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Zayd ibn Thabit (ra): The Scribe of the Prophet ﷺ | The Firsts
Zayd bin Thabit (ra) was a young genius when the Prophet ﷺ came to Madinah. He now shares a reward in the recitation of every Muslim due to his compiling of the Quran. During this episode of The Firsts, Dr. Omar Suleiman talks about Zayd Ibn Thabit (ra), the scribe of the Prophet ﷺ.
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In the name of Allah, the most merciful, the most compassionate. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. No one is worthy of worship except against the wrongdoers. The right path is for the righteous. May Allah bless and bless your servant and messenger Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, and his family and companions. We finished the poets of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and then we moved on now to Nusaybah, may Allah be pleased with her. We spoke about Nusaybah, who really doesn't fit in the category because she is truly one of her own. She is in a league all by herself. There is no one like her. She is a leader, a leader of the people. She is a leader of the people.
She is a leader of the people. She is a leader of the people. She is a leader of the people.
She is a leader of the people.
As I said last week, we want to now go into the keepers of the Quran from amongst the Ansar, from amongst those companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him,
specifically from the Ansar, who would maintain the Quran around the messenger, peace and blessings be upon him. And I want to recall a narration from Anas ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, where he said,
جمع القرآن على عهد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أربع كلهم من الأنصار So that there were four people that were considered the keepers of the Quran when the Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him, passed away, that memorized the Quran through and through, and committed its entirety to memory, and basically could be the authorities of the Quran. And he said,
أبي بن كعب ومعاذ بن جبل وزيد بن ثابت وأبو زيت So he mentions in this narration,
أبي بن كعب ومعاذ بن جبل وزيد بن ثابت وأبو زيت Now in one narration he also says, أبو درداء رضي الله عنه
So again, أبو درداء, who we already covered, أبي بن كعب, معاذ بن جبل, زيد بن ثابت, and أبو زيت
So they asked Anas, صلى الله عليه وسلم, who is أبو زيت, قال أحد عمومتي is one of my uncles, he was one of my paternal uncles, so he's not a famous companion of the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم So therefore from the famous companions of the Prophet, صلى الله عليه وسلم,
who are known to memorize the Quran, زيد بن ثابت, أبي بن كعب, معاذ بن جبل, and أبو درداء رضي الله عنه in one narration So we're going to cover the other three, since we already covered أبو درداء رضي الله عنه
And there is no person who has greater right to be spoken about when we're talking about the collection of the Quran than زيد بن ثابت
I want you to just imagine for a moment that the Quran that you pick up, every single one single time you read that Mus'haf, زيد has a share of the reward, رضي الله عنه
Because زيد بن ثابت is the person who collected the Quran both times He is the one who authorized the collection of the Quran, who brought it together to be standardized and passed down both times
So just imagine, سبحان الله, the reward of this man, that each and every single time a Muslim picks up a Mus'haf and starts to recite the Quran, زيد بن ثابت رضي الله عنه gets a share
So he is, as Imam al-Zahabi, رحمه الله, titled him, الإمام الكبير شيخ المقرئين والفرضيين
He says the Imam, the great Imam, and the Sheikh of the people of قراءة, of those who used to recite the Quran, and الفرضيين are the people of inheritance, the scholars
of inheritance, مفتي المدينة, the Mufti of مدينة زيد بن ثابت رضي الله عنه He is from the same tribe as the maternal relatives of the Prophet صلى الله عليه
وسلم from the Ansar You all should be able to say this tribe now very quickly بن نجار Very good, so he is from بن نجار from خزرج, which is the maternal relatives
or the maternal tribe of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم His father is a man by ثابت بن ضحاك And the beauty of زيد بن ثابت is that he actually narrates much of his story
So he says, my father ثابت بن ضحاك was one of those who went out to fight on the day of بعث, the major war that took place between Aus and خزرج
My father was one of those people who went out to fight and he was killed on that day and زيد was only six years old So زيد رضي الله عنه became an orphan because his father died in بعث
and he was only six years old Now, subhanAllah, we talked about a great woman last week and truly when you talk about زيد, the great woman in his life is his mother
And his mother's name is النوار بنت مالك النوار بنت مالك رضي الله عنها She actually says that when I was pregnant with زيد, I had an interesting dream
She said رأيت على الكعبة I saw on the كعبة, I saw myself when I was carrying زيد, a dream of the كعبة And on the كعبة was خز خضراً وصفراً
That on the كعبة, the كسوة of the كعبة was a cloth that was green and yellow silk So this beautiful كسوة that was covering the كعبة
So she interpreted that dream at the time, you know, when she sees the كعبة covered in this beautiful cloth green and yellow cloth that Allah سبحانه وتعالى was going to give her someone very special through this child that she was pregnant with
And what we find from النوار بنت مالك is that she is basically the woman in the background that then takes it upon herself to raise زيد in a certain way So subhanAllah, when you talk about the reward of زيد
some of that credit goes to his mother رضي الله تعالى عنها who would invest in him as a widow that decided that my son is going to be exceptional and I had this dream and I believe he's going to be exceptional
So she basically raises this six-year-old boy in this beautiful way to be a scholar She doesn't know what he's going to be a scholar of yet because this is before Islam
But she wants him to be amongst those special educated people from المدينة And the only narration we have actually from her that's authentic is a narration where she says
كان بيتي أطول بيت حول المسجد فكان بلال يؤذن فوقه من أول ما أذن إلا أن بنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم مسجده So the only narration she has is that she says
my house was the tallest house next to where the eventual masjid of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم would be built So she says that before the masjid was built the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to stand on my house
I'm sorry, Bilal رضي الله عنه used to stand on my house and give the adhan The only thing we have from the mother of زيد as a narration from her is this that my house was the house that Bilal رضي الله عنه would stand on
and give the adhan until the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم built his masjid and then Bilal رضي الله عنه would stand on that masjid and then in the end of that hadith in Abu Dawood that زيد رضي الله عنه would eventually lead her Salatul Janazah
وكبر عليها أربعة and he led the Janazah with four Takbirat on his mother May Allah سبحانه وتعالى be pleased with them both So this is it But everything you're going to hear from زيد
has to do with the investment of a great mother in him So basically what she does with him is she sends him to some of the مكاتب some of the places where people would learn to read
and at that time who were the most literate people in Medina Who do you think they were? The Jews, the Yahud, right? They had the Midrash system The مكاتب of the Yahud when you hear that they had the Midrash system, the Tawrah schools
where the people would go, the children would go and they would learn how to read So they had some relatives that had converted to Judaism before Islam So she allowed زيد رضي الله تعالى عنه to learn how to read and write
بين صديان اليهود في المكاتب between the children of the Jewish community in Medina He learned how to read and write at a very early age Now, think about this by the way
It was rare at that time to find an adult that was literate What do you do with a six-year-old boy that picks up how to read and write, right?
