anas and Al-Bara'a. Anas Ibn Malik radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, and Al-Bara'a Ibn Malik radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Now I'll just say this, that there's a difference of opinion in regards to Al-Bara'a. If Umm Sulaym was actually his mother or if his mother was another wife of Malik Ibn Nadir. But Allah knows best, it seems that she's actually his mother as well, but he was grown. And Anas Ibn Malik radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu was the young, beautiful boy from whom we would gain so much of our deen. Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu, the son of Umm Sulaym and Anas Ibn Nadir. And Anas, I'm sorry Malik Ibn Nadir, and Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu says that he was named after his paternal uncle, Anas Ibn Nadir.
So again, Malik Ibn Nadir, the father, Umm Sulaym, the mother. And then you have the paternal uncle, Anas Ibn Nadir. And he is the one about whom the ayah was revealed, مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْطَذُرْ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا The verse where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, And from the believers are those who were truthful to the covenant they made with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Some of them fulfilled their covenant right away, some of them were delayed in fulfilling their covenant to God, وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا They never changed in their intention and their resolve. This is Anas ibn Nadr, the brother of Malik ibn Nadr, the paternal uncle of Anas ibn Malik radiyallahu anhu. And he said when he missed Badr, he said, if Allah gives me another chance, then you will see what I will do Ya Rasulullah. They will see my courage and my bravery. And he was one of those radiyallahu ta'ala anhu in Uhud who charged forth, and who told everyone to keep on going forward when others were fleeing. So he was martyred in Uhud in a very notable way. And so this is the uncle. Now, how does Islam enter into this household? It actually does not start with Malik, because Malik once again is out on a trade route. Okay, prominent businessman that travels the world. It starts with Umm Sulaym radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. And she was in the gathering of Mus'ab ibn Umair radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, the very first da'wah gathering, that small gathering we talked about with As'ad ibn Zurarah radiyallahu anhu. She was there present when Mus'ab radiyallahu anhu began his da'wah. And she immediately embraced Islam. And so some of the scholars even say she's the very first female convert in Medina. Talk about distinction. The very first woman to embrace Islam in Yathrib was Umm Sulaym radiyallahu ta'ala anhu. Now, her husband is away.
Anas radiyallahu ta'ala anhu was a little child at the time. The ruling on marrying or being married to non-Muslims, that's still not clarified at this point in Islam. This is still very early on in Islam. Okay, so at this point, there is no halal and haram, and there is no breaking off the relationships. If a Muslim woman was married to a non-Muslim man. However, subhanAllah, we're going to see that as soon as Malik ibn Nadir comes back, then the change starts to happen. He comes home, and he sees her practicing this new faith. And he says, As'abawti, remember when we talked about the story of Umar radiyallahu anhu, this was the derogatory term. This was the Islamophobic term for saying, did you become Muslim? Like I heard about this foolishness while I was gone from Medina. Did you join this foolish religion? And she said, Ma'as'abawti, walakinni amant. She corrected the terminology. She said, No, but I did believe. I became a Muslim if that's what you're asking me. And so he starts to yell at her. He's furious with her. And starts to threaten her if she does not leave this religion, and says, leave this poison from this household. Haven't I given you enough of this dunya where you don't have to think about something in regards to the hereafter? You're good. Why are you even doing this? Why are you bringing this into our home? Stop it. She ignores him, and instead she brings baby Anas. And she says to Anas radiyallahu ta'ala anhu, say, La ilaha illallah. And she has him actually repeat La ilaha illallah to his father. And Anas radiyallahu ta'ala anhu was a baby boy. So she has Anas radiyallahu ta'ala anhu repeating La ilaha illallah after her in front of Malik ibn Nadir. And he starts to yell at her. He says, La tufsidi alayya ibni. Don't corrupt my son like you corrupted yourself. And so this becomes a source of tension in the household. But again, at this point, she doesn't have to divorce him. There's no ruling in regards to this. At the end of the day, what we know is that she is going to remain on Islam.
Malik ibn Nadir says, I don't have time for this nonsense. He comes home. He gets angry about it. At the same time, he's busy with his money. He's not someone that's actually taking a position against the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, trying to stop Islam in Medina in any active way, other than being annoyed by it. Annoyed by the fact that his wife and his son have accepted Islam. So he goes off to Asham again. Now on this trade route to Asham, Malik ibn Nadir passes away, and he passes away as a non-Muslim. And subhanAllah, I think about this and I say, had he merely said, La ilaha illallah, what about the Sadaqah Jariyya that would have outlasted him? It's actually tragic. All that Anas would do, and all the offspring of Anas would have been in his scale to some extent. But because he didn't have time to even entertain the thought of theology, a religion, and he immediately rejected it, instead he becomes a dead man out in Asham. We don't even know where his grave is today. SubhanAllah, imagine if he would have embraced Islam. Imagine what would have been waiting for him, what would have been stored for him. So you see the blessings that he missed out on by refusing this religion. And that shows you subhanAllah, the limited time that you have when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala shows you guidance. Many people drag their feet, and they don't know. Maybe in his mind he thought, you know, I'll see how this plays out in Medina. I'm not really a guy that's very active politically speaking. I'll see how this drags out. If things go wrong, then I'll take this route. If things go right, then I'll take this route. But he continued, unfortunately, and he persisted in his ways of disbelief. Now you can think about Umm Suleiman radiyaAllahu ta'ala Anha. She's distraught. I mean, her last memories with her husband is being completely estranged from him over a decision that she ultimately took. And this could have really shaken her faith, right, given her doubt.
