Abdullah ibn Salam (ra): The Righteous Rabbi | The Firsts | Dr. Omar Suleiman

we are now getting into a very unique set of people from those that welcome the prophet salla islam to medina and i want to actually start off by saying that next week inshaallah ta'ala we will be off in the night i'll be out of town for one week inshaallah and then we will continue the week after that and it will be a treat because we'll be talking about salman faras who is one of my favorite people to talk about in terms of welcoming the prophet sallam to al-madinah but tonight insha'allah we're talking about someone who's from the same genre of salman except that he doesn't go through the same process the same journey and this is a man who likes salman allah ta'ala is looking for a prophet of allah to come and who is sincere in his pursuit and so we've talked about the ansar from al-aus and al-hazraz from the two main tribes that were sick of the fighting in al-madinah and ready to receive a prophet who would teach them a new way and now we're talking about people who already were convinced in the oneness of allah and convinced that a new way was overdue and were simply waiting for a prophet to arise so that they could follow him and that they could support him this man subhanallah is probably one of the most interesting and fascinating stories from all of the people of medina that we will talk about he is the chief rabbi of medina the chief rabbi of medina the most senior person from the three main jewish tribes that exist in the medina his name is salam and al hussain with assad not like al-hussein the grandson of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam now i have to clarify when i say isla i'm not talking about the european colonial state that was created 70 years ago talking about from bani israel why because this man is actually a descendant of who and specifically subhanallah he's a descendant of yusuf ali his salah so the chief rabbi of medina the descendant of yusuf ariha from a tribe known as benu now there were several tribes jewish tribes that had settled in al-madinah of course at that time it was called yethrib because they saw that the traits and the signs pointed to the prophet arising in that place so the description of the next prophet was that he was to arise in that place so you had a few jewish tribes that settled that area the three main jewish tribes are banu and benue okay and he is the most senior of benue al-hussein ibn salam from the lineage of yusuf arihis and subhanallah as these people had come to yathrib at the time of course you know you had many social dynamics that placed the jewish tribes in that area in a very interesting category for one you had an insecurity of sorts from the people of arabia towards the people of the book the pagans in mecca respected it's ironic because they rejected the prophet saw islam with such with such malice but when it came to the jewish tribes in the medina the pagans in mecca though they worshipped all the gods that they worshiped they still respected the jewish tribes as learned people of scripture right as they respected najashi the christians from rome they they had a certain level of respect and honor for them but of course to them there was no concept not just of the oneness of god but no concept of the akhira of the hereafter they rejected the entire notion of the akhira of the hereafter but they still had this idea that these people were superior to them that they had some sort of a scripture that they had some sort of divine revelation of course even the people of mecca had some sort of adherence to ibrahim and a respect for ibrahim knowing that they were from his lineage but having absolutely no attachment to his religion also the people of yathrib were largely the two tribes of al-osan or khazraj who were killing each other off whereas the jewish tribes were not really involved in that internal politic they had some connections with them they had trade with them they had you know a very strong influence in yathrib in terms of the social life in terms of the economy of yathrib but not so much when it came to the internal dynamics of these two main tribes of an austin al-qazraj that were really killing each other off they were still very much so respected and looked to in terms of the overall decision-making and they were all about to gather upon the leadership of abdullah babin salud the chief of the hypocrites remember all of the fitnah that will take place in al-madinah you know in terms of the hypocrites is just because abdullah babin salud did not get his crown he was ready to be crowned as their king they were all going to sort of agree upon him as the main man and the prophet salallahu undermines all of that so they're uniquely placed now amongst them are those who are sincere pursuants of religion you know sincere seekers of deen and they are devout students of the torah and looking for this prophet of allah amongst them are those who are looking for the power in that region because the assumption is that the prophet will be from bani israel and so if the prophet is from bani israel that's going to solidify a certain power dynamic in the region and subhanallah you can see that there is a common denominator in all of those that rejected the prophet salallahu they all cited one problem not his character but he's not one of us the tribes in mecca said he's not one of us abu jahl the the person who became the pharaoh of this ummah who would acknowledge in private he said what he says makes sense and it's clearly divine but he's from banu hashem and if we give him that authority if we acknowledge his prophethood then he will now have superiority over us turns this all into a dynamic of what that this prophet is coming or this man is going to come and corrupt what we've built over here but at the end of the day he just wants to be in charge and we will see when we talk about safiyah or the allahu ta'ala our mother whose father was from one of those those tribes you know you would think he would be excited to see this prophet of allah but once he realized the prophet of allah is not from the lineage of israel he became right away a staunch enemy of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam at the end of the day this was a power game how do we seed our ground our authority in a highly tribal world to this prophet from banu hashem abdullah ibn salam will get to