Lives Of The Sahaba 18 - Umar b. al-Khattab - PT 07

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 26 January 2016

⏱️ 80 minutes

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As Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi delves upon the lives of the noble companions, some of the greatest and most blessed human beings to ever live after the death of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, he brings forth information and facts on the lifestyle, humility and famous statements recorded by Umar ibn Al-Khattab RA. Highlighting a few below which were said by Umar RA himself are as follows: The most beloved of you to me are those who point my errors out. Umar RA went searching for a single camel that had gone missing and reminded Ali RA that Allah may question Umar RA about it. Always take account of yourself before Allah does, and always take account of your own deeds before Allah does. Umar RA spoke about his grumbling belly during a khutbah -Whether you grumble or not, you shall remain hungry as long as the Muslims remain hungry. Some facts about his lifestyle which are worth emulating and imbibing are listed by the Shaykh as follows: Umar RA chose one garment for winter, one for summer, food for his family and one animal to ride to Hajj/Umrah as his salary on being appointed as the second Khalifa. Umar RA had no special pavilion or tent pitched for him during his journey to Hajj. He gave himself less from war booty than others. His positions and rulings on Mu'tah marriage, Hajj Tamattu and Talaq. Institution of Taraweeh during Ramadan.

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0:27.0	al-Ami al-Amin was Sala, to a Sala, Muilah Mohamed.
0:30.0	What is a la Saeeda, Mohammedin, Wala Adi, was Sahibyajmāin Amabad.
0:32.0	So as I had mentioned last week, in sha alA-Lah we are done with the battles and the political
0:37.5	conquest and in sha-la we're going to go back to the basically the biography and other aspects of Rumber Ranaqatab's life.
0:44.0	And I want to begin by talking a little bit about the lifestyle and humility and statements that we have from him that demonstrate how, if you like, simple
0:56.2	and how ascetic he was.
0:58.0	And the issue with Umarablah Kata of the Allahhānā is that we have so much information really.
1:03.4	He was the Khalif for 10 years during the pinnacle of Islam
1:06.7	during the time of great peace and harmony that, you know when there's peace and harmony,
1:11.2	you have a lot of rywaite from the people and you have so many
1:14.5	incidents that are narrated so I have to actually sift through and decide what is
1:19.3	basically possible for us otherwise the fact of the matter is that we can spend days and
1:24.3	days just talking about the statements that we have from him and certain if you
1:28.8	like manifestations of his asceticism. So today we're going to talk about his lifestyle and asceticism and also some aspects of his legal
1:39.6	positions that we should be aware of. So Ramaulhathab,
1:44.0	it is well known that he was a very humble person
1:48.0	who always demonstrated humility.
1:50.0	And this is even with regards to his own Islamic opinions.
1:54.0	In one of the narrations that I came across today,
1:57.0	it is said that he was asked a question.
2:00.0	He sent a question to other people, said go ask somebody else.
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