A Prophet’s Rest: The Story of Kulthum bin al-Hidm’s House and its Enduring Legacy

A Prophet’s Rest: The Story of Kulthum bin al-Hidm’s House and its Enduring Legacy.

 

Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka al-abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam tasliman kathira. Welcome to episode 99, alhamdulillah, of the first. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to dwell with these beautiful companions that set the stage for what we are able to benefit from until today. Allahumma ameen. As I mentioned to you, next week we will start inshallah ta'ala with A'ishah radiyaAllahu ta'ala her seerah. So that will take at least two or three halaqas inshallah ta'ala. And we've been covering the Ansar up until now. And tonight inshallah ta'ala will give you the most holistic look that you'll probably get. Especially as it pertains to the initial entrance of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's leadership style. How did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam manage to unite so many different tribes, so many different classes of people, despite the fact that they were trying to kill each other before Islam. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 Mecca to Al-Madinah. And so to appreciate the brilliance of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in uniting tribes, you can imagine that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam has to play this balancing act with all of the tribes as he's entering into Madinah. And the messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam, who's this super intentional person,

The most intentional person to ever walk the face of the earth, right? Everything about the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu. It's like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam coming to Al-Madinah. Now obviously, there are two main tribes. The two main tribes of the Ansar are who? 

You should memorize these so well now. Aus and Khazraj. And as we said, Aus and Khazraj, the two main tribes, have all of these sub-tribes. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu and his tribe, which is the tribe of Banu Salima. The tribe of Banu Salima. Jabir radiallahu ta'ala anhu is from that tribe. Who else is from that tribe? This is like bonus points for real. We've talked 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 radiallahu anhu is from Banu Salima. Amr bin al-Jamuh is from Banu Salima. A lot of the great companions that we just covered, a bulk of them actually came from Banu Salima. And we said last week that this group of people resided around what area? There's a particular masjid now in Medina that they all resided in and they tried to buy the area next to the masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, stay in your homes, your footsteps will be recorded. Which masjid was that? I'm about to put up a map by the way but I want you at least, inshallah if you can remember this next time you go to Umrah you'll be like this one, this one, this one. So there was a masjid that we said last week

all of the family of Jabir radiallahu anhu, they wanted to sell all of their property and come to Masjid Nabawi. Anyone know which masjid it was? Not Quba. It starts with a Q. Qiblatayn. Masjid al-Qiblatayn. The current area of Masjid al-Qiblatayn is where Banu Salima used to reside. Now keep in mind here the landscape of Medina was basically 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 Medina. That wasn't the case in Mecca. The land reflected the tribalism, specifically in Yathrib which would become Medina. So you have 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 reside 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 are the maternal relatives of the Prophet ﷺ. And the Prophet ﷺ said, Banu Najjar. The best homes in Medina are the homes of Banu Najjar. When the Prophet ﷺ wanted to move from place to place he would always call for his maternal relatives to move with him.

So you got this huge area, Masjid Qiblatayn, which is on the other side of Medina by the way. Banu Salima. Then you have this huge area of Quba, Banu Amr Ibn Auf. And then you have the Prophet ﷺ 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. And then you have, and I'll give you one more tribe and then I'll put up the map insha'Allah. You have 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. Now if you could put the map up insha'Allah, I want you to kind of visualize this for a moment insha'Allah with Medina. So you'll notice in red, you have Masjid Nabawi. The Masjid of the Prophet ﷺ. 