how his name is is not just one of those who is sincere in his pursuit of a messenger of allah but he is distinguished in his pursuit of the messenger of allah now i want to talk about him in al-madinah before the prophet saw some comes to medina he is known as the most knowledgeable man in medina number one he is distinguished by israel number two by his character so people used to sing his praises they used to say he's the most honest person the most pious amongst us the most humble amongst us so they had nicknames to sing his praises he is a person who was known for engaging in honest trade okay so he did not abuse his religious authority that's something that was actually very respectable about him was that he didn't use the religious place that he had amongst them to give himself a certain economic advantage in yethrib at the time instead he used to go and he used to take care of his own gardens he would pick his own dates from his trees he would sell wheat and barley in the marketplace just like everybody else because he wanted to make an honest living so he didn't abuse the religious authority that he had amongst the people for his economic benefit and they said he was extremely very gentle a very gentle person and his day was divided into three this is very beautiful subhanallah they said that he had a regimen of how he divided his day into three one third of the day was in the synagogue and he would worship and he would teach so every day he'd spend one third of the day in the synagogue and you'll see when we get to the story of salman allah this one third one third one third so one third of his day was in the synagogue worshiping allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and teaching the torah another third of the day he would go into private isolation and he would recite the torah and study it and do vikir and remember allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so one third was public worship one third was private worship and one-third was him farming in his date palms and taking care of his of his of his business basically so he had one-third to the public teaching in the synagogue one-third to his own recitation of the torah and one-third which was dedicated to his own economic benefit just working in the gardens and selling uh his barley and his dates in the marketplace at the time and subhanallah he was specifically you know attached to the verses about the coming prophets within the torah remember there are all these verses about a prophet to come so he specifically had an attachment to those verses and he used to study those verses and he used to talk about those verses and he used to supplicate to allah that allah would allow him to live long enough to accompany this prophet remember waraqah the biblical scholar regret when the prophet saws comes to him is that i wish i could live long enough to be with you when your people run you out when they persecute you abdullah how old is he he was 20 years older than the prophet saws so he's senior to the prophet saws okay he's senior to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and some of the narrations say he's about 10 years older but he's senior to the prophet same 10 or 20 years older than the prophet saws so he's hoping and he's longing as he's getting older that allah will give him the opportunity to see this prophet the prophet that the sincere seekers in mecca zaida allah and as this is happening as he is reciting and teaching people about the uh the prophet he actually says that i had a feeling that the prophet would migrate based upon what he was reading in the torah the prophet would migrate to this land but he wouldn't be from this land meaning there was a hijrah that would precede the prophet saw islam in this land the idea was that he would rise in that land but he was saying it would come after his persecution and his hija so he says he's now narrating his own story he said when i heard about a man claiming prophethood in mecca i started to inquire about him so i started to ask the people that were going to mecca about his name about his qualities about his attributes about his claims about what people were seeing about were saying about him and he said everything i found matched perfectly with what i was studying in the torah so his anticipation is growing that maybe this is him now realize that you know though it's like he's right around the corner in mecca he's waiting for some events to unfold in order to really test this this prophet right and he says then i heard that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had left mecca and he was heading for yathrib and he said and i remember the people going out into the trees for months waiting for the prophet salallahu wasallam to to arrive at so he said every day when i was working in my palm trees he said i would sit at the very top of the palm tree and sort of analyze the scene see where they were with the coming of the messenger and how the prophet saws was going to be received so he said i was one day sitting at the top of the palm tree and i saw the commotion and the ansar started to shout out that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam had arrived so he said i shouted out just instinctively he said i said allahu akbar allahu akbar two times he said i shouted out take and who was confused he said my aunt he had an aunt by the name of khalid khalid allah she would become muslim afterwards said my aunt khalida she looked at me and she was confused and she said i said what's wrong with you if you heard that moses had come you wouldn't show this much excitement like what is this reception because the assumption was that this is something that right now is relegated to the affairs of the unsolved this really doesn't involve the jewish tribes or the others right now in medina what is wrong with you why are you so excited and i said to her hey amna i said to her oh my aunt i swear by allah that he is the brother of moses he is the brother of musa and he is on the religion of musa and he was sent with what he was sent with i swear by allah that this is the brother of moses who was upon his religion and it was sent with what he was sent with and she said oh son of my brother is he the prophet this is a really interesting description especially when we think about the way the end of times feels so imminent is he the prophet that we've been told about in the