How did Ibn Abbas become Islam's greatest scholar?

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Continuing authored by the chapter chapter number five the chapter of vigilance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's observation we have the third narration of the chapter believe it is the third narration of the chapter. Is it number three? the narration. Yes, it is number three. The narration of Abdullahb Abbas and this narration deals mainly with the topic of decree. However, and we've already mentioned this before, but I think it warrants another go. We mentioned that Iban Abbas is how is he related to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is his cousin. Correct. Is his first cousin it's his first paternal cousin meaning on his father's side. Now we mentioned that he has four uncles the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. What are their names? Al Abbas Abu Talib Hamza and Abu Lahab. Correct. Abuab Abuab's name is Abdul. Abdul that's his name Abdulahb. So if we were to Abuahab is his all right and so his cousin Abdullahb Abbas this man was an incredible scholar and incredible mind and he was referred to by the companions by other major companions such as Ali Abbal who is one of the most major scholars of the companions in the history of Islam. He referred to him as the word means the scholar of the the scholar of the but the word scholar doesn't really capture the essence of the word you know in the Arabic language when we have I want you to look at the letters in the Arabic language. Each letter a a chemical or an element. You know that the chart of elements, the elemental chart, right? It has its particular parameters. And then when you mix it with another element, you get a particular reaction. Okay? The letters in the Arabic language are just those elements that when you put them in a together, they have a reaction. Even if you change the order of the letters, they will always have the same reaction. I'll give you an example. for instance, the word. What other word can you think of uses those same letters? H. Very good. Huh. There's two which means ocean, right? or C we have also harp which is war. Now these letters always connect those three words which is scholar which is sea or ocean and harp which is war. All three of these all root back to the same general meaning. What is it? Intensity and depth and immensity. Right? So because we have alab is a scholar. Bahar is an ocean is a sea. Harp is a collection of people who are fighting a sea or an ocean. an immense huge amount of soldiers. You wouldn't use the word war or harb to describe two people having a quarrel. This is armies which are involved in these kinds of things. And so all of these three combinations of the same letters they all articulate the same general meaning and that is what depth. They all articulate depth. They all articulate huge amounts, huge numbers. They all articulate something that is immense. And that is the meaning of hab is a derivative of that same meaning of bah which means a scholar that is not only a scholar but a scholar that is immense and deep the ocean in his knowledge and rich the not the ocean right and that's why the Arabs use that same com that same those same three elements to make up the word that is most associated with scholarship and that is what wordith what is he inc that is most associated with what with scholars again we look at the Arabic letters as elements on a chart. and we could do this with any any word really. Same thing with the wordh and right they all go back to the same even though we change the order those elements when you put them together they're always going to have that same reaction even if it is a different variant. So this is something that I'm not sure can be done with English because English is not a Seemetic language. It's not an original language. It's a combination of many languages. But Arabic is an original Seemetic language. It has no beginning that is known of. Right? Arabic and Hebrew and Aramaic which are which is really the the the grandfather of Arabic and Hebrew. the point is is that he is referred to as the scholar the immense the scholar of the Muslim Abdullahb Abbass. And this is curious because Abdullahb Abbas was born in Sheb is the path in the mountains that belong to Abu Talib that Benu Hashim was exiled in for those years in Mecca. Do we know this story? The story of when the Arab tribes got together because Abu Talib would not allow them to harm his nephew, the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. He would not give him up to be killed or exiled. And so they decided, if you won't give him up, then we will just excommunicate and exile all of Benihashia, the whole tribe, all of it. And so they had the tribes get together and agree to not deal with Beni Hashim at all in any way. And anyone who dealt with them, anyone who sold them one grain will be excommunicated and exiled as well. And so Abu Talib had a sheb. He had a piece of land on the outskirts of Mecca which was referred to as Shebal. and all of Benihashim, they resorted to that valley and they remained there for a number of years in famine and it was all out famine because no other Arab tribe was allowed to deal with them. If you were a merchant and you came to Mecca to sell whatever it is you were selling and you went and and sold them something, you would be made aware that these folks are excommunicated. Not one of them is allowed to buy anything or sell anything. You're not even allowed to give them anything. You're not allowed to marry from them, to marry to them, nothing. The only thing they allowed is people to visit visit their relatives. But it was so bad that they had to sneak loaves of bread. Women had to sneak loaves of bread in their clothing to smuggle it in to give to their you know, whoever it is, their fathers or their uncles or whatever it is, you know, their daughters would be married to other tribesmen and they would come to visit their father or their brother from Beni Hashim and they'd have to smuggle in loaves of bread and little portions of food. And so it became so bad that it was said you could hear the whailing of children for miles from hunger. It was so bad that they were resorting to eating leather and eating leaves off of trees. And they actually wrote this agreement and it's an embargo which is an act of war. and they they hung it up in the Kaa itself. And so during that time they were they that famine was over and that excommunication was over in the 10th year after Hijah. the 10th year after Hijra or the ninth year a little bit earlier that's the same year that who passed away Abu Talib and Khadijah so as soon as they came out of that exile Abu Talib passed away Khadijah passed away 10th year the prophet sallallahu alaii wasallam went on the greatest journey which is But in the 10th year, okay, Iban Abbz was born in that 10th year before or 10th year after prophethood. So 3 years before Hijra, he was born in that valley during the exile period, during the famine period. And so Abdullahb Abbass in the most generous estimates was how old when the prophet passed away sallallahu alaihi wasallam, what's the math? 13. That's the most popular opinion. Some say 14. The most generous opinion is that he was at most 15 years old when the prophet sallall.aii wasallam passed away. That means that most of his time around the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam he was very very young especially that he only came to Medina with his father alb. his father at Abbass became Muslim and made hijah to Medina or moved to Medina much much later much later after the conquest of Mecca. And so this puts all of his time that he spent with the prophet sallall.aii physically together collectively at most six or seven years. So he's very young. But then you look at how many narrations he narrated over a thousand unique individual narrations. How is that possible? This is possible because of something we call and we will talk about that tomorrow inshallah.

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