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. Now I want you to think about the beauty of the Prophet ﷺ. Masjid Qiblatayn, the Prophet ﷺ took care of, as we said, all of those people. The Jabir's of the world and the Amr Ibn Jamuh and the Mu'adh Ibn Jabir. Some of the great companions that resided around Masjid Qiblatayn. And the Prophet ﷺ told them, stay there. Look how far away it is from Masjid Nabawi. It's about an hour 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 of them did not come to Masjid Nabawi frequently. So remember the Prophet ﷺ would send Mu'adh Ibn Jabir to pray

Isha with his people a second time. Like he'd pray Isha in Masjid Nabawi, then he'd go pray with them. Because look at the distance. Right? Look at the distance between the two. So he caters to them ﷺ. Then Masjid Quba Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Now what's the story of Masjid al-Jumu'ah? Just briefly. Who are from the cousins of Amr Ibn Auf. Banu Salim Ibn Auf. Banu Salim complained to the Prophet ﷺ. They said, you came to Yathrib. You came to Medina. You stayed in Quba for two weeks and we didn't get any share of you like our cousins. So what did the Prophet ﷺ do? SubhanAllah, it's beautiful. He intentionally stopped and prayed Jumu'ah between Quba and Masjid Nabawi. The first Jumu'ah is held there with the Prophet ﷺ in what is called Masjid al-Jumu'ah. So that he could honour this tribe. 

And so everyone came to their Qariyah, their area, to pray Jumu'ah there. It was over a hundred of the companions that prayed Jumu'ah with the Prophet ﷺ there. And it became Masjid al-Jumu'ah. So he's navigating ﷺ as we said, Masjid al-Qiblatayn, which is the area of Banu Salimah. And then Masjid Quba, which is Banu Amr Ibn Auf. And then the cousins of Banu Amr Ibn Auf, which are Banu Salim Ibn Auf. He prays Jumu'ah with them. And then the Prophet ﷺ goes to Masjid Nabawi and he builds eventually his Masjid in the property of his maternal uncle's Banu Najjar. Sounds exhausting, right? But that's the Prophet ﷺ. He knows he has to navigate these realities and give every single tribe its special place. So you'll find entire chapters in the books of hadith where the Prophet ﷺ is praising each tribe for something beautiful he notices about them. The Messenger ﷺ is praising the different tribes for everything beautiful that he sees about them.

Now, the people of Quba, Masjid al-Quba, are all from which tribe? I want to hear it back from someone that's actually taking notes or got it. 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, 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 Medina, they can't go to Mecca now, but they can go to Quba. And he 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 is like Umrah. I'm going to give you another narration by the way, it's a sahih narration, from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ. Sa'd 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. And we know Masjid al-Aqsa, I know all the Palestinians are about to get mad at me. I'm Palestinian too, don't get mad at me. 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'd 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 Allah ﷻ prays the masjid and He ﷻ prays 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? Mecca, the Ka'bah. We are honoring Ibrahim ﷺ every time we go and we pray there. We're honoring Ismail ﷺ. 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 Mecca. The best of the Ansar, the best of the Muhajireen for two weeks. The way that I put it to you is imagine 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 Mecca and the best of those who came from Medina to receive the Prophet ﷺ. So we're going to discuss three people here from these people that are praised in the Qur'an, of a masjid that is praised in the Qur'an. And 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-Hadim. Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, radhiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Number two, and this is the one that very few people have heard of, Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. Have you ever met anyone named Uwaym? Let's change that insha'Allah ta'ala. Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. Number three, another Sa'd. Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. There were a lot of Sa'ds in Medina. Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. So Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, Uwaym ibn Sa'idah, and Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. 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 Prophet ﷺ. And each one of them has a very unique role to play. The first one is Kulthum ibn al-Hadim. Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, radhiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. 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 Prophet ﷺ's coming, he immediately believed, and he immediately said, let's allocate all of what we have to the Prophet ﷺ's arrival. So obviously the people in Mecca that gave the hardest time were the tribal chiefs. This is the tribal chief of this area, Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, an old man, elderly man, wise, humble. He says, amanna, we believe in the Prophet ﷺ, and we will allocate whatever he wants for him ﷺ. 