You know, I said, la ilaha illallah, and my husband died. I went from being married to a noble man, a rich man in Medina, and now I'm a widow. What happened? This could have been a fitna for her. It could have been a trial in her faith. And she could have been struck with immense guilt. But instead, subhanAllah, we find her very patient. We find her staying strong on her faith. And we find her continuing to come close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And this is all happening before the bay'ah to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. Bay'ah to al-aqaba al-thaniya. Remember, the second bay'ah where a group of Ansar would go to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is all happening within the first few months of Mus'ab and As'ad and the two Sa'ds in Medina spreading Islam. So, what happens to her is very interesting. Remember, she's a very desirable woman. A man by the name of Abu Talha. Abu Talha's actual name was Zayd ibn Sahl. Zayd ibn Sahl. He didn't actually have a son named Talha. So, it's common amongst the Arabs, right, that you would call your son or your daughter by a name, a kunya, which is Abu or Umm, the father or the mother of so and so, before they even have a child. So, this is kunya. Abu Talha was from the same tribe as her, from Banu Najjar. So, he waited for some time. And this was a man who's very similar to Malik ibn Madhur in terms of his prominence. He'd be next in line. Very wealthy. Extremely noble character. Known for his manners. And this is actually a distinguishing factor. Very distinguished by his akhlaq, by his manners. And known for his kindness. Very good to the poor, generous with the poor. And Abu Talha comes to her and proposes to her. And she says to him, Ya Abu Talha, mithluka la yurad. A person like you would not be turned away. But I am a Muslim woman. Wa anta rajul mushrik. And you're a disbeliever. Wala tahilu li. You're not halal for me.
You're not permitted for me to marry. So, Abu Talha was kind of offended by that. Like, I brought this whole scene to marry you. To get you out of this tragedy. To save you from this devastation that you're in. And this is how you respond to me? I mean, it's not really a rude response. But still, it's like, I'm a Muslim. You're not. Sorry, we can't do this. Abu Talha says, Ma hadha lathi yamna'uki minni. That's not what's really stopping you from marrying me. So, she says, what is it then? He said, al-dhahab wal-fidda. You want more gold and silver, right? I've got to up the dowry. Up what I'm bringing to you. I've got to bring a bigger thing next time. And she says, bal inni ushiduka ya Abu Talha. Wa ushidu Allah wa rasoola. Rather, I bear witness, oh Abu Talha. I call you to bear witness. And Allah and His Messenger. Anaka in aslamt. If you became Muslim, Waditu bika zawj. I would be pleased with you as a husband. Wadhalika mahri. And that would be my mahr. That would be my dowry. I don't want anything else from you. You're a rich man. You've got all these treasures. You've got all this stuff going on for you. All you have to do is say, la ilaha illallah, Muhammadun Rasool Allah. And that's good enough for me. That would be my mahr. So Abu Talha was taken aback. He recognizes this was a sincere conviction. And subhanAllah, like Malik ibn Nadir, he's kind of busy with the money that he has. Anas radiya Allahu anhu says, he owned more property in Medina than anyone else. So he's just not really interested. But he says, look, I'll think about what you've said. And I'll study it a bit. He comes back to her a few days later and says, have you changed your mind? She says, no. Have you? He says, no. So like, is it really Islam? No, you still can't marry me unless you become Muslim. And she's like, have you thought about it? He's like, not really. And then she starts to give him hints. She sees him one day worshipping his idols. You know, doing the ritual. And she says to him, hey, what would happen to your idols if they were thrown into a fire? Abu Talha said they would burn.