torah there's an understanding that we've been told about a prophet to come is he the prophet that we have been told about that will come right with the day of judgment following soon after him the hour following soon after him remember the prophet saws said that his sending and the coming of the hour are like these two fingers i mean there's this much time the prophet saws and the end of this this life basically the day of judgment arriving and if you think about the span of human history the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam until the end allah knows best but you know there are prophets and prophets and thousands of prophets that come before and how many years of human history so relative to all of that the prophet saws coming with the hour is very soon being the last messenger salat was so i responded and i said nam yes so she said in that case then i can see why and we accept as well. he says that after that i went and i approached and what's beautiful about abdullah is that he actually gets to tell us his story about you know from hearing about the prophet saw some from far away to going and finding him amongst the crowd he's very vivid with the details he said so i went out to where the people were and i started to go around the prophet so i kind of cleared the way and he mentioned there was like this traffic around the prophet salla saw the answer we're so excited to receive the prophet saws so i went there and i started to make my way through the people and i wanted to get a very close up look at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he said i looked at his face and i said that's not the face of a liar see like before i have to ask any questions before the prophet's last son even opens his mouth i looked at his face and i knew it was him i knew that's not the face of a liar and so he says that as i looked at the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam stood up to address the people for the very first time so he's getting to witness the first khutbah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to the people of madina and he says the first thing the prophet saws o people spread salam spread peace amongst yourselves and feed one another and in one narration was and establish your family ties and pray at night while other people sleep and you will enter into paradise in peace subhanallah this constitution of medina it's very interesting because you think about the first impressions here right what tone is the prophet slice that i'm going to set when he uh you know speaks in a medina for the very first time what's this man all about because remember the ansar who couldn't get along with themselves and they were from the same bloodlines are welcoming a man with a new religion and they're giving him this full authority what tone is he going to set you know if you always watch the day of the inauguration speeches uh of the presidents right in the united states are always like what tone is the president going to set right what's he going to say what's he going to set because that's sort of the it's no longer the campaign speech right now it's real now he's in charge so a lot of the campaign speech suddenly changes with the inauguration speech so what's he going to say now that he has the bay'a now that he has the pledge of all of these people in medina and what's the claim of the prophet saws the claim that the meccans are making is that he's coming to divide families he's coming to mess everything up that his religion naturally you know ruins the cohesion in society and the first thing the prophet saws says spread peace did he say absolute just amongst yourselves like forget about the rest of them no he said spread peace and while it's understood that especially amongst yourselves right but what are you bringing to your society you're bringing salam you're bringing a sense of peace to society and feed amongst yourselves and of course especially the poor amongst you but not only the poor amongst you you know break bread with one another break bread with one another and especially don't leave out the poor the prophet slice on one of the early narrations in madinah was on the prophet said the worst invitation is the one that the rich are invited and the poor are excluded when it comes to the feasts right feet break bread with one another and don't exclude the poor amongst you and connect your family ties i'm not here to ruin your families or to spoil your family ties if anything i'm here to strengthen them the family ties are tied to the ar to the throne of the most merciful whoever severs those family ties allah subhanahu ta'ala severs them from the throne so establish those tithes was and all of that what's your spiritual energy your tahajud pray at night while other people sleep pray at night while other people sleep you will enter into paradise in peace subhanallah so talk about a first impression i've been reading about him in the torah i come and i see him and i look at his face and it is brighter than the full moon and i see his smile for the first time and that's what he says his words match what he is saying and there is a truthfulness that emanates from the face of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that is confirmed with his words so he said subhanallah he said that after the prophet salla islam did that was sitting close to him so he asked me he turned to me he turned to me and he asked me what is your name so i said al-hussein ibn salam the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said you and i'm not pleased to be called by any other name the prophet saws immediately did that now by the way this is actually a very interesting thing why did the prophet saw sallam choose to call him abdullah a lot of times you have someone with it with an obvious bad name in the prophet saw some changes the name to something that is good or a name that's inappropriate because it has some sort of divine quality or exceeds the bounds right within hussein we actually don't know why the prophet saws changed his name to abdullah and it may be that the prophet saws saw in him the qualities and the characteristics that he would be called by of the most beloved names to allah abdullah abdullah so the prophet salla said you are abdullah he said so it is i don't want to be called by any other name after this okay and then he says i said to the prophet salallahu i swear that