Let him come to Medina, and if you remember the map, Quba is on the outskirts, right? It's not actually part of Medina. It's kind of on the outskirts. Let him come, we will receive him, and we will honor him ﷺ. So Kulthum ibn al-Hadim 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 Prophet ﷺ 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 Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, because he is an elderly person, and he's the host, the Prophet ﷺ basically makes him his brother. You know how we're talking about people that are assigning mu'akha,

the ansar and the muhajireen, the people of Medina becoming brothers, paired off as brothers with the people of Mecca. 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, Abu Bakr and Umar as well. May Allah be pleased with them all. They're staying with the Prophet ﷺ around the area of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim. If you could pull up the garden for me, insha'Allah ta'ala. 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 Prophet ﷺ, where he would receive the elder delegations. And the house of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim is right next to it. It's sort of the courtyard, if you will, of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, may Allah be pleased with him. So what the Prophet ﷺ 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 Prophet ﷺ assigns another home, which is the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamah, may Allah be pleased with him. 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 Khaythamah. I said this is like a campsite, subhanAllah, it's beautiful. So the Prophet ﷺ, during the day, he goes to the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamah, 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 Kulthum al-Hadam 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 Kulthum al-Hadim 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. Kulthum al-Hadim dies almost instantly. So he lived to embrace the Prophet ﷺ,

he lived to be the Prophet ﷺ'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, inshaAllah, the first person to embrace Islam from Madinah, the first person to go out to Mecca and to embrace Islam from Madinah, who was it? It's not Sa'd, As'ad ibn Zurarah. As'ad r.a died right away as well. So As'ad was the first one to do Jumu'ah, before the Prophet ﷺ even got to Madinah. Kulthum was the first one to host the Prophet ﷺ. 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 the scholars say As'ad died before Kulthum, some of them say Kulthum died before As'ad, but the first two Ansahar to be buried in that blessed land, in al-Baqir, are the first two to receive the Prophet ﷺ in different ways. As'ad going out and believing in the Prophet ﷺ and then coming back to Madinah and setting the stage, Kulthum r.a hosting the Prophet ﷺ in al-Madinah, and he dies almost immediately. Now Kulthum al-Hadim had one daughter named Umayrah, and Umayrah was married to Utbah, the son of Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So let's talk about Uwaym r.a now. The main person we'll talk about is As'ad, but let's talk about Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So we said Kulthum is paired off with the Prophet ﷺ himself. Uwaym ibn Sa'idah is the brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. Think about that.

Umar coming to stay at your house, right? So you've got to be the guy that's going to be the host of Umar, and he was his brother throughout. So this is actually the brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. To the point that when Umar r.a says, my brother from the Ansar, he's talking about Uwaym. Because he was his brother from the Ansar, this man named Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So he's the one that gets to host Umar r.a in his house, and gets paired off with Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. And you can start to see how personality types match up. What is Uwaym's reputation? He is the man who Allah 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 that love to purify themselves. Most of the Sahaba, they said this was revealed about Uwaym r.a, a man who loved to purify himself. And he is the brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. 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're, 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, Allah has truly beautified his praise of you when he tells the story of your message. Like Rasulullah ﷺ is receiving the Qur'an, and the Prophet ﷺ knows

فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُ How beautiful, what a description. In it are people that 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 Allah ﷻ 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 Uwaym 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 Allah loves those who purify themselves internally. And Allah loves those who purify themselves externally. So Allah literally was praising their wudu, first and foremost. That 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 najasa 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? There are some people that care so much about the external and they don't care anything about the internal. So Allah 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 Uwaym, you have a story insha'Allah ta'ala. And when he passed away, he's the brother of Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه and this is beautiful. When he passed away, Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه stood over his grave and he 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 Prophet ﷺ a banner raised up for the Prophet ﷺ except that Uwaim 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 Uwaim رضي الله عنه And look how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala elevates him in that way. So this is Kulthum al-Hadim and Uwaim. 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 رضي الله عنه ibn Khaythamah was a young man who was actually from that first batch in Mecca that met the Prophet ﷺ. 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 that was there to pledge with the Prophet ﷺ. He was there in the first bay'ah with the Prophet ﷺ, the first pledge with the Prophet ﷺ 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, Uwayn received Umar ibn Khattab 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 Medina, 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 Amir. This is Abu Amir al-Rahib. Abu Amir al-Rahib was not a very good man. Okay. 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, subhanAllah,