She said, and that's the kind of god you worship? Moves on. Another time, she says to him, don't you feel kind of silly worshipping a part of a tree? Because there's some wood in the idol. A part of a tree, that if you needed to cook or keep yourself warm, you'd throw it into a fire to keep yourself warm? Don't you feel kind of silly doing that? So Abu Talha is kind of taking it. He's taking the hints. And then finally, subhanAllah, after some time, he thought about it, and he comes back to her and says, I believe in that which you believe. So you know what? I believe in that which you believe. So she gives him shahada. Alright? She gives him shahada. Anas was 10 years old. She says to him, Ya Anas, qom fazawaj Abu Talha. Anas, stand up and marry Abu Talha to your mother. So Anas subhanAllah, I mean of course, by the way, things are not very defined yet in Islam at this point. We're still at the aqeedah phase, creed phase, belief in Allah, belief in the hereafter. We don't have many of the rulings yet. But Anas is going to be the one to perform the nikah for his mother to Abu Talha. And Thuban subhanAllah then said the very famous statement. He said, we do not know of a single woman. Imra'a kana mahruha khayran min mahri Ummi Sulaim. We don't know of a single woman who had a better mahr than Umm Sulaim radiyaAllahu anha. Fakana mahruha al-Islam. Her mahr was Islam. The dowry she sought from her husband was Islam. All she wanted from him was Islam and that was the basis of the marriage contract that you become Muslim. And that's the only gift that I want from you. Now comes the next part of this. Bay'atu al-aqaba al-thaniya. The second bay'ah. The pledge where multiple people are going to go from Yathrib and take the pledge with the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And it was all men. And Umm Sulaim radiyaAllahu anha says, I'm coming too. You'll see this throughout her
seerah. She asserts herself. And it was her and no surprise Nuseiba bint Ka'b Umm Ammara radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. So the woman that would be wielding a sword. We will have a future halaqa on for sure radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. And Asma bint Amr as well according to some narration. So these two or three women go along with the group of 73 men who are going to take their pledge to the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Abu Talha was one of the men and Umm Sulaim radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha was there. And she had her baby boy Anas. And she sees people going and dedicating themselves to the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And she's so saddened that she can't dedicate herself or she can't be there the way that some of the men are around the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And she wants to give everything for this deen. So she takes her son Anas and she says, Ya Rasulallah, this is my son. He's in your service until one of you passes away. Take my son. Not take my necklace. No, Ya Rasulallah, this is my son. He's at your service. He's in your khidmat. The best favor she ever did for Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Anas radiyaAllahu anhu, he used to become emotional when narrating this incident. Like think about it for him. He remembers the moment that his mother told him that you are in the service of Rasulallah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. The most beloved person in the world to him. So Anas radiyaAllahu anhu used to cry when he would be narrating this narration about himself. And he says that my mother said, Ya Rasulallah khadimuka Anas. Udu'Allah lahu. Ya Rasulallah, here is your servant Anas. Make dua for him. So the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, Allahumma akthir ma lahu wa waladahu wa barik lahu feema a'taytahu. Three things. The Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, Oh Allah, bless him with his wealth. Bless him with his children. And bless him in everything that you will give to him. Now when we do the seerah of Anas next week, Anas had a lot of kids. RadiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And a lot of grandkids.
And a lot of wealth that came to him. SubhanAllah. He used to attribute it back to this one moment where his mother said, make dua for him. Udu'Allah lahu. Then they come back to Medina. RasulAllah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam comes to Medina and finds that Umm Sulaym radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu has turned a part of her home into a musalla. By the way, this is actually, some of the scholars will speak about this and saying the value of having a part of your home that is dedicated to a salah. And I think a lot of us learned this in COVID in particular, right? Like it could be really enriching. Not something you have to do, not even something that we would say is a sunnah per se, but something that we find some of the sahaba and sahabiyat used to do. To have a particular part of the home that's dedicated to it. Now realize when the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam came to Medina, if you remember, everyone wanted the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam to pray amongst their tribe. So this tribe gets the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam for this day. And then this tribe, and basically blesses the musalla that would be for that tribe. Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha wants the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam to come pray two rak'ahs in her home. And the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam honors that. So Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam comes and he prays in the musalla of Umm Sulaym in her home. And that's something that gives her great joy. Now after that, subhanAllah, this is not the only time that the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam will continue to enter. Remember, she's mahram to him. She's his maternal aunt in that sense. And the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam recognizes the sincerity of this woman, and the desire of this woman to be close to the Messenger salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And so Anas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu says, lam yakun Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam yadkhulu baytan ghayra bayti Umm Sulaym. That there is no house that the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, in all of Medina, that the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam would enter the way that he would enter into the house of Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha. And someone said something to him, mentioned it to the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam,
not antagonizing him, but as an observation, like subhanAllah, the amount of times you visit this family, Umm Sulaym and Abu Talha, and you have Anas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, who's like your own son, the son of Umm Sulaym, with you. And the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam mentioned, and this is something very beautiful, he said that this is mercy, qutila akhuha ma'i. Her brother was killed with me. Why? Because the brothers of Umm Sulaym, Sulaym and Haram, were actually murdered, were martyred in battle. In a very brutal way. And Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam is saying this is also a form of rahma, that the two brothers of Umm Sulaym and Umm Haram were martyred alongside me. And so this is a rahma to them as well. Not just the fact that they are a qaraba, that they are a close kinship to the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, but also something of that as well. And you find constant narrations of Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam visiting this woman's home. Anas radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, who we're going to talk about next week, who's, you know, subhanAllah, what would our deen be? What would we have of our religion without Anas radiAllahu anhu, right? Anas radiAllahu anhu has all these stories of the times the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam came to our house. So he said one time Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam came over and he sat down in the, basically the living room, right? In the area where they would have their guests. And Umm Sulaym brought some dates and some butter, you know, thinking that she could feed the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam said put the butter back and put the dates back, I'm fasting. And then went to the musalla area. And he prayed there in that musalla, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And out loud he made dua for Umm Sulaym and the inhabitants of the household. Look at the akhlaq, the character of the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And nothing was more pleasing to her heart than that, right? Like he comes and he prays salAllahu alaihi wa sallam in the corner and he makes dua for Umm Sulaym and for her children. And Anas radiAllahu anhu makes the point to say this was not one of the fara'at. This was a separate prayer. This wasn't one of the obligatory prayers.
