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بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
اَلْحَمْدُ للّٰهِ رَبِّ العَالَمِيْنَ وَالصَّلاَةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلىَ اَشْرَفِ اْللأَنْبِيَاءِ وَالْمُرْسَلِيْنَ سَيِّدِناَ وَمَوْلٰنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى اٰلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ اَجْمَعِيْنَ، اَمَّا بَعْدُ.
Kultham ibn Haddamرضي الله عنه
May Allah سبحانه وتعالى allow us to dwell with these beautiful companion that set the stage for what we can benefit from until today. Allahumma Amiin.
Sayyidah A'ishah رضي الله عنه her seerah. So that will take at least two or three halaqas inshallah. And we've been covering the Ansar up until now. And tonight inshallah will give you the most holistic riwayat probably we could. Especially as it pertains to the initial entrance of Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ into Masjid Quba, into the area of Quba. And so subhanAllah this is going to be a connecting the dots halaqa for you. And what I hope inshallah you'll take away from it is not just a love for the three companions that we will focus on today, but actually an appreciation for Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ's leadership style. How did Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ manage to unite so many different tribes, so many different classes of people, even though they were trying to kill each other before Islam.
And Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ manages somehow to get them to see past their differences with one another and also see past their differences with an entirely strange group of people coming from Makkah to Al-Madinah. And so to appreciate the brilliance of Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ in uniting tribes, you can imagine that Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ has to play this balancing act with all of the tribes as he's entering into Madinah. And Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ, who's this super intentional person,
Kultham ibn Haddamرضي الله عنه (also: Kulthum ibn Hidn) was a resident of the city of Madinah in the now Kingdom of Saud. During the lifetime of Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ. Kulthum ibn Haddamرضي الله عنه was blind and was considered very hospitable. When Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ came to the city of Madinah after his escape (Hijrah) from Makkah, he was received into the house of Kulthum ibn Haddam. There Muhammad Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ built his first mosque, which is considered the oldest mosque in Islam.the most intentional person to ever walk the face of the earth, right? Everything about Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ is niya, it's intentionality, the way he looks, the way he talks to someone, the way he eats, everything.
And we saw it, especially in the story of Jabir رضي الله عنه. It's like Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ chooses the perfect words for each tribe and the perfect approach towards each tribe to bring them all together. And so I want you to think about Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ m coming to Al-Madinah. Now obviously, there are two main tribes. The two main tribes of the Ansar are who? Aus and Khazraj. And as we said, Aus and Khazraj, the two main tribes, have all of these sub-tribes.
And Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ is navigating between these sub-tribes as the complete stranger to them, alayhi salatu wa salam, that's now being embraced by them. So, we talked about Jabir رضي الله عنه. and his tribe, which is the tribe of Banu Salima. The tribe of Banu Salima. Jabir رضي الله عنه. is from that tribe. Who else is from that tribe? We've mentioned a lot about some of the people of Banu Salima. One of the best of the companions that we just covered. Mu'adh bin Jabal رضي الله عنه. is from Banu Salima. Amr bin al-Jamuhرضي الله عنه. is from Banu Salima. A lot of the great companions that we just covered, a bulk of them actually came from Banu Salima.
This group of people resided around what area?
There's a particular masjid now in Madinah that they all resided in and they tried to buy the area next to the masjid of Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ and Rasulullahصَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِۦ وَسَلَّمَ said, stay in your homes, your footsteps will be recorded. Which masjid was that? Where all of the family of Jabir رضي الله عنه, they wanted to sell all of their property and come to Masjid Nabawi. Not Quba. It is Qiblatayn. Masjid al-Qiblatayn. The current area of Masjid al-Qiblatayn is where Banu Salima used to reside. The landscape of Madinah was basically where every tribe had its area and they were all at war with each other so it was the land reflected the tribalism. The land reflected the tribalism in Madinah.
That wasn't the case in Makkah. The land reflected the tribalism, specifically in Yathrib which would become Madinah. All of the family of Banu Salima in Masjid al-Qiblatayn, the current area of Masjid al-Qiblatayn. And then you have one single tribe that occupies or whose settlement is basically where Masjid Quba is and this is the tribe of Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Banu Amr Ibn Auf. So this is the tribe that occupied Quba. All of the people we will talk about today are from this tribe. The sub-tribe of Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Banu Salima who resides around Qiblatayn, they are from Khazraj. Banu Amr Ibn Auf are from Al-Aus. The larger tribe, the parent tribe of Al-Aus.
