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Abdullah ibn Abbas (ra): The Ocean of Knowledge | The Firsts
What made a teenager one of the most trusted scholars of the Qur’an among the Prophet ﷺ’s Companions? In this episode, discover the remarkable life of Abdullah ibn Abbas (ra) — the Prophet ﷺ’s cousin, student, and the Ocean of Knowledge.
From his childhood in the Prophet’s arms to his leadership in times of turmoil, Ibn Abbas’s story is a model of prophetic character and leadership.
This transcript was auto-generated using AI and may contain misspellings.
00:00I want you to imagine walking into the masjid of the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
00:12in the time of the Companions. And you would think that the seniors of the Sahaba would command the most attention. Everyone is looking to the Sahaba that have the grey hairs, that have clearly been around
00:27the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for a long time. But everyone is defaulting to this single young man. And when he walks into the masjid of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, everybody is suddenly
00:41captured by him. When he speaks, they all listen. And you're wondering how an 18 or 20-year-old is commanding the attention of the veterans
00:53of Badr, the greatest Companions to ever walk around the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. A Sahabi who you could say, and you would not be exaggerating, is the most knowledgeable
01:06Companion of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. If you were to say, "A'lam"—the most knowledgeable of the Ashab Rasulullah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, the Companions of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam—then it would most likely be that
01:19you're talking about this young man. So much so that Tawus ibn Kaysān, one of the great scholars of the second generation, Rahimahullah Ta'ala, he was asked, he said, "You know, you lived amongst the elders of the Companions
01:33of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam that survived him. Why is it that you spent so much time just with this young man?" And he said, "Because I met hundreds of the Sahaba of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
01:46And when they had an issue amongst themselves, they defaulted to him and they just agreed with his opinion." Masrūq ibn al-Ajda', Rahimahullah, says: "Kuntu idha ra'aytuhu"—verily, if you saw him—"Qultu ajmalu al-nas.
02:00You would say, 'He's the most handsome man I've ever seen in my life.' Fa idha nataq"—and if he spoke—"Qultu afsahu al-nas. You'd say, 'He's the most eloquent person that I've ever heard in my life.'
02:12Fa idha haddath"—and then once he went on with his speech and kept on talking—"Qultu a'lamu al- nas. 'He's the most knowledgeable person I've ever heard in my life.'" This young man that we're speaking about is "al-Bahr," the ocean—"Habr al-Ummah," the scholar
02:26of this Ummah—Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhuma, who, Subhanallah, is probably the most difficult Companion that I'll ever have to fit into a single lesson.
02:38Because his life is wisdom upon wisdom, upon wisdom, upon wisdom. Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhuma, another Companion and scholar from Al-Bayt
02:50al-Nabi, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam—from the family of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. His first cousin, his dear one—Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam—the joy of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam during one of the most difficult moments of his life.
03:05Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhuma, was born during the boycott of Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib. Meaning one of the most difficult eras of the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
03:20Imagine being in a ghetto or a concentration camp, much like the ones that we see today, where people are barred from the world, under siege from the world, and a baby is born into
03:31that misery, and that baby becomes the source of joy for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhuma, who was born about three years before the Hijrah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
03:44Now here's an assignment for all of you. You've got to go back in the first, and you have to watch the full episode on al-'Abbas, his father, Radiallahu Anhuma, who was Walid al-Nabi, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who we
03:58said was like the father to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And you've got to watch, you've got to really scroll down the playlist until you find Lubaba
04:07bint al-Harith, Umm al-Fadl, the mother of Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Lubaba, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha, who was so early in Islam that what was said about her—she embraced Islam on
04:21the same day as Khadija, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha. So that made her the second woman to embrace Islam after our mother Khadija, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha. And as some of the scholars say, it's between her and Fatima bint al-Khattab, the sister
04:34of Umar, may Allah be pleased with him and her. So you've got to go way back and you've got to watch their full episodes. For the sake of tonight, I'm just going to give a really brief snapshot of the parents
04:46of Abdullah so that it can help situate Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhuma, in this particular story. So al-'Abbas—the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had 12 uncles, 12 uncles, eight of
05:01whom died before he received revelation. Four of whom were alive when he received revelation. You had Abu Talib, you had Abu Lahab, you had Hamza, and you had al-'Abbas. Okay.
05:15Obviously you had two who didn't accept Islam. You had two who embraced Islam, and all of them, as we said, you know, I was actually asked this question: "What is the meaning of the name Abbas?" Abbas is the name; it means "Asad"—it means lion.
05:31All of them have the name of a lion at a particular posture. So Abbas is "Ism al-Asad," and he is "yuzamjir." Al-'Abbas is the lion while the lion is growling. All right.
05:44Hamza, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, is when the lion jumps on you and starts eating its prey, and Subhanallah, they both lived up to their name. Al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, very deliberate, extremely deliberate, but always paying attention, right?
05:57So the lion, as it stalks its prey, is al-'Abbas. Hamza is Hamza, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu. Asadullah—Hamza, when he jumps and he feasts on his prey.
06:08Al-'Abbas, a wise, beautiful man, someone who was right before Hamza. So al-'Abbas is technically older than Hamza, may Allah be pleased with them. And as we said, Hamza is like the same age as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
06:22Al-'Abbas is only about three years older than the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So these are young uncles that are closer to being like brothers to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
06:32Al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, the generous man, a man who was big on keeping the family together always, a man who in Banu Hashim was beloved because he spent on his family members. The beggars would congregate outside of his home.
06:46He always honored the highest ideals of the tribe. So al-'Abbas is an honorable man and someone who protected the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam just like Abu Talib, even though he had not become Muslim yet,
07:01or at least announced his Islam. There's dispute, if you remember, as to when al-'Abbas became Muslim—if he hid it for a very long time, or if he actually was like Abu Talib, protecting the
07:13Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, but not yet a believer, but still honoring his nephew and at least living to the accepted norms of society. And there are multiple stories about al-'Abbas in this regard.
07:27There's only one irony I want to point out about al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu— that he was the one who took the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to meet the Ansar, right? Al-'Abbas was introducing his nephew, Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, to the various tribes and those that were coming from outside Mecca.
07:42When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had no one else, and when the Ansar came, al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhu, was skeptical about the Ansar. Why? Can anybody tell me why? Anyone remember? Why did he look at the Ansar and be like, "I'm not so sure I can give you over to them"?
07:58Anyone remember why? Because they were too young. They were youth. Right? So al-'Abbas looked at them and he's like, "Wait a minute. I'm not about to hand you over to a bunch of kids."
08:10The Ansar were a bunch of young people, teenagers in their twenties. The older ones were in their thirties. Right? So he's like, "I can't give my nephew, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, to these people." So he had to grill them and test them. Like, "Are you guys sure you're up to this?
08:24Like, are you mature enough to handle this? Or are you just some young people that are getting really excited and want to go against the grain in the system and take in, you know, the most wanted men in Mecca into your society?" Right? The irony is that look what happens.
08:38His son Abdullah is the young person that everyone would question initially, and then quickly it would be dispelled, and they would say, "Oh, this is who we're for. This is what we're after." Right?
08:52And Abdullah ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anhuma, would be the one to rise to the occasion. So al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Anhu, that was him. He's hiding his Islam until a particular point.
09:06The mother, Umm al-Fadl, Lubaba, Radiallahu Ta'ala Anha, one of the first Muslim women, and also one of "al-Akhawat al-Mu'minat," the faithful sister, the early believing sisters.
09:19Um, this is a woman who was extremely righteous. And Ibn al-'Abbas, Radiallahu Anhuma, says, "Kuntu ana wa ummi min al-Mustadha'afin fi Mecca."
09:31"My mother and I were from the weak ones in Mecca. What does he mean by that?" He means that we were amongst the Muslims that weren't able to make hijrah. We were practicing our Islam.
09:42My mother taught me to pray from the time that I remember; I prayed with my mother. We were a Muslim family in Mecca, right? Almost to say that if you think that this family was on the fence, this was a
09:54practicing, righteous, noble Muslim family. And of course, one of the key incidents that takes place is the Battle
10:03of Badr where al-Abbas came out with the people of Mecca, came out with the people of Mecca because he was forced. And the Prophet, peace be upon him, mentioned that there are some people that are going to come out on the other side.
10:19They're brought out by force. They have no need. They have no need and no desire to fight us. Al-Abbas is one of them. So he showed up on the day of Badr and he was like an idol, put his sword
10:33down and just waited to be captured. Right. And when he was captured, the Prophet, peace be upon him, of course, he had to be fair. He still had to ransom him the way that he ransomed all the other prisoners, right?
10:46All the prisoners were treated with kindness, but at the end of the day, al-Abbas was a prisoner of war and he was freed for a very particular
10:57amount that the Prophet had mentioned to him: "I know that you hid in Mecca and Allah, Most Glorified and Most High, of course, guaranteed al-Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him: 'If Allah knows what is in your hearts is good,
11:11He will give you better than that which was taken away from you.'" So you paid a ransom. So you paid a ransom. If you were already a secret Muslim, then you're going to be given far more than what was taken away from you.
11:24And indeed al-Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, would be given a huge fortune after the Battle of Badr, and he continued to spend in righteousness and support the Prophet
11:34from inside Mecca, but without announcing his Islam until Fatah Mecca, until the conquest of Mecca. The mother, Lubaba, just one thing that I mentioned about her: she is the woman who
11:48hit Abu Lahab on the head. When Abu Lahab got the news that Quraysh lost Badr, right?
