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Assalamu alaikum, rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, everyone. Welcome back to the first

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, dillahi wa salatuh, wa salamu ala Rasulillah, wa a'ala aadihi, wa sahbihi wa menwada.

So firstly, I want to apologize that we weren't able to be on schedule

due to just a bunch of other commitments last night and the circumstances,

but the Hamdulillah, we're able to still meet tonight. And the goal, if you look at the episodes

in insha'Allah ta'ala is that hopefully in the dahi ta'ala by Ramadan, we would have completed 40

episodes of the first. So I can't promise it insha'Allah, ta'ala, we're able to, but make du'a

and I appreciate all of those that have followed so regularly in Hamdulillah, but I mean,

and that's something that is very special to me when people are following the stories of the

Sahaba with regularity and seeing the story of Islam unfold through their eyes, with wa'ala a'adi

Hamdulillah. The person we're talking about tonight has a story that is extremely interesting

because you find people in the siyirah who are known by their spouses, for example. So especially

when we're talking about hidden figures in regards to the women, a lot of times you don't know about

the wives and the mothers or the sisters or the daughters, unless you know the father, the husband,

the son, whoever it may be. And sometimes you know someone by, you know, a tribal connection.

In the case of the man that we're covering today, Abu Hadeifah, radi'Allah wa ta'ala an-hu, he's known

either by his adopted son who was his freed slave, Salim, or he's known by his father, but he is

someone who is entirely lost when you are talking about his history. And what intrigues me about him

is how poised he was for a leadership position prior to Islam and how that did not hold him back.

And you know the story with him by the way, I remember a friend of mine who had named his son

Hadeifah and I said, okay, after Hadeifah Nadiya Man, he said that, but he said, really I wanted to

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