So they both belong to the two main warring tribes. And then you have Banu Najjar who is the maternal relative of Rasulullahﷺ. And the Prophetﷺ said, Banu Najjar. is best homes in Madinah are the homes of Banu Najjar. When the Prophetﷺ wanted to move from place to place he would always call for his maternal relatives to move with him you got this huge area, Masjid Qiblatayn, which is on the other side of Madinah by the way. Banu Salima. Then you have this huge area of Quba, Banu Amr Ibn Auf. And then you have the Prophetﷺ having to navigate with his own relatives, even though they are his great relatives from the maternal side, Banu Najjar.
And he will not move from point A to point B without calling them to move with him. His maternal uncles and things of that sort. Banu Salim Ibn Auf. So the tribe of Quba is Banu Amr Ibn Auf. And Banu Salim Ibn Auf, they are the cousins of Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Visualize this for a moment insha'Allah with Madinah. So you'll notice, that you have Masjid Nabawi. The Masjid of the Prophetﷺ. And you can see visually where Masjid Qiblatayn is, where Masjid Quba is. And then this Masjid called Masjid Al-Jumu'ah. Masjid Al-Jumu'ah.
Think about the beauty of the Prophet ﷺ. Masjid Qiblatayn, the Prophet ﷺ took care of, as we said, all of those people. The Jabirs of the world are the Amr Ibn Jamuh and the Mu'adh Ibn Jabirرضي الله عنه,. Some of the great companions that resided around Masjid Qiblatayn. And the Prophetﷺ told them, to stay there. Look how far away it is from Masjid Nabawi. It's about an hour's walk. They would walk to the Masjid every day. He said, Diyarukum, Tuktabu Atharukum. Stay there. Your steps will be recorded. Okay? So they get the reward of walking to the Masjid every single day. Alright?
And that's why some did not frequently come to Masjid Nabawi. So remember the Prophetﷺ would send Mu'adh Ibn Jabirرضي الله عنه, to pray-Now, the people of Quba, Masjid al-Quba, are all from which tribe? Banu Amr Ibn Auf. So everyone we're going to talk about now is from this tribe, known as Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Masjid Quba is one of the most underrated masjids in Islam. Because Allah praises the masjid and he praises the people. And there's an important point here to note. Allah praises the masjid itself and Allah praises the people themselves. For one, the Prophet ﷺ said, صلات في مسجد قباء كعمرة
To pray in Masjid Quba is like performing Umrah. In another hadith, the Prophet ﷺ said, that whoever makes wudu' and then makes their way to Quba and prays two rak'ahs, Allah will write for them a full Umrah. Complete, complete, complete. So they're in Madinah, they can't go to Makkah now, but they can go to Quba. Prophetﷺ would go ﷺ walking on Saturdays to Masjid Quba, even after Masjid Nabawi was built, and he would pray two rak'ahs there ﷺ. And he praised that masjid and said, it was like Umrah. I'm going to give you another narration by the way, it's a sahih narration, from Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ. Sa'ad ﷺ said:
لأن أصلي في مسجد قباء ركعتين أحب إلي من أن آتي بيت المقدس مرتين
Sa'd ﷺ said, in an authentic hadith, to Sa'd, he said, for me to pray two rak'ahs in Masjid Quba is more beloved to me than going to Masjid al-Aqsa twice.
لو يعلمون ما في قبائل لضربوا إليه أكباد الإبل
If they knew the virtue of Quba, they would rush, they'd constantly go with their animals, and they'd constantly go and visit Masjid Quba and pray their two rak'ahs. So this is Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ saying, that I love this masjid so much, the virtue of praying in this masjid is more beloved to me than praying even in Masjid al-Aqsa. We love Masjid al-Aqsa, Masjid al-Aqsa has its virtue. This is in praise of Quba, not diminishing al-Aqsa, may Allah liberate it. But he said, for me to pray two rak'ahs there is like visiting al-Aqsa twice. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ said, if people knew the good of Quba, they would always go there, they would keep themselves busy in going to Masjid Quba. Imagine the performance of Umrah, when you go and you visit there and you pray two rak'ahs, and on top of that, this amazing narration from Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ. Now what makes it so special?
