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To this day had just actually a time where scholars from around the world get to meet each other that otherwise don't get to meet

It's a time where Muslims get to interact with all sorts of cultures that they otherwise have never heard of and you can imagine at that time

Right if you had not traveled the world and most of the people that were coming from Medina at the time had not seen the rest of the world

Imagine what it was like to see the first expressions of Islam from Africa, from Yemen, from Assam, from all these different places and to interact with those people

Now one of the things about this particular hatch, the hatch of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is that the majority of those who we call Sahaba, who we call companions today, became companions only because they met the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in hatch

So when you go to the books of Hadith, you find that the hatch of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is one of the longest chapters and you will find one of the longest narrations about the hatch

This long narration from Jabr al-Diyallahu Ta'ala, that goes point by point in everything that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did for the hatch

But he starts off with this, he says that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he stayed in Medina for a total of nine years

And the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam announced in the 10th year that he had intended to do the hatch

And so people found out about that and they started to gather around Medina so excited to do hatch with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

Imagine anywhere in the world that you were when you heard that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is going to do hatch this year

And that this is going to be the first hatch purely of Muslims

How would you react and what type of VIP package is that, right?

So what ends up happening is that you have tens of thousands of people that start to pitch tense on the outskirts of Medina

Way before the hatch starts waiting for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to embark on this journey so that they too could be with him

So tens of thousands of people around and this was the time as we said more people became Sallhabah during this hatch than any other event in Islam

Up to 144,000 people would do hatch with the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

And that's all that you have to do to become a Sallhabi is to see the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam as a believer

And so all of these people that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had never met

And there they are waiting to go with him Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam

Now even during the Prophet's lifetime this was called the Farewell Hajj Hajjital Wada

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