11:57Abu Lahab was so upset that he jumped on the slave Abu Rafiq and he started to beat him. And Lubaba grabbed the tent pole and hit him on the head with that and said to him,
12:13"Are you acting like this because al-Abbas is not here and you think you can take advantage of him?" And Abu Lahab eventually died from that blow to his head. So that's the mother of Abdullah ibn Abbas. All right.
12:26So let's go to him. We go back once again to the time of the boycott where the
12:36Prophet, peace be upon him, is in Mecca and the Prophet, peace be upon him, is extremely grieved and saddened. And suddenly Abdullah ibn Abbas is born. Now, Abdullah is one of the younger children of al-Abbas.
12:51He has multiple children. And when he is born, he's brought to the Prophet, peace be upon him, during that boycott. And what is the Sunnah of the Prophet, peace be upon him, with a child? What would the Prophet, peace be upon him, used to do?
13:07What is one of the Sunnah that he would do? Tahniq. What is tahniq? To take a date and you chew it, right? And you rub it on the roof of the mouth of the child. Okay.
13:20With Abdullah ibn Abbas, the Prophet, peace be upon him, did not use a date, but he still did tahniq only with his saliva, peace be upon him. So he took his saliva and he rubbed it on the roof of the mouth of Abdullah ibn
13:34Abbas, and Abdullah ibn Abbas swallowed what the Prophet, peace be upon him, put in his mouth. And Mujahid says that he is the only person, the only companion or family member of the Prophet, peace be upon him, who has this distinction.
13:50The only one of the family of the Prophet, peace be upon him, whose tahniq was with the saliva of the Prophet, peace be upon him, rather than with a date. Why do you think that is? They had no food.
14:03So when you're seeing the people of Gaza right now and the people of Gaza and starvation, again, you have to live these moments in the present, right? You have to see the present through the past in this regard so that you can live in the
14:16present in this regard so that you can connect and you can have that perspective. The Prophet, peace be upon him, did not have a date to chew on to do the tahniq of Abdullah ibn Abbas, peace be upon him.
14:28So he merely took his saliva, peace be upon him, and he did the tahniq of Abdullah ibn Abbas, peace be upon him. And that is the way that this bond will start between the Prophet, peace be upon him, and Abdullah.
14:41The Prophet, peace be upon him, would play with him. He would hold him. He would carry him. And when the Prophet, peace be upon him, could barely find the ability to find some
14:53joy in the midst of hardship, every time he saw Abdullah, the smile immediately came on his face. "Give me my cousin, give me the son of mine." And he would play with him, peace be upon him, and he would make du'a for him.
15:07Keep in mind here, you know, if you look at the relationship between the Prophet, peace be upon him, and his uncles, right? They're raising each other's kids, right? The Prophet, peace be upon him, is raising his cousins. He's raising Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.
15:20He is raising from the family of his uncle, from his cousins. They're a very tight-knit family, right? So it was common for the families to raise their children amongst themselves, Banu Hashim, and the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
15:33is looking at Abdullah with that type of love and with that type of affection. So imagine being Abdullah and you wake up to the world and the Prophet, peace be upon him, was amongst you.
15:45And then when you're about four or five years old, the most incredible human being on the face of the earth, peace be upon him, leaves and he goes to Medina. And here you are in Mecca growing up
15:58in the secret community of Muslims. And you're remembering how the Prophet, peace be upon him, used to hold you and carry you and make du'a for you. And you're being told these stories about how he did the tahniq with his saliva, peace be upon him,
16:12and how you were the source of his joy in the midst of all of that hard time and the longing for that reunion with the Prophet, peace be upon him. So the Prophet, peace be upon him, comes back to Mecca. He never went to Medina
16:26to actually see the Prophet, peace be upon him, during this time. Abdullah stays in Mecca with his mother, worshiping Allah. And at some point his father worshiping Allah and his siblings worshiping Allah. Then the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, comes to Mecca.
16:40And if you remember, when the Prophet, peace be upon him, came to Mecca, he connected immediately with al-Abbas, peace be upon him. Al-Abbas at this point becomes the official representative of the Prophet, peace be upon him, for all discussions in the Conquest of Mecca.
16:55Whether he's talking to Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, or he's talking to alienated relatives of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or he's talking to former enemies of the Prophet, peace be upon him, or he's announcing terms, the Prophet, peace be upon him, treats al-Abbas
17:09like his father, right? And the Prophet, peace be upon him, he would say, "Hatha 'ammi, faman sha'a fa-l-yubahi bi-'ammihi." This is my uncle. Whoever wants to boast about his uncle, this is my uncle.
17:23And he would say that he is baqiyyatu abi. He's what's left of my father. I love him so much. He was so happy, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, to have Al-Abbas by his side once again, this time in victory. And Abdullah comes back out.
17:37Abdullah at this point is nine turning ten, comes to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sees him and remembers all those moments of hardship
17:50where you were one of the sole sources of joy for me. And so he gets to embrace Abdullah ibn Abbas once again. And this time now, Abdullah and his family make their way
18:05to Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah, this time to be with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And they are the last of the Muhajirun. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam told them, told Al-Abbas that you are the last of the Muhajirun like I'm the last of the Anbiya. You're the last of those who make hijrah
18:19just like I'm the last of the Prophets. Like it's that particular reward is now assured for you and your family. So Abdullah comes. Now, Abdullah ibn Abbas has the connection of his uncle.
18:36I mean, you know, his father being Al-Abbas being the uncle of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He has the connection that he is now with all of his cousins, Al-Hasan, Al-Husayn, right? And the cousins of Banu Hashim from within his relatives.
18:50And they are clearly all coming together. So he has that connection as well. And he has another connection, which is his aunt, his khala is Maymunah bint al-Harith,
19:04who is the wife of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The last wife of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is Maymunah bint al-Harith, his khala, the sister of Lubabah bint al-Harith. So he's got a few different connections. So immediately the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
19:19takes to him. And as the scholars mentioned, Abdullah ibn Abbas was so strikingly handsome that you just looked at him right away. He just has all of that, right? Strikingly handsome.
19:32So everyone takes to Abdullah ibn Abbas, and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam takes to him and he's kind of settling in in Medina and he wastes no time shadowing the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and getting in. He follows the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam home.
19:47He wants to go and fetch the wudu of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He is carrying the sandals of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's trying to ride with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He's just trying to attach himself to the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in every single way.
20:01And then he has another idea, which is, I'm going to ask my aunt, khalti, to sleep in her house the night that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is with her. So I can get a look at the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
20:13not because of his khalah, but because of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So he asks Maymunah, his aunt, can I come to your house and sleep in your house this night? I want to come this night.
20:27I want to be there this night when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is in your house. By the way, the house of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, I mean, what is it? It's not like they've got two bedrooms, right? The hijrah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam are all the same size, tiny.
20:41There's one mattress. He is not yet baligh, he's not yet at puberty. He's still a young boy. Says, khalti, can I come and spend the night at your house on this night? So Maymunah asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for permission.
20:57And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, okay. So he went to the masjid, he prayed Salat al-Isha. He kind of got close to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam waited for everyone to go home. Then he went and he started to follow the Prophet
21:12Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to his house, from Isha to the house of Maymunah. I mean, come on, you get a sleepover in the house of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. All right, this is next level access. And he's a student, his eyes are wide.
21:26He wants to document everything. So where are they gonna sleep? Does the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam say sleep on the floor? No, where are they gonna sleep? He says that my aunt and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
21:39they slept on the bed vertically and I slept at their feet horizontally. So he actually slept in the same bed and he's just watching the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the whole night. What's he gonna do?
21:53Right, I wonder what he sleeps like. I wonder what he prays like, right? I wonder what it's going to be like that, you know, with him. So he says that, nimtu fi ardil wisad I slept horizontally
22:07and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and his wife were fituliya they were sleeping vertically. He says until about half the night came hatta idha antasafa al-layl aw qablahu bi qalil aw ba'dahu bi qalil
22:21like it was right at half the night. He says, istayqaza Rasulallah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up. And when the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam woke up how did he wake up? He jumped. Wathaba Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
22:36the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would immediately sit up, you know? So there was no, like, if you read about the adab of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in sleep, if you read about his mannerisms of sleep alayhi salatu wasalam like the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would not like,
22:52the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to just sit up. Why? Because his heart never slept Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam So wa la yanamu qalbi my eyes sleep, my heart never sleeps. So he's immediately ready Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam at all times.
23:06So he says the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam suddenly he sat up. So I'm watching the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam all right, now here's the action. So he says the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wipes the sleep from his eyes. And then he started to read the last ayah
23:20of Surah Al-Imran. So he reads in his bed, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the last ayah of Al-Imran. So Ibn Abbas, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is watching. And he says the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
23:35then qama al-yusalli he got up to pray. So I got up and I made myself ready to pray. Like let's pray together. So he says, so the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
23:48goes and I walk with him and the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had his wudu already prepared in a bucket. It was hanging. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam took that bucket
24:00and he started to make wudu. And he said, fatawaddaha minha Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam wa ahsana wudu like it was a perfect wudu like it wasn't like your Fajr wudu where you miss your face and then you realize that when your feet are wet
24:13and it was a perfect wudu. So he says that sanatu mithla ma sana'a Rasulallahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam I did what the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did. So I made wudu too. So then I went with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
24:28as the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam got ready. To pray. qala famaddad al-nabiyyu Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam yadahu fa wada'a ana 'ala raasi The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam looked at me and he put his hand on my head.
24:42Thumma akhada biyadihi udhuni al-yumna yafrukhaha Then the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam like he put his hand on my ear, my right ear. And he like started to play with it. Like you're a special young man. This is impressive, right?