لَمَسْجِدٌ أُسِّسَ عَلَىٰ تَقْوَىٰ مِنْ أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ أَحَقُّ أَن تَقُومَ فِيهِ فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُوا وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُطَهِّرِينَ
Allah ﷻ says, verily, a masjid whose foundation was laid from the first day on piety, this is in Surah Tawbah, on taqwa, is more worthy that you stand in that masjid to pray. In it are men who love to purify themselves, and Allah loves those who purify themselves. So Allahﷻ prays the masjid and He ﷻ prays for the people. And there's a beautiful reflection from Imam bin Ashur, rahimahullah. He said that Allah ﷻ is saying that this is a worthy masjid to pray in because we are not a people who forget our athar. We don't forget our legacies. Meaning what? Makkah, the Ka'bah. We are honoring Ibrahimﷺ every time we go and we pray there. We're honoring Ismailﷺ.
We're honoring the prophets that came before to that place. Every time we go to Masjid al-Nabawi, we are honoring the sight of the Prophet ﷺ on the Muslims as he saw them praying and was so pleased to see them praying. And when we go to Quba, we're honoring that initial simplicity of Islam where all of the people in Quba were righteous people. There were no munafiqeen in Quba. There were no hypocrites there. This was the purest people that came out to receive the Prophet ﷺ, meeting the purest people that fled with the Prophet ﷺ from Makkah. The best of the Ansar, the best of the Muhajireen for two weeks.
The way that I put it to you is imagining a camp with the best of the Muhajireen and the best of the Ansar and the Prophet ﷺ camping out with you. This is the scene of Quba. They literally were like camping out for two weeks together. The best of the Muhajireen, the best of those who fled Makkah, and the best of those who came from Madinah to receive the Prophetﷺ. So we're going to look into three people here from these people that are praised in the Qur'an, of a masjid that is praised in the Qur'an. The title only says two names because the third name is so unknown to people that I didn't even bother putting his name in the title, but we're going to talk about him insha'Allah as well.
So three people. Number one, a man by the name of Kulthum ibn al-Hadimرضي الله عنه. Kulthum ibn al-Hadim,رضي الله عنه Number two, and this is the one that very few people have heard of, Uwaym ibn Sa'idahرضي الله عنه. Have you ever met anyone named Uwaym? Let's change that insha'Allah. Uwaym ibn Sa'idahرضي الله عنه. Number three, another Sa'd. Sa'd ibn Khaythamahرضي الله عنه. There were a lot of Sa'ds in Madinah. Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. So Kulthum ibn al-Hadimرضي الله عنه., Uwaym ibn Sa'idahرضي الله عنه., and Sa'd ibn Khaythamahرضي الله عنه.. These are the main people you need to know in the story of Quba.
From the same tribe of Banu Amr ibn Auf, that will serve as the hosts of the Prophetﷺ. And each one of them has a very unique role to play. The first one is Kulthum ibn al-Hadimرضي الله عنه.. Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, رضي الله عنه.. And he was the chief of this tribe. And he was a very elderly man. And subhanAllah, he was described by his humility. And this is very important that when he heard of Islam, and he heard of the Prophetﷺ's coming, he immediately believed, and he immediately said, let's allocate all of what we have to the Prophetﷺ's arrival. So obviously the people in Makkah that gave the hardest time were the tribal chiefs. This is the tribal chief of this area, Kultham ibn al-Hadimرضي الله عنه., an old man, elderly man, wise, and humble. He says, Tamanna, we believe in the Prophet ﷺ, and we will allocate whatever he wants for him ﷺ. Let him come to Madinah, and if you remember the map, Quba is on the outskirts, right?
It's not actually part of Madinah. It's kind of on the outskirts. Let him come, we will receive him, and we will honor him ﷺ. So Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه. is the one who extends the invitation to the Prophet ﷺ to come to Quba in specific. Come to the tribe of Banu Amr ibn Auf, and we will take care of you, O Messenger of Allah ﷺ. The Prophetﷺ comes to Quba on the 12th of Rabi' al-Awwal, Monday the 12th of Rabi' al-Awwal, which also happens to be the day that he was born ﷺ. And he stays in the home of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim for the first week. And Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه. because he is an elderly person, and he's the host, the Prophet ﷺ basically makes him his brother.
