I want you to imagine you're in Medina right now in the time of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. You live in the era of the messenger of Allaham and you're sitting and he's giving on the men. So put yourself visually for a moment with me in the mazjid of the prophet sallallaham andam is giving the what an amazing moment to be in and whatever he is saying is absolutely captivating. alaihi wasallam. Everything about him from his appearance to his voice commands your full attention. And then as the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam is standing on the menbar, this three-year-old cute baby starts running towards the menbar. And you notice that he's longing for the messenger of Allah sallallah.aii wasallam. And the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam is longing for him. And as he's walking up to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in a little red th I'm wearing a red th and it wasn't on purpose by the way. As he's walking up to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and putting his hands out to himat wasam to pick him up because he's so tiny, he trips over his sto and he hits the ground and his head smacks into the ground and he starts to cry loudly and the prophet sallallaihi wasallam can't handle himself. He gets down from the men sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He picks him up and he comforts him and he carries him and he seeks forgiveness from the congregation because the prophet sallallaihi wasallam's heart could not bear to see this beautiful little boy of his crying in that way and then the prophet sallallaihi wasallam holds him up and he says this son of mine is a me is a master this son of mine is a leader and it might be that Allah subhana wa ta'ala will bring together through him two large groups of Muslims will be reconciled through this son of mine who is a leader. He's destined for greatness. The young man that we're talking about is the grandson of our master. the joy and the coolness of the eye of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and we go back to the moment that he was born and even the moment that he was born conveys a certain level of excitement from the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam that is so beautiful and so contextualizing if you're in Medina and you passed Badr and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam is establishing that beautiful community of Medina and Allah Subhana wa tala is showing the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam that verily with every hardship comes ease and you're with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and Allah just granted you a victory but the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam did not attain this victory except after much suffering and there was so much more that was still around the corner he lost his wife he lost Abu Talib he is in Medina and he's in the mazjid and suddenly as the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam is sitting with his companions and it's the third year after hijra some of the scholars say it was shaan some of them say it was Ramadan the people come to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam in the middle of his sitting with the companions and they say glad tidings oh messenger of Allah gave birth to a boy the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam could not hold himself his face lights up. He rushes out of the mazjid with excitement to go to the house of Fatima and the Sahabah that are with the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam. They get up and they rush with him saiam though they will have to wait from outside of the home because they want to be there with the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam for every moment of his joyatam that they possibly can. and he walks into the house of Fatima. Pause here for a moment and let's talk about what the significance of this child is to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the most beloved of the children of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam to him with consensus. She is the queen of the women of Jenna. She is a copy of the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam as says I've never seen anyone who looks more like the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam and who was more similar to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam in her demeanor in her posture in the way that she carried herself than though she was the daughter of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam she was his copy and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam adored her and everyone knew that the way to the heart of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam was even the wives of the prophet sallallaihi wasallam knew that the way to the heart of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam is his daughter Fatima when she walks into a room he stands up for her sallallahu alaihi wasallam he kisses her forehead and he sits her down in the place that he was sitting sallallahu alaihi wasallam and when he walks into a room she stands up for him sallallahu alaihi wasallam she kisses him on the forehead and she sits him down where she was sitting they had an incredible relationship. And this is the daughter who's giving birth. Imagine how excited he is. Sallallahu alaihi wasallam. It's from her that this child is being born. And recall how much he loves the young man who stood with him. when no one did. when he raised or when the prophet sallallaihi wasallam raised him in his own home and rose to the occasion at when he stood up sallallahu alaihi wasallam and called the people to Islam and said who will stand with me and is the one who stands up and says yahool Allah I will stand with you and he was only eight years old that day I'm with you I'm with you the mother of is another fatima fat like a mother to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam. Prophet sallallaihi wasallam adores her and we know how the prophet sallallaihi wasallam honored her in life and in death. The father of Ali who was Abu Talib who was like a father to the prophet sallallaihi wasallam who protected the messenger of Allaham when the prophet sallallaihi wasallam was most vulnerable and this is a piece of as this is the daughter of the beloved giving birth this is his first sonatam in that sense that's born after Islam and I'll clarify exactly what I mean when I say son because the prophet sallallaihi wasallam called him his sonatah wasami my son Ibraim his son that would be born in Islam years later would be born about a year and a half before he would pass away sallallahu alaihi wasallam but this of his lineage of his progeny is very special and the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam has lost all of his own boys his sons died in infancy So we go back to the masjid. You run with the prophet to the door of it's not far away. It's right next to the room of the prophet sallallaihi wasallam today. The of the prophet sallallaihi wasallam today the chamber of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam today. And the prophet sallallaihi wasallam enters in and he says give me my son. Give me my son. Those are the first words that he says when he enters into the house. So they bring al Hassan who was just brought into the earth just a few moments before and they hand him to the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam holds him tight and he says what did you name him and says we named him war and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam he looks at like really war is what you named him as is narrated about him. Wanted like those hard names, right? I want to name my son war. So the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam said, he changed his name on the spot. He said rather he is which means excellence, goodness and a very special type of goodness. And of course uh would try this again when Hussein was born. The prophet would come and say what did you name him? He said I named him Har. The prophet sallallaihi wasallam would say no you name him Hussein right which is the little Hassan uh subhan Allah increasing on that. There's a third boy too by the way who dies in infancy tried to name him as well and it wasn't working for him but who