A separate prayer that the Messenger salAllahu alaihi wa sallam would make for Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Anas radiAllahu anhu says, and Umm Sulaym was known for keeping orphans around her. So he said, and I remember when the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam came to the house of my mother and I along with an orphan stood behind him. And Umm Sulaym stood behind us and he led us in salah, salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And he said that all we had in that home was this one mat that we used to use for everything. It was our mattress at night. It was our carpet during the day. It was our table spread when we needed to eat. So we had this one mat and basically Umm Sulaym would wash this mat all the time with water and we just use it for everything. SubhanAllah, look at the simplicity of these people. This was a woman that was married to the richest man of Medina. The richest man of Medina in Islam. And this is what she used to do. Just this one mat that she would wipe off, wash off and we'd pray on it. SubhanAllah, and the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam would lead us in salah on that mat. This one spread that we would use. Just think of the vivid imagination even, subhanAllah, that we could put ourselves in that home. This one hasr that the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam would lead us on every single time. And then there is one incident and some of you might remember this incident from the Meeting Muhammad salAllahu alaihi wa sallam series. Where there was an orphan girl that Umm Sulaym used to take care of. And Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam saw her and it was after some time she'd grown up a bit. And the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, Antihiyya, are you her? Laqad kabirti la kabira sinnuki. You've gotten so much bigger, may you not get older. It's an expression. The Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam did not make dua against her. It's an expression. And so this young, I mean it's like you see, like I can't believe you've gotten so big. You know, you need to stop growing on me, right?
I wish you'd stop growing. When you say I wish you'd stop growing, you're not wishing death on someone. But coming from the mouth of the Messenger salAllahu alaihi wa sallam, it scared this poor young girl. So she went to Umm Sulaym weeping. And Umm Sulaym is comforting her like, what's wrong? And she's saying, Rasulullah, what did Rasulullah do to you? Like the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam made you cry? And she said, he cursed me. And she's like, what are you talking about? He put a curse on me. She said, I'm not going to grow up anymore. I'm not going to grow any further than this. She said, why? And she said, because the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, you know, may you not get older. Use that expression. So Umm Sulaym, she quickly threw on her khimar. She went running to the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And Rasulullah salAllahu alaihi wa sallam sees her coming and even the nature of how she's coming. He says, ma laki ya Umm Sulaym? What's your problem? What's going on here? Like what happened? This is very serious. And she says, ya Rasulullah, you made dua against the orphan girl. And the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, what are you talking about? And she said, you said to her, may you not grow older. And the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa sallam started to laugh. And he said, ya Umm Sulaym, don't you know? Fa ayyuma ahadin da'awtu alayhi min ummati bi da'watin laysa laha bi ahlin an taj'alaha lahu tahuran wa zakatan wa qurbatan yuqarribuhu biha minhu yawm al-qiyamah. Don't you know, Umm Sulaym, that between me and my Lord is that if I say something like that, with a Muslim, you know, in a moment, and it's not meant in a way that's a curse, then it will actually be a means of purification and purity and nearness to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on the Day of Judgment. It will actually be a blessing for them. So, you know, tell her not to worry. I didn't curse her. In sha Allah ta'ala it will actually be good for her at the end of the day.
So this was the nature of that relationship, sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, with her in her home and with the orphans that were around her. There's also another narration in Al-Bukhari about a miracle that happened in that home. And Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam says that Abu Talha came to Umm Sulaym one day and said to her that I could hear the hunger in the voice of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Look how these people were paying attention to the Messenger sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. I heard al-ju'a. I could hear the hunger in his voice. He sounded tired, he sounded fatigued, and I'm worried about him. Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha, what does she do? Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam was the kid standing there, right? Anas said that my mother took me, Umm Sulaym took me, she took all the loaves of bread that she had, she wrapped it up in one of her hijabs, and she put it under my armpit and said go to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and give him what's under your arm. So Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam went to the masjid holding the bread under his arm. And he said when I came to the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, Rasulullah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, did Abu Talha send you? And I said yes. And the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, with food? And I said yes. Now Anas is trying to keep it like private, like hey I got some bread for you here. Because there are a bunch of hungry people in the masjid too. Right? Like I've got some bread for you, like ya Rasulullah, let's go, you know, pass this off on the side. The Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam stands up and he says to all of the Ansar, let's go eat. And starts marching towards the house of Umm Sulaym and Abu Talha. So Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, I went running ahead of him to tell my parents, before they think I messed up, like I didn't give the message right. Like you were supposed to tell him eat that bread, not bring everybody to eat bread at the house.
But like before, he said I ran home and I told Abu Talha and Umm Sulaym what happened. And I said Rasulullah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam is coming with all of Ahl as-Suffah. All the people from the masjid, they're all following the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam to the house. Umm Sulaym radiAllahu ta'ala anha, subhanAllah, completely unfazed, she said Rasulullah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam knows what he's doing. So he knows best. The Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam comes in, he says to Umm Sulaym, what do you have? What's all the food that you have? So she took the bread from Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, she said ya Rasulullah, that's it. That's all I've got. And then she says that the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam took the bread, he put it into pieces. He asked her if she had any like oil or butter. She had some butter, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam put the butter on it in a bowl. And the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam made dua over it for some time. And then Rasulullah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam, he said to Anas, go tell ten people to enter. So you had this group of people outside of the house of Umm Sulaym. And batch by batch, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam enters ten men. And Rasulullah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam feeds all ten of them with his hands. And the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said, Ashra, bring another ten. So those ten leave, another ten come in. And Abu Talha and Umm Sulaym and Anas are just watching the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam serve this bread from his hand, alayhi sallatu wa sallam. And he kept on doing that until eighty men had come into the house of Umm Sulaym. And outside of her house, all eating from the bread of his hand sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. This is of course a narration also in Dalal al-Nubuwwah from the proofs of his prophethood, witnessed by many people. The miracle of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam to take small quantities and make them into large quantities. And on top of that, Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said that we had food from that one bowl that was left over for two months. So all of those men came in, eighty of them, and they ate to their fill.