Know how we're talking about people that are assigning mu'akha, the Ansar and the muhajireen, the people of Madinah becoming brothers, paired off as brothers with the people of Makkah. This is basically going to be the equivalent of a brother to the Prophet ﷺ. So the Prophet ﷺ will stay in his home, specifically during the nights. Specifically during the nights, and when he's holding conversations with some of the tribal elders and the chiefs. Those who are with the Prophet ﷺ were the likes of Abu Ubaidah ﷺ and Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ. So the elders, Saiyidina Abu Bakr As Sidique رضي الله عنه and Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه as well. May Allah be pleased with them all. They're staying with the Prophet ﷺ around the area of Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. If you could pull up the garden for me, insha'Allah. So this is actually, it's still preserved, the place of the Prophet ﷺ staying, in the gardens right next to Maz'al Quba, the resting place, the place that shaded the Prophetﷺ, where he would receive the elder delegations.
And the house of Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه. is right next to it. It's sort of the courtyard, if you will, of Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه... So what the Prophetﷺ does is really beautiful. He stays with him at night, and he meets with all of the elders and the tribal chiefs. And then during the day, the Prophetﷺ assigns another home, which is the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamahرضي الله عنه. And that was called Bayt al-Uzzab, the home of the singles. All the young single folks stayed in the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamahرضي الله عنه... I said this is like a campsite, subhanAllah, it's beautiful. So the Prophet ﷺ, during the day, goes to the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamaرضي الله عنه..h, Bayt al-Uzzab, the house of the singles. He spends the day with the youth. He comes back and he spends the evening with the elders ﷺ. So he's honoring the different tribes,
and he's even honoring the different age groups as well ﷺ, distributing his time equally between the house of Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. and the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. Now they started to build the masjid during this time in Quba, and this is where the Ansar got to see the Prophet ﷺ coming forth, and he himself laying the stones for Masjid Quba. And they were shocked to see the Prophet ﷺ. This leader ﷺ, who they had been waiting for months, standing up under the hot sun, climbing the trees, looking for the Prophet ﷺ every day, and here he is ﷺ. He's participating in the building of Masjid Quba. He's participating in the laying of the foundations. He's participating in the preparation of every single step. The food, the Prophet ﷺ is preparing the food alongside them.
So Rasulullah ﷺ is an active leader when he gets there. He doesn't get there and say, alright, I just finished hijrah, it was exhausting, someone tried to kill me twice, we hung out, you know, we were in Ghar Thawr and then I got caught. No, no. The Prophet ﷺ is immediately active, participating, learning the landscape, who's who, communicating with people with that brilliant intelligence that he had ﷺ to recognize how he would speak to each different class of people. So this home of Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. was known as the home of deliberation, the home where they would discuss the very important matters and make plans for how they were going to complete their way to Al-Madinah. SubhanAllah and this is from the wisdom of Allah ﷻ, it's one of those things that you can only think of the benefits and reflections. Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. dies almost instantly. So he lived to embrace the Prophet ﷺ, he lived to be the Prophetﷺ's host, and then he died. Also, if you remember the first, and you all get shy to answer, I know someone will know the answer, inshallah, the first person to embrace Islam from Madinah, the first person to go out to Makkah and to embrace Islam from Madinah, who was it? It's not Sa'd, As'ad ibn Zurarah. As'adرضي الله عنه. died right away as well. So As'ad ibn Zurarahرضي الله عنه. was the first one to do Jumu'ah before the Prophetﷺ even got to Madinah. Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. was the first one to host the Prophetﷺ. Both of them, SubhanAllah, died shortly after the hijrah of the Prophet ﷺ, to the point that the first two men that were buried in the Baqir are these two men. Okay? So some of scholars say As'ad died before Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه, and some of them say Kulthum died before As'ad, but the first two Ansahari to be buried in that blessed land, in al-Baqir, are the first two to receive the Prophet ﷺ in different ways. As'ad goes out and believes in the Prophetﷺ and then comes back to Madinah and sets the stage, Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. hosting the Prophet ﷺ in al-Madinah, and he dies almost immediately. Now Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه.. had one daughter named Umayrah, and Umayrah was married to Utbah, the son of Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So let's talk about Uwaym رضي الله عنه.now. The main person we'll talk about is As'ad, but let's talk about Uwaym ibn Sa'idahﷺ. So we said; that Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه. is paired off with the Prophetﷺ himself. Uwaym ibn Sa'idahﷺ is the brother of Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه. Think about that.
Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه. coming to stay at your house, right? So you've got to be the guy that's going to be the host of Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه., and he was his brother throughout. So this is actually the brother of Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه. To the point that when Umar r.a says, my brother from the Ansar, he's talking about Uwaymرضي الله عنه. Because he was his brother from the Ansar, this man was named Uwaym ibn Sa'idahرضي الله عنه. So he's the one that gets to host Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه. in his house and gets paired off with Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه. And you can start to see how personality types match up. What is Uwaym's reputation? He is the man who Allahﷻ is talking about primarily. فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُ That there are men amongst them, and here رِجَال does not mean males only, it means men and women, believing men and believing women. But in it are men who love to purify themselves. Most of the Sahaba, they said this was revealed about Uwaym رضي الله عنه, a man who loved to purify himself. And he is the brother of Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه.. And the story of how he is described, so next time you hear that verse being recited in Surah At-Tawbah, this is who you are, I want this to first come to your mind. The Prophet ﷺ went to Quba' after this verse was revealed. And he said to the people of Quba' He said:
إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَعَالَى قَدْ أَحْسَنَ عَلَيْكُمُ الثَّنَاءُ فِي الطُّهُورِ فِي قِسَّةِ مَسْجِدِكُمْ
Prophet ﷺ said, Allahﷻ has truly beautified his praise of you when he tells the story of your message. Like Rasulullahﷺ is receiving the Qur'an, and the Prophetﷺ knows
فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُ
How beautiful, what a description. In it are people who love to purify themselves. So he comes to the people of Quba' and he says what a beautiful praise. Why is it that you think Allahﷻ revealed that about you? So Uwaym ﷺ said;والله يا رسول الله
We do not know except that our neighbors from the Jews used to wash themselves for prayer. And we started to wash ourselves as well, even before Islam came. يُحِبُّونَ يَتَطَهَّرُ They already loved the concept of wudu. So when wudu came, it was natural for them to take that on. And Uwaymرضي الله عنه was someone who used to love to do wudu. Literally يَتَطَهَّرُ In the Arabic language by the way, يَتَطَهَّرُ The presence of the letter Ta as opposed to يَتَطَهَّرُ يَتَطَهَّرُ Speaks to a dhahr, speaks to the external. يَتَطَهَّرُ Speaks to the internal. And that's why
والله يحب المطهرين المتطهرين
Allahﷻ loves those who purify themselves internally.
And Allahﷻ loves those who purify themselves externally. So Allah literally was praising their wudu, first and foremost. These are people that love their wudu, they do their wudu properly. And this was referring to this man Uwaym ibn Sa'id رضي الله عنه And Allah loves those who purify themselves internally, who don't just take the najas on the outside, the impurities of the outside, but they also work on purifying themselves inside, removing the filth on the inside, the hatred, the envy, the gossip, the slander. They care that much more about that. Right? Some people care so much about the external and they don't care anything about the internal. So Allah سبحانه وتعالى is saying, Allah سبحانه وتعالى loves the people who purify themselves on the inside as well. And the Prophet ﷺ said,
and the hadith is from Jabir ibn Abdullah. Jabir رضي الله عنه says;
سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول نعم العبد والرجل صالح من أهل الجنة عويم ابن سعيدة
What a great man and a man from Jannah, this man is Uwaym ibn Sa'ida. So if one of you names your son as Uwaymرضي الله عنه, you have a story insha'Allah. And when he passed away, he was the brother of Sayyidina Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه and this is beautiful. When he passed away, Sayyidina Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه stood over his grave and said;
والله ما أحد على وجه الأرض يستطيع أن يقول أنا أحسن من صاحب هذا القبر
He said, there's not a man on the face of the earth who can say today that I'm better than the person who occupies this grave. And he says\
والله ما نصبت راية للنبي ﷺ إلا وتحت ظلها عويم
Umar رضي الله عنه was saying, I never saw the Prophetﷺ a banner raised up for the Prophetﷺ except that Uwaym رضي الله عنه was standing under it. See subhanAllah, some of these companions were so quiet, they didn't involve themselves too much in community affairs, but they just exerted themselves so purely. And look how Allah سبحانه وتعالى immortalizes them through this ayah. And we've been reading this ayah about Mazid Quba and the people of Quba this whole time, and it's talking about primarily this man Uwaym رضي الله عنه And look how Allah سبحانه وتعالى elevates him in that way. So this is Kultham ibn al-Hadamرضي الله عنه. and Uwaym رضي الله عنه. Now the last person, and this is the one subhanAllah who truly has a story similar to Jabir and a very touching story, is Sa'd ibn Khaythamah رضي الله عنه Sa'd ibn Khaythamahرضي الله عنه was a young man who was actually from that first batch in Makkah that met the Prophetﷺ. So he was the representative of this tribe.