really wanted that strength to be exhibited but there's a different type of strength that the messenger of Allah sallallam saw in the future of these beautiful children died of course as as we said in the very beginning of his life. So you have Hass Hussein may Allah be pleased with them. In one narration he thought to name them Hamza and Hamza Alass Hussein. And subhan Allah there's even something beautiful about that that is the lion of Allah and isah he's the lion of Allah and would go down in history as being a mark of sacrifice a brutal sacrifice being left without his body parts and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam mentioning that flies in Jenna in the place that his two arms are gone and Hussein would be noted in our Islamic history for a brutal martyrdom as well a shahada as well that severed his head from his body. So there's something profound about this but the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam named him Hassan and we will talk about al hussein uh next week he actually narrates that no one was named hass and hussein before these two you had and you had does anyone know who was named let's see if anyone remembers their their firsts properly Hussein who was named Hussein Hussein was the actual name of the chief rabbi of Medall before he embraced Islam. His name was withadb and the prophet called himnam. So, Hussein with the scene uh narrates that some of the scholars say that these were the first two that were named these two names. It was reserved for them and they were named by Allah and the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam um in that regard. So he grabs his grandson, my son Al Hassan. And subhan Allah, you you find that everything that you could think about with the birth rituals, you start to learn from how the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam dealt with Hassan because it was such an observed birth. It was such an exciting turning point. So the prophet sallallaihi wasallam immediately brings him close to him and he starts to call into his right earb. Just like thinking to myself, imagine a baby coming into this world and the first thing they hear is the adan from the prophet in their right earbu until the end. The messenger of Allah calls the adan in his ear. The prophet sallall alaihi wasallam performs the sacrifice on his behalf and the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam takes the date and he does the technique which is to rub the date on your mouth and then to rub it into the mouth of the infant. And so the saliva of the messenger of Allah wasallam will mix with the saliva of his son and he says oh Allah put blessing in him and make him from the righteous. Subhan Allah. What a momentous occasion and what a way to come into this world with that much love and longing that the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam has for you and that love and that longing. You know it's one thing when you look at the child for the first time that way but the sparkle in the eye of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam for never goes away until the moment of his death. It is an incredible love that captivates the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and even confounds the companions because they weren't used to this. Now you think of a loving grandpa. This is your exposure to the grandpa. Think about the mercy to the worlds who's a grandpa. Now we know grandparents tend to be more lenient on their grandchildren they than they are with their children. All right. I already got in trouble with my with my father one time, you know, talking about uh some of that. But, you know, mashallah, the way our our fathers raised us with a little bit of strength and then with their grandkids, it's like, no, let it go, let it go, let it go. Right? The grandparent already has more and love. By the way, I had a loving I have a loving father. Alhamdulillah. The grandparents have more love and more leniency with their grandchildren. It's just natural. They naturally let so much more go. Right? Think about as a grandfather like how much more is going to expand from the heart of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam as a grandfather right and we know how he treated his own children and so was commanded to take the hair uh when when they shaved the hair of alass and to donate the weight of it and silver uh to the poor and so that sets the ritual of the birth and we take it all actually you can take it just from the narration surrounding the the way that the the on the technique and the that's done as a result all of that as well as the circumcision we also have that from the life of with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the prophet sallallaihi wasallam always would pick this boy up and and kiss him and show him love and if you're looking at the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam it's as if he's captured by that and there are too many narrations. They're actually overwhelming to go through with the prophet and the first one is the one from who saw the prophet and Hass ran to him and the prophet picked him up and he started to kiss him sallallaham and said I have 10 of them and I've never kissed any of them. I've got 10 kids and I've never kissed any of them. It's kind of like not what we're used to seeing, right? I mean, at the end of the day, these are Arabs. Many of them are harsh bedwins. They don't get this. What is this love that you're showing, this mercy that you're showing to your grandson? And the prophet sallallah.aihi wasallam, he responded and he said that whoever does not show mercy will not have mercy shown to them. In another authentic narration, it's very vivid. The prophet sallall alaihi wasallam would pin down and he would kiss his naval sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So he kiss his stomach. So you can imagine a grandpa playing with the with the stomach of of the child right and you can imagine walking into and seeing the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam pinning down and tickling him and kissing his stomach and laughing and feeling the full love of uh of his grandfather. In another narration from I love this. He said, "I entered upon the prophet and he was walking on all fours." Right? Subhan Allah. Kids don't change. He said, "And on his back were Hussein." So the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam was uh letting them ride on his back and he was on all four sam What a great camel you have and what excellent riders you are. What an amazing camel you have to ride and what excellent riders you are. Imagine, subhan Allah, that's our messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And you start to read in the subtleties of the text. What example is this setting for the um when they're seeing this from the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam when they're seeing this much love being channeled towards this beautiful uh baby of his samu mentions that when the prophet would sit down and the implication is that the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam is is judging on serious affairs like there's a lot to cover here like it's one thing when you act this way in good times it's another thing when you always act this way. And the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam had the of the um he had the whole concern of the um on his mind and heart constantly. But he's sitting down and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam when he would sit down he would immediately go where is a luk is like the naughty little kid. Where's he at? Bring me my bring me my and they knew right away that he was talking about. And so they would let alass loose towards him. would just let him loose to go run towards him. sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam would pick him up and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam would hold him and he would hold him tight and he would say that he is he's like my sweet basil in this world like you know when you pick up a kid and you go not the diaper right everything else just pick them up you kiss them and you you take in that smell when you're holding them tight subhan allah imagine the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam holding his his kid tight and he says he's like my sweet basil in this world