Abdullah ibn Hudhafah (ra): The Man Who Wouldn't Flinch | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman

with your brothers and sisters welcome back to the first short batch that we're doing in sha allah at the end where we are covering some of those companions that embraced islam very early on but we only have a few details about their lives so that we can revive their memory now as i said last time this is actually one of my favorite incidents not because the incident that he is famous for takes place in early islam but subhanallah because it is one of those turning points in islamic history that shows you just what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was able to generate in these young men and women around him that faced all sorts of persecution for their faith and refused to turn back on their heels so we find today he is the brother of honest who we spoke about last time and as we mentioned abdullah ibrahim was too young to partake in the battles alongside the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he was brought to embrace islam by his older brother then taken on the migration with his older brother honest and so everything that he he does is inevitably uh and undoubtedly uh part of the credit of honest as well but he didn't get a chance to show that devotion to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam until later on in life as he grew a bit older and so with abdullah bin hiddaffah not having the ability to fight in badr despite again being someone who had already made the hijra because he wasn't old enough or to fight in uhud we find that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam used him for a very specific incident and the two types of incidents or the two incidents that he is most famous for both involve his stance in the face of a tyrant and this is what i want to weave together in sha allah ta'ala in this short episode that when the prophet saw islam says the greatest jihad the greatest striving in the path of allah is to speak a word of truth in the face of a tyrant this is the man that spoke a word of truth in the face of the two greatest tyrants of his day the tyrant of the persians and the tyrant of the romans in the time of the prophet alaihi salallahu he was the person who the prophet salallahu ordered to take the letter to kisrah of persia calling him to islam and when the prophet saw islam appoints you to take a letter to kisrah calling him to islam and also you know this letter is a letter that has major consequences politically for him as well right so sending him to the most arrogant tyrant of the day in kisrah is dangerous for abdullah there is a chance that abdullah might even be killed in this mission and the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam told him i want you to take the letter and deliver it to him by hand your order is to take this letter and to stand in front of kisrah and to deliver it to him by hand now who narrates this incident he goes to kisrah completely unfazed and he goes up to him and you know kisrah has a messenger to receive the letter from abdullah he says no my prophet salallahu commanded me to deliver the letter to the hand of kisrah so he insisted that he will hand the letter directly to kisrah when kisrah reads the letter from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam saying to him from muhammad the messenger of allah to kisrah the great one of persia and he says to him islam teslam become muslim accept islam you will find salam and you would have the the the reward of the belief of all of your people and if you refuse then you would have the disbelief the punishment you would bear the burden of the disbelief of all of your people now kisla did not like the letter so he tore the letter up in front of abdullah he threatened him and he threatened the prophet wasallam and of course would also go on to even try to plot the assassination of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so one abdullah got back to the prophet salallahu and told him what happened he was not phased he did not uh lose his composure in the face of that tyrant the prophet salallahu alaihi said may allah tear up his kingdom the way he tore up that letter and subhanallah from there it was you know uh coup after coup assassination after assassination sisters assassinating brothers children assassinating parents and the persian empire went through complete internal disarray and that was from the dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and this was the stance that we found from abdullah bin hadaf in the face of kisrah so i wanted to give that incident as a pretext for the incident he is really famous for which is actually with the byzantines okay with the romans when he was sent out in the battles against the byzantines and this was in the time of um and he arrives at the byzantines he was captured and when this group of muslims was captured heraculous says that i want you to bring to me a captive amongst them who is considered a leader amongst them most noble and is considered senior to the rest of them so they said abdullah is your man so they went and they brought abdullah from his cell and he stood him in front of him and he said to him listen he said to him renounce your religion become christian he says i will give you half of my kingdom so he's testing his faith first and foremost before he even persecutes him because he sees that there is a mind game to be played here and there is a way to break the muslims in a different way as hundreds of them are being held captive so he says i will let you free and give you half of my empire so long as you renounce islam your religion and embrace our religion of christianity so abdullah responded to him and he said wallahi if you gave me everything that you had forget about half of your empire you give me your whole empire the entire roman empire and you give me everything that the arabs possess as well give me your empire and give me the empire of the arabs i will not renounce my religion of islam even for the blink of an eye look at that strength right you're standing in front of the leader of his people the leader of a brutal empire and absolutely no fear so heraclitus says let me try something else with him then so he says put him back in his jail cell and then he says i want you to send him the most beautiful woman to seduce him in his cell let's see if we can break him that way okay so he he refused the empire half of the empire to leave his religion of islam which would have had serious implications in the morale of the muslims right those that were captive and those that would hear about what happened to so he said abdullah him the most beautiful woman in his cell and let her seduce him is in his cell and they push this woman to seduce him in his cell and he turned away from her with whatever direction she came out him from so she came to his right he turned to his left and if she came to his left he turned to his right he wouldn't even look at her completely unmoved and she tried all sorts of things to seduce him but subhanallah