Banu Amr ibn Auf, even though he was young because he was the only person from the tribe who was there to pledge with the Prophetﷺ. He was there in the first bay'ah with the Prophet ﷺ, the first pledge with the Prophet ﷺ at al-Aqaba. And Sa'd ibn Khaythamah رضي الله عنه as we said, Bayt al-Uzzab, the house of singles, all the young people came and stayed at his place. But his brother from the Muhajireen was Abu Salama رضي الله عنه. So again, Quthum al-Hadim, the Prophet ﷺ, Uwaym رضي الله عنه received Saiyidina Umar Ibn Al Khattab رضي الله عنه and Sa'd ibn Khaythamah received Abu Salama رضي الله عنه who was the first husband of Umm Salama رضي الله تعالى عنها. So he is his brother from the Muhajireen. And while he was single when the Prophet ﷺ first moved to Madinah, he got married shortly after the hijrah. And he married a woman by the name of Habiba bint Abi Amir al-Rahib, who is the sister of Hanthala رضي الله عنه ibn Abi Amir. Now, Abu Amir al-Rahib Abu Amir,, this is not you by the way because mashallah, we love to have you here. This is another Abu Amirرضي الله عنه,. This is Abu Amir al-Rahib. was not a very good man.
So very distant from our Abu Amir. We love our Abu Amir. Abu Amir al-Rahib is the one who built Masjid Dharar. You know how when Qubat was built, the hypocrite said, let's build another masjid right next to Qubat. We don't like all this attention. So let's build another masjid. And it was Masjid Dharar, the masjid of harm. Right. So the idea was that let's split up the community. So they went and they built another masjid, Masjid Dharar. So Abu Amir al-Rahib, his children, just like Abdullah ibn Ubaid al-Nusayl, the chief of the hypocrites, just like his children, mashallah, became some of the best companions.
So Sa'd actually married Habiba, his daughter, Habiba bint Abi Amir al-Rahib, the sister of Hanzala رضي الله عنه who was washed by the angels, ghaseel al-malaika. And if you look at the picture of Masjid Quba, can you put up the aerial view of Quba? So this is Quba Mosque:
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Sa'd's father also became Muslim. Khaytham became Muslim as well. So remember the conversation between Jabir and his father Abdullah? Think about the very real parent-to-children conversations that existed at the time. Abdullah did not let Jabir, his son, go to the battles of Badr and Uhud. He said you've got to stay home and take care of the family. This was the nature of the conversation that they had to have. Hamdallah, I'm sorry, Khaytham and Sa'd رضي الله عنه when the battle of Badr came, father and son, the father comes to the son, Khaytham comes to Sa'd رضي الله عنه and he says to him:
إِنَّهُ لَابُدَّ لِأَحَدِنَا مِنْ أَنْ يُقِيمَ
that look, one of us has to stay back while the other one goes to fight in Badr. فَآثِرْنِي بِالْخُرُوجِ وَأَقِمْ مَعَ نِسَائِكَ
So Khaytham is saying to his son Sa'd, look, prefer me, let me be the one to go out and fight alongside the prophets, Salaam رسلم, and Badr. You stay back with your family. You stay back with your family. And listen to the answer of Sa'd رضي الله عنه. He said to him:
لو كان غير الجنة لآثرتك
He said, listen if the stakes of this conversation were not Jannah, then I would have preferred you. But he said this is Jannah we're talking about, to go out in Badr and be with the prophets, Salaam رسلم, this is Jannah. So he said, I'm sorry, dad, we have to find out another way. So what's the solution? What's the compromise? They cast lots. So it's like, think about you flip a coin, which one's going to go to Badr, which one's going to stay back. SubhanAllah, look at the spirit of the Ansar. Look at the spirit of these people. Like we're going to go serve the prophet, Salaam رسلم, in this battle, and we have to cast lots for the opportunity to go be with the messengers of Allah.