and he said that sallallahu alaihi wasallam um about Hassan Hussein may Allah be pleased with them both but Hassan being the first one he got more of those years with the prophet alone and I'm holding myself just reading these narrations by the way and Abu said he narrates the hadith he says he said that I never saw Al Hassan after that except my eyes would just start tearing up like just remembering how the prophet sallallaihi wasallam felt about him and how the prophet would grab him and the joy he brought to the messenger of Allah wasallam and while he's saying that I never saw alass and my eyes did not you know uh tear up he started to tear up as he was narrating that like that special feeling that he had because they saw the glow in the eyes of the prophet Sam towards alass The prophet says an authentic love Allah for the blessings that he provides to you and love me for the love of Allah and love my family for my love for them. So loving them is loving the family of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam is an act of worship. It's an act of it's an act of closeness to Allah and his messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam. It's a way of coming into the dua of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the hadith of Abu that he would pick up and he would and he said oh Allah I love him so love him and love whoever loves him. We find this with Alass Hussein the prophet sallallaihi wasallam saying I love oh Allah I love both of them so love whoever loves them and we find this with whose father was of course the beloved one of the prophet who the prophet took in like a son and of says that uh you know I remember the prophet would sit me and al hass on his lap and he would hold this tight and he would say oh Allah I love them both so love whoever loves them both right so it's it's the way of the prophet sallallaham was asked about which of the the ch which of the family of the prophet sallallaihi wasallam were were dearest to him and he said he said that and he says that the prophet sallaihi wasallam He used to smell them sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he used to hold them very tight towards him and he would say oh Allah I love them so love them and in some narrations love whoever loves them. The last narration is he said that the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam when he would see alassin when they came to him that the prophet sallallaihi wasallam would would grab them and he would put them like right under his armpit sallallahu alaihi wasallam right holding them tight and he would kiss one and then he would kiss the other and he would say these are my two sons whoever loves them loves me and of Of course, the most awkward of this is in salah. The narrations in salah are many uh he narrates about and and realize it's very interesting, right? Al Hassan for some time is the only one. He's the only one. He's the little kid that follows the prophet out the door that chases the prophet everywhere and that attacks him in salah. And it's clear that he used to particularly like to be on the prophet when he was praying. And he says that I saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and I saw he would come to the prophet he would as as soon as the prophet went in it was Hassan's habit jump on his back. So Hassan would ride on his back when he would go into and he would come to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam when he was in and so he would basically part the legs of the prophet and he'd go running around in circles between the legs of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam and the prophet sallallaihi wasallam was fine did not push him away did not you know say I'm trying to pray here did not like stop his prayer and goat like none of that. He kept him sallallahu alaihi wasallam. One of the incidents in fact uh the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam was leading salah and I want you to imagine you're in the mazjid and you're praying in jama and the prophet sallallaihi wasallam went into sujud and he didn't get up for a long time to the point that the companions got concerned. They thought that maybe he died sallallahu alaihi wasallam because he just went into sujud and he didn't get up and they weren't hearing him say Allahbar and so they came to the prophet this hadith he says that uh you know they came to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam sorry this is not abdu they came to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam said were you concerned and they said yes they said what happened to you prophet Phet wasallam said what did you think happened? They said they said that we thought that maybe came down upon you or something bad happened to you right one of the two things must have happened either came to you or you died and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said it's neither of those things he said that while I was praying alass Hussein started to jump on my back and then they were settled on my on my back in sujud and I didn't want to hurt them or you know make them fall by getting up so He just waited for them sallallahu alaihi wasallam patiently while he finished his salah to the point that the companions thought something must have happened uh to him. The hadith of Abdahbn Bura is the hadith of uh the of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam where the prophet sallallaihi wasallam was one day giving and while he's giving uh they came to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam and they both had their beautiful red thes which appear to be their you know their their ceremonial phobes and they came to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam the two of them and they both were calling for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. The prophet sallall alaihi wasallam took them both and he actually sat sallallahu alaihi wasallam and gave the rest of the with them on his lap and he saidn the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam said Allah has told the truth indeed your wealth and your children are fitna he said the prophet sallallaihi wasallam said look I saw these two and I couldn't hold myself and then he continued with his sallallahu alaihi wasallam holding Hassan Hussein may Allah be pleased to them. So he acknowledged sallallahu alaihi wasallam that this love that he had in his heart was overwhelming and he said I couldn't help myself. I had to get down from the and do this. Okay, imagine by the way if that happened today, right? Like you know the these narrations do start to come to life, right? Imagine if the imam takes kids his kids kids and gives the sitting down or prolongs his sujud because one of his kids is on his back. The congregation would would jump on his back, right? Like it would it would be terrible like imagine. But subhan Allah this is our messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam and this was something that the whole of the community of the prophet understood. He says that one time Abu Bak prayed with us. And then he went out and this is in Bkari. Abu Bakr went out and he saw playing with the other kids. Abu Bakr picked up and he put him on his shoulders. Think about this. What? This kid is getting a lot of attention from like the prophet. Now Abu Bakr puts him on his shoulders and he and he starts to play with him and he says he said by my father you look more like the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam than you do. And was laughing. What a beautiful sight of the companions holding carrying him and playing with him. And you can imagine Hassan just like any other kid trying to keep his balance and laughing and Abu Bakr saying you look just like the prophet. You look more like your grandfather than you do your father and indeed al Hassan was the most in resembling the prophet in appearance. So he was a beautiful uh young boy, a beautiful young man and of course exceedingly handsome and that's why some of the scholars will connect this narration that he got married uh several times and that was narrated to have said don't marry Hassan because he gets divorced a lot. He was a beautiful handsome desirable young man. I mean you look like the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam was more beautiful than the full moon on the night of of sam. So the