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 Hanthala رضي الله عنه who was washed by the angels, ghaseel al-malaika. And if you look at the picture of Masjid Qubat, can you put up the aerial view of Qubat? So this is Qubat, the aerial view. The house of Sa'd رضي الله عنه is the one on the right, the western, the right of this picture, the western minaret of the masjid. So if you go to the next picture, which is just the minaret. So this is actually right under this minaret is where the house of Sa'd ibn Khaytham رضي الله عنه was. So next time you go to Medina, inshallah, you go to Masjid Qubat, look for that minaret. All right, let's go back to the lecture and timestamp it inshallah so that you can see it. So this is the young man who is hosting the youth and these youth cling to the Prophet ﷺ in such a beautiful way. And the Prophet ﷺ would spend his days with them. They got to know him ﷺ from the very beginning and immediately the Prophet ﷺ establishes himself as an accessible leader to all of the segments of the community. SubhanAllah, think about how beautiful this is. This is the first two weeks, the first two weeks in Medina. The Prophet ﷺ spends the day with the youth, spends the evening with the elders, spends the day with the youth, spends the evening with the elders to demonstrate that importance and Sa'd ibn Khaytham رضي الله عنه loved the Prophet ﷺ and was the host of the Prophet ﷺ in Quba' during those days. So subhanAllah, these are the two homes. Now, what's the touching story here that is specific to Sa'd رضي الله عنه?

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 was 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 casted 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, Kulthum 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 Medina, 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 remembered 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 Subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him a shahada, granted him martyrdom with the Prophet ﷺ 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 the Prophet ﷺ, then Rasulullah ﷺ will see the same spirit of Sa'd رضي الله عنه. And guess what, Khaytham is one of the shahada 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 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 تَبْدِيلًا 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 Allah ﷻ 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 the Prophet ﷺ. 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 ﷻ accept them and accept us and count us amongst them. Allahumma ameen. 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, who, inshallah ta'ala, we will start with next week in her seerah. May Allah ﷻ allow 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 ﷻ bless you all. Inshallah ta'ala, I'll take a few questions since we finished a little bit earlier, inshallah ta'ala. 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, so in the, many of the mufassireen, they point out to that when Allah ﷻ says, the concept of external purification is when the letter ta is added. Yatathahru speaks to external, of dhahr, purification of the dhahr, purification of the external. Yatthahru speaks to the internal. So when Allah ﷻ says, yuhibbuna yatathahru, Allah 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 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'd ibn Abi Waqas, yeah. 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'd ibn Abi Waqas 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 Mecca. I won't go to Medina, because a salah in Mecca is more valuable than a salah in Medina. So we go to Medina, 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 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 Allah subhana wa ta'ala, for that to be the place. But even the current area of Masjid Nabawi is literally central to what the city of Medina would become. Right now, this is a fun fact for you all, right now the entire city of Medina, that was known as Medina, at the time of the Prophet ﷺ, is encompassed by the area of the Masjid.

The white tiles. So everything within those gates, that was the whole city of Medina at the time. Like Mazal Ghamama, if you go and you point to Mazal Ghamama, Mazal Ghamama was considered on the outskirts of Medina. 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 Medina. Yeah. So there's no virtue, good question. So praying Saturday in particular in Quba, nothing in particular. The Sunnah is to make wudu and go, it was just the habit of the Prophet ﷺ to go out there on Saturdays. But there's no particular virtue attached to Saturday and there are other days the Prophet ﷺ went. But very good observation. I'll see you all next week inshaAllah when we cover Aisha.

llahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka al-abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salam tasliman kathira. Welcome to episode 99, alhamdulillah, of the first. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allow us to dwell with these beautiful companions that set the stage for what we are able to benefit from until today. Allahumma ameen. As I mentioned to you, next week we will start inshallah ta'ala with A'ishah radiyaAllahu ta'ala her seerah. So that will take at least two or three halaqas inshallah ta'ala. And we've been covering the Ansar up until now. And tonight inshallah ta'ala will give you the most holistic look that you'll probably get. Especially as it pertains to the initial entrance of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam's leadership style. How did the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam manage to unite so many different tribes, so many different classes of people, despite the fact that they were trying to kill each other before Islam. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 Mecca to Al-Madinah. And so to appreciate the brilliance of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam in uniting tribes, you can imagine that the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam has to play this balancing act with all of the tribes as he's entering into Madinah. And the messenger salallahu alayhi wa sallam, who's this super intentional person,

the most intentional person to ever walk the face of the earth, right? Everything about the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu. It's like the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam coming to Al-Madinah. Now obviously, there are two main tribes. The two main tribes of the Ansar are who? You should memorize these so well now. Aus and Khazraj. And as we said, Aus and Khazraj, the two main tribes, have all of these sub-tribes. And the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam 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 radiallahu ta'ala anhu and his tribe, which is the tribe of Banu Salima. The tribe of Banu Salima. Jabir radiallahu ta'ala anhu is from that tribe. Who else is from that tribe? This is like bonus points for real. We've talked 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 radiallahu anhu is from Banu Salima. Amr bin al-Jamuh is from Banu Salima. A lot of the great companions that we just covered, a bulk of them actually came from Banu Salima. And we said last week that this group of people resided around what area? There's a particular masjid now in Medina that they all resided in and they tried to buy the area next to the masjid of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam and the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam said, stay in your homes, your footsteps will be recorded. Which masjid was that? I'm about to put up a map by the way but I want you at least, inshallah if you can remember this next time you go to Umrah you'll be like this one, this one, this one. So there was a masjid that we said last week

all of the family of Jabir radiallahu anhu, they wanted to sell all of their property and come to Masjid Nabawi. Anyone know which masjid it was? Not Quba. It starts with a Q. Qiblatayn. Masjid al-Qiblatayn. The current area of Masjid al-Qiblatayn is where Banu Salima used to reside. Now keep in mind here the landscape of Medina was basically 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 Medina. That wasn't the case in Mecca. The land reflected the tribalism, specifically in Yathrib which would become Medina. So you have 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 reside 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 are the maternal relatives of the Prophet ﷺ. And the Prophet ﷺ said, Banu Najjar. The best homes in Medina are the homes of Banu Najjar. When the Prophet ﷺ wanted to move from place to place he would always call for his maternal relatives to move with him.

So you got this huge area, Masjid Qiblatayn, which is on the other side of Medina by the way. Banu Salima. Then you have this huge area of Quba, Banu Amr Ibn Auf. And then you have the Prophet ﷺ 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. And then you have, and I'll give you one more tribe and then I'll put up the map insha'Allah. You have 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. Now if you could put the map up insha'Allah, I want you to kind of visualize this for a moment insha'Allah with Medina. So you'll notice in red, you have Masjid Nabawi. The Masjid of the Prophet ﷺ. 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. Now I want you to think about the beauty of the Prophet ﷺ. Masjid Qiblatayn, the Prophet ﷺ took care of, as we said, all of those people. The Jabir's of the world and the Amr Ibn Jamuh and the Mu'adh Ibn Jabir. Some of the great companions that resided around Masjid Qiblatayn. And the Prophet ﷺ told them, stay there. Look how far away it is from Masjid Nabawi. It's about an hour 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 of them did not come to Masjid Nabawi frequently. So remember the Prophet ﷺ would send Mu'adh Ibn Jabir to pray