So they cast lots and Sa'd رضي الله عنه, the young man, was the one who was chosen. So Sa'd رضي الله عنه went out in Badr and his father, Khaythamah, stayed behind. And SubhanAllah, one of the first people to be killed in Badr, and one of the only Muslims to be killed in Badr was Sa'd رضي الله عنه. So the two hosts of the prophet, Salaam رسلم, both, Kultham and Sa'd, both died early. Sa'd رضي الله عنه was one of the few shuhada of Badr. Because remember, they won Badr.
The Muslims won the battle of Badr, so they had very few shuhada. And he was martyred رضي الله عنه by Amru ibn Abdi-Wud, who was like a villain from Quraysh that Sayyidina Ali رضي الله عنه would later on kill in battle. So Sa'd رضي الله عنه was martyred in Badr. And SubhanAllah! you think about this, and they say, you know, the best people that lived amongst the prophet, Salaam رسلم, were the veterans of Badr. The prophet, Salaam رسلم, used to always praise the veterans of Badr. Imagine being someone who took the bay'ah with the prophet, Salaam رسلم, the pledge with the prophet, Salaam رسلم, someone who hosted the prophet, Salaam رسلم, someone who would be considered a veteran of Badr, and a shaheed of Badr as well. Sa'd رضي الله عنه was martyred.
And when they were coming back from Badr, because they knew that they won Badr, the news had reached them, proceeded to Madinah, that the Muslims won the battle of Badr. Khaytham رضي الله عنه ibn al-Harith was waiting in Quba' for his son. And so when they came back to Quba' he went through the ranks and he was saying, where is Sa'd? Where is Sa'd? Where is Sa'd? He was looking for his son and they told him that Sa'd رضي الله عنه was martyred. And this was so painful to him because he kept, he remembering the conversation. He remembered the conversation right before Badr.
SubhanAllah, just like you have the conversation between Jabir and his father, he and his son. And he said, if it wasn't for Jannah, لأثرتك I'd choose you, O my father, but look, it's Jannah that we're talking about, so let's cast lots. And Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ granted him a shahada, granted him martyrdom with Rasulullahﷺ, and granted him that place in Al-Jannah. And then look what happens, Khaytham رضي الله عنه, the father of Sa'd رضي الله عنه said, that if I have another chance to be with Rasulullahﷺ, then Rasulullahﷺ will see the same spirit of Sa'd رضي الله عنه.
And guess what, Khaytham is one of the shuhada of Uhud. So Uhud comes, Khaytham رضي الله عنه was one of those who did not flee from the battle of Uhud, one of the Ansar who stayed put with the Prophet ﷺ even when it was complete chaos. And Khaytham رضي الله عنه was martyred in Uhud. You're not, there is literally no other father and son, no other parent-child combination where you have a shaheed in Badr and a shaheed in Uhud. And what do we know about the shahada of Uhud and Badr? That they were reunited. So imagine Sa'd رضي الله عنه receiving his father, Khaytham رضي الله عنه, from the souls of the believers, the best people that were praised. And the scholars say, and I'll end with this because it's very powerful, they say, SubhanAllah, father and son are encompassed within two ayahs. How so? When Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ says,
فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ يَتَطَهَّرُوا
Allah praises the people that used to love to purify themselves. Sa'd is included in that. Sa'd ibn Khaytham is included in that. And then his father is included in the verse,
مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ
That from the believers are those who were truthful to the covenant they took with Allah ﷻ
. فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ قَضَى نَحْبَى وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَنْتَذِرْ وَمَا بَدَّرُوا تَبْدِيلً
Some of them were able to fulfill their promise to God right away.