narration that the Sahabah say that Hassan resembled the prophet most in his upper body like he he looked like the prophet his face he looked exactly like the messenger of Allahhai wasallam Hussein in the lower body it was strength the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam had incredibly strong legs and you could see the roundness of the calves of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam had the strength uh of the legs of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam uh as well. Now there is another famous and this is where you start to see some of the context of it that's really beautiful. He said that one day I went to meet the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and I was supposed to meet him after but I got delayed so it was after isa. So he said, "I saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I went behind him after." And he said that something suddenly stopped him in his way sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And he said, "I had no idea what it was." So basically I was going behind him sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I was about to get his attention. Before I could do so, I saw something in front of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I didn't know if it was a jin or an ins or a meal. I didn't know if it was a jin or a human being or an angel. I had no idea what it was but some sort of presence figure stopped in front of the prophet that was very uh you know unusual and then that figure left. So said oh messenger of Allah what was that? And the prophet sallallah alaihi wasallam he said may Allah forgive you because obviously was late to the time that he was supposed to come. And he said sallallahu alaihi wasallam that this is an angel that has not come down before this night. Meaning it's a special angel. And when you read about has a lengthy treatment of this in his book when Allah would send a special message to the prophet in the form of a gift he often would send another angel with. So it's jirel alongside another angel right alongside another angel. So this is a special angel. What did he come to say? This hadith is authentic. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said For first and foremost, he asked his Lord permission to give to me and to give me the glad tidings is the master of the women of paradise. She is the leader of the women of paradise. And Hass and Hussein are the masters of the youth of Jenna. Now, here's the thing. How many of you have heard this hadith before? Hassan and Hussein are the masters of the youth of Jenna. There is an obvious problem with this hadith. If you actually take a step back, um, men and women are still men and women in Jenna, right? There's still gender in general, right? But are there ages in Jenna? No. Everyone in Jenna is how old? Someone wanted to say 40. Not unfortunately. 33, right? The age of the people of Jenna, it's 33. Remember the the whole joke of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam with the old woman, right? And the prophet sallallaihi wasallam said that no one enters is right. Old people don't enter Jenna. There's no old woman in Jenna. She started crying and the prophet sallallaihi wasallam made it clear that because you'll be young in Jenna right everyone is young in Jenna and Hassan and Hussein didn't die in their very very young age like may Allah be pleased with them both they both lived until their 40s right so what do you think this hadith means them it's an authentic hadith what do you think it means mashallah one interpretation is they're the masters of all of the men. Right? So it's all of the men are. That's one group of scholars. They said that. Another group of scholars, they had a very compelling explanation to this. Right? Alass Hussein still died very young compared to their companions and their colleagues, right? They died very young. Late 30s, early 40s. It's not like they lived to be like Sh like in their 60s and 70s. The way that the prophet sallallaihi wasallam lived into his 60s. Abu Bakr and Omar into their 60s went his 80s into his 60s. So they did die relatively young and tragic deaths. So that's that's that. But one of the things that the mention is that this is tied to the hadith of the prophet sallallaihi wasallam where he mentions the seven that are shaded under the throne of Allah subhana wa tala. A young man that grew up with his heart attached to the massagid. Basically the Hussein may Allah be pleased with them. They championed all of the qualities that the youth are to be praised for. They champion the qualities that the youth are to be praised for. So for example, what do you hope from youth? You hope that their zeal comes with courage. They have zeal, but does their zeal come with courage. And who's more courageous than Hussein? Right? And what do you also hope with youth? That their zeal comes with wisdom, with hikma. And who's more wise than So basically they had the zeal of the youth but they had the perfection of that youth with the two things that make sure that zeal does not go out of hand because if you have zeal but you don't have courage and there's a problem and if you have zeal but you don't have wisdom you can actually end up doing more harm than good. But may Allah be pleased with them both. They championed these qualities that are paired off with the youth. Right? So there are different ways to understand this hadith uh beyond just the obvious praise that comes with this hadith of Hassan Hussein. There's one narration where the prophet sallallaihi wasallam mentions except for and Isa and with Fatima of course authentically the prophet sallallaihi wasallam mentions except for right and Fatima herself asked where is in this when the and this is her subhan allah her beautiful character she said but what about like we hear all about and the prophet mentioned except for her and in Hassin was martyed uh in his 30s and was risen at the age of 33 and will come back to live for another seven years on this earth. So there's a similarity of the ages as well that they're still generally within the the uh the age of a Shabbat, right? The age of uh young people. But of course has a very specific bish that's with him and that's a glad tiding that's associated with him. So they're both says they're the two masters of the youth of paradise, right? And their mother is the master of the women of paradise. But there is something else attributed to Al Hassan and something very special about Hassan that is the hadith of Bkari and Muslim that was a glad tidings and that is when Hassan was picked up by the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and was was spoken about in this way that this young man of mine this son of mine is a is a master and it may be that Allah subhana t between two great armies of Muslims, Allah will bring the people together through this young man. What's the beauty of this praise? When you think about our Islamic history, right? And and don't even take the talking about amongst the Sunni. Uh who's more praised usually, Al Hassan or Al Hussein? Whose name do you hear more in praise? Al Hussein. And Hussein is indeed praiseworthy, a man of courage and justice. And subhan Allah, you have to sometimes remind people that the world needs both Hass and Hussein. They don't have the same disposition. They're both incredibly righteous. They do have different takes and different perspectives and different approaches. Both of them steeped in righteousness and both of them and both of them praiseworthy. And what a loser the person who tries to take away from the M from the rank of either one of them. Both of them incredible. They're both our masters. They're both our leaders. But the one who's famous for reconciliation is usually the first one to be forgotten in history. In fact, even in your lifetime, when you are someone who does islah between two people, if you ever have to arbitrate or reconcile between two parties, both parties will not like you. If you're fair, both parties will be mad at you because both parties are going to feel like you didn't go far enough for them. And so they they might even start to call you weak or they might even start to call you compromised or they might do this or they might do that. No one likes the the one who brings the two parties together, right? And that's why it's the greatest as