24:56Now let's see if you can hang out with the qiyam, right? Let's see if you can actually, because remember a lot of Sahaba they went in a qiyam with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and they were like, we can't do this. Okay, this is beautiful. fa qama yusalli So he started praying.
25:10So I started praying behind him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam like meaning to his right, but I was far behind him. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam grabbed me in his salah and he brought me next to him.
25:25So he said, I went back. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam again, pulled me back, put me next to him. So I went back again. So after the salah, the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam prayed two rak'ahs.
25:40qala ma shā'na-ka ibn Abbas What is it with you, O Ibn Abbas? He says, a'jaluka fee hidayah I bring you next to me. fatakhnus and then you walk back. So Ibn Abbas radiallahu anhuma says, I said, Ya Rasulallah
25:54awa yabaghiri ahadan an yusalli ya hidayah wa anta Rasulallah O Messenger of Allah, is it befitting that anyone prays next to you and you are the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
26:08ajabatuhu He was pleased with my answer. fadammani ila sadri So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam hugged me and he made du'a for me. And he said, Allahumma allimhu al-Kitab wa al-hikma
26:22Allahumma allimhu al-Kitab wa al-hikma So in this du'a, O Allah, teach him the Book and its wisdom. And then he got up Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he continued his salah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam all the way until the end of the night Alaihi Salatu Wasalam And then he prayed his witr Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
26:35Now, one of the things that the scholars of hadith mention is that this wasn't the only time he spent the night in Maymunah's house. Now he kind of figured out an equation. Let me just ask my khala if I can ask my khala
26:49Let me just ask my khala if I can sleep in the house of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or whenever he's there. So there are multiple narrations where he's narrating different elements of the qiyam of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam but it wasn't just in the household of Maymunah
27:04and Sunan an-Nasa'i he says that I used to pray next to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam while Aisha radiallahu ta'ala anha prayed behind us. So he was young enough radiallahu ta'ala anhuma where he could still find his way into the house of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
27:18no matter what house it was. And the wives of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would pray behind the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhuma. Then you find the hadith in Bukhari that when salah approaches.
27:31So this is just the last few years of the life of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would go to fetch his wudu and he would find that the wudu was already there. So he'd say, who brought the water? They'd say, Ya Rasulallah, it was Ibn Abbas.
27:44Abdullah ibn Abbas starts to anticipate where the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is going to be. He starts to learn the movements of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He starts to learn how the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam likes his wudu, at what level it is. And he starts preparing the wudu
27:59of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam for him. So the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would see him. He would hug him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And he would say the famous du'a, Allahumma faqihhu fid-deen wa allamhu ta'weel. O Allah, make him a scholar of the religion
28:13and teach him ta'weel, ya'ni ya tafsir, like the ability to explain things. So give him an incredible amount of understanding, knowledge of the religion, and give him the ability to extrapolate,
28:27to understand and to extrapolate. And SubhanAllah, Abdullah ibn Umar radiallahu anhuma, he said that I would see the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he would see Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu anhuma, And SubhanAllah, Abdullah ibn Umar radiallahu anhuma,
28:41 he said that I would see the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and he would see Abdullah ibn Abbas radiallahu anhuma, and he would just hug him. Like the Prophet (ﷺ) loved him and he would embrace him when he would see him.
28:53And he would say, "Allahumma barik fihi wa nshur minhu." Oh Allah, bless him, put barakah in him and spread through him. Spread what through him? Spread the deen through him. Then Abdullah ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنهما) does what?
29:07Starts following the Prophet (ﷺ) around. And he says, there isn't a single ayah of the Qur'an except that I asked the Prophet (ﷺ), where was it revealed, ya Rasulullah? Why was it revealed, ya Rasulullah? What was the context of this, ya Rasulullah? So he starts following the Prophet (ﷺ)
29:21around and he starts learning the tafsir of the Qur'an. So how does he become the scholar of the Qur'an even though he wasn't around for the majority of its revelation? Because he used those last few years with the Prophet (ﷺ)
29:34and the access he had to him to keep on asking him, ya Rasulullah, when was this revealed? Ya Rasulullah, when was this revealed? And Abdullah ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنهما) on over 40 occasions, it's narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ)
29:48held him and said, "Allahumma a'allimhu al-hikmah, Allahumma a'allimhu al-kitab," Oh Allah, teach him the Book, Oh Allah, teach him wisdom. And the scholars say, Subhan'Allah, in the wisdom of that, when the Prophet (ﷺ)
29:59makes du'a for people, he's very specific about the du'a he's making for you. Like, and you'll find this with multiple Sahaba, that the Prophet (ﷺ) had a choice, like a particular du'a that he would make for them. Like if it's Anas (رضي الله عنه), it's a particular du'a.
30:13If it's Abu Hurayrah, it's a particular du'a. If it's al-Hasan and al-Husayn, a very particular du'a. With Ibn Abbas, it's always knowledge. And they said that's a sign of the love of the Prophet (ﷺ) for him,
30:25because the only du'a that Allah (ﷻ) says in the Qur'an commands us, "Wa qul rabbi zidni 'ilma." Say, "Oh my Lord, increase me in knowledge."
30:36So it doesn't get more beautiful and more blessed than that. And Ibn Abbas (رضي الله عنهما) is the one who narrates from the Prophet (ﷺ) that the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Man yuridillahu bihi khayran yufaqqihhu fi ad-deen."
30:51If Allah wants good for somebody, Allah (ﷻ) grants them an understanding of the religion. That's a sign that Allah wants good for you. If you start to understand more, if you start to find knowledge is sticking more, if you start to see that you're loving knowledge more,
31:05if you start to see that you're practicing your knowledge more, if knowledge is becoming a centerpiece of your life, that is a sign of Allah (ﷻ) wanting goodness for you. And one of the things about Ibn Abbas,
31:17he was selfish with this opportunity of closeness to the Prophet (ﷺ). So one time he's sitting and the Prophet (ﷺ) had, you know, someone sent some laban, some milk, and the Prophet (ﷺ),
31:29some milk, sorry, I always, this is an Egyptian Palestinian thing, right? Laban versus halib. I keep translating laban as yogurt. Laban is milk, right? So they sent some milk to the Prophet (ﷺ) and the Prophet (ﷺ)
31:42would share the milk with whoever was in the majlis. So I want you to imagine this, Prophet (ﷺ) is sitting, I'll just tell you who's in the room. Abu Bakr, Umar, Khalid,
31:56Abdullah ibn Abbas. All right. Abu Bakr and Umar, the two sheikhs, the two sheikhs of the Prophet (ﷺ), right? As the shaykhs, right, with the Prophet (ﷺ), always his right and his left. Khalid ibn al-Walid,
32:11I mean, legends, and all of those historical battles and like you see Khalid ibn al-Walid, like that's the guy, right? You think about athletes and superstars, Khalid ibn al-Walid is there.
32:25So Abdullah ibn Abbas managed to squeeze himself in and he's sitting right next to the Prophet (ﷺ) to his right. Khalid ibn al-Walid is to the right of Ibn Abbas, Abu Bakr and Umar are on the other side. The Prophet (ﷺ),
32:40the Sunnah is to start with the right, right? The Prophet (ﷺ) received some milk and Khalid is like a senior in the religion.
32:52Ibn Abbas is still a 10 or an 11 year old. He's a cousin of the Prophet (ﷺ). And so the Prophet (ﷺ) asks Abdullah, is it okay if I give the milk to Khalid first? And Abdullah ibn Abbas said, I'm sorry, Ya Rasulullah.
33:08He said, I can't prefer the milk from your hands to anyone over myself. Like at the end of the day,
33:21the Prophet (ﷺ) drank first, right? Sometimes, you know, in the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, the Prophet (ﷺ) drank last. This time the Prophet (ﷺ) took a sip. He said, no, I want to drink right after you. I don't want anyone in between me and you and drinking
33:32from your hands. So the Prophet (ﷺ) gave it to Abdullah ibn Abbas. He drank some and then he passed it to Khalid. All right. Like I am not going to allow anybody to get in between me and the Prophet (ﷺ).
33:46And for that reason, Subhan'Allah, the most profound hadith of the Prophet (ﷺ) with Ibn Abbas,
33:56in the 40 Hadith of Nawawi, it's hadith number 19. Honestly, it could take up an hour and a half. This hadith alone could take up an hour and a half because it's that profound. And it is when Abdullah ibn Abbas says,
34:10"Kuntu khalfa Rasulillahi (ﷺ) yawman fa qala ya ghulam inni u'allimuka kalimah." I was riding behind the Prophet (ﷺ) one day, and suddenly the Prophet (ﷺ)
34:22turns around and he says, "Oh, young man, let me teach you some words." First, the context.
34:29Subhan'Allah, how beautiful is our Prophet (ﷺ) that he shows this much attention
34:38that he'll turn around and talk to him. Right? Like this is like a stop-the-car moment. I want to have a conversation with you. I want you to remember these words. These are not words spoken
34:49from the minbar. This is a heart-to-heart from the Prophet (ﷺ) to his cousin, who he's just getting reunited with. And the Prophet (ﷺ) knows he's not going to live much longer. Like Prophet (ﷺ) is over 60 now. Ibn Abbas is a 10, 11, 12 year old.
35:04He loves him, but he knows he's not going to have much more time (ﷺ). So he says, listen to me, young man, I'm going to give you some words of advice. Don't forget
35:14these, young man. "Qal ihfadillah ya hafazak. Be mindful of Allah and Allah will protect you.
