Lives Of The Sahaba 64 - Bilal Ibn Rabah

Yasir Qadhi

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🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Shaykh Yasir Qadhi, in this video, gives testimony to illustrate in front of us the life of one of the greatest human beings to have ever walked the face of this earth and also one of the most magnanimous Sahabas who breathed for the sake of Islam and led a life in the way of Islam with immense grit, determination and conviction - Bilal Ibn Rabah RA. Bilal Ibn Rabah was born to slave parents and he had a tall, lean, fit, dark skinned personality with big lips and nose. He adorned a slight beard and it is reported that he was of the same age as Abu bakr As Siddiq RA. Bilal RA was a slave and he was owned by Umayyah Bin Khalaf. When Umayyah ibn Khalaf discovered that Bilal had converted to Islam, he began a series of persecutions against him at the instigation of Abu Jahl. In this state too, Bilal refused to obey his command and kept repeating "Ahad Ahad" (God is one). Angered by this refusal, Umayyah even sought to torture him by placing him on the hot sand in summer and place boulders on his chest. Such was the sheer Jahiliyyah of the time. When Abu Bakr RA saw this on his way, he reported the matter to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and he then was instructed to free Bilal RA for a sum of 280 dirhams which was much higher for an ordinary slave. From that day onwards, Bilal RA never left the side of the Prophet ﷺ and accompanied him everywhere he went and in every battle he fought. He married only after the death of Prophet ﷺ and died childless. Bilal RA stood on top of the Kaaba and gave the Adhan after the conquest of Mecca which was the ultimate symbol of faith. Bilal RA is the first ever Muezzin - the possessor of the most loud and beautiful voice for Adhan (hadith shared by the shaykh regarding this) in the history of Islam and he is also the first to have given the Adhan in Medina, in Mecca and in Damascus. Numerous Hadith are said with reference to Bilal RA relating to the city of Medina, Umar RA and many more. Do listen to be acquainted with these great Hadith. After the death of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, he was so upset that he vowed never to recite the Adhan ever again since it pained him thinking of the memories of the Prophet ﷺ. He made a concession once on the insistence of Abu Bakr RA in Syria during the battle and he obliged. May Allah unite and reunite us with Bilal RA and the other Sahaba and the Prophet ﷺ in Jannatul Firdaus, Aameen.

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0:00.0	This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. Rassule la who al-A lah a lah a lah a lah a bard. So after our break of around a month or so, let us now resume
0:17.0	the sirah or the hyat of the Sahabah. And in sha-alah we're just going to do a few more lessons and we're going to choose a few more companions that we're going to stop the series.
0:26.0	Obviously we can go on and on and do even a paragraph of some of the Sahaba but it doesn't make sense to do that.
0:32.0	We're going to then move on to the mothers of the believers and then in
0:34.3	shawl that will be the end of this complete series of the Sahaba and the mothers of the
0:39.6	believers. I hope in shawl to finish this before the month of rumbaban of this year
0:43.9	insha ala today we will begin with a sahabi whom everybody knows but it is
0:49.6	useful to remind ourselves of his full story beginning to end and he is one of the most famous of the
0:54.8	Sahaba and that is Bilal Ibn Rabah.
0:57.8	Bilal I bin Rabahh.
0:59.0	And of course Bilal is one of the Sahab that every single Muslim in the entire world knows about and we all
1:05.8	know the essentials of his story. I'm just going to go over what we know and then narrate some
1:10.1	of his Ahadith that have been narrated in the books of Sunna. Of course, Bilal, as we know, was originally from Abyssinia. However, he was not born in Abyssinia. He was actually born in Mecca. His father was also a slave and he was a slave. And it is mentioned that Bilal's mother was one of those ladies that came with the army of the elephant, the people of the
1:39.9	elephant in Abraha's army and she was then taken as a slave and Bilal was then born.
1:47.4	So Bilal's mother and father were both slaves and Bilal was born in the tribe of the
1:52.4	Banu Jumuma as a slave and therefore he grew up speaking
1:56.7	Arabic absolutely fluently.
1:58.7	He did not speak Arabic as a second language.
2:01.0	He was born and raised in Mecca and therefore this also explains
2:04.1	the eloquence that he had because in reality his language, his mother language is
2:08.6	in fact Arabic. Physically speaking we have reports that Bilal was a very tall and lean and fit person.
2:18.7	Obviously, very dark skin in color.
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