you are the messenger of allah and that you have come with the truth and the jewish tribes no and ni say yiduhum wabnu sayidihim hum alamihim he said and they know that i am the their chief their leader and the son of their leader i am the most knowledgeable of them and the son of the most knowledgeable of them meaning i come from a long lineage here of scholarship and leadership and respect but the prophet saws call my people and ask them about me before they know that i've become muslim and then watch what happens when they know that i become muslim you see subhanallah what happened to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam identical an identical situation he stood amongst his people on asafa and shahidullahu right they bore witness you're assad you are the honest one you are the truthful one you're the trustworthy one but as soon as the message changed the description changed so abdullah said that the prophet saws called my people and he said and i was behind the curtain and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam islam he called them to islam and he said to them you know that i am the messenger of allah that's been described to you in the torah and that has come to you so accept this message that i've come to you with now realize here this at this point when the prophet saws coming to al-madinah the prophet saws not making this a condition for safety right there's already a treaty that's being drawn up there are agreements that are being drawn up there's a diplomacy there's there there are other types of agreements in this regard but the prophet saws is invoking the religious part of them and saying look you know that i'm the messenger of allah that's been sent to you they know him like they know his son their own children you know that i'm that prophet you know that i'm that messenger and they refuse to acknowledge the prophet salallahu so they responded and they said say you do not. the exact same thing that he said they would describe him as right so the prophet saws is getting to know his position even more and this is solidifying it they said the words that he said they would say about him so it's like assad our sayyid our right the prophet saw some has this experience they said he's our leader and the son of our leader he's the most knowledgeable of us and the son of the most knowledgeable of us and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said islam what if he becomes muslim and they said ali they said no way he would never become muslim right so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said ya abdullah uh abdullah come out so abdullah came out and he called them to islam and he said he said you know that this is him this is the messenger of allah this is who we've been waiting for it and he's come to you with truth and they completely denounced him and they turned their backs on him so his own people were like nope not you so that estrangement that the prophet saws got from his people in mecca as sort of this this knowledgeable beloved one sallallahu alaihi wasallam but now he threatens the power dynamics with theology is happening now with abdullah muslim suddenly you know he now loses all of that good credibility that he had for all of those years amongst his people now subhan allah obviously with this position that he plays with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam i mean it's it's important to really understand the dynamics here of what this means to have the chief rabbi of medina immediately embrace you right with absolutely no hesitation in fact to come out and meet you in quebec and embrace you before the prophet salallahu even built a message in madina he already had the chief rabbi of medina embracing him and embracing islam so obviously he's going to play this role in the seerah as a scholar as a teacher as an adviser to the prophet salallahu especially helping the prophet saw some sort of navigate some of the social dynamics with some of the tribes that were in madinah but allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has revealed multiple ayats about this incident and that's actually what's very significant subhanallah when you're reading about a companion and now you can connect some of the ayat to this one companion first of all when allah have you considered that what if this is from allah and you have disbelieved in it and a witness from bani israel has testified to it and believed while you turned away from it in arrogance allah does not guide a transgressing people now what was this this is a very interesting ayah because surah is actually of the last ayats that were revealed in mecca so the those that are being addressed are the people of mecca as well as obviously by extension the benefit in the lesson not just to the people of medina but to everyone right but the scholars say that this was a bushra this was a glad tiding this this ayah actually preceded the actual islam of abdullah but it was a glad tiding that abdullah salaam would embrace islam right and it would almost solidify what the prophet sallallahu alaihi was saying to the people of mecca all along that i am the prophet that has been testified to by the prophets of old confirmed by the scriptures and from the children of israel so allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is speaking to the people of makkah and saying if this man you know you have an insecurity to the people of the book to the christians and the jews and the most senior jewish scholar the most senior jewish rabbi is accepting the prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam and you're turning away from him what is wrong with you what is wrong with the way that you think also they said the ayah and suit ali they are not alike that they are not all the same amongst the people of the book is a community that is upright they recite god's revelation throughout the night they prostrate themselves they believe in allah they believe in the last days they believe in allah on the last day they uh enjoying good they forbid evil and they rush to do good deeds and they are from the righteous so you'll find mujahid and others say that is speaking about abdullah that he is the primary example some of them said najashi and some of the christians that embraced the prophet saws but that many of the sahaba and the salaf would say look at abdullah look at abdullah salam and how readily he was