35:23Qal ihfadillah tajidhu amamak. Be mindful of Allah. You will find him in front of you. Itha sa'alta fas'alillah. If you ask, ask Allah. Wa itha ista'anta fasta'in billah. And if you seek help, then seek help from Allah. Wa'lam anna al-ummata law ijtama'at 'ala an yanfa'uka bi shay lam yanfa'uka illa bi shayin qad kataba hullahu lak. And know that if the whole ummah was to gather together to benefit you with something, they would not be able to benefit you with anything unless Allah (ﷻ) had written it for you. Wa'lam anna al-ummata law ijtama'at 'ala an yadorrika bi shay lam yadorrika illa bi shayin qad kataba hullahu 'alayk. And if they all got together to harm you with something, they would not be able to harm you
35:35with anything unless Allah (ﷻ) had written it for you. Rufi'at al-aqlam wa jaffat as-suhuf." The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried.
35:49Now, this hadith, and there's of course another variation of it, "Ihfadillah tajidhu amamak, ta'arraf ilallah fi ar-rakhaa ya'arifuka fi ash-shiddah wa'lam anna ma akhtaak lam yakun li yuseebak wa ma
35:59asabak lam yakun li yukhtiak wa'lam anna an-nasra ma as-sabr wa anna al-faraja ma al-karb wa anna ma al-'usr yusr." The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him, be mindful of Allah, you'll find him in front of you.
36:09Know Allah in good times and Allah will know you in hard times. And know that what missed you was never meant to come to you. And what came to you was never meant to miss you. And know that victory
36:20comes with patience, relief comes with difficulty, and hardship comes with ease. I can't do a sharh of this hadith because it would literally take all night. It is, Subhan'Allah, probably the most
36:34profound paragraph of life advice that a Muslim could have, period. 'Aqeedah, iman, practical life, adab, everything could come from this hadith. But what I want you to pay attention to is the
36:47Prophet (ﷺ) is talking to a kid who he knows one day is going to be a celebrity. This kid's going to be a star. You're going to grow up and everybody's going to want to be like Ibn Abbas.
37:00And everybody's going to want to be around Ibn Abbas. And everyone's going to praise Ibn Abbas. And the whole ummah will be at your feet and the Prophet (ﷺ) is telling Ibn Abbas (ﷺ),
37:13don't worry about these people. None of them will harm you. None of them will benefit you. Focus on Allah (ﷻ). Make sure your intention is sincere. Make sure you're connected to Allah.
37:28Make sure you're not connected to human beings. It is always about Allah (ﷻ). Right? So this is one advice that was given to him by the Prophet (ﷺ) that he lived with for the rest of his life
37:42and that all of us can take as life advice. You then look at the hadith he narrates from the Prophet (ﷺ). There are hadiths he narrates from the Prophet (ﷺ) just shows you his attentiveness.
37:52He narrates over 1,600 hadiths from the Prophet (ﷺ). From the age of 10 to the age of 13, he only had three years with him (ﷺ). But the meticulous details, he narrates the small
38:05details of the food of the Prophet (ﷺ). How many bites the Prophet (ﷺ) would take from his food. How many sips the Prophet (ﷺ) would take from his Zamzam. When the Prophet (ﷺ) stood up and when
38:19the Prophet (ﷺ) sat down. He narrated what part of the meat the Prophet (ﷺ) preferred. How the Prophet (ﷺ) would put the bone down. When he observed the Prophet (ﷺ) doing wudu after food or not,
38:29after eating food or not. What the Prophet (ﷺ) would say, his du'as in every single moment. he only had three years with him ﷺ. But the meticulous details, he narrates the small
38:42 details of the food of the Prophet ﷺ. How many bites the Prophet ﷺ would take from his food. How many sips the Prophet ﷺ would take from his zamzam. When the Prophet ﷺ stood up and when
38:51 the Prophet ﷺ sat down. He narrated what part of the meat the Prophet ﷺ preferred. How the Prophet ﷺ would put the bone down. When he observed the Prophet ﷺ doing wudu after food or not,
39:04 after eating food or not. What the Prophet ﷺ would say, his du'as in every single moment. He narrated what the Prophet ﷺ would read in the silent salat.
39:18How is that possible? He watched him ﷺ and how his mouth was moving. So he could tell what the Prophet ﷺ was reading in his sunnah.
39:30He narrates those smallest details, a special man. The wudu of the Prophet ﷺ, mostly his
39:37narrations. Hajj of the Prophet ﷺ, many of them his narrations. 'Aisha ﷺ, the most knowledgeable
39:46of the Sahaba in hajj is Abdullah ibn Abbas. Pays attention to everything from the Prophet ﷺ. And he was meant for something special. So special that one day the Prophet ﷺ was sitting down
40:02and Al-Abbas went with Abdullah to meet the Prophet ﷺ. And Al-Abbas sat down with Abdullah and started talking to the Prophet ﷺ. And the Prophet ﷺ
40:13ignored him. He ignored Al-Abbas. So Al-Abbas was upset. He gets up and he walks away. And he says to Abdullah,
40:25Abdullah, alam tara ibn ammik kal mu'rida anni? Do you see like your uncle, the Prophet ﷺ, it's like he's rejecting me, like he's turning away from me. Abdullah said, no, you don't see that man that was talking to him? You didn't see the man that was
40:39talking to him? Al-Abbas says, what are you talking about? Abdullah said, there was a man that was sitting with the Prophet ﷺ and talking to him and the Prophet ﷺ did not want to cut off the conversation with him because the adab of the Prophet ﷺ was he's always focused on a person.
40:54By the way, if you walked up to the Prophet ﷺ and he was talking to somebody and you started, he would stay focused on the person that he was talking to because that person had a greater right
41:03upon him. So that's not the uncommon part. The weird part is I didn't see a man, but you saw a man. What happened? So Al-Abbas went back to the Prophet ﷺ another time.
41:17And the Prophet ﷺ immediately apologizes to him to say, look, you know, I was talking to someone. Al-Abbas said, who were you talking to? Because Abdullah said that he saw a man with you.
41:32The Prophet ﷺ said, he saw him? Al-Abbas said, yes. And he described him perfectly.
41:39He said, that was Jibreel ﷺ. So Allah ﷻ permitted Abdullah to see Jibreel. The Prophet ﷺ
41:49did two things. Number one, the Prophet ﷺ made du'a for Abdullah. Like, wow, he really is a special
41:56kid. Allah ﷻ indeed has destined him for something. But then the Prophet ﷺ said, but no one who sees Jibreel ﷺ and lives long enough will not go blind in his life. He's going to go blind
42:11one day. SubhanAllah, the prophecy will come true later on in the life of Abdullah. So he's a special kid. He got to see Jibreel, but at the same time, something will happen to him later on.
42:28May Allah ﷻ be pleased with them all. Allahumma ameen. In any case, we have the Hajj of the Prophet ﷺ. And in the Hajj of the Prophet ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ wanted to distribute between the children of
42:39Al-Abbas. So he had Al-Fadl ibn Abbas with him for most of the Hajj. Abdullah was with his mother Lubaba and Abdullah narrated much of the Hajj. And then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
42:53passes away. So this is obviously devastating. Being from the Prophet ﷺ's family,
43:07Abdullah, Al-Fadl, his father Al-Abbas, Ali, Usama ibn Zaid, they are those that will handle the burial of the Prophet ﷺ. May Allah be pleased with them all. The closest relatives of
43:20the Prophet ﷺ. So they will wash his body ﷺ. They will prepare it for burial. And ibn Abbas was one of those who entered into the grave and received the body of the Messenger of
43:33Allah ﷺ to place in that grave. Very tough. And he recalls the placement of the cloth and the very specific details of what it was like to bury the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
43:49This would have been hard for any adult, for any kid, especially for someone who just spent three years centering the Prophet ﷺ in his life to that extent. But you know what he does?
44:02Abdullah ibn Abbas ﷺ loves the Prophet ﷺ. He said, when the Prophet ﷺ died, I said to my friend, he was one of the friends of the Ansar, I said to him, hey, you notice
44:14something? All of the Sahaba are in Medina now. What does that mean? All the Sahaba who had left
44:22Medina, they came to Medina for the death of the Prophet ﷺ. So he said, now's the chance for us to go and collect 'ilm from them all. Let's go get everything that they have. Let's go soak in the
44:36knowledge. That's from his fiqh, his understanding. He's a 13 year old. And he's saying, now I want to go and I want to learn from every one of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. So he said,
44:47my friend looked at me and my friend was like, you know, can't we just do something else? Back then, you know what their PlayStation was? Pigeons. Play with pigeons. All right.
44:59You wonder why generations, you know, lose their attention span. Their idea of playing with something was playing with the pigeons. That's the innocence of their play at the time. Right? It was like, just play with pigeons. Let's hang out.
45:13Let's do stuff that 13 year olds do. Abdullah says, no, let's go learn from the Sahaba. So Abdullah ibn Abbas says, he said, I left him alone. I was like, all right, I'm done with you. Cut him off.
45:27So he said, I went to all of the doors of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ. Every single one of them, I go place my garment in front of their door.
45:40And I go to sleep in front of their doorstep. So it became a running joke in Medina. You open your door and Abdullah ibn Abbas is sleeping in front of your door. Not as a beggar, because he wants to ask you to give him everything you learned from the Prophet ﷺ. I want every hadith that you have.
45:56I want everything you remember. I want your story and I want the story of the Prophet ﷺ. And he said that people would be embarrassed.
