How a Slave Earned the Name Abu Bakr

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We have a narration on the authority of Abi Abu Bakari. This companion is from and is a people that went to war against the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam and his companions in a well-known battle referred to as is an area in which the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam and his companions had laid under siege the fortress if you will for lack of a better term of he got his nickname Abu Bakr Abu Bakr. You know we said before that abu or in the Arabic language this is referred to as a ka abua right and that most usually the tradition of the Arabs is that they would give the kuna to an adult and it would be their eldest boy that the kuna would be named after. So a person has number of sons. the oldest son is named Ahmed, he would be Abu Ahmed and the mother would be Omu Ahmed, right? And so forth. However, this isn't always the case. Often times they would give a kuna even if a person has children they would name the kuna after a younger son or even a daughter which is much more rare but occurs. Why? Because perhaps they have a number of sons, but the middle or youngest son happens to be a tribesman or happens to be u a great warrior who becomes very famous or very popular, well-known or perhaps becomes a great scholar. And so now out of honor they would name the father the after this younger or also because of an incident that occurs. So for instance his abass hass his oldest son is al hass however he has another ka that the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam gave him which is Abu Tab Abu. Why Abu Tab? Because got into a spat with Fatima and you know he he went to cool off and he went to the masid to you know he was laying down in the masid. He he left his home and he went to the masid. The prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam saw him there sleeping in the masid on the ground on the dirt and he said right so he called him Abu Turab after this incident where he was sleeping on the ground on the dirt bik in the Arabic language is a pulley a pulley right we know the the the pulley it's a pulley it's a what is water. It's water, right? a pulley is a wheel that is usually hung up. It's got a hook over it, right? And the way that they would bring heavy objects up onto the fortress walls or over the fortress walls, right, is that they would have these pulleys on a boom hanging out over the fortress wall and they would have a rope on it and they detach something. And we've all seen this in a well or well this fortress on its walls it had these bakarat or these pulleys. And when the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam and his companions laid siege on Ben and in what happened was there were a number roughly about 23 slaves that became Muslim. And during this siege when they saw the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam came. They came down off of this wall. They accepted Islam and they became part of the Muslim. Abu Bakr was the third one to come down on that pulley. He was a he was a slave in and he was the third one to grab onto that rope and come down off of that bakra off of that pulley to join the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam's ranks. And so he was later known as Abu Bakr, Abu Bakr because of this incident when he accepted Islam and came down off of this pulley. And so his name is Nu Nu. And it's said that his name is Mas. He's Arab. He's Arab. Often times when we say slave because of the west and we live here in the west what's in our mind is slavery of the western type right which is only only black only African and this terrible nightmarish kind of scenario but that's not how slavery was in a lot of the world and it's certainly not how slavery was in the time of Jahia an Arab could become a slave as a matter Matter of fact, a nobleman could become a slave depending on the situation, right? People became slaves for seemingly petty issues. They could become a slave because their family didn't have enough money to get buy something. Could be food for the year or could be weapons for a war or a battle. And so they put their son or sons as collateral and they never are able to pay it back. And so this son now is a slave to the owner. Or it could be because they are kidnapped. Or it could be because they are taken as a prisoner of war. Or it could be for a multitude of reasons. Could be a gambling debt, right? Could be that they're very poor. They're dirt poor. or they're found out in the desert somewhere what happened with Ysef Alisam. These are all ways that a person could become a slave. Abu Bakr was a slave and he when he switched sides and he became Muslim in the battle of his name is Nuf and it said that his name is Masur but the majority of the scholars view that Masur is actually the name of his father. His father's name is Masur. Abu Baka became later on moved on to become a more major companion and there's a reason that he said this narration specifically. Now Abu Bakr later moved to Albas after the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam's death and after the moving of the and the capital of the Muslim empire from Medina to Iraq he moved to Iraq and during these days here in the year 36 After Hijra, there was an incident that took place, a misunderstanding that sparked a skirmish between some of the companions and their armies which is known as is referred to because of the camel the camel of that she was on. She had her held on, which is a little kind of tent or room that would be on top of for for women. And the battle was ended or the skirmish was ended. It was more of a skirmish than it was a battle. But it was ended when Ali commanded that her camel be an is striking the the leg of the camel for it to to fall over and this kind of ended the skirmish. Now this was a misunderstanding and it was inflamed by the at the time. This is a long story but you know why I bring it up. One of the huge misunderstandings that the Muslims have or a lot of Muslims have is with regards to some of the incidents that occurred in the time of the companions especially after the murder of the greatifman were there a couple of battles that took place amongst the Muslim armies of Ashe and Iraq at the time. Yes. Were companions involved? Yes. But usually when people think about the battle or the incidents that occurred around this time between the companions they imagine that all of the prophet's companions all the home split into two factions into two halves and all of them started fighting with each other and this is very this is a very misunderstood thing and that is that Islam mentions that when we gather all of the names of every companion that had anything to do with the misunderstandings that took place during these times whether it is in Safian or whether it is in J or what have you it was only about 30 companions that were involved only 30. We say only 30. the ratio of those who were involved compared to those who were not involved is extremely lopsided because mentions that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam had more than 100,000 companions with him. 100,000 companions with him in in the ninth year after Hijra. Out of those 100,000 that were still alive 30 years later, only about 30 of them had any involvement in Saf and Al collectively combined, right? And not only that, but the the skirmish of Al was not supposed to be a battle. It was just a meeting. and was there because she had gone to try to bring peace between the two factions that had disagreed with one another. Because when was murdered, some of the companions viewed that the most important thing right now is for us to stabilize the country, stabilize the empire, stabilize the right, which is the correct opinion. We need to stabilize the the after that we will bring the murderers of man to justice. the other side was no we will not pledge allegiance to the new Khalifa until men's killers are brought to justice. Right? Both of them desired what they knew and understood to be correct. And it's not our position to judge any of the companions. But the point is is that from this misunderstanding which is both of them view look at this both sides but all the companions agree the kilafa needs to be stabilized. All the companions agree that the killers of the killers of man need to be brought to justice. However, what did they disagree on? Which one takes precedent over the the other? Which one comes first over the other? So, it's just two different ways of looking at the same thing. Which is why they never took war booty from each other. They never took spoils of war. They never took prisoners of war. They continued to marry to one another and deal with one another off of the battlefield. This was as professional as it can get, right? You know when they say it's not personal, it's just a professional. This is as professional as it could get, if you will. And so Abu Bakr was in al-Bas and he saw a very well-known famous and scholar known as Alb his u his nickname was al because his feet were were pigeon toaded. So he called him and he had his sword and he was headed somewhere and Abu Bakr saw him and he said to where are you going with that? He said, he said, I'm going to give victory to the messengergers's cousin, meaning Ali. And so Abu Bakr said to him,.

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And so he narrated to him this narration and this is how this narration reached us today in Muslim and subhanahu.

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Alhamdulillah. What?