So زيد was a genius and he showed signs very early on of being quick Quick to pick up reading and writing Quick to grasp what was being taught to him رضي الله تعالى عنه
So what happens is مصعب رضي الله عنه comes to Medina And نوار بنت مالك immediately accepts Islam with her son Okay زيد رضي الله تعالى عنه
was only 11 years old And he memorized the entirety of what had been revealed from the Qur'an up until that point before the Prophet ﷺ even got to Medina through مصعب You understand how spectacular this is?
This 11-year-old boy dedicated himself to the ambassador of the Prophet ﷺ to Medina before the Prophet ﷺ even got there with the support of his mother and memorized all of what مصعب had of the Qur'an
before the Prophet ﷺ even set foot in Medina Subhanallah Then he tells a story He says, so when the Prophet ﷺ came to Medina I was 11 Right?
My mom asked my relatives to take me to the Prophet ﷺ and to let me read the Qur'an to the Prophet ﷺ So he says
that my relatives, maternal relatives they take this kid genius to the Prophet ﷺ Right? So you have the story of Um Suleim bringing أَنَا صَدِي اللَّهُ عَنهُ and saying Ya Rasulullah just take him Right? And now you have a Nawar ibn Malik saying
take my son to the Prophet ﷺ and let him hear what my son has to offer I have a special boy and I want the Prophet ﷺ to hear what he has to offer So they came to the Prophet ﷺ فَقَالُوا يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهُ
هَذَا غُلَامٌ مِن بَنِ نَجَارِ وَقَدْ قَرَأَ مِمَّا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْكَ سَبْعَ عَشَرَةَ سُورَةً So, O Messenger of Allah this is a young boy from Banu Najjar and he has 17 surahs of the Qur'an
that he can recite to you from his memory So listen to what he has to say قَالَ فَقَرَأْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَمُ So I sat in front of the Prophet ﷺ and I read to him SubhanAllah it's beautiful when you get a first-hand
narration like this like I remember being brought as an 11-year-old talk about being intimidated read to the Prophet ﷺ you know, it's not like read to the Imam of the Haram read to the Prophet ﷺ
قَالَ فَقَرَأْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ So I read the entirety of what I memorized of the Qur'an to the Messenger ﷺ فَأَعْجَبَهُ ذَٰلِكَ So the Prophet ﷺ was clearly pleased by what he saw
it's an amazing thing to witness this child you know, that is literate and that already memorizes the entirety of what has been revealed of the Qur'an to the Prophet ﷺ
Now the next request the Prophet ﷺ is going to make of him is a very interesting request قَالَ يَا زَيْدْ He said Zayd I said نعم يا رسول الله what is it O Messenger of Allah
قَالَ تَعَلَّمْ لِي كِتَابَ يَهُودٍ I want you to learn Hebrew pick up Hebrew for me I want someone to communicate between me and the Jewish tribes and their language
so I want you to go learn Hebrew I'm an 11 year old kid I just memorized some of the Qur'an and my mom brought me to the Prophet ﷺ and now go learn the language of the Jewish communities go learn Hebrew Zayd رضي الله عنه says
فَتَعَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا مَضَى لِي نِصْفُ شَهْرٍ حَتَّى حَدَفْتُهُ He said that so حَتَّى حَدَقْتُهُ He said that so I learned it and it only took me half a month two weeks basically
to learn enough Hebrew to be able to write read and write and communicate so I came back to the Prophet ﷺ and I told the Prophet ﷺ I've got it I'm good to go he's not a normal kid let's be very clear here
some of the kids are sitting here like alright so this is a new expectation you know parents are going to say why can't you memorize the Qur'an in two weeks Zayd رضي الله عنه did it right go learn a language or something I mean he's a special kid he's a unique child in this regard
so the Prophet ﷺ was clearly pleased with that and Zayd رضي الله عنه said I have the competency now to be able to read and write and communicate with the Jewish communities and the Prophet ﷺ said to me
أَتُحْسِنُ السُّرْيَانِيَّ Do you know how to speak Syriac? Syriac is an ancient language much of the early scriptures of the Jews and the Christians are written in Syriac right
so do you speak Syriac? Zayd رضي الله عنه says no so the Prophet ﷺ says فَتَعْلَمْهَا go learn Syriac now so Zayd رضي الله عنه goes no Rosetta Stone
no language app goes and he learns Syriac so he said فَتَعْلَمْتُهَا فِي سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا I learned it in 17 days came back to the Prophet ﷺ
said I've got Syriac down and in one narration the Prophet ﷺ said okay what about Persian فَارْسِ go learn Persian he said that took me 16 days precisely to go learn Persian so basically
he's a scribe and he was a child that could read and write in Arabic already in Arabic when in a time where many adult companions the majority of them could not read and write and he went and he picked up enough languages
to be able to communicate on behalf of the Prophet ﷺ to different religious communities رضي الله تعالى عنهم now Zayd رضي الله عنه could have just kept it there and said that's it
but his mom and himself wanted more he came to the Prophet ﷺ on the day of Badr and the Prophet ﷺ sent him home because he was too young
he wasn't old enough to fight on the day of Badr and his mother brings him back and he comes on the day of Uhud Ya Rasulullah I want to fight on your behalf the Prophet ﷺ tells him
he's still too young to fight now keep in mind by the way he had an older brother named Yazid who did fight in the battle of Badr and who would die shaheed in the battle of Yamama so he has a brother who's a Badri companion one older brother named Yazid
but he was too young to fight on the days of Badr and Uhud and subhanAllah some of the scholars actually tie that context to his learning these languages like imagine you know you're brought to the Prophet ﷺ and you say I want to fight
and the Prophet ﷺ says you're too young you know like what do you do at that point do you just go home and hang out and waste your youth or do you find something productive to do what did Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه say he did he dedicated himself to the Qur'an
he kept dedicating himself to the Qur'an فَيُحْسِنُ الْقِرَاءَ he kept on perfecting his recitation of the Qur'an right so I can't be with the Prophet ﷺ on the battlefield but I am going to perfect
my recitation of the Qur'an and so he rises amongst the companions quickly as this young man that is unmatched in his recitation of the Qur'an
in his scholarship of the Qur'an SubhanAllah a fun fact and it's very interesting but Zayd's eventual wife Zayd's eventual wife is a very interesting woman so this is a little bit of a tangent
but it's a beautiful tangent actually you know the famous story of Abdurrahman ibn Uth رضي الله عنه when he got to Medina and he was hosted by a man Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' رضي الله عنه who said here is half of everything half of my wealth
half of my gardens half of my property and he was married to two women he said you know you can marry one of my two wives whatever you want I want to give you everything that I have because he was so generous
he sort of embodies the spirit of the Ansar this man Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' رضي الله عنه was martyred on the day of Uhud so follow me for a moment inshaAllah he was martyred on the day of Uhud
Zayd was too young to fight on the day of Uhud Sa'd ibn al-Rabi' is one of the shuhada of Uhud رضي الله عنه when Sa'd was martyred his wife was pregnant