46:06They'd say, will come to you, O cousin of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Like, come on, you're from Ahlul Bayt. You're, you're, we know how much the Prophet ﷺ loved you and honored you. And they'd be wiping the dust off me and saying, just tell us and we'll come to you.
46:22And Ibn Abbas taught us, knowledge is sought, knowledge is not sought. You go to it, it doesn't come to you. No, no. Knowledge is to be sought. You have to go to it. It will not come to you.
46:37And this is a famous motto of the people of knowledge. The other, his friends, like imagine, you know, like when you watch like a documentary about someone that like went on to do something great.
46:50And like, they got their friends from like high school and stuff like that. And they're like, remember your work ethic versus mine. And like, man, he knew what he was talking about. His friend used to walk by the majalis of Ibn Abbas later on in life.
47:02When Ibn Abbas's halaqas were thousands of people at a time, people crowding his house. And he would look at him and he would say, That young man was so much smarter than me.
47:16I should have listened to him that day. I could have been his boy and we could have went and learned together the narrations of the Prophet. One of the most beautiful incidents is Ibn Abbas and Zayd ibn Thabit. May Allah be pleased with them both.
47:30Where Zayd ibn Thabit was coming. He was on his camel and Abdullah ibn Abbas went and he grabbed the rein of the camel to guide it and to put it down and to take care of him. And Zayd is embarrassed.
47:46And Ibn Abbas says, This is how we were taught to treat our elders and our scholars.
47:55And so Zayd came down and he kissed the hand of Abdullah ibn Abbas and he says, This is how we were taught to treat the family of the Prophet.
48:06This is a culture now that's being created of young people that want to learn and young people that want to study and they want to go forth. And that's why, SubhanAllah, Abu Rafi' says that Ibn Abbas went to every companion and said,
48:19 What did the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam do on that day and this day? And he's writing what they were saying. So he literally had his pen and his paper and he would write down everything.
48:31And that's why, SubhanAllah, Salman Al-Farisi, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu, for example. Hadith Salman Al-Farisi. Long hadith. Salman radiAllahu Anhu was the age of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. So he's an old man, very quiet.
48:44Abdullah ibn Abbas was not there when he became Muslim, but he went to Salman Al-Farisi and he said, how did you become Muslim? Can you tell me your story of how you became Muslim? And he sat there and he wrote down and memorized everything that Salman radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu said about his past.
48:58And that's how we get the story of Salman Al-Farisi radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Because of this dedicated young man that went forth. As Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu grew up,
49:09they said, again, the most handsome young man that you would see, his face was so bright that they used to compare him, like they compared the face of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to the full moon.
49:24In fact, 'Ata, rahimahullah, he says, ma ra'aytu al-qamara laylata arba'a ashara illa dhakartu wajh. He said that I never see the moon on the 14th night, except that I think of Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. Because of the beauty of his face, the light on his face,
49:38radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. He had major haybah, like his father. Haybah is like an imposing presence. Remember Al-Abbas, who was like, again, they called, like, treated like wad al-Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
49:53the uncle of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He had so much haybah, so much of a presence, that when he came to Jerusalem, when he came to Al-Aqsa, may Allah 'Azawajal liberate it, they thought he was 'Umar ibn Al-Khattab radiAllahu Anhu. They thought he was Amir al-Mu'minin. Just because he had the look, he had the feel,
50:07like he had the presence. So Abdullah had that same presence as his father, radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu. And the narrations about him are so many. After the death of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
50:21Abdullah ibn 'Umar radiAllahu Anhu said, hadha a'lamu man baqiya minna bima anzalahu Allahu ala Muhammadin Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. This is the most knowledgeable man amongst us,
50:32about what Allah revealed to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. He was nicknamed Tarjuman al-Qur'an, the interpreter of the Qur'an. Ubaydullah nicknamed him Habr al-Ummah, the scholar of the Ummah.
50:47Keep in mind, he's about 17 years old when he's receiving these accolades. The scholar of the Ummah. Then he earned the nickname al-Bahr, the ocean. To the point that if you read a hadith and someone says, sa'altu al-Bahr,
51:00I asked the ocean, they're talking about Abdullah ibn Abbas. And everyone would have known who you were talking about when you said the ocean, al-Bahr. And Wahb ibn Munabbih rahimahullahu says,
51:12ra'aytuhu yakhtubu finā yufassiru ba'da al-āyāt min sūrat an-Nūr. I saw him standing up and giving to us the tafsir of some verses of Sūrat an-Nūr. And he says, wallāhi mā sami'tu kalāman mithla kalāmi hādhā abadā.
51:25I never heard words like his before. And he said, I swore that if the Persians and the Romans heard him speak, la-aslamu jami'ān, they would have all become Muslim. That's how eloquent he was. That's how knowledgeable he was.
51:40I have too many of those types of narrations. So I'm just going to move on to Umar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala. I know in his relationship with Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhuma. Umar radiAllahu anhum had a special way of taking care of the youth.
51:54When he saw talent, when he saw young people with talent, Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhum would focus on that person. And he raised these young people around him, radiAllahu anhum. That's why you see that they all had fond memories with him, of Umar paying attention to them.
52:10And so Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhum brought him close to him when he became the khalifah. And he said, I saw the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, when he used to call you.
52:24So I remember him wiping his hand on your head and making du'ā for you and saying, Allāhumma faqihhhu fīddīn wa 'allimhu ta'wīl. So I want to keep you close to me. There's something special about you, young man.
52:36So Ibn Abbas, it's like, all right, the khalifah wants me near. So suddenly Umar is going to involve him in majlis ash-shūrā, in the highest consultations. And he walks around with this 16-year-old kid, right?
52:52Questions. He turns to Abdullah ibn Abbas and he asks him questions. And al-Abbas, the father, he noticed that Umar saw something special in him. So he gave Abdullah advice and he said, listen,
53:06he says, listen, I see Umar is bringing you close to him. He says, ihfaz 'annī thalāthah, I need you to remember three things. Lā tufshina lahu sirrā. Do not betray Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu by exposing a secret.
53:21Meaning like, let him take you into confidence and don't betray that confidence. Wa lā takhtabanna indahu aḥad. And don't backbite in his presence. So Umar hates people that can't be trusted. And Umar doesn't like people that backbite.
53:35Wa lā yujarrribanna 'alayka kathiba. And never let Umar find you or catch you in a lie. Or else you'll be done. Like you have a golden opportunity. Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu has taken to you.
53:48Don't mess this up by betraying amānah, by backbiting or by lying. So Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he takes to him.
54:02And Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu appoints him as a khātib. So he's giving khutbas at the age of 16 in time of Umar. And then Umar brings him into the really sensitive discussions. And it starts getting the elders like upset.
54:16Like, all right, we get it. He's nice. He's smart. But he's 17 years old. Like imagine a board meeting, not our board, mashāAllah, because all of our board is 17, 18, right?
54:29But imagine a board meeting and you got a bunch of people 70, 80 years old. And then a 17 year old walks in, sits there like, what is he doing here? Right? And Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu, he's like, this person is
54:44ahsanuhum 'aqlān wa afqahuhum fī kitābillāh. He's the smartest and he's the most understanding of the Book of Allah. So one time he's sitting there and Abdurrahmān ibn Awf radiAllahu anhu, like Abdurrahmān ibn Awf has been through a lot, respectable man.
54:58He says, yā Amīr al-Mu'minīn, inna lanā abnā'ān mithluh. Like we have sons his age. Like we've got kids his age. Like, come on. What's he doing sitting in this type of setting? And Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhu said,
55:12because he has a status that you don't understand. So Umar radiAllahu anhu says, all right, everybody, what's the tafsir of, idhā jā'a nasrullāhi wa-l-fath? What's the tafsir of the sūrah?
55:26Idhā jā'a nasrullāhi wa-l-fath. When the victory of Allah comes and the conquest. So each one of the sahābah, they start to give their opinion. And they're good opinions, right? They're smart, knowledgeable.
55:39Fasabbih biḥamdi rabbika wa-staghfiruh, right? That the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is being commanded to glorify Allah and seek his forgiveness at the end of a long journey where Allah Azawajal gave him victory. So they're all giving these good answers.
55:53And then Umar radiAllahu anhu says, Abdullah, what does the āyah mean? He says, yā Amīr al-Mu'minīn, innahu ajalu rasūlillāhi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, ma'lamu allāhu bihā. This was the death announcement of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Allah just told him he was going to die.
56:07And Umar radiAllahu anhu said, he's the only one that got it. Don't question his presence. This kid knows the Book of Allah. Because remember, Ibn Abbas went to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and asked him about every āyah of the Qur'an.
56:20Said he knows the Book of Allah better than anybody else. There are also numerous incidents like finding out when Laylat al-Qadr is and Umar radiAllahu anhu would always say, it's what he said. It's what he said. It's what he said.
56:32He always would point to Ibn Abbas and he would say, it is what he understood. And no one else could get it. And when Ibn Abbas would start talking, everyone's eyes would pop out.
56:45And Umar radiAllahu anhu would smile and he'd say, ghawwāṣ ghawwāṣ, dive, oh diver, like go deeper and deeper and deeper. Like everybody be quiet. Listen to what he has to say.
56:56Because you didn't want Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu to stop talking. Hasan al-Basri said one time he sat on the minbar and he said, he just started doing a tafsir of the Qur'an starting from the beginning of Sūrat al-Baqarah.
57:10And he said, he kept on going and Umar radiAllahu anhu was just looking at him. And Umar radiAllahu anhu said, dhālika al-fatt al-kuhul lahu lisānun sā'il wa qalbun 'aqūl. That young man is like an elder.