he maintained his faith even in that regard so he fought the different temptations that were being given to him and this woman came out after completely giving up and she said i've never seen anything like this man it's like he's made of stone it's like he's a statue or something he's completely unmoved by anything that i did to seduce him like he he didn't flinch subhanallah with that type of temptation so the the admiration uh is is growing and miraculous even though he's trying to break him he says you know what then starve him and don't give him any water for three days let's see what happens to him then so let's starve him and dehydrate him for three days so he left him in a cell no food no drink for three days and then at the end of the three days look at the next tactic torture tactic he says take him some pork and some wine let's see if he eats pork and he drinks wine now from an islamic perspective he actually could do that right i mean he has the excuse to consume alcohol at that point and he has the excuse to eat that pork but this is not about filth here in terms of what's necessity and no this is a different type of game that is being played here so he refuses as well and heracles he says doesn't it doesn't your religion allow you to consume this in hardship he said yes but i didn't want to give you the pleasure of a companion of the messenger of allah eating and drinking pork and and alcohol and wine so that you could mock the religion of the messenger sallallahu alaihi who saw them so he refused the temptation of empire he refused the temptation of seduction he refused the temptation of eating and drinking even when he was starving and it would have been halal for him to do so so he says you know what put him in the position of crucifixion so put him in the position of crucifixion so they hang him up to be crucified and then he says bring forth the warriors and throw spears and shoot arrows at him all around his face all around his body parts so that he feels the pressure in every direction so allah just imagine he's strung up and they're shooting the arrows and they're throwing the spears at him and they're just missing every part of his body including his head and he doesn't flinch who is this man what are you made of you know subhanallah this is a man that became muslim as a child with the prophet saws and there was a different type of of iman and yaqin that was cultivated inside of him faith and certainty that was cultivated inside of him so he doesn't flinch and her atlas says bring him down so because he didn't do anything at that point he makes him an offer again he says to him listen leave your religion embrace mine i will give you half of my empire and i will marry you to my daughter he says no absolutely not there is nothing that would cause me to leave my religion so then abdullah narrates something actually very painful and it shows you the mindset of these tyrants he said that he then ordered for a container of boiling oil hot boiling oil to be brought in front of him and then he called for another one of the muslim prisoners and he took that muslim prisoner and he had him thrown into the the the container of boiling oil right in front of abdullah and he said that as soon as that man was thrown in he started to shout frantically and it was only a matter of seconds subhanallah that his flesh was burnt off of his body and his bones rose to the top i mean that is another level of torture and cruelty and that is something that could truly break a person right even a person who is seemingly unbreakable to see that happening in front of your eyes with that brutality and to know that what's being said to you is that you're next if you don't comply subhanallah what a test so after that happened heraclous then says pick him up and throw him in the container as well as abdullah is picked up and he's about to be thrown into it he starts to cry so what is he thinking he's thinking that i finally got him i broke him okay he's about to cry clearly he's afraid now that what's going to happen to him is what happened to his companion so he says bring him down bring him back to me so as he is brought back to him he says to him that you know uh once again except half of my empire renounce your religion he said no he said well why did you cry i mean aren't you afraid of what i'm going to do to you he said no that's not why i was crying he said then why were you crying he says subhan allah he said i wished i had a hundred souls and each one of those 100 souls would be sacrificed for the sake of allah i wasn't crying because i was afraid i was crying because i knew this was the end this was shahada this was that martyrdom that we had seen so many of our companions go through and i had wished that i could give everything for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala a hundred times over so he said subhanallah what is this man you know he was so shocked by him so he's he's come to this realization that i tried to break him in every way and he's refusing to be broken right so what does he say he says you know i've got to do something now to salvage my own tactics in front of my people right so he says to abdullah he says kiss my forehead and you can go free all you have to do now is kiss my forehead and you can go free abdullah said i don't want to kiss your head and i don't want you to kiss my head even that's not happening he said to him if you kiss my forehead i'll let 60 of you go. so he's negotiating now how many prisoners will be released in return for him just doing this kissing his forehead to affirm his superiority after refusing to be broken by his tactics so he says to him he said no walid muslim he said if you want me to kiss your head you don't just read 60 captives you free all of the muslims i'll kiss your forehead if you free all of the muslims he said fine all 300 of them can go free if you kiss my head so abdullah finally went up to him and he kissed his forehead and then he took those sahabah and those taberine back to medina and when they got to in medina look what um who went up to abdullah and he kissed him on the forehead as he had kissed the the the emperor's forehead and then he ordered all of the muslims to also go up to abdullah and to kiss his forehead because subhanallah he did not do that he did not hold back the the saving of the muslims because of his ego this was all for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so honor and humbling yourself is for allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and that was something that's demonstrated by abdullah and that was something that was demonstrated by our omar and abdullah and who continued to strive in the path of allah subhanahu ta'ala until the khilafah of uthman where he would die in egypt in the year 33 after hijrah radhiallahu ta'ala so another one of asa become the first who we did not really get to see shine though he embraced islam very early on we didn't get to see shine until the khilafah of um i'll see you all b

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Published: Wed Sep 08 2021