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We're building out the narrative. We took a break last week to talk about

the plague of Ambas, which was the first plague that struck the companions of the Prophet ﷺ and some of the lessons that we could learn from that.

But I want to take us back to the framing of the household of the Prophet ﷺ, building out the story around the Prophet ﷺ properly so that we can understand what's really taking place in the house of the Prophet ﷺ and who's witnessing what.

And if there's one thing that I hope everyone has appreciated as we went through some of the stories of people like Khadija and Waraka and Umayman and Abu Bakr and others,

and Ali and Fatima is the extent of the relationships that existed with these people in the Prophet ﷺ before Islam and that in and of itself is a beautiful story.

You can see the character of the Prophet ﷺ reflected in the way that he treated these people before Islam and so that intimate look at the Prophet ﷺ is not just beautiful after Islam, it is beautiful and is loaded with lessons and character for us before Islam as well.

And so the person we're going to talk about today is Hibbor Rasulullah ﷺ, his nickname is the loved one of the Prophet ﷺ, the beloved of the beloved ﷺ.

And that is anybody know? Anybody? We already talked about Ali.

The question, who is Hibbor Rasulullah? The beloved one of the Prophet ﷺ, the nickname of this companion? If they're watching the live stream, it's easy.

Zaid ibn Harifa is nicknamed the beloved of the beloved ﷺ, and I'll get back to what the implications of that are in a moment.

If you watch the movie, the message, the risala, Zaid plays a very prominent role in the movie, the message, but he looks absolutely nothing like he's portrayed in the message.

Okay, so Zaid ibn Al-Diyallahu t-Alahanhu is described by ibn Al-Jozirahimullah t-Ala as a man of very dark skin who was close to the Prophet ﷺ as we'll talk about. His son Usama ibn Zaid literally has narrations about in Abu Dawood describing them from the darkest of the companion.

So if we're talking about the race component, go ahead and flip the message movie again outside of your head insha'Allah t-Alahan.

And what it actually means, and the type of society, equitable society that the Prophet ﷺ was nourishing just in his very beings ﷺ.

So Zaid ibn Al-Diyallahu t-Alahanhu was described as a short man of a very dark skin. He didn't have a big build.

Al-Diyallahu t-Alahanhu, and he was 10 years younger than the Prophet ﷺ. 10 years younger than the Prophet ﷺ. His story of coming to the household of the Prophet ﷺ is so unique that it resembles the story of Yusuf Ali ﷺ.

Okay? How so? First let's start with who he's from or what his family is. Zaid's father is Al-Haritha, Haritha ibn Al-Jozirahim.

He was from an Arab tribe known as Ben-ul-Kalb, and it was a prominent tribe. They weren't from the area of Makkah though.

They weren't from Quresh or from the area of Makkah but a little bit to the outside.

His mother was a woman by the name of Suhada bin Thaalaba from Lopai tribe. And Zaid al-Diyallahu t-Alahanhu, we know him as the first freed slave to accept Islam, the first of the Mawali to accept Islam.

But his story of becoming a slave in that society in and of itself is peculiar. Okay? It's a very unusual story.

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