and she gave birth to a girl named Jamila Jamila bint Sa'd because it's important to look at the women sometimes in the series in the story and the people behind the scenes
so Jamila bint Sa'd was born an orphan girl her uncle as well Sa'd's brother was also killed in Uhud he's also one of the shuhada of Uhud so she's basically an orphan girl
Abu Bakr رضي الله عنه took care of her and then when she got old enough she married Zayd ibn Thabit and this couple of Zayd ibn Thabit and Jamila bint Sa'd
actually produced one of the greatest scholars of all time Kharij ibn Zayd who we'll talk about alright so this is an interesting note because you can see the way a community is actually coming together and how this generation of companions is passing on
another generation of incredible human beings so Zayd رضي الله عنه was too young to fight in Uhud and his wife was born on the day of Uhud basically right after Uhud
an orphan girl raised by Abu Bakr as-Siddiq رضي الله عنه and then eventually Jamila bint Sa'd is the most famous wife of Zayd ibn Thabit رضي الله عنه so Zayd رضي الله عنه kind of develops this reputation
of being the qari of the Prophet ﷺ the one who would document the Qur'an when it would come to the Prophet ﷺ Zayd رضي الله عنه says كان رسول الله ﷺ إذا نزل عليه الوحي
he said when the Prophet ﷺ used to receive revelation بعث إليّ he would immediately call for me فكتبته and I would write that wahi I would write the revelation as it came fresh to the Prophet ﷺ
so when the Prophet ﷺ received the revelation imagine being that young man he said where is Zayd and another narration the Prophet ﷺ said ادعو لي زيدا as soon as he received the revelation he said go call Zayd
وقل له يجيء بالكتف والدواء and tell him to bring the ink pot and to bring the parchments and the scrolls that he will write the Qur'an on so Zayd was there with the Prophet ﷺ
when he would receive the Qur'an and he would be the one to actually write it down and preserve it for the Prophet ﷺ and for the companions so he becomes the most knowledgeable in the Qur'an
he knows multiple languages رضي الله عنهم he's also as the Prophet ﷺ said in authentic hadith أفرد أمتي Zayd ibn Thabit the most knowledgeable person in my ummah on the laws of inheritance
was Zayd ibn Thabit the most knowledgeable person in my ummah on the laws of inheritance it goes back to his mom you know why?
because his mom made sure he learned math all right so Zayd رضي الله عنه knew math he knew how to read and write he knew languages he knew the Qur'an so he grasped what very few people can grasp by the way
the inheritance equations and the laws and be able to give fatwa with that he grasped it رضي الله عنه so strongly that the Prophet ﷺ by his testimony he said Zayd is the most knowledgeable
of the laws of inheritance Imam al-Sha'bi رحمه الله said غلب زيد الناس على اثنين Zayd رضي الله عنه surpassed all the people in two things القرآن والفرائض the Qur'an and the inheritance laws
and you know in one narration they said that the laws of inheritance would be lost if it wasn't for Zayd ibn Thabit رضي الله عنه the way that he was able to codify it and able to
immediately put it into application for people during the generation of the companions and then immediately afterwards رضي الله عنه so he is the scholar or one of the great scholars of this
ummah and he doesn't give up his dream of being next to the Prophet ﷺ in battle we find that
Zayd ibn Thabit رضي الله عنه on the day of khandaq comes back to the Prophet ﷺ and he
said I was 16 years old the Prophet ﷺ said okay now you can fight so Zayd رضي الله عنه despite being this scholar of the Qur'an the scholar of the laws of inheritance this scholar
of languages says to the Prophet ﷺ يا رسول الله to the original intention can I please serve alongside you in the battlefield and the Prophet ﷺ took him رضي الله عنه
in the battle of khandaq and allowed him to participate there now it's very rare to find a person as well that all of the Sahaba gathered around this way and considered a scholar there are
a few people rare people amongst the Sahaba in this regard one of the most beautiful narrations is with Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه Abdullah ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه who would go on to
become known as the scholar of the ummah he was only 13 when the Prophet ﷺ died his greatest
teacher after the Prophet ﷺ of course is Zayd ibn Thabit so the teacher of the teacher of the ummah is Zayd ibn Thabit and one of the most beautiful images that you see and it's from
adab طالب العلم from the manners of a student of knowledge you'll often find this narration in those manuals Zayd رضي الله عنه when he approached on his horse or on his camel Ibn
Abbas رضي الله عنه immediately goes and he grabs the reins and he starts to guide the horse and guide the camel and Zayd رضي الله عنه says تنح يا ابن عم رسول الله ﷺ
it's okay let it go Oh son of the of the uncle of the Prophet ﷺ Oh cousin of the Prophet ﷺ and Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه would be taking him around and he would say
إنا هكذا نفعل بعلمائنا وكبرائنا this is how we treat our scholars and our elders
Zayd is like 18 and Ibn Abbas is like 12 talk about adab being learned early on
سبحان الله this is how we treat our scholars and our elders Zayd رضي الله عنه gets down and he kisses the hand of Ibn Abbas and he says هكذا نفعل بآل بيت نبينا ﷺ
and this is how we treat the family of the Prophet ﷺ this is that nurturing of these young people
around the Prophet ﷺ Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه says about him لقد علم المحفوظون من أصحاب محمد ﷺ
زيد بن ثابت من الراسخين في العلم the companions of the Prophet ﷺ knew that Zayd is one of the most foremost in knowledge
and they used to praise him as such this young man amongst us who everyone knew was a special scholar
a special young man Ali ibn al-Madini رحمه الله who was the teacher of Imam Bukhari رحمه الله one of the great teachers
he says about Zayd رضي الله عنه he says لم يكن من الصحابة أحد له أصحاب حفظوا عنه وقاموا بقوله في الفقه إلا ثلاثة
he said that there are only three companions of the Prophet ﷺ that basically had madhab of sorts that had their own schools of thoughts that people would quote them and they were basically schools of fiqh
in and of themselves and he says Zayd و عبد الله meaning Ibn Mas'ud و Ibn Abbas so Zayd و عبد الله بن مسعود و عبد الله بن عباس and the narrations in this regard are many
مسروق رضي الله عنه he says that كان أصحاب الفتوى من أصحاب رسول الله ﷺ
that the people of fatwa from the companions of the Prophet ﷺ were Umar و علي و بن مسعود و زيد و أبي و أبو موسى
so again Umar و علي و بن مسعود و زيد و أبي و أبو موسى رضي الله عنهم أجمعين Imam al-Sha'bi رحمه الله says القضاء أربعة the judges of the companions are four
Umar و علي و زيد و بن مسعود Umar و علي و زيد و عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عنهم أجمعين so the narrations are many about sort of the man's school of thought
and when you read the books of hadith some of the most technical narrations are from Zayd رضي الله عنه where he's breaking down property laws, inheritance laws, disputes
Zayd is often the one who's judging even between the companions in regards to their disputes and his greatest impact actually is on the school of the Madhhab of Imam Malik رحمه الله تعالى
I know I'm getting a little bit ahead of myself because we're still in the time of the Prophet ﷺ but it gives you a little bit of his personality Imam Malik رحمه الله said كان امام الناس عندنا بعد عمر زيد بن ثابت و كان امام الناس عندنا بعد زيد بن عمر