Isha with his people a second time. Like he'd pray Isha in Masjid Nabawi, then he'd go pray with them. Because look at the distance. Right? Look at the distance between the two. So he caters to them ﷺ. Then Masjid Quba Banu Amr Ibn Auf. Now what's the story of Masjid al-Jumu'ah? Just briefly. Who are from the cousins of Amr Ibn Auf. Banu Salim Ibn Auf. Banu Salim complained to the Prophet ﷺ. They said, you came to Yathrib. You came to Medina. You stayed in Quba for two weeks and we didn't get any share of you like our cousins. So what did the Prophet ﷺ do? SubhanAllah, it's beautiful. He intentionally stopped and prayed Jumu'ah between Quba and Masjid Nabawi. The first Jumu'ah is held there with the Prophet ﷺ in what is called Masjid al-Jumu'ah. So that he could honour this tribe. And so everyone came to their Qariyah, their area, to pray Jumu'ah there. It was over a hundred of the companions that prayed Jumu'ah with the Prophet ﷺ there. And it became Masjid al-Jumu'ah. So he's navigating ﷺ as we said, Masjid al-Qiblatayn, which is the area of Banu Salimah. And then Masjid Quba, which is Banu Amr Ibn Auf. And then the cousins of Banu Amr Ibn Auf, which are Banu Salim Ibn Auf. He prays Jumu'ah with them. And then the Prophet ﷺ goes to Masjid Nabawi and he builds eventually his Masjid in the property of his maternal uncle's Banu Najjar. Sounds exhausting, right? But that's the Prophet ﷺ. He knows he has to navigate these realities and give every single tribe its special place. So you'll find entire chapters in the books of hadith where the Prophet ﷺ is praising each tribe for something beautiful he notices about them. The Messenger ﷺ is praising the different tribes for everything beautiful that he sees about them.

Now, the people of Quba, Masjid al-Quba, are all from which tribe? I want to hear it back from someone that's actually taking notes or got it. 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, 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 Medina, they can't go to Mecca now, but they can go to Quba. And he 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 is like Umrah. I'm going to give you another narration by the way, it's a sahih narration, from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqas ﷺ. Sa'd 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. And we know Masjid al-Aqsa, I know all the Palestinians are about to get mad at me. I'm Palestinian too, don't get mad at me. 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'd 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 Allah ﷻ prays the masjid and He ﷻ prays 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? Mecca, the Ka'bah. We are honoring Ibrahim ﷺ every time we go and we pray there. We're honoring Ismail ﷺ. 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 Mecca. The best of the Ansar, the best of the Muhajireen for two weeks. The way that I put it to you is imagine 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 Mecca and the best of those who came from Medina to receive the Prophet ﷺ. So we're going to discuss three people here from these people that are praised in the Qur'an, of a masjid that is praised in the Qur'an. And 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-Hadim. Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, radhiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. Number two, and this is the one that very few people have heard of, Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. Have you ever met anyone named Uwaym? Let's change that insha'Allah ta'ala. Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. Number three, another Sa'd. Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. There were a lot of Sa'ds in Medina. Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. So Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, Uwaym ibn Sa'idah, and Sa'd ibn Khaythamah. 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 Prophet ﷺ. And each one of them has a very unique role to play. The first one is Kulthum ibn al-Hadim. Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, radhiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu. 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 Prophet ﷺ's coming, he immediately believed, and he immediately said, let's allocate all of what we have to the Prophet ﷺ's arrival. So obviously the people in Mecca that gave the hardest time were the tribal chiefs. This is the tribal chief of this area, Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, an old man, elderly man, wise, humble. He says, amanna, we believe in the Prophet ﷺ, and we will allocate whatever he wants for him ﷺ. Let him come to Medina, and if you remember the map, Quba is on the outskirts, right? It's not actually part of Medina. It's kind of on the outskirts. Let him come, we will receive him, and we will honor him ﷺ. So Kulthum ibn al-Hadim 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 Prophet ﷺ 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 Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, because he is an elderly person, and he's the host, the Prophet ﷺ basically makes him his brother. You know how we're talking about people that are assigning mu'akha,