able to embrace what the prophet saws came with and how beautiful his character was before islam when he was a jewish rabbi and how beautiful even more beautiful his character became when he embraced islam and became of the senior companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi and also when allah when allah says those who disbelieve they say to the prophets like them you're not a prophet you're not a messenger and allah says to the prophet salam say to them allah is sufficient of a witness between me and you and those who actually know the scripture and mujahid says who speaking about once again calling to witness whose knowledge of the torah was so undeniable right that he is a witness as well to the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam so he is many firsts here right the first rabbi that we know in history to embrace islam of course some of those that were people of the book in the general sense and followed the way of ibrahim alaihissalam could be described as rabbis in some sense but he's the first formal rabbi that we know to embrace islam he is the first one to be testified about from the people of madina in the quran with multiple ayat and he is the first person of madinah to be promised paradise that is a an amazing distinction the first person from madina to be promised janna to be guaranteed jannah to be from the bashreen valjeanna in sahih al-bukhari under the virtues of the ansar the book of the virtues of the ansar there is a chapter abdullah salam the virtues of abdullah he said that i have not seen a person on the face of the earth who the prophet saw islam would testify to him being guaranteed jannah like abdullah salam meaning it was on more than one occasion that the prophet saw islam would say this man is from the people of jannah and a man is going to enter upon you from jannah and abdullah will be allah who would walk into the masjid or he would walk into the gathering so sadly the shahada of the prophet saws for this man was plentiful and established and he said and he is the one he is the one who allah revealed about washington and a witness from bani israel has borne witness to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so that's one of the amazing one of the amazing virtues and of course all of the sahaba are of a certain rank and the prophet sallam gives them all their virtues but to be amongst that group of people that the prophet saws guarantees jannah in their lifetime saying it to them is a very special distinction and the narrations of abdullah salaam radilla and who after the prophet saw some comes to a medina is a man who becomes as devoted to the quran as the torah okay so he was devoted to the torah and he became devoted to the quran and he basically switched his schedule from the synagogue to the masjid the torah to the quran and continue to dedicate himself to the prophet sallam and maintain the overall demeanor that he had within the uh within the med the madani society and the narrations about him subhanallah all surround the quran a man who is asking about the quran who's looking to become as noble of a scholar and has learned of a scholar in the quran as he already was in the torah so he says that a group of the companions of the messenger of allah were sitting and we were talking and we said to the prophet that if only we would know what of the deeds are most beloved to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala we would certainly do it so allah revealed to our prophet whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth glorifies allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for he is the almighty to all wise o you who believe why do you say that which you don't do meaning consistency avoiding hypocrisy and being careful when you say that you're going to do something to actually do it what's most beloved to allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is sincerity so abdullah salam the narration continues he says recited it to us and then he recited it to abu salama and then recited it so you can see even the ayah being recited in surat asaf as a response to this group of companions that were that were questioning what is the best deed to allah another beautiful narration about him actually comes from a taberi from the next generation he says i was sitting in the masjid of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so put yourself in madina now sitting in the masses of the prophet saws so this man walked in and he had on his face the signs of khoshor signs of humility you know subhanallah when abdullah salaam saw the prophet saw he said that's not the face of a liar and doesn't know abdullah he's in medina sort of as a student of the companions and this man walks in and he says what a beautiful face tranquility humility there's so much there that you can see of devotion just from looking at him subhanallah for the very first time and he said the companions then said that's that man from the people of jannah in one narration it was abdullah umar and sa'ad ibn malik saying have ar jannah so two companions in one of the narrations also authentic said that man right there that just walked in on you that's a man from the people of jannah so he says he prayed two raka's in the masjid and they were pretty light meaning this was not at a time where it was a follow or preceding a salah he entered into the masjid at a time when it's permissible to pray he prayed two short raka's and then he left so he said so i immediately when i started to follow him he said i said to him you know basically oh my uncle when you entered into the masjid the companions the people said that man is from the people of jannah so he said subhanallah like he was in humility right he said people shouldn't say what they're not certain about like people should be a little bit more careful with their their hastiness with these things but places like okay the sahaba are saying this about you what is your story and there are a lot of narrations beautiful narrations like this where you had these these converts that came later on that are following up with the companions saying tell me your story tell me your story tell me your story so what is behind this confirmation from other companions that you are a person agenda so he said i'm going to tell you what it is that is behind them he said yeah so i saw this dream in the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and