the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam said the greatest charity is is to bring two uh people together two of your brothers two of your sisters together because no one likes to do it right how many conflicts exist in our community and most of us go I'm just not going to get involved in that right or even worse we pour gasoline onto it by backbiting and gossiping and we become cultish and clickish but how many people say you know what I'm going to be the one that brings people together. Islah is you know by the way since I since I mentioned uh my father my my father was always that person growing up right he used to always sit people together when people would fight in the mazjid growing up I always would see them sitting in the living room and he'd stay up with them until the late night and they'd both be mad at him and then two years later they'd all thank him that's just usually how it goes usually people get mad they're like you didn't take my side you didn't do enough for me so the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam praising alass specifically ally with this type of praise that because he will reconcile two armies. He won't stand and and and you know with a sword go and uh champion that way but he'll champion by sitting people at the table and saying no we're we're putting this to rest for the sake of Allah subhana wa tala that what a leader he is what a master he is that's where greatness is actually found right and you don't have to take away from the great stand of justice to appreciate the great stand of reconciliation as well because both of them have their time period and the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam two armies from the Muslims which shows you that we don't do even on the group that we think is wrong that you don't go to the point of transgression and saying that this group is not Muslim and this group is Muslim that you can have two Muslims fighting and one Muslim is wrong and one group of Muslims is transgressing against the others and we know that as we covered in that the prophet said the transgressing army will But here the prophet sallallaihi wasallam is saying they're both Muslim armies at the end of the day within this fitna that breaks out. Another narration from the life of the messenger of Allah and I'll mention this because it's it's significant as well uh is the uh the narration or the context of the ayat of in the Quran where we call our children your children our sons and your sons. We call our women and your women and our families and we uh proclaim we proclaim the curse of Allah on the one who is lying. What is the context of this? I'll paraphrase for the sake of time that there were some Christians who came from to debate with the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam over the nature of over the nature of Jesus peace be upon them and they were logically and spiritually convinced of what the prophet sallallaihi wasallam was saying they know the prophet the way that they know their own sons right clearly this is the prophet that's prophesized by Jesus peace be upon him what he's saying about the nature of Christ makes sense. There is an agreement that's sort of forming amongst them that we we kind of know who he is. So at the end of this when you can't resolve your debate then you come forth and we come forth and we bring the curse of Allah. We ask for the curse of God upon the one that is lying. So what did the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam do? The prophet sallallaihi wasallam took his he took his his robe and he called for his family came. She stood behind him sallallahu alaihi wasallam and then came and the prophet put him to his right and then al and hussein may Allah be pleased with them came and the prophet sallallaihi wasallam he entered them into his garment. By the way, one of the narrations like the prophet walked out and he had them both in his robe and they were like, "What's going on?" And the prophet opened and he had the two kids there, right? Hassan Hussein. So it was common for him to put them under his robe sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So he had and then the prophet sallallaihi wasallam expanded his his robe and he had and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that this is my family. So now we will uh invoke what Allah subhana t has commanded us to invoke. So you can imagine just the sight of that the scene of that with the family of the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam in this regard and this is known as the hadith of the cloak. Now of course you can imagine how hard it was for this whole family to deal with the death of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. I cannot imagine subhan Allah for a moment how empty and hard it was on for example who whose grandfather paid him that much attention sallallahu alaihi wasallam to now have to see his grandfather being washed and to be present at the washing of the body of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam as benu hashim as the relatives of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam starting with All of these the the family members of the prophet washing the body. Imagine just how how confounding that is for the children to watch that process taking place. And they were very young, right? Hassan is seven years old or so, right? Hussein even younger than that. And they have to watch their grandfather sallallahu alaihi wasallam being washed and being carried and being buried sallallahu alaihi wasallam and all of the emotions that are running high. On top of that, what makes that pain so much heavier on them is that lost the appetite to live after the death of her father sallallahu alaihi wasallam. She really did not want to live when the prophet sallallaihi wasallam died. And we know that was the one that the prophet sallallaihi wasallam brought near and he had that conversation with it's a very emotional and painful conversation but he whispers something into the ear of Fatima and she starts to cry and then the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam says come back down and they whispers something else and she starts to laugh and asked Fatima what was that and Fatima wouldn't tell her like this is a secret between my dad and I and then later on Fatima told the first time he told me sallallahu alaihi wasallam that he was going to die that he wasn't going to live past this sickness. All right? So she cried and then he said sallallahu alaihi wasallam you'll be the first one to die after me for my family. So she laughed and only a few months later young uh healthy beautiful woman goes out to her courtyard and she uh she lays back looking up to Allah subhana wa ta'ala making her final dua bidding her farewell to her children and she dies very young and so you went from having as your grandfather present and as your mother present to losing both of them in a very short time frame that's very painful especially for uh children but Allah subhana t decreed that the dua of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam of the righteousness that he prayed for them would remain in both of them and they would both live out powerful and profound trajectories as for he initially settled it in Medina meaning he was very young when the prophet sallallaihi wasallam passed away. So, it's not like he's even old enough to go out in battle yet or Hussein even is old enough to go out and battle yet. So, they're for the most part settled in Medina and Alass made Hajj up to 25 times according to some narrations. Lowest one says 15. But there is a catch to it. He performed Hajj from Medina by foot. So, he would walk it and he had a beautiful thing that he would say. He would say, "I'm shy to meet Allah and I have not walked to his house." Something to give us some motivation when we think coming to the mazjid is far or it's a difficult journey to go to this or a difficult journey to go to that. And so he would walk from to Mecca uh by foot to do Hajj. And you know what I reflect on? Think about his father who who walked the opposite direction from Mecca to Medina. The last one to leave Mecca under the persecution to come to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam after having laid in his bed and facing death as real as it comes with the arrows in his face with the spears in