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So last week we talked about

Salman Al-Farassir, Allahutallahu Alaihi Wasallam, and we said that tonight we are going to continue

with the brother of Salman Al-Farassir, Allahutallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as far as the

Ansar are concerned, and the man that we're talking about tonight is actually an extraordinary

human being who you may have heard me quote multiple times in my own khutab, in my own jama'a khutbas.

He is the scholar of the companions, and I don't use that term lightly when I say the scholar

of the sahaba. That in and of itself should give you quite a bit of pause as to what the status of

this man is. And many of the narrations about the virtues of the virtues of knowledge are actually

narrated by Abu Dardat al-Aliya Allahutallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Now by the way, if you actually go

online, you search for a lecture on Abu Dardat al-Aliya Allahutallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you're not going

to find much. In fact, you'll often find his name will get confused with Abu Daghdat, the man who

donated his gardens for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But Abu Dardat al-Aliya Allahutallahu

Alaihi Wasallam is the Hadith narrator of some of the most fundamental Ahadith, some of the most

fundamental narrations in Islam. And so, sort of like how we did Salman al-Faris, Al-Aliya Allahutallahu

you walk into Medina and you've got this old Persian man, and even Abbas al-Aliya Allahutallahu

Alaihi Wasallam sitting at his feet, learning from him, hearing his whole story, one of the most

beautiful Ahadith narrated by Abu Dardat al-Aliya Allahutallahu Alaihi Wasallam is the following.

I was sitting with Abu Dardat al-Aliya Allahutallahu Alaihi Wasallam in the

masjid of Damascus. So, the end of the story is that Abu Dardat is the Mufti of Damascus,

the Mufti of Damascus. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make it easy for the people of Asham,

so the glorious center of Damascus, Abu Dardat is the clear, unrivaled scholar and Mufti of Damascus.

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