i told the prophet saw i saw this dream now remember the companions used to come to the prophet salaam after fajr and the prophet saw some would say who amongst you had a dream and if it was a good dream they would share their dreams so he said i shared this dream with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam i saw myself in this beautiful garden and he mentioned its expanse and its greenery and the beauty of that garden and he said in the middle of that garden was hadith was this metal pole all right so follow the dream abdullah salaam is telling the prophet saws i'm seeing myself in a garden and in the middle of the garden is this pole this iron pole so he says so the lowest part of it is pinned to the ground and then the highest part of it is way into the heavens i can't even see where it goes right it's it's high up there and he said and from what i could see at the top there was a urwa there was a handhold so i'm in a garden i see a pole i'm looking up at the pole and there's this handhold at the at the top of the pole from where i could see and he said then a voice tells me ascends go get it he said i said i can't get up there how am i going to get all the way up the pole and grab on to that so he said that this person then came underneath me and basically ascended with me pushed me up and i started to ascend in this garden until i got to the top of the pole and he said and i grabbed onto that handhold and he said fast and i woke up and it was in my hand like i woke up right after i grabbed onto it so i grabbed onto it in the dream and then i woke up like finished my dream and it's like i'm clenching my fist like i was just there what a dream right so i was in a garden and there's a pole in the middle of this garden a handhold at the top and i'm told ascend and grab onto it and i didn't know how to and basically an angel takes him up i grab onto it and then i wake up and it's right after i'm holding on to it so i came to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and i told the prophet slice on this dream and the prophet saws was filled with joy and he said allah and that handhold is the sturdy handhold allah talks about it in surat al-baqarah right to hold on to it's the handhold of faith so he said to abdullah you will be on islam until you die or abdullah and one narration will enter and you are from the people of paradise subs what's the fear that these people have am i going to lose faith am i going to lose faith at any point right so this was a bushra this was a glad tiding to abdullah salaam that you didn't just find islam but you will be on islam until your death and the prophet saw i said i'm guaranteed him paradise may allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us amongst those that hold on to it and that die as muslims so this is his status amongst the companions he walks amongst them and they say this is the scholar from the jews the scholar of the muslims the scholar of you know who became muslim the torah the quran nobility before islam nobility in islam a person who the prophet saw some admires a person who you know advises the prophet salallahu on many things and a person who narrates a hadith and obviously you don't just bring that methodology and that rich knowledge and literacy prior to islam and not excel in knowledge in islam so he became one of the great of the sahaba and one of the testimonies to that is a man by the name of adam of course being a great companion who was known for his known for his scholarship when the mufti of the companions when he was dying they said to murad give us some words give us a will give us something i tell you to seek knowledge from four people find seek knowledge and devote yourself to it and look for it from four people he these are the four men that i'm telling you if you want you need to go and dedicate yourself to them and indeed that is what people would do they would dedicate themselves to them had two sons that were born to him in islam yusuf and muhammad yusuf and muhammad this is so beautiful so he's a descendant of yusuf ali his salaam and his first son is yusuf so he is abu yusuf abdullah salaam and his second son is muhammad and both of them became scholars of the deen and had children that were scholars of the deen and so you'll find narrations in hadith where you have muhammad the son of yusuf the son of abdullah or hemza the son of muhammad the son of abdullah narrating and becoming scholars and teachers respective teachers in their generations and both of them are sahabah yusuf and muhammad are both sahaba and what's beautiful is that yusuf says in an authentic narration yusuf the son of abdullah he said salmani rasulullah yusuf he said the prophet saws named me yusuf of course the sahaba would come to the prophet salallahu and ask him to name their children so the prophet saws named me yusuf how beautiful to the chief rabbi of medina who was the descendant of yusuf arihi salam he sat me with him he brought me close to him and he uh and he wiped my head meaning the prophet son played with him as a child he embraced him and he named him yusuf so he had these fond memories of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam even though the prophet saws passed away when he was still a toddler so you have these two children that went on to become scholars in their own rights and really extend the legacy in terms of of abdullah and also we find that the role that he played is advising the muhajiri advising people when they came to madina about how to learn the ropes of al-madinah okay so abu burdha all the allahu ta'ala he says when i came to al-madinah he said that right away salaam came to me allah he said you know come with me and let me feed you some of the best of what i have of saweek is uh is is uh it's like a sugared or powdered type of barley and tamar so come to my house let me feed you remember the first advice of the prophet saws he gave him salam and he said come to my house let me feed you and he said and let me enter you let me take you to a blessed house that the prophet saws entered because the prophet saws has come to my home already then he said you are in a place where people deal in riba the people deal in riba in this place they deal in usury interest so he says when someone comes to you and gives you something of a present or gives you something extra in the middle of a transaction