57:24He has an inquisitive tongue and an understanding heart. Umar radiAllahu anhu said, he one time asked him, he says, is there anything in the Qur'an that's still giving you trouble? He said, I know it all, but there are three words I'm still trying to figure out. He said, what are they?
57:37He said, al-raqqīm, ghislīn and hanān. I'm still getting the depth of those āyāt. Like I'm still trying to go deeper and deeper and deeper to understand every single word of the Qur'an.
57:51He had the personal ibādah of Umar radiAllahu anhu. Umar had two tunnels under his eyes, two lines under his eyes from the amount of crying that he used to do in his Qiyām al-Layl.
58:06And this was narrated from Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu as well, that he had two tunnels under his eyes from the amount of crying that he would do from reading the Qur'an at night. But it wasn't all like with Umar radiAllahu anhu,
58:19it wasn't all just, you know, like, hey, talk and things of that sort. One time Umar radiAllahu anhu passed by and Abdullah ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu was in front of the water and Ibn Abbas challenged Umar
58:34to a holding your breath underwater contest. Umar was a strong man. He's like, but he's almost telling him like, you know, you're an old man now. So you can't, you can't do this anymore. Umar, the Khalifa of the Ummah goes there,
58:48puts his hand on the head of Abdullah ibn Abbas, puts it in the water and goes in the water at the same time. That's the relationship. That's the Tarbiyah. That's the mentorship. And Ibn Abbas was so keen to not lose that relationship he had with him.
59:03So one time he thought he made Umar mad. And that is, and SubhanAllah, this is a powerful one. And I'll move on after this because I have to, that Umar radiAllahu anhu was in a gathering and someone came forth
59:16and Umar asked him like, how are his people doing? And he said, they're memorizing the Qur'an really quickly. Like they're swallowing the memorization of the Qur'an. I know I'm going to get a lot of questions about this narration later on. In sha'a Allah we'll talk about it. Okay.
59:30Ibn Abbas said, I don't like that people memorize the Qur'an too fast at that speed without understanding. Like if the way the man was suggesting, we're just swallowing it. Right. We're memorizing it very quickly.
59:45Abdullah ibn Abbas, he said, I don't know if that's the best thing. Umar told Ibn Abbas to be quiet. And there could be many reasons why, but it was sort of, maybe he jumped too quickly.
59:59Maybe he didn't let the man finish. Maybe he interrupted too quickly, whatever it may be. But Ibn Abbas went home. He said, I was so depressed. I was like, I lost the favor. That's the first time he told me to be quiet. It's the first time like he looked at me and I felt like he was mad at me.
01:00:16Said Umar came and knocked on my house that night. It's the Khalifa, Amir al-Mu'minin. And he took me by the hand. And he said,
01:00:26What bothered you so much about what the man said? Like, I don't understand what bothered you so much about, like, you think it's a good thing. He said, our people are memorizing the Qur'an fast.
01:00:41And Abdullah ibn Abbas said first, He said, if I made a mistake, I seek Allah's forgiveness and I repent to Allah. But he said, Khalifa Amir al-Mu'minin, When they memorize too quickly,
01:00:55It will come at the expense of their understanding. And when they lack understanding, Then they'll start to grow in conflict and disunity and they'll start to break up into sects. And when they break up into sects, eventually they'll fight each other and they'll kill each other.
01:01:09And SubhanAllah, This was a prophecy from Ibn Abbas that came to happen, which was what? The Khawarij. Right? The first extremists in Islam. If you want to call them that, right? Who decided to kill Sahaba and decide to cause fitna amongst the Muslims
01:01:24because they thought they were more religious than the Sahaba. And what was their description? They would read the Qur'an day and night. Their eyes would be red from how much they'd read the Qur'an. But as the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, said, They would not, it would not pass their throats.
01:01:39They didn't understand it. And then you saw people that were making takfir of each other because they didn't know the science of qira'ah. So someone heard someone recite the Qur'an differently and he said, you're kafir. Right? And the fighting amongst them.
01:01:52So what he said was actually very profound that it's not going to be good for us if people are just memorizing or not thinking about it. Now again, there's multiple ways, there are multiple ways to dissect that narration.
01:02:05In sha'a Allah Ta'ala will leave it for another time. In the time of Umar finally, Ibn Abbas establishes his house as the first true University of Islam. How?
01:02:18He allocates a day for Qur'an, a day for hadith, a day for fiqh, a day for halal and haram, a day for language and poetry, and a day for history. So every day you go to the house of Abdullah ibn Abbas and you had people that were
01:02:31crowding outside of his house and he had a brother whose name was Ubaidullah. Ubaidullah knew his limitations. Ubaidullah, the younger brother of Abdullah. He said, I don't have his knowledge, but I've got money. So I'm going to sponsor all of this.
01:02:45So Ubaidullah would buy all the food and he'd feed everyone that would come to the house and Abdullah would teach them. And they used to say, SubhanAllah, that, I never saw a home with more meat and bread, like Ubaidullah was sponsoring. But at the same time,
01:02:59everyone knew that his majlis was the greatest majlis around and you had to fight for a position in his house. So people started to camp out in front of his house so that they could get in
01:03:11to his house so that he could teach them different sciences of the religion. And it got to the point where when Ibn Umar was asked anything, he said, "Go ask Abdullah ibn Abbas." People would direct to him. Radhi Allah ta'ala anhu.
01:03:23He wasn't just most knowledgeable then, at some point, he became the most knowledgeable of the Qur'an, an authority on the hadith of the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him, and the most knowledgeable of the fatwas of Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman and Ali.
01:03:37So he was the most knowledgeable of the fiqh of the Khulafa ar-Rashidun. So he didn't just have his own understanding. He had their understanding as well. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala be pleased with him.
01:03:49Tragedy comes to him as well. And SubhanAllah, I'm just going to give one more incident because it's so profound. It shows you that being a faqih is not just knowledge. It's wisdom as well.
01:04:01In one of his majalis, in one of his gatherings, someone came up to him and said, if I kill someone, could I be forgiven by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? Ibn Abbas radiAllahu anhu says, yes.
01:04:14Another man comes and asks the same question the same day. If I kill someone, could I be forgiven by Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala? Ibn Abbas says, no. So they asked him what happened afterwards. And he said, I could tell that the first man,
01:04:29I could tell from his body language, I could understand that he had actually committed the sin and he was asking if he had a pathway to redemption with Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So the second guy was asking for a license to kill.
01:04:42He was trying to get a fatwa to go kill somebody and know that he had a pathway back to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala. So to discourage him, I told him no. Right? That's fiqh. It's not just textbook. And you know, especially when we're getting into like the era of whatever we're in right now, right?
01:04:55ChatGPT now and whatever, like that's fiqh. You can't get that from just reading a book and from just, you know, spitting out text. That's what Ibn Abbas radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma had.
01:05:08Now when the time of Umar radiAllahu ta'ala anhuma comes to an end, it's profound because SubhanAllah, he had to witness that tragedy very very closely
01:05:21and that is that Amr ibn Umaymah says that when 'Umar ibn Al-Khattab was stabbed, he said no one was between me and 'Umar the day of the stabbing except for 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas.
01:05:34Meaning he was standing right behind 'Umar ibn Al-Khattab. May Allah be pleased with him. When 'Umar (radhiAllahu ta'ala 'anhu) was stabbed to death and murdered and this was a deep tragedy for him, radhiAllahu ta'ala 'anhu because 'Umar had become truly a mentor
01:05:49to him and someone deeply beloved to him. His personal 'ibadah was great. Ibn Abi Mulaika says that I accompanied 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas from Mecca to Medina. He would stand half the night in prayer.
01:06:03And then he was asked how was his prayer? What was his salah like? His qira'ah? He said he would recite "wa ja'at sakratul mawti bilhaqq, dhalika ma kunta minhu tahid" from Surah Qaf
01:06:16and the time of death will come with truth and that is what you were trying to avoid. He said "fa ja'ala yurattil" and so he would continue to recite that verse over and over and over again at the end of his qiyam and he would cry and cry and cry until the end of his qiyam came.
01:06:31He witnesses the tragedy of 'Umar. He witnesses the tragedy of one of his sons dying. So someone comes to him and this is what it means to be a person of the Qur'an. He said "Ya Ibn 'Abbas, ya Ibn 'Abbas." He said "Mal khabar?" What is it?