And subhanAllah from that bowl, the family of Umm Sulaym, the barakah that came from that, we all ate from it for two whole months before it ran out. SallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. Another story of course in terms of the barakah of this family, the famous narration that you hear in every fundraiser. Dr. Altaf, JazakAllah khair, you always remind us of this narration. Maybe you could do it right now, you know, we do a fundraiser inshAllah ta'ala. The narration of Abu Talha radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, Anas sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said no one owned more palm trees in Medina than Abu Talha. Like he owned more property and he owned the best property, the best wells, the best trees. And his favorite property was called Bayruha, which was right in front of the Masjid of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam. And it had sweet water, like even the wells were sweet water. And Rasulullah sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam used to sit in its shade and he used to drink from it. And people used to love that garden, the dates were the best from that garden, the water was the best from that garden. And when the narration, when the ayah came down, لَن تَنَالُوا الْبِرُّ حَتَّى تُنفِقُوا مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَ You will not achieve righteousness until you spend from what you love. This is in Ali Imran. SubhanAllah, look at the purity of this man. This is a righteous household. And you understand it in the context of this, right? It's not just an isolated narration, like what this household is like. Abu Talha comes to the Prophet ﷺ, he said, يَا رَسُولُ اللهِ بَيْرُ حَاءٌ All of it, في سَبِيلِ اللهِ Take it all, في سَبِيلِ اللهِ SubhanAllah, like the Prophet ﷺ didn't ask him for that. He could have went and got another garden. He said, the best garden. And he said, I thought when I heard that ayah, when I heard you recite it from the very first time, and this shows you the pulse, the iman, look at the difference between the first husband and the second husband. Malik ibn Nadr and Abu Talha. The first time I heard this verse, I thought, what's the most مِمَّا تُحِبُّونِ What's the most beloved property I have? And this is it, يَا رَسُولُ اللهِ Take it. And the Prophet ﷺ was pleased and he said, leave some of it for your family.
SubhanAllah, but the righteousness was established. And the story becomes something that, on a serious note, right? It's one of those things that gets lost sometimes in a fundraiser because you forget that this is part of your taskiya. Like this is a story of taskiya, like purification. إِجَابَةُ الدَّاعِ Responding to the caller, right? Right away, having no hesitation, no تَرَدُّت. Immediately saying, يَا رَسُولُ اللهِ This is it. This is لِلَّهِ This is for Allah ﷻ. Until now, by the way, you know, when you go into the masjid, because the masjid has expanded to include where that garden used to be, they actually have it marked on the tiles. Three spots that mark the wells, where the wells used to be, of Abu Talha, رضي الله تعالى عنه. Rasulullah ﷺ used to go to their homes and he would take naps in their home. So this is also part of establishing the family relationship between the Prophet ﷺ and them. And Anas ﷺ said that on a hot day, the Prophet ﷺ would sweat. And Umm Sulaym, رضي الله تعالى عنها, took the sweat of the Prophet ﷺ and she contained it and she mixed it with what was known as perfume to them. And it would become the most beautiful and the most fragrant of perfume. And Rasulullah ﷺ, he noticed what she was doing, and Rasulullah ﷺ said, مَا تَصْنَعِينَ What are you doing? She said, آخذُ هَذِهِ الْبَرَكَةِ الَّتِي تَخْرُجُ مِنكَ I'm taking the blessings that are coming from you, يَا رَسُولُ اللهِ So that's the level of love. And like when we talk about Umm Ayman, رضي الله عنها, and that care and that love of the Prophet ﷺ, very similar, right? That she wanted, when the Prophet ﷺ would shave his head in Hajj or Umrah, she wanted to keep the hair of the Prophet ﷺ for herself. And Rasulullah ﷺ honoured that. Rasulullah ﷺ would give her half of the hair that was shaved from his head ﷺ for her to keep because this was the love
that she had for the Messenger ﷺ. And in battle, Ibn Sirin narrates, he says that Umm Sirin, there's a narration about her in every single battle with the Prophet ﷺ. She was watching the back of the Prophet ﷺ. She was carrying the water vessels. She was treating the wounded. She was doing everything that she possibly could to still participate, رضي الله عنها, in that battle. And one of the most beautiful narrations in this regard, because it's a whole family that the Prophet ﷺ is honouring here. Abu Talha, رضي الله عنه, he comes to the Prophet ﷺ one day, he says, ألا أضحكك من أم سليم؟ You want me to make you laugh, يا رسول الله, by telling you something about Umm Sulaym? Like, let me tell you about her antics again. Because she had this strong personality, right? So like there are jokes that are being told about how assertive she is. So he says, ألا أضحكك يا رسول الله؟ You want to laugh about something that I saw Umm Sulaym doing? So the Prophet ﷺ said, what happened? So Abu Talha says that when Khandaq was happening, غزوة الأحزاب, she said, I saw Umm Sulaym hiding a knife in her abaya. And I said to her, what are you doing? What are you going to do with that? So she said, leave me alone, because if anyone tries to attack from behind, I'm going to stab him right in the stomach. And she was dead serious, like I'm going to attack, I'm going to fight, you know, with this knife of mine and protect the Prophet ﷺ from behind. And she told the Prophet ﷺ, يا رسول الله, you take care of the mushrikun, I'll take care of the منهزمون. You take care of the ones from the front, I'll take care of the ones from the back. You take care of your enemies, if anyone from your army tries to flee, I'm going to hold the knife and I'm going to say, go back in there and fight. What are you doing abandoning the battlefield? Like she wanted to be there always for the Messenger ﷺ, always consoling him, always showing her dedication and her sacrifice. And of course,