do not take it for that is a form of ribba meaning be careful not to take something that is extra as it is a form of ribba and it's basically a subtle way that they deal an interest in this land uh during the time of the rash deen and sha allah we're coming towards sort of the end after the death of the prophet saws he witnessed many of the conquests but his role really is limited for the most part too being a islam remaining in a place of scholarship and teaching the people he is written down amongst those who witness the conquest of jerusalem which is beautiful when you think about it the scholar of the torah scholar of the quran and amongst those that entered into el puts when it was opened under um and he is someone who had multiple companions narrate from him ana subnumerically from him and multiple sahaba other than his own two children there is something unique about him in the time of the fitna and it's always not pleasant when you get to this part of the stories of these companions that live to see the fitnah because they saw the height of islam with the prophet salla islam and then they saw when you know these these wars broke out and this this instigating happened and you had these young people that didn't live in the time of the prophet allah that became extreme in their ways and that started to even do take of the sahaba right themselves was the last person to address the people of fitnah before they assassinated urithman of the allah he's the very last person to try to talk them out of their ways remember you have this extr you know these youth that have basically been brainwashed by people on the outside but now are instigating within the inside and that are doing takfir of the companions and they are surrounding the house of uthman with all sorts of accusations that are crazy accusations about us but they've become too many for him to refute at this point and uthman allah is refusing to let the companions kill them he doesn't want blood to be shed in his way so is in his home and this is when the siege has become very severe on saturn and abdullah salam enters upon him and uthman gives him salam and he says what brings you to me oh my brother and he says he said i've come to support you i'm here to help you and uthman allah then go out to them because you are far more beneficial to me out there than you are inside my home meaning what i'm in a state of ibada right now if you want to help me talk some sense into these people try to calm the situation down obviously abdullah is a scholar a senior elder amongst the companions who has widespread respect so maybe you can calm the situation out there and you can stop this so abdullah salaam after saying who tried and after the allah is the last companion to stand up and to address these people and to try to convince them to to wake up to their ways and subhan allah what he says is extremely touching extremely touching and he says he stands up and he says oh people like o people do not unleash the sword of allah upon you because if you unleash the sword of allah upon you it will not be put away until the day of judgment be careful you're killing a righteous man a righteous leader amongst you was killed by a disbeliever your people who are muslims and you're claiming to be muslims and you're killing a righteous man amongst you and if you do that then allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will unleash his sword upon you and it will never be put away from you until the day of judgement and he says he says woe to you inna sultana he said that your sultan today he rules you with with with the light stick you know like what he's saying is that he's lenient with you the person who rules over you is someone that's very lenient with you he's not someone that's harsh with you he's not someone that oppresses you the reason why they're able to take advantage of uthman allah and was because he's so kind and so lenient with them otherwise if he was a ruler that wanted to kill he would have said go ahead and wipe these people out because they're rising up against me saying this is a man that is dealing with you with gentleness and he says he said if you kill him if you kill this gentle sultan this righteous leader upon you then you will not be ruled except with harshness what will what will come after that is going to be very very hard upon you because you would have unleashed an environment upon yourselves by killing this righteous and this generous man amongst you he continues he says woe to you so this place of yours this medina of yours is surrounded by angels and he says said if you kill this man then these angels will leave us if you kill this righteous man amongst you these angels will leave us and in one narration he said he said over seventy thousand people were killed because of the unjust murder the assassination of yahya that after the assassination the slaughter of yahya was a good gentleman to them and after they killed him then what was unleashed on them as a result of divine retribution was very very difficult upon them so be careful with the assassination of this righteous man amongst you unfortunately what did these kids do kids truly subhanallah kids they said sit down oh jew we will kill you and we will kill him basically dismiss them and move them out the way and that's when they went and they killed her allah subhanallah i mean imagine they disrespected him in this way and this shows you the nature of these people when they they turned their hearts away from allah's revelation even though they thought they were reading the quran but they turned against the sahaba this way and they called him you know they said to him sit down o jewish man we will kill you and we will kill uthman we don't want to hear what you have to say and so it was unfortunate subhan allah but there is so much divine wisdom to what he said as well he's saying to them subhanallah look what allah gifted you with and if you don't do right by that blessing with a generous leader like um and you instead respond in this way then you're going to face divine retribution and divine consequences and that's exactly subhanallah what happens the chaos becomes unleashed upon them as a result of the environment of fitna that they create and abdullah was a man who was well read in history the history of peoples before the history of the umam the history of the nations before the history of bani israel and