that to us Umar بن الخطاب is the greatest influence on our school and then it's Zayd and then it's Ibn Umar okay and one of the famous things about Zayd is that كان يقول إذا سئل عن الأمر
when he was asked about something he would respond and say أكان هذا did it happen yet so if they said yes قال حدث فيه بالذي يعلم then he would give an answer
meaning what Zayd did not like people engaging hypotheticals you know knowledgeable people tend to get into the hypotheticals the theoreticals and they spend a lot of times talking about things that haven't happened yet
and don't actually happen right and so Zayd رضي الله عنه was cautious with his knowledge so he would ask you if you asked him about a situation did it happen before you even you know are you just trying to get me to break
down some complicated inheritance law for you or did this situation actually happen and if they said yes then he would respond and if it did not happen then he would say فذروه حتى يكون then come back to me if it happens
meaning he was cautious with the knowledge that Allah سبحانه وتعالى had given to him he also took some of the manners of how to teach from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so his most famous son خارجه Zayd he says
دخل نفر على زيد بن ثابت فقال له حدثنا أحاديث رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم that a group of young men entered upon Zayd and they said teach us some of the narrations of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
قال ماذا أحدثكم he said what should i teach you and he says كنت جاره i was the neighbor of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم فكان إذا نزل عليه الوحي بعث إلي فكتبته له
when revelation used to come to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he used to call for me and i used to come and write for him but this is what he says about the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he says كنا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا ذكرنا الدنيا ذكرها معنا
وإذا ذكرنا الآخرة ذكرها معنا وإذا ذكرنا الطعام ذكره معنا when we used to sit with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم if we talked about worldly things the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم engaged us in those discussions
so he talked about normal things as well but he gave beneficial advice about the dunya and if we talked about the affairs of the hereafter the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about the affairs of the hereafter with us and if we talked about food
the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم talked about food with us meaning what that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was a very approachable human being you could sit with him and it wasn't only that you talked to him about the hereafter
right so he said I'll relate to you what the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had to say about all this basically saying that it's not like the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم only used to talk to us about this stuff so what do you want me to say to you about the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I have a whole list of occasions
I could tell you about his shama'il صلى الله عليه وسلم now one of my favorite narrations about him in this hadith is a narration from anas and anas رضي الله عنه
describes himself as a student of Zayd ibn Thabit رضي الله عنه and he says that one day the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and Zayd ibn Thabit had suhoor together تسحر so once they finished their suhoor together
قام النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم إلى الصلاة the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم got up to go to صلاة الفجر and he prayed so they asked Zayd رضي الله عنه because he ate suhoor with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and then they went out to pray fajr
they asked Zayd how long was the time between suhoor and the actual fajr prayer from the time that the adhan of fajr basically came in to the time the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
actually ended up praying he could have answered رضي الله عنه and he could have said you know it was about 30 minutes it was this long or that long and instead he said it was about the time
that it would take to read 50 ayat of the quran so like he measures time by ayat of the quran he said it was about the time that it would take to read 50 ayat of the quran
that is what I took from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in that regard so basically he describes even his time by the quran that's the amount of attachment that he has to the book of Allah سبحانه وتعالى
another narration subhanallah about the intimacy of Zayd رضي الله عنه to the fresh revelation this is one of the most powerful narrations about the revelation of the quran when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to receive the quran
you noticed it on him right it was heavy and when he would receive the quran صلى الله عليه وسلم I mean the description of him is that if he was sitting on a camel then the knees of the camel would buckle
لو أنزلنا هذا القرآن على جبل إلا رأيته خاشعا متصدعا من خشية الله the quran if it was revealed on a mountain it would shatter the mountains and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had to receive the quran upon his heart
so when the quran came upon the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم you could see the effect of it on the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said I was with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
and his leg was on top of my leg you know like we were sitting together young people sitting together as a means of just brotherhood and friendship a student with his teacher
somehow the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was leaning on Zayd رضي الله عنه and the quran started to descend upon the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said I looked at the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
and I knew that it was coming down to him in those moments and Allah عز و جل revealed to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يستوي القاعدون من المؤمنين والمجاهدون في سبيل الله
that not equal are those who sit back and those who go forth with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم from the believers not equal are those who sit back and those who go forth in the path of Allah سبحانه وتعالى
with the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Zayd says the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم's leg was on my leg and his leg became so heavy that I thought I was going to lose my leg that day
he said his leg weighed so much when the revelation came to him he said Wallahi I thought I was about to lose my leg and he said until the revelation stopped coming to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and it relieved
and Ibn Umm Maktoum رضي الله عنه the blind companion came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he complained that Ya Rasulullah what about those of us who can't go out
like he saw as a condemnation of القاعدون those that sit and Jibreel عليه السلام came back to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم with the completion of the ayah غير أُلِي الضرر except for those who have an excuse
and Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه when he was narrating this he said that I swear by Allah لكأني أنظر as if I'm looking at the place on the shoulder meaning the parchment that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم commanded me to write