Some of them were delayed, but they never changed in their result. So, SubhanAllah, the son is encompassed in one ayah. The father is encompassed in another ayah where Allahﷻ is praising people. And these people that Allah is talking about,
مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا
are the people who missed Badr and said, if Allah gives us another chance, we'll show how we love our Prophet ﷺ, how we will not abandon our Messenger ﷺ. And they were the shuhada of Uhud who longed to be in Badr with Rasulullahﷺ. And, you know, you can only imagine Sa'd receiving his father amongst the realm of believing souls and them celebrating together as shuhada. May Allah ﷻ be pleased with them and may Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ accept them and accept us and count us amongst them. Allahumma amiin.
So again, this is sort of the... the landscape of Quba. Now the Prophet ﷺ makes his way to Madinah and the central home is the home of the Prophet ﷺ and Aisha ﷺ. May Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ allows us to be joined with the blessed family and companions of the Messenger ﷺ. Allahumma Ameen. So what are the three companions' names, just quickly? Sa'd ibn Khaythamah, Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, and Uwaym ibn Sa'dah.
The first Muslim that you're ever going to know named Uwaym is going to be born in Valihrant, right? It's going to happen, inshallah. May Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ bless you all. Inshallah, I'll take a few questions since we finished a little bit earlier, inshallah. Any questions about the content today? Yeah. Can I show you the slide of what? Of Quba? Oh, the masjid itself or the minaret? The aerial view of the masjid. Can you put up the aerial view of the masjid once again? Quba? I don't control it on my end. There you go. So I can't see it from here, but it's going to be, actually, it's the furthest right.
See that minaret? The furthest right. The furthest right. Yeah. Say that again? Yeah, so, in many of the mufassireen, they point out that when Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ, says, the concept of external purification is when the letter ta is added. Yatathahru speaks to the external, of dhahr, purification of the dhahr, purification of the external. Yatthahru speaks to the internal. So when Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ says, yuhibbuna yatathahru, Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ, was praising literally the way they would wash themselves. They would do their wudu with extra care.
They were diligent with their wudu. And Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ, loves al-mutahireen, people who purify themselves on the inside because that's more encompassing in this regard. All right, last question? Yeah. Yeah, so you mentioned, you mentioned, Yeah. Yeah, Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqasرضي الله عنه , yeah. So it's very interesting because this is the version of the So it's very interesting because this is the virtue, Sa'd r.a is obviously not a Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqasرضي الله عنه is, an authentic narration from him in this regard holds a lot of weight.
This is the only narration where you talk about the virtue of Quba' juxtaposed with al-Aqsa, right? And the way to take it is to pray in both, insha'Allah. Because it's just like, you know, if someone was just doing the math, they'd say, well, I'll just stay in Makkah. I won't go to Madinah, because a salah in Makkah is more valuable than a salah in Madinah. So we go to Madinah, and we go to Quba' and they all hold special significance in this regard.
Al-Aqsa being the first Qibla, and so many more. And the fact that it's occupied gives it even more of a reason for us to stay connected to it. So may Allah سُبْحَانَهُۥ وَتَعَالَىٰ, allow us to pray in all four of them. But I'll kind of break y'all's heart. If you go to a group and they say, let's go to Masjid Qibla-Tayn, there's no virtue to praying in Qibla-Tayn, but it's cool history, so you can connect it back to the class, insha'Allah. But if you hear some strange things about it, there's no authentic narration about praying in Masjid Qibla-Tayn. Sometimes it's crowded, and it's really not worth it, especially in the hajj time, to try to go to Qibla-Tayn. Alright, any other questions?
Jazakum Allah khair. Yeah. So Masjid Nabawi is central to the city of Medina. Qibla is on the outskirts. And remember that this was blessed land that was chosen, and it belonged to Ben Ali Najjar, the maternal relatives, and then the specific places were divinely chosen from
The white tiles. So everything within those gates, that was the whole city of Madinah at the time. Like Mazal Ghamama, if you go and you point to Mazal Ghamama, Mazal Ghamama was considered on the outskirts of Madinah. And it's literally just a quarter mile, half a mile walking from the Bab al-Salam. So you go straight to Mazal Ghamama, that was where they used to pray Eid. It's considered the outskirts of Madinah. So there's no virtue, good question. So praying on Saturday in particular in Quba, nothing in particular. The Sunnah is to make wudu and go, it was just the habit of Rasulullahﷺ to go out there on Saturdays. But there's no particular virtue attached to Saturday and there are other days Rasulullahﷺ went.
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