Her Repentance Changed Everything
The Woman from Juhainah: Sincere Repentance and Divine Mercy - Riyadul Saliheen
Summary
This lecture discusses a hadith from Riyadul Saliheen about a woman from the Juhainah tribe who confessed to adultery while pregnant and requested punishment. The Prophet Muhammad instructed her guardian to care for her until she completed nursing her child for two years, after which the prescribed Islamic punishment was carried out. The Prophet then performed the funeral prayer (Salat al-Janaza) for her, which surprised the Companions. The lecture explains that performing or withholding funeral prayers served as a deterrent against major sins, and emphasizes the woman's sincere repentance, which was so profound that the Prophet said it would suffice for seventy people of Medina if divided among them.
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Alhamdulillah.
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Hussein,.
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He Wasam.
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Continuing in the chapter of repentance authored by Alawi, he mentions in the 22nd narration on the authority of Eban Hussein ali may Allah be pleased with him and his father. He narrates that a woman from the tribe of Jua came to the messenger of Allah Sall. Wasam pregnant from adultery. She had committed adultery and she was pregnant. Pregnant from adultery. And so she said, "Oh messenger of Allah, I have committed a crime worthy of punishment and so establish the punishment, the rightful punishment or judgment upon me.
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So he summoned a man that was one of her guardians or caretakers. whether it's a brother or her father or whoever it may be and gave him instructions. The prophet sallallah.aii wasallam said to him, "Treat her well and when she gives birth, come back and inform me. Wasam.
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And so after she had given birth and after she had suckled her child, her newborn for two years until the child was no longer in need of suckling and was eating regular table food. The prophet sallall.aii wasallam then commanded that the judgment of Allah be established upon her. And so her clothing was tightened on her, meaning she was tied in a way that would keep her clothing on her body during for the duration of the stoning and she was then the judgment of Allah Subhanahu Waaala. was then established. We understand from this that she was married. She was not single. She was a married woman who had committed adultery. And so the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam after she had completed after the punishment was carried out he sallall.aii wasallam made salat janza upon her. He made salat janza upon her. Salah janaza in especially for the prophet sallall.aii wasallam was the wish of every single Muslim in the time of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. The greatest fear or one of the great fears that they had was that they pass away and the prophet sallall.aii wasallam not make janza upon them. And so this was used as a deterrent to illicit behavior from the companions. What does this mean? Meaning that a person would fear that if he didn't pay off his debt soon enough that maybe the prophet sallall.aii wasallam wouldn't be the one to make salat janza upon him. Janza would be made it would be made upon them. They're Muslim. However, the thing was that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam makes salah janaza upon them. And so the prophet sallall.aii wasallam did not make janza upon certain people who died committing particular crimes or acts. Why? As a deterrent. So for instance suicide he sallallam would not make janza upon a person who had committed suicide. as is in Muslim. Would Jan be made? Yes, of course they are Muslim. Suicide is a major sin in Islam. But they are Muslim. They would be bathed and washed and prepared shrouded and they would make janza upon them and they would bury the person. But the fear was that the prophet sallall.aii Wasam not make Janza specifically him and so suicide was one passing away without paying a person's debts while having the ability to do so right this was later abregated in the later days of Medina and so forth and so people would stay away from particular particularly heinous sins or crimes out of fear that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam would not make janza upon them. Is this something carried on after the prophet meaning if there is someone who is respectable in a community the judge the scholar of a place to use this as well as a deterrent? Yes. If people understand it as a deterrent, if people do not understand it as a deterrent, then no. Omar then asked, "Oh messenger of Allah, you pray upon her in spite of her adultery. The prophet sallall.aii was responded, "Indeed she has repented a repentance. If it if it were to be divvied up and divided among 70 of the people of Medina, it would suffice 70 of them." Her repentance was so earnest, her repentance was so concentrate, her repentance was so potent that if she were to have that same repentance divided among 70 of the people of Medina, it would suffice them. He said, "And is there anything more virtuous than a person who gives himself and his soul and his own life for the.
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