his face. and he was the last one to make it to Medina because he walked from Mecca to Medina and his shoes were completely torn by the time he got to Medina and his feet were covered in blisters. Imagine that whole pathway of walking and this was something subhan Allah that would be replicated by the by the grandson Alass there's another narration he narrates from Hassam what do you remember from the prophet again he was so young so it's not many direct hadith that we have from the prophet sallaihi wasallam what do you remember from the prophet Phetam he said I remember that I took one of the dates from the dates of these are the childhood memories right and I put it in my mouth and he said the prophet sallallahu the prophet took took it out of my mouth and he put it back in So I put it in my mouth. I was about to chew it and the prophet pulled it right back out of my mouth and he put it back in the and they said to the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam they have like why did you take the date from that little innocent child like you just think about it it's not that big of a deal why did you have to do that and we know how much he loves alass and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that we the family of Muhammad wasallam are not allowed to consume We don't consume charity. So it's not out of hatred or punishing him, right? It's because we the family of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam have been prohibited from uh charity. So that's the first thing he said that he remembered from the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam. And you think about like childhood memories like what this conveys integrity right integrity from the messenger sallallahu alaihi wasallam he said and then I also remember from the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam I remember the prophet sallallaihi wasallam used to say leave what causes you doubt for that which causes you no doubt. Leave the gray areas in religion. Like think about what a parent says to a child. Trust your gut. Trust your heart. Like when you start to feel like something is off, something is wrong. Then leave it. Sometimes that's your greatest alarm. Before you hear a hadith, before you hear someone tell you this is wrong, leave what causes you doubt for that which causes you no doubt. And this the and and uh he said uh that that truthfulness is comfort. It's tranquility. That when you're a truthful person, it's comfort. And he said is that that lying will lead to all sorts of confoundedness. the dua of that he used to teach us the dua of sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Oh Allah guide us amongst those that you have guided and forgive us with those that you have forgiven until the end of the dua that we make inut. Right? So those were the three things that he recalled as lessons from the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And so you have the integrity being taught to you. You have a childhood dua that you keep with you. And you have this idea of moral discernment, right? to leave off that which causes you doubt uh for that which causes you no doubt as they grew up. May Allah be pleased with them. Remember that means that Abu Bakr would have been very short in their lives. They were still little children. When became the Khalifa they grew up a bit used to prefer them to his own kids. Used to prefer them to his own kids. And we'll talk about this with Al Hussein in particular because there's a very uh powerful narration in that regard. And he gave them the allocation of the people of Badr even though they weren't present in Badr because he knew the love of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam for them both. So the allocation to like when you think about veteran benefits today of course the veterans I'm not going to talk about America's wars and compare them in any way to Badr, right? But I'm saying that there was this idea of the people of Badr as having the greatest the greatest right upon us as Muslims and so taking care of the people of Badr and who put them at that allocation. Then came the of and when was placed under siege when the fitna broke out in the time of the first one was uh who was quick to the side of was actually hass was noted as the most eager defender of may Allah be pleased with them both of course who was also present was also present. May Allah be pleased with them. They were also present. But this idea of like we're going to protect that there's a nobility here and um he was extremely concerned uh for him was something that was deeply felt and was deeply known by and because of the sake of time and obviously you go through these these moments but they're important moments when was killed the fitna broke out as the people of Fitna wanted to the people of Fitna are outsiders They're not insiders. They wanted to cause a rift within the Muslim community. At the core of the rift was deserving, but how quickly can you go after the murders of At the core of the rift is that how quickly will you go after them wants to stabilize and especially those who are partisan to or those who are family and the people of uh who are under the the governorship of they want to go after the killers of right away. That's at the core of the rift. Hassan Hussein were defenders of they were amongst those who buried when the people of FNA would not allow him to be buried. But once that rift spills over, once that type of chaos ensues, it's very hard at that point to be able to tell what's happening here and to be able to put yourself um on a course that you know for certain um is right. Alass obviously pledged his allegiance to as did we we we kind of alluded to this. So he was with his father but al Hassan was always one who was quick to try to calm down the emotions and to try to solve things without violence to try to solve things without pain. So at the heart of Al Hassan, he was known as someone who didn't like ranker. He didn't like that type of fitna amongst the Muslims. And it was very clear in his discourse and he had that wisdom and that sense of of goodness that was just clear from him and emanated from him. His father was murdered by the in Ramadan. So when his father is murdered naturally everyone turns to the oldest son and who was deserving in his own rank with his own wisdom and his own beauty and his own principles and the love that the prophet sallallaihi wasallam had for him. There wasn't much of a discussion amongst them. So he stands up and he uh he volunteers that we're going to give to Alass and he asks for Hassan to extend his hand and he says that we will give to youall that we will give our pledge to you on the basis of the book of Allah and in the sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and uh in accordance with that which follows and alass is very smartass he says it's sufficient for you you give me upon the book of Allah and the sun of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam but he said you also give me and that you will uh deal with peace with those that I deal with peace and you will go to war with those who I go to war with. There's something very subtle in this that there's an indication and there was almost a fear that some people have that alass is going to be a person who's going to stop battles and who's going to calm situations down. Some people didn't want that. So he said if I make peace with someone you all have to make peace with that person and if I go to war then you go to war but I don't want this unconditional loyalty and for this to continue. And so as they do that there is an immediate sort of uneasiness from some people. The Al Hassan is going to make peace. The alass is going to stop uh fighting. The alass is is going to give up. And that's the problem is that we always see we always see that for going as giving up not seeking something higher and saw something higher. So there's a there's an unease right now among some people like what's Al Hassan's policy going to be. Even Muawia does not know. So he's asking and the way that they exchange letters amongst each other. Uh there's a statesmanship that's in it like what does this mean for me and you? I don't know what this means now. Are we still at war? Are we not at war? What does this mean? So Hassan calls and he says tobar, he says, "Listen, I'm going to speak to you first." He