like I'm narrating this incident to you and I'm remembering it so fresh I remember the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم telling me to write down the Quran as it came to him صلى الله عليه وسلم and the heaviness the weight of the word of Allah and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
physically was so heavy that I almost lost my leg when the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was leaning on me on that day as the Quran came to him صلى الله عليه وسلم you can imagine then that Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه
has a very different relationship with the Quran imagine having been there right what the Quran means to you like how special is it when he recites the Quran when he can actually recall the times that it came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم
and narrate those times that it came to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so some of the sahaba they came to Zayd رضي الله عنه and they asked Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه
كيف ترى في قراءة القرآن في سبع what do you think about someone who finishes the Quran in seven days فقال زيد حسن Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه said that's good
he said but I prefer to recite it over two weeks it's a very interesting lesson so the people were confused and Zayd رضي الله عنه said
aren't you going to ask me why that is why two weeks or in one narration two weeks or ten days meaning I prefer to extend it a little bit to recite it a little bit slower so they asked Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه why is that
and he said لكي أتتبره وأقف عليه because I like to actually reflect on the verses and spend my time take my time with its reflection
so you find some companions that of course used to recite the Quran in much shorter spans and you find some companions that used to prefer to drag it out everything is عبادة when it comes to the Quran everything is worship when it comes to the Quran and of course when Ramadan came
it was the عبادة of recitation right the khatms of the Quran but here you have Zayd رضي الله تعالى عنه saying that I personally prefer to drag out the recitation so that أتتبره
so that I could do proper تدبر I could do proper reflection on the Quran when I recite the Quran he took from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم also a very beautiful characteristic of how he was with his family
how he was with his family this is very interesting because it's in كتاب حسن الخلق the book of الأدب المفرد from Imam Al-Bukhari رحمه الله which talks about the manners the noble manners the book of حسن الخلق
the book of good character and there's a narration from Thabit بن عبيد about Zayd بن Thabit so most of these narrations are about the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم of course in أدب المفرد Bukhari sometimes put some of the narrations about the companions
قال ما رأيت أحدا أجلّ إذا جلس مع القوم ولا أفكه في بيته من زيد بن ثابت which basically translates into what
I never saw a man in my life who had such dignity when he sat with the people meaning like you know I mean you're talking about glory literally here right like when the man is there
everyone is like that's Zayd بن Thabit he had that presence رضي الله تعالى عنه but at the same time ولا أفكه في بيته who was more playful in his home than Zayd بن Thabit isn't that beautiful
this great teacher of the ummah I never saw anyone who was more serious dignified when he was with the people yet more playful when he was with his family that he balanced those two characteristics رضي الله تعالى عنه
like Zayd بن Thabit رضي الله تعالى عنه which shows you the impact of the Qur'an the impact of that companionship of the Prophet ﷺ upon him and there is a narration about him as well and there are many
about his virtues that Zayd رضي الله عنه was very insistent upon being early to the salah and catching the salah and one day he came to the salah and the people were leaving and he put his head down
and he said إنه من لا يستحي من الناس لا يستحي من الله person who is not ashamed from the people is not ashamed from Allah basically what the Prophet ﷺ said if you have no shame then do as you wish he is saying
you know the shame that I feel right now walking into the masjid when people have already finished their salah and leaving that a person who doesn't feel that hayat that level of modesty and that level of shame is not going to feel shame from Allah سبحانه وتعالى
is not going to feel shame from God and from the sight of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so this was Zayd with the Prophet ﷺ a dignified man a person of the Qur'an a person that people surrounded
and learned from in every way that they possibly could and has a position amongst the companions while he's still a teenager all of this is while he's still a teenager
so what then of the old age when he grows up رضي الله تعالى عنه and can command a level of respect and can command a greater level of systemizing what he learned from the Prophet ﷺ
after he passes away he's also one of those people who remember when the Prophet ﷺ passed away there was a chance of tribulation of fitna between the people of Medina and the people of Mecca the Ansar and the Muhajireen he's one of the people that stood up
and said اِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَى اللَّهُ عَلِيهِ وَسَلَامَ كَانَ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَنَحْنُ أَنصَارُهُ وَإِنَّمَا يَكُونُ الْإِمَامُ مِنَ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ وَنَحْنُ أَنصَارُهُ said the Prophet ﷺ was from the Muhajireen was from the people who migrated from Mecca
and we supported the Prophet ﷺ we were his Ansar the Imam therefore should be from the Muhajireen and we will continue to be their Ansar we will continue to support and be of great help
Abu Bakr mentioned that to Zayd ﷺ جزاكم الله خيرا يا معشر الأنصار May Allah ﷻ reward you O people of the Ansar
وَالثَّبَّةَ قَائِلَكُمْ And may Allah ﷻ grant firmness to the one who speaks and he said if you spoke other than that it would have been a hindrance
Zayd ﷺ had a level of tawfiq a level of blessing and weight in his voice where he was able to be a part of keeping the community together and keeping them moving in one single direction
so this is his life with the Prophet ﷺ now where does he really shine after all of this what was Allah preparing him for
it was inconceivable to the companions of the Prophet ﷺ that the Qur'an would ever be lost inconceivable why because you had so many people that were with the Prophet ﷺ and that memorized the Qur'an
so the idea of the Qur'an being lost was not a real idea it wasn't a real fear until the man who we spoke in detail about last week did what he did
who was the tyrant that we spoke about last week
Musaylim al-Kadha the man who crucified and dismembered Habib ibn Zayd the son of Nusayba ibn Ka'b the man who would murder without conscience and who was killing so many of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ
and so what ends up happening is that the battle of Yamama takes place
this is the battle where Nusayba and her son Abdullah are there to witness the death of this false prophet the death of this tyrant Musaylim al-Kadha
and this is the battle in which Zayd's brother as well died Yazid his older brother was a shaheed in the battle of Yamama and Zayd himself fought in the battle of Yamama