the ansar and the muhajireen, the people of Medina becoming brothers, paired off as brothers with the people of Mecca. 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, Abu Bakr and Umar as well. May Allah be pleased with them all. They're staying with the Prophet ﷺ around the area of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim. If you could pull up the garden for me, insha'Allah ta'ala. 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 Prophet ﷺ, where he would receive the elder delegations. And the house of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim is right next to it. It's sort of the courtyard, if you will, of Kulthum ibn al-Hadim, may Allah be pleased with him. So what the Prophet ﷺ 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 Prophet ﷺ assigns another home, which is the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamah, may Allah be pleased with him. 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 Khaythamah. I said this is like a campsite, subhanAllah, it's beautiful. So the Prophet ﷺ, during the day, he goes to the house of Sa'd ibn Khaythamah, 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 Kulthum al-Hadam 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 Kulthum al-Hadim 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. Kulthum al-Hadim dies almost instantly. So he lived to embrace the Prophet ﷺ,

he lived to be the Prophet ﷺ'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, inshaAllah, the first person to embrace Islam from Madinah, the first person to go out to Mecca and to embrace Islam from Madinah, who was it? It's not Sa'd, As'ad ibn Zurarah. As'ad r.a died right away as well. So As'ad was the first one to do Jumu'ah, before the Prophet ﷺ even got to Madinah. Kulthum was the first one to host the Prophet ﷺ. 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 the scholars say As'ad died before Kulthum, some of them say Kulthum died before As'ad, but the first two Ansahar to be buried in that blessed land, in al-Baqir, are the first two to receive the Prophet ﷺ in different ways. As'ad going out and believing in the Prophet ﷺ and then coming back to Madinah and setting the stage, Kulthum r.a hosting the Prophet ﷺ in al-Madinah, and he dies almost immediately. Now Kulthum al-Hadim had one daughter named Umayrah, and Umayrah was married to Utbah, the son of Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So let's talk about Uwaym r.a now. The main person we'll talk about is As'ad, but let's talk about Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So we said Kulthum is paired off with the Prophet ﷺ himself. Uwaym ibn Sa'idah is the brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. Think about that.

Umar coming to stay at your house, right? So you've got to be the guy that's going to be the host of Umar, and he was his brother throughout. So this is actually the brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. To the point that when Umar r.a says, my brother from the Ansar, he's talking about Uwaym. Because he was his brother from the Ansar, this man named Uwaym ibn Sa'idah. So he's the one that gets to host Umar r.a in his house, and gets paired off with Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. And you can start to see how personality types match up. What is Uwaym's reputation? He is the man who Allah 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 that love to purify themselves. Most of the Sahaba, they said this was revealed about Uwaym r.a, a man who loved to purify himself. And he is the brother of Umar ibn al-Khattab r.a. 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're, 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, Allah has truly beautified his praise of you when he tells the story of your message. Like Rasulullah ﷺ is receiving the Qur'an, and the Prophet ﷺ knows

فِيهِ رِجَالٌ يُحِبُّونَ أَن يَتَطَهَّرُ How beautiful, what a description. In it are people that 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 Allah ﷻ 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 Uwaym 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 Allah loves those who purify themselves internally. And Allah loves those who purify themselves externally. So Allah literally was praising their wudu, first and foremost. That 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 najasa 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? There are some people that care so much about the external and they don't care anything about the internal. So Allah 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 Uwaym, you have a story insha'Allah ta'ala. And when he passed away, he's the brother of Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه and this is beautiful. When he passed away, Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه stood over his grave and he 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 Prophet ﷺ a banner raised up for the Prophet ﷺ except that Uwaim 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 subhanahu wa ta'ala 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 Uwaim رضي الله عنه And look how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala elevates him in that way. So this is Kulthum al-Hadim and Uwaim. 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 رضي الله عنه ibn Khaythamah was a young man who was actually from that first batch in Mecca that met the Prophet ﷺ. 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 that was there to pledge with the Prophet ﷺ. He was there in the first bay'ah with the Prophet ﷺ, the first pledge with the Prophet ﷺ 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, Uwayn received Umar ibn Khattab 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 Medina, 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 Amir. This is Abu Amir al-Rahib. Abu Amir al-Rahib was not a very good man. Okay. 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, subhanAllah,