what is the Prophet ﷺ doing? He's raising Anas ﷺ with such ihsan, with such excellence that every parent can be made to feel guilty with the story of Anas ﷺ, right? The way the Prophet ﷺ would treat him and raise him. And it doesn't stop with that. Every single person in the household is special to the Prophet ﷺ. Umm Sulaym, Abu Talha, Anas, and they have a son. And this is actually really important. Again, some of these stories you hear isolated at times. This was the only son that Umm Sulaym and Abu Talha had together at this point, Abu Umair. Umair, okay? Or Abu Umair. Umair is the only son that they have together and they're excited, they're happy. And this is the half-brother of Anas ﷺ. And he was famous for having the little bird. That he used to play with. And the Prophet ﷺ would come into the house and he would say, Ya Abu Umair, ma fa'al al-nughayr, tell me what's going on with the bird. Ya Abu Umair, ma fa'al al-nughayr, what did the little bird do? And he'd sit there next to the Prophet ﷺ and he'd tell the Prophet ﷺ everything about the bird. Rasulullah ﷺ, who has to, you know, care for this ummah, sits with this little kid and asks him all types of questions about this little bird. And then even comes to console him when the little bird passes away. Subhanallah. I mean, and this is, the beauty of this is that you learn the akhlaaq of the Prophet ﷺ through all of this as well. You're not just learning about these blessed people, you're learning about the most blessed person. Like, you've got time for that. Comforting this little boy over the loss of his bird. But more than that, was the tragedy of the death of Umair himself. So there's a timeline here. Now, Umm Sulaym has Anas. And she, as we said, Al-Bara'a ibn Malik, possibly as well, her son,
who's grown at that point as a sahabi in his own right that does things for the sake of Allah ﷻ, we'll briefly touch on him as well. This is the one child that they've had together in Islam. Okay? Abu Talha and Umm Sulaym. And Abu Talha had a deep attachment to Umair. Right? This is one child. Deep, deep attachment. And his death was sudden. So he caught a fever, and he passed away rapidly. The fever quickly increased, and of course at that time you don't really diagnose these illnesses with anything sophisticated. He died from a fever. Allah knows what he was actually struck with, but a quick fever that rose, and he passed away. And as devastated as Umm Sulaym was, and I'm going to share this story with a disclaimer from the very beginning here. This is not, what I'm going to share with you of this story is not an expectation. It's not normal. But I want you to think about the spirit of the Ansar, the selflessness which is the characteristic of the Ansar, the extreme selflessness that Allah ﷻ praises in the Qur'an, and how that's going to play out in this story. Umm Sulaym is devastated in her own right. This is her child. But she's worried about how hurt Abu Talha is going to be. So she, subhanAllah, you know, and sister Lubna, you can share all this stuff about how you're not supposed to do this in grief about delaying your own. And it's true, right? Like this is a story where we take the value and the blessing and the lesson, but subhanAllah, her whole focus becomes how she's going to break the news to Abu Talha when he comes home, when he finds out about the death of his son. So she says to Anas, subhanAllah, لا تخبره حتى أنا أخبره Don't tell him until I tell him. Let me break the news to him. And so she's grieving her son. She doesn't tell him. I mean, obviously, there is no way to tell him when he's not home. And he's out somewhere on the outskirts of Al-Madinah.
And she cooks a feast. She dresses nicely. She tries to prepare herself to tell him in a way that will comfort him and console him and allow him to be pleased with the qada of Allah, subhanAllah, to be pleased with the decree of Allah, subhanAllah. So the same evening that she goes through this, رضي الله تعالى عنها She cooks the food. She dresses well. He would have no idea what has happened. And she leaves Umayyad in his bed. And she's thinking about how she's going to break the news. Abu Talha comes home. She doesn't tell him. She waits. These are natural human struggles, right? How am I going to tell him? Maybe she had it in her mind that she's going to tell him right away. But she's struggling to break the news to him. The night passes. And they are together as husband and wife. The morning comes. She still hasn't told him. And she's struggling to tell him. Abu Talha thinks, natural day. I came home. My son was asleep. We ate and we slept. Woke up. And Umm Sulaim says to him, Ya Abu Talha, if someone loans you a gift, gives you a trust, and comes back and says, I want to take that trust back now. Someone tells you, here's a trust. You can benefit from it for some time. But when you finish with that trust, or when I need to take it back, I'll come back and get it from you. How should you return it? So Abu Talha said, he should return it with gratitude. With shukr. Like that, for whatever time you allowed me to make use of it, to benefit from this trust, from this gift that you gave me, alhamdulillah.