so what happens after that is that Umar goes up to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and he says that
Inna al-Qatla qad istaharra yawma al-Yamama bi-n-nas wa inni akhsha an yastahirra al-qatlu bil-qurraa fil-mawatimi fayadhaba kathiru minal-Qur'an
so many people were killed in the battle of Yamama there are so many casualties I mean we never thought we'd lose so many companions just like that so many people were killed on the day of Yamama
and I'm afraid that in other battlefields more hafadha of the Qur'an are going to be killed
back then the companions memorized the Qur'an the Qur'an was compiled upon parchments and upon scrolls in the house of Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha and in different places copies
but the idea of needing even a mushaf to pass around you know for people to print the mushafs they didn't think they needed that because so many people are hafadha anyway
but Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha from his foresight he goes to Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha and he says listen we saw how many companions just died
and I'm afraid that there could be another mass killing of companions of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam
so he says wa inni la ara an tajma al Qur'an I think Abu Bakr that you should order an official commission to compile the Qur'an and then we have multiple copies so that it doesn't get lost
so that we don't have any fear of multiple people being killed Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anha says to Umar kaifa afalu shay'an lam yafa'alhu rasulallahi salallahu alayhi wa sallam how should I do what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam himself did not do
meaning this commission that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam did not do it in this way so how should I do what the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam did not do Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu said huwa wallahi khair ya Abu Bakr I promise you Abu Bakr I swear by Allah that this is a good thing
this is not an innovation the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam taught us to write the Qur'an and to memorize the Qur'an this is just having an extra measure of safety of preservation of the Qur'an
so in this beautiful conversation you know and talk about one conversation that changes the course of history Abu Bakr and Umar both agree that the only person that could oversee a project like this is Zayd ibn Thabit
Zayd ibn Thabit is 20 years old and about to undertake the most important task probably in the history of the Ummah
20 years old or 21 max and he has to come forth now and the two sheikhs of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam the two elders from the companions call him and they sit him down
and they say to Zayd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu listen we need you to oversee the compilation of the Mus'haf
we want to have this preserved in multiple ways and you're the only person who we think is fit to lead this
Zayd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu is like taking a back like this is a heavy responsibility like me so he says falam yazal Umar yuraji'uni fihi hatta sharahaAllahu li dhalika sadri
Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu kept on doing so until it finally sat well with Zayd radiyaAllahu anhu as it did with Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu
and Abu Bakr radiyaAllahu anhu said to Zayd innaka rajulun shabun aqilun wala natahimuka this is a beautiful testimony of character you're a young man you're intelligent
wala natahimuka your character is flawless meaning you have the mind for it and you have the character for it we know you to be a trustworthy person we know you to be a person who does not cheat who does not lie
so we trust you to hear that from Abu Bakr is a huge testimony imagine being this 20 year old hearing that from Abu Bakr in the presence of Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhuma
Zayd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu he says that Abu Bakr continued and he said kuntataktubulwahya lirasulillahi salallahu alayhi wasalam you were the one the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam used to call to write the wahy
you were the most famous scribe of the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam with the revelation so we need you to compile it once again we need you to oversee its compilation once again
Zayd radiyaAllahu anhu says wallahi law kallafani naqla jabalan minal jibal maa kana athqal alayya mimma amrani bihi min jama'il quran
he said I swear by Allah Abu Bakr told me to move a mountain from the mountains it would not be greater than what he asked me to do in compiling the Quran
like what an important job here I have to oversee the standardization of the mushaf so Zayd radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu said so I went and I started to go through all of those that memorized the Quran
checking multiple times collecting all of that which was written in the house of Hafsa radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu and you talk about peer review peer review after peer review after peer review
peer review with this companion this companion this person who heard it from the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam multiple times so beautiful subhanAllah this is the level of preservation of our Quran
this is only within a year of the death of the Prophet Salallahu alayhi wasalam until he compiled it into that single official mushaf which is the Mushaf that we have with us,
that we read from today and how it was passed down. And then that went to Abu Bakr radiAllahu anhu and then that was passed to Umar radiAllahu anhu and then passed to Hafsa radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
and preserved in the house of Hafsa radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So Zayd is responsible for the first official standardization, compilation of the Quran in the single Mushaf that we still benefit from today.
SubhanAllah, he did that as a 20 or 21 year old. Right, you talk about empowering the young companions, a 21 year old that was given the most important task that the Ummah possibly has ever had.
He goes on radiAllahu ta'ala anhu to remain a faqih, a jurist, a judge amongst the companions. In the time of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, Umar radiAllahu anhu says something really interesting. He says that Umar radiAllahu anhu,
he sent the jurists of the companions to all sorts of places. Farraqahum Umar fil buldan. He sent them to different places and he told them not to repeat except what they learned from the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa salam
meaning he told them, nahahum an yuftu bi ra'ihim. Told them not to give fatwa except by what they heard from the Prophet salAllahu alaihi wa salam. Wahabasa Zayd bil madina, yufti ahlaha.
And then he habasa Zayd, it would mean like he held on to Zayd, like he held Zayd in Madina so that Zayd could be the mufti of Madina. Everyone else can go somewhere, Zayd you have to stay in Madina. So he appoints Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu
to be the official mufti of Madina in his khidafa. And this is one of the greatest testimonies as well to his scholarship. Kana Umar al-Khattab radiAllahu anhu, yastakhlifuhu idha hajja ala al-Madina.
