Why These 40 Hadith Define All of Islam

Alhamdulillah.

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Continuing in the chapter of vigilance of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala vigilance of Allah's observation.

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Here we have another narration and these are three narrations in a row which are all found in the 40 narrations of this is very important whenever we come across a narration as part of the 40 narrations it's important for us to take note why because the 40 narrations of they are the essence of as a matter of fact the 40 narrations are the essence of Islam. That's the point of those 40 narrations. That compilation of 42 narrations. It was later added to by Raj. He added another eight narrations. He made them 50. Those 50 narrations, they are the crux. They are the they are the cream of the crop with respect to the fundamentals of all of Islam. There is not one single concept of Islam in the Quran or in the Sunnah that cannot be taken back and refer back to one of those 50 narrations. So these narrations are very important and this is why students always start with memorizing those 40 narrations. That's what they begin with when you want to memorize hadith. You begin there. Are there other books that are more authentic? Sure. Are there other books that are a little bit more precise? Sure. But that's not the only consideration when committing something to memory. When we commit something to memory, we want to make sure that we are committing something to memory that the scholars have mostly agreed upon. And so for instance, if I were to say, you know what, I think that the 40 narrations of a Noah We are good, but there are better compilations. So I'm going to go with those something more authentic, something more comprehensive, something more whatever it is, that's fine and that's possible. However, will you find as many explanations as you will on the 40 narrations of a Noah? Absolutely not. The scholars haven't worked on other books as they have on that book. And this is an important point to take into consideration when working on any piece of literature. And so this is a third narration in a row in which the Noah mentions in his book that is essentially an introduction to this book which is the 40 narrations referred to as al and this narration is on the authority of Iben Abbas. Who is Iben Abbas? Somebody tell us they've been our best. Come on. You just want me to keep asking over and over. Okay. The prophet's uncle's son. Is there an easier way to say that? His cousin. Okay. So, Iban Abb is the prophet's cousin saiam. How many uncles did he have? How many uncles did the prophet have sudden? What are their names? We already got one. Okay, there's two. There's three. We said Abuab. There's four. is correct. Those are four. So we have Hamzb Abdalib Abbass Abdalib Abu Abdalib and Abu Talibb Abd Muttalib. Correct? Okay. So we notice something about those four. Two of them were Muslim and two of them died as disbelievers. The two Muslims, one of them has a higher virtue than the other, which is Hamza. Not to take away from Abb, but Ham is one of the first people to become Muslim from amongst the prophet's family. Sallallah.aii wasallam. Relatively speaking, he became Muslim later in the later years of Mecca, but still way before Hijra. And was martyed in which battle? Battle of correct. And then Abbass who is one of the wealthiest men of all of the Arab peninsula in his time and he had a number of sons. All of them were Muslim Al Abbas and he has another brother that narrates narrations. Do we know who he is? Al. His name is Alipb. Okay, memorize it. I'm gonna ask you guys this in the future. I don't want to be talking to myself up here because I already know these things. All right. Okay. The next two we notice one of them is more intense in his disbelief than the other. It's almost a mirror of each other. We have Abu Lahab and Abu Talib. Abu Lahab did everything he could to be a thorn in the prophet's side. Wasam. He did everything he could to antagonize him, to belittle him, to insult him, to harm him, even down to the most petty things putting putting stones and and sticks in front of his door so that when he's walking home at night, he might possibly trip or cut himself. The most petty of things. things that someone of his position should be way above. But his disbelief and the intensity of his disbelief is what stooped him to such lows. And he died a disbeliever. Does anyone know when he died? Abu Lahab. I mean, we know that he died a disbeliever. And what's interesting about Abu Lahab is that he was so arrogant that he wasn't even a very good enemy. Think about it. His anger and hatred towards the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam made him a pretty pathetic enemy. He wasn't even good at being an enemy. What do I mean by that? Well, for instance, the prophet Sam said, right, the verses revealed all he had to do to try to dispel the prophet sallall.aii Wasallam's prophethood. All he had to do was say, "Okay, you know what? On second thought, I become Muslim." Right? This is a prophecy that I'm going to hell. I become Muslim. He wasn't even a good enemy. And that is because hatred, emotion when it drives a person, not when it emotion is seasoning to food. The mo the majority of a person's actions need to be driven by logic, by evidence. However, if a person is mainly driven by emotion and there is no substance to his there is no logic, there is no forethought. There is no strategy, this person will have will be very bad at whatever it is he sets out to do. Emotion is something that is good in small doses. The prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam teaches us this. The second is Abu Talib. Abu Talib is a very interesting case. There's a narration that is very curious about Abu Talib. The prophet sallall.aii Wasam said he said that he made dua for Abu Talib and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepted a portion of that dua. There was a kind of compromise. He said, "And if it wasn't for me," meaning for his dua, Abu Talib would have been in the lowest level of hell. Isn't that very interesting? Because Abu Talib and that narration is in that exact wording. And Abu Talib what's very interesting about him is that he spent his life after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam became a prophet advocating for him not advocating for his prophethood not advocating for his religion or his cause but advocating for him as his as his nephew that's a very important distinction right advocating for him as his nephew but then he has other instances where he admits and conceds that had it not been for the fact that I feared my people insulting me and had it not been for the fact that I feared my people would look down upon me, I would have become Muslim. And I'm sure that Islam is true. This is in private, not in public. And I'm sure that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that Muhammad that my nephew is a prophet from Allah. He is a messenger. But what stopped him is fear of his people. What stopped him is that he wanted to keep up this charade. And he said in his final breath and his final breath what were his final words? Yes, his final breath was used to say he is upon the religion of Abdalib. So what really sent him to the place that he ended up going, the place he is right now, it was that he loved and felt a loyalty to the way of his heritage, the way of his forefathers more than the one who created him, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. However, here's what's interesting. If that's the case and his kufur is far less intense than that of his counterpart Abuahab, right? Why did the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam say, "And had it not been for my intercession, he would have been in the lowest part of the fire." Why the lowest part? He used a very specific word. He said, meaning the lowest low level of the fire. That place is reserved for who? Hypocrites, right? And what is the main defining feature of hypocrisy is that the heart and the actions are not in alignment. Correct? We notice Abu Talib here heart and actions were not in alignment. It was the exact almost mirror image of hypocrisy that happened in the time of Medina in the era of Medina. And so Abu Tal that that whole idea of being one thing in private and being something else in public is so despicable to Allah. Subhanahu wa ta'ala that this is where Abu Talib would have landed himself not because he didn't reach out with an olive branch to the prophet sallall.aii wasallam but but because he failed his creator in every significantly spiritual level. That is why Subhan Allah.

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What's his brother's name?

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You.

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Put it inside here.

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