01:06:45So he said "Ma'ta ibnuka nazara min dabaatihi?" One of your sons died. He fell off of his horse. 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas (radhiAllahu 'anhu) says "Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un" he starts to pray two rak'ahs after he prays his two rak'ahs
01:07:00"As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullahi" "As-salamu 'alaykum wa rahmatullahi" wa bashshir as-sabirin See what he did? He took the ayah "alladhina idha asabathum musibah" when tragedy comes to them "qalu inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un"
01:07:14they say to Allah we belong and to Allah we return right? "ulaika 'alayhim salawatun min rabbihim wa rahmah" and eventually, right? It comes to the end, but it starts off with bashshir as-sabirin give glad tidings to the patient. So he acted out the verse perfectly
01:07:30inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un pray then he said wa bashshir as-sabirin I'm going to be okay. He had a care for the people, subhanAllah, that was unlike any There's a beautiful poem from Hassan ibn Thabit (radhiAllahu ta'ala 'anhu)
01:07:44about 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas (radhiAllahu ta'ala 'anhu) that he advocated for the Ansar and he helped the Ansar and he was saying no one would dare open their mouth after Ibn 'Abbas would open his mouth and there would be no need for anybody else
01:07:57if we had 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas (radhiAllahu ta'ala 'anhu) One of the famous incidents that we narrate is that in the last 10 nights of Ramadan he was making i'tikaf in the masjid of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) in Medina
01:08:12and a man came in and he looked distressed. So he went up to the man and he said what's wrong with you? He said I have some debt some debt and I don't know how to deal with it. So 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas said "Do you want me" said
01:08:27"do you want me to go talk to the debtor for you?" He said "That'd be amazing." Imagine Habr al-Ummah 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas the scholar of the Ummah he leaves the masjid in i'tikaf
01:08:41in the last 10 nights of Ramadan in the masjid of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) to walk with this man and to go and to speak to the person that he owes money to to say just loosen up on the debt lighten up the debt
01:08:54and while he's walking out people are like stopping like whoa Are you really leaving i'tikaf last 10 nights in the masjid of the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) and he says I heard the Prophet Sahib hadha al-qabr I heard the companion of this grave say
01:09:09and then he started to cry and he said Sama'tu sahib hadha al-qabr I heard the companion of this grave and then he started to cry. He collected himself like he was the one who buried the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wasallam) he loved him. He missed him.
01:09:25So he got his breath and he said again Sama'tu sahib hadha al-qabr I heard the companion of this grave say that whoever walks in the fulfillment of his brother's need then that is better for him to stay in i'tikaf
01:09:37even for 10 years and whoever stays in i'tikaf only for one day seeking the pleasure of Allah (Subhanahu wa ta'ala) Allah 'Aza wa jal will separate him from Hellfire with the ditch, the distance between the east and the west.
01:09:53So he said for me to look after a Muslim family for a month or a week as long as Allah wills is dearer to me than to perform Hajj after Hajj and a gift to be given to a brother of mine for the sake of Allah is better to me than a dirham
01:10:07that I spend in the cause of Allah and that's why he has something very special about him. All of Ibn 'Abbas's top students, you know who they are? Freed slaves Mujahid Tawus all of these are freed slaves
01:10:22people that he either freed or people that were freed in the first Mufti of Mecca 'Ata (radhiAllahu ta'ala 'anhu wa rahimahullah) from Sudan May Allah 'Aza wa jal be with our brothers and sisters in Sudan Allahumma amin Sudan in a broader sense at that time.
01:10:36He's a student of Ibn 'Abbas Ibn 'Abbas would free the slaves and then he would teach them and he'd make them his greatest students right? That was the karam, the generosity that he had. He also has a very
01:10:50interesting narration where before he would enter into the household with his wife, he would comb his hair and get himself set up and people would make fun of him. Like, I mean, he's already really good-looking. He's Ibn Abbas, right? You don't really need to do much for yourself, right?
01:11:04They're like, what are you doing? You know, most people comb their hair when they leave the house and get themselves set up. He says, I like to look good for my wife. Just like I like for her to look good for me. Right? And he has a long beautiful elaboration on the rights and the
01:11:17equality of ihsan, right? Ihsan particularly showing excellence to one another in marriage. So this is the beautiful personality and he is Habr al-Ummah. He's the scholar of the Ummah.
01:11:30So what happens later on in his life? Of course, one of the things that makes these people who they are and one of the reasons we focus on al-Abdal in particular, the Abdullahs, is that they lived to see the twists and turns of Islamic history.
01:11:44When Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, was assassinated, Ibn Abbas still maintained his position in the time of Uthman. May Allah be pleased with him. And subhan'Allah, it would just so be like I remember reading the fitna of Uthman and I was like, I wonder where Ibn Abbas was.
01:12:00Until I read that Uthman had appointed him as the Amir of Hajj. So he was already gone to Hajj as the Amir of Hajj and that's why he wasn't present when the assassination of Uthman would take place. May Allah be pleased with the companions.
01:12:14So he knows what's happening. He is trying to calm the Ummah. He's a person who generally has goodwill with everybody and he's someone whose advice is taken. But now he's witnessing a deeper tragedy.
01:12:30He comes back to al-Madinah al-Munawwarah and Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him, who was the khalifah who sent him to be the Amir of Hajj has been assassinated. Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, appoints Abdullah Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him,
01:12:43as he says, I want you to go and to be the Amir of al-Hisham. If you know Islamic history, you know exactly why he would say absolutely not. Because the whole fitna over the death of Uthman, may Allah be pleased with him,
01:12:56was you had the people in al-Hisham, right? Who wanted to quickly pursue the killers of Uthman and you had Ali who wanted to first establish his khalifah. So Ibn Abbas says you send me to al-Hisham. I'm either going to get killed or be put in prison.
01:13:09That's not the way that this works, right? We have to solidify things first and he gave Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, some advice about how to deal with the situation and Ali, may Allah be pleased with him,
01:13:23took him as a close companion advisor, just as the previous khalifah did and he sent him to be the governor of Basra in Iraq.
01:13:34In Basra, I have to mention this incident, even though it's not related to fitna, but just shows you the beautiful character of this person. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, may Allah be pleased with him, arrives in al-Basra and Abu Ayyub was very old at that point. Tired, doesn't want the fitna, you know, like the Ummah starting
01:13:49to get embroiled in tribulation. Abu Ayyub, this noble old man walks into al-Basra and he's in debt and he's tired and he's traveling. Ibn Abbas says,
01:14:03"La asna'anna bika kama sana'ata bi Rasulillahi salallahu alayhi wa sallam." I'm going to treat you the way you treated the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam. He said, how much money do you owe people? He said 20,000 dinars. Ibn Abbas went and he saw how much money he
01:14:14had. He had a total of 40,000 dinars. He gave it all to Abu Ayyub al-Ansari. And he gave him 20 servants to be with him and Ibn Abbas moved out of his own house in Basra and he situated Abu Ayyub in his house.
01:14:29He said because you received the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, this way in Medina, even though he wasn't there. He knows the position of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he knows the position of these companions and he's always a person of just superior akhlaq, superior character with all of these different
01:14:43people. So he commands respect with the people. And everyone will look at him and lend him an ear. So then he comes to Ali, may Allah be pleased with him.
01:14:57And Ali, may Allah be pleased with him, is frustrated with the Khawarij. Again, group of young men that are now killing companions, that are fighting all the companions and just stirring up all sorts of tribulation. They're like a particular group now that shows up always at the worst time and draws people's attention in the worst of ways. That's the Khawarij.
01:15:11Right? So Ibn Abbas goes to Ali and he says, listen. He says, give me permission to go speak to the Khawarij.
01:15:26Ali is like, speak to the Khawarij? There were thousands of them in a valley. And if you walked past them, they would kill you.
01:15:39These are thugs. No use in talking to them. Ali says, I'm afraid for you. Ibn Abbas says, don't worry. I know how to do this. Please let me go talk to them.
01:15:53So Ali said, Bismillah. Okay. So Ibn Abbas says, so I went and I got my best garment, my best suit from Yemen, a hulla. It's a red hulla from Yemen.
01:16:06Combed his hair. Again, Ibn Abbas is like the most handsome man you'd ever see. Made himself look really good, really presentable. Then he said, I went to them at midday while they were eating their food.
01:16:17And they looked up at me like shocked. Like, what's he doing here? He said, what I saw there, I never thought I'd see in my life. So they had the marks of sujud on their heads.
01:16:30Their eyes were red from reading the Qur'an. Their hands had become rough because of the amount of ibadah. They looked untidy. They were humming like bees from the recitation of the Qur'an.
01:16:45Again, these people thought, or at least they presented themselves as religious people. And that's why the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Like you'd see their prayer and you'd see yours. And you'd think these people are far more religious than me, but
01:16:58they're the dogs of the hellfire." So Ibn Abbas comes. And what's the first thing they comment on? They said, what are you doing here, Ibn Abbas?
01:17:10And what is that cloak? What's that suit that you're wearing? He wore his nicest clothes to go and talk to them. So Abdullah Ibn Abbas recited Qur'an.
01:17:23"Qul man harrama zeenat Allahi al-lati akhraj li ibadihi wa al-tayyibat min al-rizq?" He said, "Say, who has forbidden the adornment of Allah, that which He has produced for His servants and the good things of His rizq?" So they said, what do you want here?
01:17:38He said, I have come to you from the Sahaba of Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, the Muhajireen and the Ansar, and from the son of the uncle of the Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, Ali, who is his son-in-law.
01:17:52And upon those people, the Qur'an descended and they are the most knowledgeable about the Qur'an. And there is not one of them amongst you. Like none of the Sahaba are amongst you. Don't you see the problem? Like the Sahaba who the Qur'an descended upon, none of them are with you.
01:18:04Don't you see the problem with that? So he said, I've come to talk to you and to try to reason with you. And they responded and they said, don't talk to people from Quraysh. "Bal hum qawm khisimun."
01:18:18Allah says, "Verily, they are a quarrelsome people." Allah said that about the disbelievers of Quraysh. They said it about Ibn Abbas. Like, oh, he's like the Qurayshi. He's here to argue. Ibn Abbas said, listen.
01:18:31Tell me what your objections are. Tell me what your objections are. We're Muslims. Let's talk about your objections. So he said, we have three points. He said, what are they?
01:18:43They said one point is that Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, appointed judges. And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala says, إِنِ الْحُكْمُ إِلَّا لِلَّهِ The judgment only belongs to Allah. Who is Ali to have judges amongst men?
