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Inshallah to-Talahla, tonight we are going to go to one of the first of the first.

But again, you know, a lot of these people get lost within history and they don't

have the longer bios that we're used to. And so, Allah, initially, I was just going to do a

biography about the son of this man that we're covering, but I couldn't help myself. The more that I

dug, the more that, subhallah, this personality just offers loads and loads of loads of lessons for us to sit with,

inshallah, and then we'll also transition and we'll go to his son.

So we talked about al-Bara'bn Azeb, right?

So we had Al-Barae bin Azeb, and before Al-Baraab-Ibn Azeb, we covered another

barat. Does anyone remember who that was? Anybody? The first barat we covered. Remember, we got a bunch of Zaid's now. Al-Baraab bin Amalik. Right? So we covered Al-Baraa ibn Amalek, the brother of Anas-Ibn Malik. May Allah be pleased with them both and we covered al-Bara abnu azab

the man who as we said if you're reading into the literature of sira

or the sunan of the prophet sallu ari-sandam and you just hear

al-Baraa we're talking about al-Bara abnazab and he has over 300

a had so there's a lot to cover from al-Bara abnazab but the one that we're going to cover tonight is the least famous of the baras the first one to become Muslim the first of all of the barats to become Muslim and that is al-Bara ibn ma'rouroura And how much of a binan, Radi Allah, and how much of a first is he?

An Imam of Zhaebi, as well as Ibn Hibban,

they record about him,

Ouale man bayaar Rassur Allahi Salahallah

in the Aqabatain.

He was the first person to actually come up to the Prophet's

and take Baya with him to pledge with the Prophet's

Salli Salih Salam in both of the Aqabas, in both of the pledges of Aqaba.

So let's give some context to this, and it's refreshing your memory,

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