When Umar radiAllahu anhu would go to hajj, he put Zayd in charge of Madina. And then eventually Umar radiAllahu anhu would put Zayd in charge of Madina fikulli safar. Anytime Umar had to leave Madina, it was understood radiAllahu anhu
that he would put Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu in charge of Madina. Young man radiAllahu ta'ala anhu who is noted again for his scholarship, for his character in this regard. There's a powerful narration
and this shows you again the human side of the companions. Tanaza'a Ubay wa Umar fi jadadi nakhd. That one time in the khidafa of Umar, Umar al-Khattab and Ubay ibn Ka'b got into a dispute.
And they disputed over some trees, some palm trees. And Ubay radiAllahu ta'ala anhu said, athi sultanika ya Umar? Even in your khidafa of Umar, like I can't believe I'm disputing with you.
So Umar radiAllahu anhu says, ija'al bayni wa baynaka rajula. Appoint a judge between us. He's the khalifa but he says, all right, let's find the judge. So they agree upon Zayd. Zayd radiAllahu anhu who is literally old enough to be a child of Umar ibn Khattab.
Zayd radiAllahu anhu sits between Umar and Ubay and he asks Ubay ibn Ka'b for his evidence. And he said, ma li bayna? I don't have any evidence.
So he said, then you have to release Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu anhu from taking an oath, bil yameen. So Umar radiAllahu anhu says, do not release Umar ibn Khattab from his yameen,
from an oath, unless you know that he's free from the charge. Now like Zayd, it's okay. Judge between us in the best way that you see fit. This is the culture, the adab that was created, subhanAllah, around the scholar, even with the khalifa.
SubhanAllah, you talk about ulama'u sultan, the idea of scholars, the clergy class, being hijacked by governments, by corrupt government. The history of Yahya, John, alayhi salam, right?
And the history of so many, until today, right? When governments can silence scholars and then use them to give a religious stamp of approval. Here you have Zayd radiAllahu anhu in his 20s being able to sit with the khalifa
and to judge between the khalifa and another person in the ummah. Zayd radiAllahu anhu, we said he carried himself in a certain way. There are narrations about him walking through the marketplace and then making judgments on disputes that were happening in the marketplace.
Again, he had a quick mathematical mind. So when people would dispute over things, he could judge between them. There was also a narration, muwatta, of a man that captured a bird in Medina. And Zayd radiAllahu anhu walked up to him
and he removed his hands and he let the bird go free. And he said, don't you know the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wa sallam forbade that, like you're doing this here in Medina, capturing birds and things of that sort. Ibn Umar radiAllahu anhu, he even has a narration about himself
where he was in a bind with a trade in the marketplace and Zayd radiAllahu anhu took his hand and Zayd advised Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu anhu in regards to the fiqh of that transaction.
And there are multiple narrations about his integrity and his refusal to be bribed. Zayd radiAllahu anhu was an unbribable person. You could not take advantage of a scholarship
and you could not manipulate him radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So he's already got a pretty impressive resume. And then the second collection of the Quran is to come. Now subhanAllah, the first time,
the first time the Quran was collected was because there was a fear from Umar bin al-Khattab that too many of those who memorized the Quran would be killed. The second time is in the Khilafah of Uthman radiAllahu anhu for the exact opposite reason
that the Quran is being recited with its various recitations in too many parts of the world now. So we need to have the standardized version of it and that be the official Mus'haf
upon the harf of Quraysh, upon the dialect of the Quraysh. If you wanna get more into that, then you can read a paper on Yaqeen Institute called Variant Readings of the Quran. It's a beautiful paper, mashAllah, which goes through the history of the variant readings of the Quran.
But Uthman radiAllahu anhu sees another fear that people will recite the Quran in different ways, in a way that would potentially lose the standardization of it.
So he once again orders for a committee to be formed and Zayd ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was called forth to oversee that process of keeping the Mus'haf now in multiple copies
so that the Quran is not changed, so that nothing happens to its recitation, radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So he once again, and if you open the Quran, of course, you're going to see that this is al-Mus'haf al-Uthmani.
That is the work of Zayd ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and properly arranging it in the way that you read it today. So every single time you open that Mus'haf, this is where it's coming from in regards to the reward.
Of course, it comes from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, but the reward and those who organized it so that it could be printed and reprinted and handed down from generation to generation as it continued to be preserved in its oral format.
When Uthman radiAllahu ta'ala anhu was under siege, as we know that he was, Zayd radiAllahu anhu was one of those who stood up and he specifically tried to speak to the people of Medina to not participate in the murder of Uthman radiAllahu anhu.
He stood up and he said, ya li'l-ansar, kunu ansar Allah. ya li'l-ansar, kunu ansar Allah. O ansar, be ansar of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, be helpers on the side of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. wallahi inna damahu laharam.
I swear by Allah that his blood is sacred. Do not let this happen on your watch. So Zayd was one of those who tried to protect the life of Uthman radiAllahu anhu before he was assassinated.
And then after that, when the fitna broke out, he took the side of Ali ibn Abi Talib radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, still refusing to fight until, they say until Ammar ibn Yasir radiAllahu anhu was killed.
Then Zayd radiAllahu anhu took an active role in fighting on the side of Ali radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and trying to end the fitna of that time. And then he passes away in Al-Madinah
45 years after the hijrah. So pretty considerably after the death of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam and having seen much of Islamic history and passed down many of the narrations on behalf of the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam.
Now this is something very unique about this biography. There are very few people, and honestly I don't know of another sahabi other than the Khulafa al-Rashideen, who you have so many testimonies about them
at the time of their death. And it's powerful to see the way people spoke about him and the implications the companions felt by his death. Now remember, the Prophet sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam said
that one of the signs of the Day of Judgment is the death of the scholars. موت العلماء Something that we see all the time. In this era, subhanAllah, we've witnessed it. The last major scholar, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi radiAllahu ta'ala
so many great scholars that have been passing away one after the other. Sheikh al-Athandi radiAllahu ta'ala all of these scholars passing away in Pakistan, in Turkey, in Egypt, in Saudi Arabia, all over. And we feel that knowledge being taken away from us.
And it's a scary time for us. The companions, they thought that the Day of Judgment may come in their own lifetimes. And when Zayd passed away, that was the hadith that came to their minds.
