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In our Tuesday night classes, we've been going over the lessons of the firsts.

As-Sahab iqon al-Awwaloon, the first companions, the first to stand with the Prophet

Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the wake of many difficult circumstances and who

sacrificed their lives. And I mentioned two weeks ago that I was going to save one

companion for a khutbah. We spoke about what is known as Haditha Turrajir. So

consider this a bonus session. Haditha Turrajir was the massacre of

six or ten unsuspecting companions in the wake of Uhud alongside Beir Ma'ouna

in which over 70 companions were massacred after Uhud and that caused great

devastation to the Prophet Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And we've spoken about five of

the six. We spoke about Asma bin Thabbat, we spoke about Khalid bin Bukhair, we

spoke about Abdullah Ibn Atarak, we talked about Khubeib Ibn Adi and we spoke

about Zaid Ibn Adithina, radiya Allahu ta'ala an-hum a-jma'in. And we left out

this one companion and as I mentioned we are going to speak about him today

Ibn Allahi ta'ala and his name is Marthad Ibn Abi Marthad radiya Allahu ta'ala

an-huma Marthad Ibn Abi Marthad. And the reason why he is such an interesting

character is because he offers get another complexity to the situation of these

early Muslims who immediately found themselves in situations in which they

had to negotiate their taqwa with difficulties that were arising in real time.

And so you have this companion, radiya Allahu ta'ala an-hum a-jma'in. I won't go

into too much detail because of this Khutput al-Juma. Marthad and his father were

both actually Meccan and they became Muslim together and Marthad was a

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