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 Hanthala رضي الله عنه who was washed by the angels, ghaseel al-malaika. And if you look at the picture of Masjid Qubat, can you put up the aerial view of Qubat? So this is Qubat, the aerial view. The house of Sa'd رضي الله عنه is the one on the right, the western, the right of this picture, the western minaret of the masjid. So if you go to the next picture, which is just the minaret. So this is actually right under this minaret is where the house of Sa'd ibn Khaytham رضي الله عنه was. So next time you go to Medina, inshallah, you go to Masjid Qubat, look for that minaret. All right, let's go back to the lecture and timestamp it inshallah so that you can see it. So this is the young man who is hosting the youth and these youth cling to the Prophet ﷺ in such a beautiful way. And the Prophet ﷺ would spend his days with them. They got to know him ﷺ from the very beginning and immediately the Prophet ﷺ establishes himself as an accessible leader to all of the segments of the community. SubhanAllah, think about how beautiful this is. This is the first two weeks, the first two weeks in Medina. The Prophet ﷺ spends the day with the youth, spends the evening with the elders, spends the day with the youth, spends the evening with the elders to demonstrate that importance and Sa'd ibn Khaytham رضي الله عنه loved the Prophet ﷺ and was the host of the Prophet ﷺ in Quba' during those days. So subhanAllah, these are the two homes. Now, what's the touching story here that is specific to Sa'd رضي الله عنه?

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 was 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 casted 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, Kulthum 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 Medina, 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 remembered 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 Subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him a shahada, granted him martyrdom with the Prophet ﷺ 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 the Prophet ﷺ, then Rasulullah ﷺ will see the same spirit of Sa'd رضي الله عنه. And guess what, Khaytham is one of the shahada 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 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 تَبْدِيلًا 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 Allah ﷻ 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 the Prophet ﷺ. 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 ﷻ accept them and accept us and count us amongst them. Allahumma ameen. 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, who, inshallah ta'ala, we will start with next week in her seerah. May Allah ﷻ allow 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 ﷻ bless you all. Inshallah ta'ala, I'll take a few questions since we finished a little bit earlier, inshallah ta'ala. 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, so in the, many of the mufassireen, they point out to that when Allah ﷻ says, the concept of external purification is when the letter ta is added. Yatathahru speaks to external, of dhahr, purification of the dhahr, purification of the external. Yatthahru speaks to the internal. So when Allah ﷻ says, yuhibbuna yatathahru, Allah 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 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'd ibn Abi Waqas, yeah. 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'd ibn Abi Waqas 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 Mecca. I won't go to Medina, because a salah in Mecca is more valuable than a salah in Medina. So we go to Medina, 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 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 Allah subhana wa ta'ala, for that to be the place. But even the current area of Masjid Nabawi is literally central to what the city of Medina would become. Right now, this is a fun fact for you all, right now the entire city of Medina, that was known as Medina, at the time of the Prophet ﷺ, is encompassed by the area of the Masjid.

The white tiles. So everything within those gates, that was the whole city of Medina at the time. Like Mazal Ghamama, if you go and you point to Mazal Ghamama, Mazal Ghamama was considered on the outskirts of Medina. 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 Medina. Yeah. So there's no virtue, good question. So praying Saturday in particular in Quba, nothing in particular. The Sunnah is to make wudu and go, it was just the habit of the Prophet ﷺ to go out there on Saturdays. But there's no particular virtue attached to Saturday and there are other days the Prophet ﷺ went. But very good observation. I'll see you all next week inshaAllah when we cover Aisha.