said, "I have something in my mind." He said, he said that the fitna has gone too long. People's blood is being spilled. Families are fighting amongst themselves. And he said, "And the roads are being obstructed and the women are being humiliated." Like too many bad things are happening in this Fitna. This is no longer a cause for this or that. Fitna has broken out in the um and the um is being divided. Ma is in charge in a sham. Alass is in charge in Iraq and they have sort of the territories that are then cut up and distributed at that point. So he said that I'm thinking to reach out to Muawa and to make peace with him and to reconcile and to give him this affair to basically give him the on the condition that we have peace on the condition that we settle what is between us and uh the the um um he says to may Allah reward you on behalf of the um of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam I'm with you right which is the right the right answer and it's falling into the prophecy of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam in that regard may Allah reward you not thinking about yourself alass could go out and he could say I am this and I am that and the prophet sallallaihi wasallam held me up and I am a and I am uh a person who the prophet said this about and I was the coolness of the prophet's eyes he's doing none of that saying how do I make peace behind the scenes because the tensions are starting to flare up people are wondering What's the next step? And you know that foot soldiers never stop fighting, right? So even if the generals go, the foot soldiers keep they keep going. So how do I stop this fitna? Now he wanted for Hussein to be called because he knew that Hussein was going to have a different opinion than him. And Hussein indeed, you know, initially reacted and said, "No, absolutely not." and said, "I was thinking to hold you in your home and then basically do what I was going to do and then let you out of the house after I finish like I'm your older brother at the end of the day." Right? That's the paraphrasing of it. And Hussein, of course, is noble and acts from he said that you are the oldest and you are the natural successor and our command follows your command. And at the end of the day, I might not, you know, agree with a course of action that you're taking and I might say that we still fight for what we believe is right, but at the end of the day, if this is what you think is right, we're going to follow you. Um, in that so sends a message to that basically suggests that let's make peace, but I have some terms and some conditions for that peace to be made and I'm ready to give you uh leadership and we will be under your banner of leadership. Now he in one narration he sends back a blank letter. So Hassan looks at it and that can mean many things. So he asked the messenger he's like what does that mean? He said write your conditions any conditions you want. Let's solve this. Soass I mean the conditions at the end of the day of the uh they surround the idea of peace that there's that there's no more fighting between any of the groups of the Muslims that there's no retribution against any of the Muslims because sometimes once someone consolidates power then they go back and they attack people that were on the other side of them in a conflict that uh property and that was what was guaranteed from the treasury will continue uh to go forward that would not be cursed or spoken ill right which is I mean blasphemous and something that doesn't fit right or or is not befitting to a Muslim and one of the conditions was that if Mawya dies the alass will take over the so basically this is a solution that works for us and different books narrate different forms of these conditions that it goes back to the of the Muslims uh should things fall apart but the point is is that there was a set of conditions that he gives and he offers him reconciliation. Muawi agrees to this while al Hassan stands up to tell the army what happens to tell his troops what happened. There are 40,000 men. Some people do not want this. Uh one group of people attack his tent and they steal everything he has. They loot his tent. Another man actually stabs him. So he did stab him and he tried to kill alass and he said you're a kafir just like your father. You see how quickly he changed and this this is the attitude of theawar the attitude of the right they just hate everybody at the end of the day you're a kafir you're a kafir they start off with one sheh and hate everybody else's sheh and then eventually they hate all the mash and it's like it's it's very uh typical. So he starts attacking him and he starts attacking um his father and then uh was was was killed. He was neutralized and uh al Hussein continue I'm sorry Al Hassan continues and he makes his way uh to al Medina and he agrees upon the terms the with basically show in front of the um a united rank. He gives to Muawa and he calls the Muslims to do so as well. And he does so with grace. And subhan Allah amongst the things that he does from the men is he reads the entirety of right reminding the believers of their greater concern of their greater calling that we have bigger fish to fry together and that this has to stop amongst the Muslims. So fulfills that prophecy of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. He brings the people together and you have then after and there's so many beautiful things that they call this the year of unity and the of pardoning and the forgiveness and all these things. You have a a decade of a golden age for Muslims because now the Muslims could focus once again on their external enemies and they could continue to live up to the mandate the higher mandate that they had amongst themselves. They could build build infrastructure in the um of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So they got back to their building ways and you can imagine how much our enemies hated this right and so the fitnas are being instigated here and there but overall the ummah becomes united under a banner and you know this lasts for almost a decade now here's the thing a few things number one do you think that was not severely mocked and criticized for doing this until the end of his life of worse. What do you think people are going to call him? You're weak. You're a sellout. You know, you made us look bad. You disgraced your father. Your brother is better than you. All of these types of comments are going to come to him. And he responds to all of them. They say they they would call him not the one who humiliated the believers. And Hassan would respond and he would say, "I'm not that uh I hated that I would cause your blood to be spilled." He would just respond with grace. They'd call him all sorts of names and he responds with grace every single time. And he continues this way fulfilling that hadith of the prophet sallallah.am. Another thing that's extremely profound here and important is that many of the point out and I do believe this is the correct opinion that is actually the fifth of the fifth of his was only about seven months but if it's not rightly guided what he did living up to what the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam said would make him so praise praiseworthy, more praiseworthy than he praiseworthy than he already was then what more right? And the prophet mentioned for 30 years. And if you took the seven months of then it actually fits within that 30 years. And so it makes more sense. It's more befitting that he not be excluded in any way from so he fits the mold in this regard. I'll end with a few things about him as an adult in this regard. Uh there's a narration that some of the authors put to him, but it also it actually fits who he's often confused with uh when people try to compete with you in this compete with them in the instead. It might have actually been attributed to the one named after him, Al Hassan al-Bas, but it fits his life so perfectly. What does he do after this? He returns to Al Medina. He's known for his exceptional generosity. Allah subhana t opened the doors of upon him in many ways, right? And it's narrated about him that he divided his wealth on three occasions. that three times in his life he looked at all of his wealth and he gave half of it to the point that he gave one of his two shoes three times in his life where he looked at all of