Should benefit. So Umm Sulaim radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha, she says to him, in a very, in a quivering voice, Inna Allaha istaradda ibnaka. Allah returned the trust of your son. Took back your son. And has taken him back in his care. Abu Talha, confused, angry, grief. Why didn't you tell me last night? Why did you wait so long? The hurt of losing his only child. There's a lot to process here in terms of emotion. And this is a very unusual situation. And he doesn't know, I mean, at the end of the day, this is a mother that just lost her child too. And everyone is, you know, and subhanAllah, you have to have mercy on people in these moments. They don't, you know, people react in different ways. So everyone is dealing with this in a way that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has guided them to deal with this. So he goes to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and this shows you the comfort that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam offers to people in these moments. Goes to Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam to help overcome like what's inside, like I'm mad at her for not telling me right away. I'm devastated at the loss of my child. I mean, just what do I make of this, ya Rasulullah? So he goes to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam upset. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam smiles at him. Interesting smile. And Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam says, barakallahu lakum fi laylatikum. As if he knows something, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, may Allah bless you in that evening you spent together. That's it, a dua. And what happened? On that very same night, she became pregnant. Subhanallah. So when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, barakallahu lakum fi laylatikum, on that very same night she became pregnant. And with all the grief and sadness over the loss of Umair,
you now have another son that is born to them. And when the son is born, they name him, with the best name in Islam, Abdullah or Abdurrahman. They name him Abdullah. And Umm Sulaim sends Anas salallahu alayhi wa sallam to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. He says, tell him the baby is here, tell him the baby is here. Rasulullah salallahu alayhi wa sallam comes to the house, excited, like an uncle, right? With love, and of course this was divine inspiration. Who's going to tell the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that that night, that very same last night that she was pregnant, that Allah azza wa jal had blessed her with this child. On the same night, before they buried their child, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed them with another child. And all of this confusion that was happening in those moments. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam comes to the house, full of joy, embraces Abu Talha, picks up the baby, and Umm Sulaim hands him a tamr, a date. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam does what is known as tahniq. He rubs the date on his, on what we do with our children, on the roof of his mouth salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he starts to rub the date in the mouth of Abdullah. Of course that sugar stimulates, that natural sugar stimulates the system. And Abdullah can't get enough of it. So he's like trying to get more of the date, more of the date, more of the date, more of the date. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam laughs, and he embraces him, and he says, Undhru hubbul ansar li tamr. Look at the ansar, they love dates. The people of Medina love tamr. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam holds this child and makes dua for this child. The one son that Abu Talha and Umm Sulaim would have together, after the one son that they lost, Abdullah ibn Abu Talha. And it doesn't stop there. Anas radiallahu ta'ala anhu says, Wallahi laqad ra'aytu li thalika alghulam. He said, from that one son, I swear by Allah, I saw from that one son, sab'a baneen. Abdullah had seven sons. kulluhum qad khatama alquran. All seven of them were huffath.
Subhanallah. Barakallahu lakum fi laylatikum. May Allah bless you in your evening. Subhanallah. From that one son, not only did Allah bless him with that one son, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave him seven grandsons that were all huffath of the Quran. And by the way, being a hafidh at that time was not as common as it is amongst us, believe it or not. Seven huffath born to that son of theirs. The dua of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam. The way that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave bushra to Ibrahim alayhi wa sallam of Isha wa min waraih Isha, Ya'qub and all of the sons, the grandchildren, grandsons and granddaughters that he would live to see alayhi salam. This is the blessing of this woman, Umm Suleim radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. And this man, Abu Talha radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. And the story of tawakul, the story of trust in Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, that Allah azza wa jal does not ignore the plight of the believers. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala knows the pain of the believers and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rewards that perseverance and that patience. This is an extraordinary story. And of course the story is an open book until now because the descendants of Umm Suleim radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha are literally too hard to trace. Some of the companions of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, they have one line of lineage. From Ana sallallahu anhu, I mean, I don't want to start giving people ideas to go claim the lineage of Ana sallallahu anhu, but let's just say it's all over the world. I mean, some of the greatest scholars of our tradition, some of the greatest heroes of our tradition, people all over the Muslim world could trace their lineage back to Ana sallallahu anhu, which traces back to Umm Suleim radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. And we will talk about Ana sallallahu anhu next week in some detail. But I want to end with this woman, with a very special narration from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam because it doesn't get better than this, right? The prize, the patience, the love, the closeness. Clearly the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam honoring this family.
The Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said an authentic hadith. He said, Dakhaltu al-jannah, I entered into paradise. And he said, Fa-itha ana bil-rumaysa'a, right away, who pops up in my face? Umm Suleim radiyaAllahu anha. Right away, I enter into jannah. Fa-itha ana bil-rumaysa'a, right away. Umm Suleim radiyaAllahu anha is in front of me. And then, Wa-sami'atu khashafa, and I heard footsteps. Qultu man hatha, I said, Ya Jibreel, who is that? Qala hatha bilal. That's Bilal radiyaAllahu anhu. And then the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam saw the palace. And he said it was so beautiful he thought it was his own palace. Who's this palace for? That's for Umar bin al-Khattab radiyaAllahu anhu. So in a narration like this, an authentic hadith, Bilal Umar al-Rumaysa, Umm Suleim, the first person, not the first man, the first person, he saw salallahu alayhi wa sallam in this vision as he entered into paradise, and the dreams of the Prophets, and the encounters of the Prophets are truth. RadiyaAllahu ta'ala anha. May Allah be pleased with her, be pleased with her husband, Abu Talha, be pleased with their children, be pleased with all of those who dedicated themselves and sacrificed themselves to this, or for this religion, and gave that companionship and that love to the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam when others gave him cruelty. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to follow in their example. Allahuma ameen. InshaAllah ta'ala, the way this is going to work, the next week we're going to talk about Anas radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. The week after that we'll talk about her sister, Umm Haram bint Minhan, and we'll talk about Ubadah ibn Samit, and then we will talk about Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. Those are the next four that we will cover. InshaAllah ta'ala we'll take us to episode 80, and then inshaAllah ta'ala we will end, we'll take a break for the Hijjah with Abu Ayyub al-Ansari radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Basically the next three weeks are with this family.
So you're going to hear more about Umm Sulaym after inshaAllah ta'ala over the next few weeks. May Allah be pleased with them all. Allahuma ameen. InshaAllah ta'ala I will take a few questions. No, no. Nine months later, yeah. As in intimacy and then the conception nine months later. But like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam smiled at Abu Talha and he's like, why are you smiling at me? He said, barakAllahu lakum fi laylatikum. You know, Allah has put something, blessed you with something. The same thing subhanAllah, sometimes causes you anger and frustration. Allah azawajal puts blessing in it. Any sisters, any questions? Now you all know why I tell people to name their daughters Rumaysa. Alright, so inshaAllah I hope some of you may Allah bless you with some righteous daughters. We'll name your daughters Rumaysa. Ibn Allahi ta'ala. Can you raise your voice? Any information about when Umm Sulaym became Muslim? When and the circumstances of her becoming a Muslim, does it? No, just it starts with the story. It's really in Tabaqat al-Ibn Sa'd and some of the books that narrate history that she was the first Muslim woman in Medina. But it starts with the story of her and her husband, Abu Talha. And Anas radiAllahu anhu, of course, very common narrator in Bukhari and Muslim, which is why you find narrations about her story in Bukhari and Muslim. It's often not the narration, it's what precedes the narration. You'll find it in the text Anas radiAllahu anhu, giving that historical background as well. So you find some of it in Bukhari and Muslim as well. But she would have been in the gathering of Banu Najjar and the first gatherings of Mus'ab ibn Umair.
And immediately Islam landed in her heart. JazakAllah khair. Any sisters? I want to give the sisters a chance. We will talk about them. When it comes to Haram ibn Minhan, Sulaym, I believe it was Bitr Ma'una. So I'll talk about it next week. I have to go back and check which battle it was. But it will come up in the context of the story. There's another question? Could you raise your voice a bit? There we go. That would be better. I'm not sure if I missed this, but could you clarify her relationship as a maternal aunt? Was that figurative? So it was either through riba'ah, through breastfeeding, or through actually being a great maternal aunt to the Prophet ﷺ. Because they're from the maternal side of Abdul Mutalib. So she would either be like a second aunt. And of course, the way marriage ages used to work at the time, it's natural to have an aunt that's younger than you or things of that sort. So she wasn't that much older than the Prophet ﷺ, but some say she was a second aunt to the Prophet ﷺ, and some say it was through the fostering, the nursing of her. JazakAllah khair. JazakAllah khair. Yes? Definitely in COVID, don't take anybody else for that. There are some sayings of the ulama in that regard. So it's preferable Allah knows best, the father or the parent with their child. JazakAllah khair. But it's a good question. There is some discussion about it though.
Some of the scholars did allow it, for sure. Of a righteous person by extension. How old was Umair when he passed away? He would have been under the age of eight, if you look at the nature of the ages. So Anas was ten. This happens after the battle of Ahzab, so he would have been seven or eight years old maximum. No, Anas did not meet the Prophet ﷺ until after Aqaba, in Madinah. Any other questions? Sorry, I know that was heavy. It's one of my favorite stories for a reason. There are so many lessons that I hope we can take for ourselves in the night time. Any other questions before we stop for a shot? You have a question? We'll take the last question over here. You talked about the simplicity of the life they had. And at the same time, the husband was one of the richest men in Madinah. Was it just simple living, or was it a hardship through their life? That's a great question, SubhanAllah. Something that I actually thought of as well. When you read about the one rug that they would use in the house. Is it that they chose a simple life? That seems to be the case. There are no stories about their poverty. Other than the fact that this was the one rug that they had, that they would use for everything. But there was no story of them going hungry, for example, or things of that sort. Granted the story of, لَن تَنَالُوا بِالرَّحَةَ تُنفِقُوا مِمَّا تُحِبُّونَ It seems that the wealth that they had would have been spent throughout Islam.
And realize the Prophet ﷺ made du'a for Anas's wealth. And Anas, his estate would grow. And he wouldn't know where it was coming from. SubhanAllah, there was just so much blessing that came in that wealth of that family. And it sort of goes to so many of these concepts. If you spend, then it comes back to you. أنفق وانفق عليك So the blessing that covered that entire family afterwards is established as well. The ghina in that regard. سبحان الله و الحمد لك
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