01:18:56And Ibn Abbas said, all right, what's your second point? He said, when the battle happens, some of the Sahaba came from Mecca, right? Aisha, radiallahu ta'ala anha, and others. And they met Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, and the companions in Iraq.
01:19:10And they agreed, right? On terms, there was not supposed to be any fight. And then the people of fitna attacked both camps and caused the skirmish in the Battle of Al-Jamal. And you know what they said?
01:19:22They said Ali did not take captives and spoils. So they want them, they want Ali to take Aisha and Talhah and Al-Zubayr as captives and take their belongings
01:19:35and the spoils of war. So they said, I want you, why did Ali not abide by the Qur'an? They said the third thing, that he shouldn't call himself Amir al-Mu'mineen. If he's not Amir al-Mu'mineen, right?
01:19:49He should remove the title of the leader of the believers. Bal huwa Amir al-Kafireen. Rather, he's the commander of the disbelievers. So Ibn Abbas said, all right, are these your three things? They said, these are our three things. So he started to walk with them and we're already over time. Subhan'Allah.
01:20:03So just quickly, he started to walk through it with them. And he started to point out all of the ayat of the Qur'an where Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala mentions yakhkumu bihi thuwal 'adlim minkum A righteous judge amongst you, judge,
01:20:17or hakam min ahlihi wa hakam min ahliha. Right? If a husband and a wife have a dispute, let there be a judge from amongst you. Let there be a judge from amongst the man and a judge from amongst the woman.
01:20:28So when Ibn Abbas says this, he says it diplomatically, but he tries to reason with them. And he says, so are we settled on this point? He said, yeah, I guess so. He said, all right, as for your second thing,
01:20:41he didn't take captives. Aisha, radiallahu ta'ala anha, was amongst the people on the other side. And if you wanted Aisha, radiallahu anha, to be taken as a spoil, as a captive of war,
01:20:53then it is you who has committed disbelief because Allah 'Aza wa Jal says, an-Nabiyyu awlaa bil-mu'mineena min anfusin wa-azwajuhu ummahatun That the Prophet is closer to the believers than themselves and his wives are their mothers.
01:21:07Are you really trying to say that you wanted Ali to take his mother, your mother as a captive of war? I'm paraphrasing this whole narration, by the way. So are we settled? Yeah, we're settled. Then he said, as for the third thing,
01:21:20so they were upset that Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, did not call himself Amir al-Mu'mineen. And this was part of Ali, radiallahu anhu, situating things. And that's what they meant by that. He said, have you ever heard of Surat Hudaybiyyah?
01:21:33The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah? He said, yes. He said, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, had Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, writing the terms on behalf of the believers. And the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, told Ali, radiallahu anhu, to wipe out "Rasulullah"—
01:21:47the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam— to make terms. Ali did not want to, the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, said, where is it? And the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, wiped it out himself. So he's saying that if the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
01:22:00dictated that for the maslaha, it was good to wipe out. Are you saying that Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, made a mistake by, you know, making a best judgment and using a different title and things of that sort
01:22:13for the sake of the greater maslaha, the greater benefit? So here's the thing. As a result of Ibn Abbas reasoning with them, there were 6,000 people that day, 2,000 of the Khawarij repented.
01:22:25And they came back with Ibn Abbas to Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. So imagine the scene, Ali was very nervous. He sent Ibn Abbas to these crazy people and Ibn Abbas comes back with 2,000 men
01:22:37repenting to Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala and ready to join and pledge allegiance to Sayyidina Ali, radiallahu ta'ala anhu. So that is his hikmah. That is just one example in Islamic history of the way that he held himself, radiallahu ta'ala anhu.
01:22:51He was always someone, Subhan'Allah, who was loved by all of the believers, loved by all of the companions, respected by all of the companions, honored. And he would criticize people on principle,
01:23:04but he would never, radiallahu ta'ala anhu, descend into anything that was objectionable. I just want to come to the end of his life. I apologize to everyone for going over time. It's very hard to cover Ibn Abbas, radiallahu ta'ala anhuma.
01:23:17Remember the Prophet had a prophecy for him because he saw Jibril, alayhi assalam. The prophecy was one day he's gonna go blind. And indeed Ibn Abbas, radiallahu ta'ala anhuma,
01:23:28one day went blind around the age of 70 years old. They told him that because of the cataracts in his eyes, he can't make sujud.
01:23:42He said, I'm gonna make sujud. I can't leave off sujud. So he continued to make sujud. Masruq ibn al-Ajda' said that every time we would walk to him, we'd find him praising Allah, Subhan'Allah Ta'ala, and he would be reciting
01:23:56wa-in ta'uddu ni'matallahi la ta'isooha And if you were to count the blessing of Allah, you would not be able to. Like a realization of the ni'mah of Allah. And that's why he has a very famous narration as Ibn Abd al-Barr says,
01:24:10he said, Ya Rabb, he said, O Allah, qala in ya'khudh allahu min aynayya noorahuma fa fee lisani wa qalbi minhuma nooru He said that if Allah took the light from my eyes,
01:24:22then in my tongue and in my heart, there is that light. Qala wa 'aqli ghayru dhi dakhal wa fee fami sarimun kassayfi ma'thoor
01:24:34He said that in my mind, I still am able to reason without defect and my tongue is still like a sharp sword, well known. well known.
01:24:47So I'm pleased with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Wahb ibn Munabbih, rahimahullah, said, he continued to teach people. So if someone said to him, As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, he would say, say whoever said, As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
01:25:01to add the ajr, the ten good deeds that come with that. He said that Abdullah ibn Abbas walked amongst people around the Haram and they were sitting and they were talking about other than Allah
01:25:15subhanahu wa ta'ala. And he told them, O young people, have you become so forgetful of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that your hearts and your minds and your tongues became busy with other than him? And after that admonition, two people would never sit around the Haram
01:25:28without Ibn Abbas radiallahu ta'ala anhuma Ibn Abi Mulaika says that Ibn Abbas, as he's reflecting in his old age and his Qur'an, and he's just reading Qur'an, teaching.
01:25:38Qala: Dhahaba an-nas, wa baqiya an-nas-nas. Ibn Abbas said, the people have gone and what remains are an-nas-nas. Nas means people; an-nas-nas
01:25:51is a play on the word nas. So I asked him, what are an-nas-nas? He said, alladhina yashbihun an-nas wa laysu bin-nas. People that resemble people, but they're not people.
01:26:03Subhanallah, he was complaining about the loss of humanity because of the fitnah that was taking place. People killing each other, people cheating each other. And he witnessed the golden age with the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and he wanted nothing to do with that type of behavior.
01:26:17And so where did he go? They kept offering him governorships and offering him to be in charge here and charge there. He went to Ta'if out of all places. Why did he go to Ta'if? Because Ta'if was away from everything.
01:26:30Away from Iraq, away from Medina, away from Makkah even, where Ibn Zubayr had his place in charge. You had what was happening in Ash-Sham.
01:26:42Abdullah ibn Abbas went to Ta'if and he would stay in Ta'if radiallahu ta'ala anhuma until he would pass away. I have to mention this part. Subhanallah, when he passes away in Ta'if where he's buried till today.
01:26:56So you can go to Ta'if and I've actually been there. Masjid Ibn Abbas and his grave is there. In Ta'if, sort of away from everything. This is narrated, mutawatir, multiple narrations
01:27:10that when they washed the noble body of this young man, that as they put him into his grave, radiallahu ta'ala anhum, that a white dove flew into his grave
01:27:23and went into his kafan and it never came out. Hamad ibn Salamah said, some of us said it might've been his 'ilm, like an embodiment of his knowledge, but like a bird, a white bird came from the sky,
01:27:35a dove went into his grave and into his kafan and it didn't come out. Allah knows best what it was. And then when they buried him, we heard recited from the grave,
01:27:48"Ya ayyatuha an-nafsu al-mutma'inna, irji'i ila rabbiki radiatan mardiyyah. Fa dkhuli fi 'ibadi wa dkhuli janati." O soul at peace, come back to your Lord, pleased and pleasing. Enter thou amongst my servants,
01:28:02enter thou my paradise. His whole life is Qur'an and we heard tilawah and we didn't know where it was coming from. And everyone said that day, as Mujahid rahimahullah said, 'Amr ibn Minar: "Ma taharrama hadhihi al-ummah,
01:28:16ma tarabbahum hadhihi al-ummah." The scholar of this ummah has passed away. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammad ibn Ali, may Allah be pleased with him. He led Salat al-Janazah on his cousin,
01:28:28Abdullah ibn Abbas, radiallahu ta'ala anhuma. And his students continued his legacy after him. Tawus, 'Ata ibn Rabah, Sa'id ibn al-Jubayr, 'Ikrimah, Mujahid, all of whom were freed slaves
01:28:42who became the greatest scholars of this ummah because Ibn Abbas, radiallahu ta'ala anhuma, taught them. He narrated not just from the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, over 1,600 hadith. He narrated from all of the Khulafa' ar-Rashidun. He narrated from all of the wives of the Prophet,
01:28:56sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And he was narrated from by multiple companions and his children. He is Abu al-'Abbas ibn Abbas. So by the way, his kunyah is Abu al-'Abbas and he's ibn Abbas because he named his oldest son al-'Abbas.
01:29:11May Allah be pleased with Abdullah ibn Abbas and with all of the family and Companions of the Prophet. May Allah allow us to love the Qur'an as they did and to draw near to Allah with the Qur'an and near to our beloved, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, as they did. Allahumma amin. Jazakumallahu khayran.
01:29:25Wa assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