his wealth and he gave 50% of it two times where he gave everything that he had and sometimes that numbered in the millions so Allahh opened the doors upon him and he had much wealth uh to give and he would uh spread it uh from uh this for the sake of Allah subhana wa ta'ala This is one way of of praising him. He says that one time was in the mazjid and he heard he overheard a man making dua and the man made dua for Allahh to give him 10,000 dirhams. So he just overheard it went home. He got 10,000 dirhams and he gave it to him. That's just the way that he was extremely generous. There's a famous narration about him as well that one time uh while there was a servant that was serving a mug uh the servant dropped the mug and it broke and the servant said and those who restrain their anger said I'm restraining my anger and those that forgive people said I forgive you and Allah loves the excellent doers said you're free to He immediately responded to the Quran in that way which shows you that his generosity his his idea of of forgiveness and generosity forbearance that this comes from a consistent expanse that he has in his chest for the sake of Allah subhana wa tala and there was a love for the Muslims in that regard. One of the things that he actually said in one of his he said that forbearance which is patience is actually beauty. It's an adornment. People mock you for it when you're patient when you're forgiving. He said it's actually uh he he said it's actually a form of beauty. And dignity is actually nobility. Meaning when you are dignified when you pass through then is actually a form of nobility and being hasty is it is foolishness and people that are foolish are weak people. So he's saying learn to restrain yourself oh Muslims and not to be very quick. I come to his death for the sake of time and forgive me for going over time was in Medina and um he was poisoned. Who he was poisoned by every conspiracy in the book. Every conspiracy exists in the books and there is actually no one person that you can pinpoint for poisoning him. Right? Some of them say he got married many times. it was ex-wife, right? Some of them say that it was someone from a political camp that they wanted him to die quickly and it doesn't make sense to pin it on Muawa because if Muawa was going to poison him and kill him so he doesn't have to give he would have done that 8 n years ago not wait a decade to try to pull that off. So like the conspiracies don't add up but at the end of the day someone poisoned him and he had a dream and he says that while I was in that dream he said I saw that it was written on my head thatlas subhan allah what a beautiful thing was placed between my eyes was written on my forehead. So said if that is an authentic dream then your death is very soon. Allahh is going to call you back very soon and indeed the the pain of that poison overtook him and he said that I could feel my liver being cut up from the poison. So it it bothered him uh deeply and it's a very graphic way that that it started to pain him. Then he calls Hussein his brother his noble brother Hussein says that I entered upon Alass while he was in while he was in that state of about to die and I saw him smiling why are you smiling so much he said he said I swear to you Hussein I'm looking at creation now that I have never seen before today and they keep on visiting me and they're all around me and they're smiling at me right now. So Hussein, I'm telling you that there are creatures in here right now that are smiling at me and I've never seen these creatures before and that's why I'm so happy that I smiled as a result of that. So then he gave me his He said, "Carry me and take me to the courtyard of my my home." And he said, "Until until until I can contemplate um or or or basically um look towards the dominion of Allah subhana wa ta'ala." So Al Hassan was carried to his courtyard and he looked up to the sky and he said, There is no god but Allah. Oh Allah, I submit myself. I I I submit myself wholly to you. All of myself to you. So Hussein says to him, "Oh my son, oh son of my mother and my father, because they're full siblings had many other children, 27 or so after but they're full siblings." So he says, "My brother, the son of my mother and my father, tell me who poisoned you." And he, Subhan Allah, he's saying, you know, I don't want your eyes to close. Al Hussein, you can see the justice sense in him. I don't want your eyes to close until I take justice for you. I want to know who poisoned you. And he said, he said, I'm never going to tell you. I am leaving him and I will find him on the day of judgment. So Allah subhanana wa ta'ala will take my my right for me on that day. So I leave him to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So Hassan knows or he has a feeling who poisoned him but he's purposely not telling Hussein so that blood is not spilled in his beautiful personality. And he gives a to Hussein he says he said if I die then bury me with my father. Who does he mean when he says my father wasallam? So he said if if I'm if I die the first thing try to bury me close to the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam and Abu Bakr right bury me with my father sallallahu alaihi wasallam just to make it very clear that when he says he means the prophet and if you can't do that then next to then in the house of and he says and if not then bury me in and don't raise your voice in this regard. What does he mean by that? If people make a big deal about it, don't cause any type of commotion in the community. Let it go. The the family of the beloved prophet sallall alaihi wasallam, they always have the bigger picture. They have the community at heart. And you can imagine how hard it was for Hussein. And so when the news reached, they said, "No, no, was buried in or he he was buried far out." And it's, you know, they they made excuses why he can't be buried here and why he can't be buried there. And it started to cause fitna and commotion. And so Al Hussein remembered the advice of his brother and he said, "You know what? I'm not going to raise my voice in this regard. He'll be buried in next to his mother Fatima. May Allah be pleased with her." And so they took him and they buried him. And subhan Allah on that day, they say the janaza of Alass Medina was the biggest janaza they ever saw. One of the beauties of that, one of the reasons for that, right, is that he's a person who always treated people with kindness, generosity, the one who brings people together, the one who spends upon the people, the one who advocates for the people. This is how Allah subhana t rewards them, right? that everyone that's standing in his janaza honors him or loves him because you have to love him to love the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam or because he showed them that beauty and that generosity and let the janaza and he said he said you lead the if it wasn't then I would not have put you forward meaning I would have led the janaza but you're the governor of Medina and Hussein is keeping things within and Hussein saw and and we're going to talk about Hussein next week the hurt the pain uh putting his hand on the and this is narrates this and he looked at him and he said like now you're carrying his body and he said you used to drive him crazy when he was alive you were one of the people that used to fight him and he said he said I'm doing that with someone whose whose forbearance is greater than the mountains like the patience of is unlike anyone that we have ever seen and so he died at the age of about 47 years old very young and he's buried next to and so the master of the women of Jenna and one of the two masters of the youth of Jenna are buried together in Albak in that section of where the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is. Um most of his children would be and alongside Hussein but he was survived ultimately by two sons. Through one of those sons uh came does anyone know who Nafisa is? Nafisa is teacher of Imam Shafim great uh the great lady Nafa the great scholar was from the uh the noble lineage of Hass in next week we will talk about Hussein may Allah gather us with the prophet sallallaham with the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam with the companions of the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam with theham Early heat. [Music]