This is really amazing if you think about it because that's the level of knowledge that he had and that's the level of respect that he commanded. So when he passed away, Abdullah ibn Umar radiAllahu ta'ala said, ما تعالم الناس اليوم
The alim of the people died today. The scholar of the people passed away today. Abu Huraira radiAllahu ta'ala he said, ما تحبر الأمة
The scholar of this ummah has died. ولعل الله أن يجعل في ابن عباس منه خلفه It may be that Allah subhanAllah ta'ala has granted Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala to be his successor.
Abdullah ibn Abbas who has the famous title حبر الأمة, the scholar of this ummah. So Abu Huraira is saying, the teacher of the teacher just died. The scholar of the scholar just died. And it may be that Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala
will follow him in that. And subhanAllah the most touching one is actually with Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala himself. Hamad ibn Salama he narrates that when Zayd passed away,
a group of people came to Ibn Abbas to console him. And he was sitting under a shade. جلسنا لابن عباس في ظل He was sitting under a shade. So I want you to think of the imagery, right? This man learns,
the scholar of this ummah Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala learned so much from him. From Zayd ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala. And he realizes the implications and we're going to him to give him our condolences and to comfort him.
And Ibn Abbas responded and he said, ها كذا بهاب العلماء دفن اليوم علم كثير He said, this is what the Prophet ﷺ was talking about with the death of the scholars.
دفن اليوم علم كثير So much knowledge was just buried. Talk about a perspective. So much علم just got buried. You know, when you hear the death of a scholar and you wonder about the implications of it.
You know, and again, we've been witnessing the passing of so many great scholars in our time. He said, so much علم just got buried. What a sad day for us to see that. Kharija ibn Zayd, his son,
also narrates that he was trying to stop all of the women from al-'awali, which was the area where Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala lived and the nisa' al-ansar, the women of the ansar
from coming and wailing and crying over him.
Because it was too late, because their practice of course, niyaha, which was to wail, to mourn at death, and this was a practice of jahliyyah. And the implications, when Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala passed away, it just provoked those early emotions and those early practices. And Kharija
was trying to stop them and saying, don't cry over him this way, don't cry over him this way, don't cry over him this way. The Prophet ﷺ forbade us from that.
Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-'Ijli, he said, an-nasu ala qiraati Zayd wa ala fardi Zayd. The people have been left now on the qira'a of Zayd, on the recitation of Zayd, and on the inheritance
laws of Zayd. So he never dies in this regard, right? I mean, this type of a scholar never dies and then subhanAllah, the greatest way to end in this tribute of him is a poem from
Hassan ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala. Because of course, who else, right? And Hassan ibn Thabit happened to be at the janaza of Zayd ibn Thabit, and he was repeating this line.
He said, fa man lil qawafi ba'da Hassana wa bnihi wa man lil mathani ba'da Zayd ibn Thabiti. He said, who is left to recite poetry greater than Hassan and his son, but who is left to
recite al mathani, the quran, the oft repeated verses, than Zayd ibn Thabit. So basically, this really encapsulates what we've been speaking about. The poets of the Prophet, Hassan is
saying that I may have mastered poetry, and it may be that me and my son, Abdurrahman, who also Abdurrahman ibn Hassan ibn Thabit was a great poet, says it may be that I and
my son have been left behind to be the greatest reciters of poetry, but who is greater than Zayd ibn Thabit when it comes to al mathani, the oft repeated verses of the quran. His
legacy radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, first and foremost, is with his children. So Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu had several children. Some of those children were named after prophets. So he had Suleyman
ibn Zayd, Ismail ibn Zayd, Yahya ibn Zayd. Some of them were named, he had Abdurrahman and Abdullah, the two most beloved names to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He had As'ad ibn
Zayd and Ubadah ibn Zayd, two famous Ansar. As'ad ibn Zawarah and Ubadah ibn Samit. So he had As'ad and he had Ubadah, and he had a Sa'd ibn Zayd as well, but his most famous
son was Kharija ibn Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. Kharija ibn Zayd went on to become one of those who are known as al fuqaha'a al-sab'a, the seven jurists of Medina, the seven great
scholars of Medina. These were the seven great scholars, fuqaha'a al-sab'a, that were children of the sahaba that basically governed Medina after the death of the companions of the prophet
sallAllahu alayhi wa sallam. And Kharija was a copy of his father. Everything from his character to his scholarship to even his handwriting and the way he would address people was a
copy of his father and that is a testimony to Zayd radiAllahu ta'ala anhu with his own family. And they said that Kharija, for example, kana yaktubu ala kitabi Zayd ida sallam. He
would address people, he would greet people when he would write the way that Zayd radiAllahu alayhi wa sallam would greet people. qala as-salamu alayka ya ameer al-mu'mineen wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa maghfiratuhu wa tayyibu salawatihi. This was the way that
Zayd would address the khalifa. So even when he wrote to the khalifa, as-salamu alayka ya ameer al-mu'mineen wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu wa maghfiratuhu wa tayyibu salawatihi. The
mercy of Allah, his blessings and his forgiveness and the best of his prayers. This was his way radiAllahu ta'ala anhu and what he left behind in his son as well of scholarship and multiple narrations, over a hundred narrations that directly involve him radiAllahu ta'ala
anhu, none being greater than of course that which was preserved of the book of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Also those that recited the Qur'an to him were Ibn Abbas and many of the companions
and those that were considered his students were Abu Huraira, Ibn Abbas, Ibn Umar, Abu Sa'id al-Khudri and so many others of the noble companions that were much older than him but that considered themselves students of his and that narrated from him as well
radiAllahu ta'ala anhu. So when you talk about young people and great young people from the companions, it starts with this man and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to reward and
be pleased with Zayd ibn Thabit radiAllahu ta'ala anhu for his service to Islam, for his service to the Qur'an, for his service to the Messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam and his mother, Al-Nawar ibn Malik for her foresight in raising a son in that way and
we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to send his peace and blessings upon our Messenger Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam and his family and companions and we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to join us with them and with the righteous ones, Allahumma ameen. Inshallah
ta'ala next week we will continue. So I'm going to give you all a choice, Mu'adh ibn Jabal or Ubayy ibn Ka'b. Everyone said Mu'adh. No Ubayy's, no votes for Ubayy? Alright we
got one vote for Ubayy ibn Ka'b. We're going to go with the Jama'at. We'll do Mu'adh ibn Jabal radiAllahu anhu next week inshallah and continue in this regard. BarakAllahu
fikum. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