of course now the history of bani isma'il he knows the stories he knows the scriptures he knows the lives of the prophets he knows how this all works and when said then you know basically starts to make his way to iraq to put an end to this fitna listen to what he says to him this is again coming from a place of divine wisdom he says i implore you stick to the member of the prophet saws being don't leave in medina if you leave the member of the prophet sallam then you're never going to see it again meaning if you leave madinah and you take this battle out to iraq you'll never see the men but of the prophet salla some again you'll never see in madinah again and subhanallah saying was assassinated where in kufa in iraq in the same environment of fitan that existed may allah be pleased with the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so this was something sad that he lived to see this happen within his ummah and he was someone who decided to stay to himself in the fitna completely of course we see the companions reacted in different ways he was one of those that said i want nothing to do with you know wars and battles and fighting between people so he took to his home and he abandoned it all together and he stayed in the medina and he stuck to the narration of the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he died a natural death in fact in the year 43 after hijrah at a very very old age a very very old age again he was either 10 years older than the prophet saison or 20 years older so he would have been close to 100 years old at that time when he passed away and he is amongst those noble companions that is buried in al-baqir with the family and the companions of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam may allah be pleased with him and be pleased with the companions and send his peace and blessings upon our messenger and his family and inshallah next week we're going to take a break insha'allah uh and uh after i get back in sha allah ta'ala will continue with salman al-farrah which will be a treat so insha'allah please do be present two weeks from now as we continue and we can take a few questions uh for now inshallah we know the injil uh the bible has been changed and stuff the the thorax that he was reading about the science is that similar to the old testament that we see today or is there a version of that or has that also been changed good question so what we see um sort of of the the changes that took place within biblical scripture was the torah that he was reading the same as the old testament today the torah generally speaking this is something i believe i don't want to actually misquote him but i believe he mentions this but historically speaking has a little more rigor to it in terms of preservation than what came in terms of the gospels and the injeel why because what was revealed to isa islam is almost entirely lost and of course the gospels what what it means when you say the gospels today has a different implication altogether than the injeel so there is of course tariff there is of course alteration and change and change over time however generally speaking there is less change within the torah right then there would then there would have been what's known as the old testament with the new testament uh of course it's still not the the initial revelation to musa but there is some change so how different is it from there till now allah knows best but one thing that we know is that even what exists today there are you know implications of a prophet to come indications of a prophet's come and implications of a messenger to come we of course believe that that is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam right as muslims we will say that that's the prophet saws deuteronomy 18 18 2 the the illiterate prophet from the brothers of musa islam and multiple other references that we would take to be the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam so clearly at that time the indications would have been even clearer and more pristine which we'll find from waraka and zaid and you know other people that were learned in the scriptures at the time that immediately saw the prophet salla islam as a confirmation of those verses with a question from the sisters i thought i saw one of the sisters holding a mic yeah yeah it's just you okay anyone have a question from the sisters it seems he adopted islam from day one so why he didn't share with the prophet or the beginning better and oh than the other you know i'm sorry can you say that again i'm saying why he did not share with the prophet all the wars in the beginning you know to defend islam like an odd or in uh better i mean obviously he was there because he waited for you're saying why didn't he fight alongside the prophet saws so it's important to know that sometimes when you don't have the mashahids when you don't have the um the the battles listed or someone being listed that doesn't mean they weren't there but that means the presence wasn't necessarily noteworthy so the understanding and you'll see with with someone like abdullah salaam it will say for example some of them say he witnessed and so on some of them say he didn't that he was amongst those that were not present allah knows best but certainly he was not amongst those that were sinful that were blameworthy uh and it could be that he was present but he was not particularly active within the battle at the time yeah certainly not amongst the sinful though or any anyone blame worthy yeah i think that'll be the last question sean then i could take your question privately so we could do that yeah yeah basically it sounds like the life of salaam is about uh in his 70s when he embraces islam but he's still climbing at the top of the palm trees to look out so it sounds like he's quite fit and so my question was going to be basically did he participate in many battles even though he's you know quite old yeah so again the same answer about battles uh with abdullah muslim we're just not sure about what the implications would be when it comes to battles or what his participation or lack of participation will be if i find something else i'll maybe mention in the next lecture insha'allah take it privately inshallah so we can make time for the adhan so i'll see you all in two weeks and i will do the same uh for you insha allah [Music]

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