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The second person is the only one of the group that actually has a name beyond his first name.

And his name is Zahir ibn Haram al-Azjai. So we actually know his

tribe. Zahir, Radi Allah, Zahir ibn Haram al-Azjani. And the Ullama, they said that his

wali d'u'u harem. His father's name was either Haram or Hiram, Hiram, with a Bikasriha, right?

So Zahar ibn Haram or Zahir ibn Hiram, and he's from the tribe of Al-Ashjja.

Now this actually will give you another dimension of Medina, inshallah,

Allah, Allah.

Okay?

Banu Asjja

belongs to a tribe. It's a sub-tribe of Ghatafan. Ghatafan. If you ever read the story of the Khanduk or Ahezab or you read the Tafsir, you'll constantly come across this name,

Gatafan, Gatafan, Gatafan.

And they're from the Adnania.

They're from the Adnani tribes.

It's the northern Arab tribes to Medina. So they're Bedouins, but they're particularly to the north of Medina. And they were critical to the Prophet, Sallallah, ari-waslam. They're kind of northwest. They're from the Hijjjazz, so the northwest region of

Medina. And the reason why they're so critical as Gatafan is because they represent a serious

vulnerability to the Prophet's Islam when he comes to Medina. So in Mecca, if you think about

the Hawazin, like the outskirts, like this is Bedouin society, right?

Desert society, even if you get the main city, you've got all these small cities around,

and Bedouins tend to be more rough, they tend to know how to live their lives in a certain way,

and they tend to be overly tribal, right?

So what makes Gatafan so pivotal to the Prophet

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