 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشفيعنا وقائدنا وقرة عيوننا سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك معظيم سلطانك اللهم افتح علينا فتوح العارفين اللهم علمنا ما يمفعنا ومفعنا بما علمتنا يا رحم الرحيم today we will talk about نسيبة بنتكع بالمازينية النجارية الخزرجية رضي الله عنها and سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري رضي الله عنه so who is this lady who was one of the early women who converted to Islam she was with those who stood fast she was of those who witnessed the Battle of Ghaibar she was of those who witnessed and participated in the conquering of Mecca she was in the army which went to to Yamaama when they went to fight those who apostatized from Islam this is أم عمارة her name is نسيبة and she is the companion the female companion who witnessed all the event with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she's a blessed woman a blessed companion she was very honored in her tribe and she was born in Medina and her tribe is بن النجار who are the uncles of عبد المطلب the grandfather of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so her path started with her husband سيدنا زيد بن عاصم and her two sons and her sister when they came from Medina to Mecca to swear an oath of alliance to Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and to show him that they will give him victory and be with him, stand still with him and they were ambassadors from their tribe سبحان الله نسيبة رضي الله عنها when they finished this journey they came back to Medina and نسيبة came back with the group to teach the women about the new religion to teach the women about the new teachings of this religion so she lived her life supporting and going for Jihad for the sake of Allah and if we stop for a minute here Jihad does not only mean fighting in battles no it means Jihad or نفس is a Jihad when you fight against your نفس it's Jihad doing anything for the sake of Allah that the نفس does not like is a Jihad نسيبة was a leader in بني النجار and she was very honest she was very loving to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم later on when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم migrated to Medina all the houses became his house and specially the houses of the tribe of بني النجار and of course we know that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم settled in the house of سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري who we are going to talk about next إن شاء الله أم عمارة was very happy with the teachings of this new religion her house was full of light because of the نور of this new religion and she was always urging the Muslim the female Muslim women to seek knowledge to learn about Islam she was always teaching them to be with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she was urging them to seek what سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم orders the women to do and as we mentioned she witnessed all the events with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and I'm going to mention a few of these events so when went to fight for the battle of أحد نسيب رضي الله عنها أم عمارة participated in this battle she was with a group of Muslims of females who were carrying water, food they would serve the soldiers they would look after their wounds they would take care of those who got sick or who got injured in the battle and at the beginning the battle was in favor of the Muslims until the archers went down thinking that the battle ended but after that this victory was changed to a big loss for the Muslims so some of them ran away, some of them were scared but a few group of companions stood fast and they formed a shield around سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم of their bodies and of their weapons they wanted to protect سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and أم عمارة was one of those who defended سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم at that time so she would look at him and she would say يا رسول الله I would sacrifice myself for you to be safe يا رسول الله so نسيبة أم عمارة was fighting and she was defending سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she was injured so badly in that battle not only her but her son also عبد الله got wounded and he was bleeding so so so so badly so his mom immediately when she saw him she immediately took care of his wound of his bleeding and she said to him hey go get up and fight for the sake of الله get up and defend رسول الله عليه وسلم and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was looking at her and he heard what she said to her son and he said to her who can do what you are doing يا أم عمارة what made أم عمارة sacrifice herself and sacrifice her family for the sake of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم what was that in their hearts that urged them to do so it was the deep love to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it was the true sincere love to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم that they knew how they were very sure that الله will protect him but they even though they defended him and they got wounded for to save him so where are we on this path of love how can we get to the level of those companions of those female companions who did what they did for the sake of الله and for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم there are many steps that we can follow that we can do to get our hearts connected to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and there is a special dua for that يا الله صل قلبي بقلبي حبيبيك المصطفة oh Allah connect my heart to the heart of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so we say there is a dua it's it's sending salawat سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم but with the intention that our heart is connected to his heart and our soul is connected to his soul so we say الله مصلي على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم تسليما صلاة تصل قلبنا بقلبه وجسدنا بجسده وروحنا بروحه صلاة تصلنا بربنا this is what we want when we send salawat to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we want our heart to be connected to his heart and we know when he was asked about تقوى he said and he pointed to his heart so we want our heart to be connected to the heart of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so to get from this تقوى to get our share from the تقوى of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the تقوى that would lead us to the high heavens to be connected with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to be reunited with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in the day after so send salawat read his seerah read the seerah read his bio read his what he did read what the sahaba did and teach your kids about سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم all of these will make us on the path of love of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and make lots of dua dua is very important do not belittle the power of dua talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى tell him ya Allah we believe in سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم we haven't seen him but we love him and we ask you ya Allah to get us closer to him we ask you his companions in the day after يا أرحم الراحمين we ask you to reunite us with him ya Allah we ask you to gather us with him under the banner under the banner which he is going to hold in the day after ya Allah this was the love of أم عمارة نسيبة who was fighting and does not care whatever happens to her she was surrounding سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم with her family and the few the few companions who stayed fast on that battle and at that time when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم saw what she did he said بارك الله عليكم من أهلي بيت may Allah bless you bless your family so she was ready and she did she was sacrificing herself for the for the sake of Allah to protect to protect سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and when it was so tense she looked at سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and she said to him يا رسول الله ودعوا الله أن نرافقك في الجنة ask Allah so that we will be with you in جنة so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she said اللهم اجعلهم رفقائي في الجنة يا الله فعلهم جنة this is what we want to be his companions in جنة إن شاء الله so when when نسيبا heard that she said ما أبالي ما أصابني من الدنيا whatever happens to me in this دنيا after this دعاء I would never care so this was during the battle of أحد in the year six of هجرة the Muslims went out to do to do عمرة so they they went from Medina to Makkah to do the عمرة but what happened سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم sent سيدنا أثنان ابن عفان رضي الله عن to negotiate with the non-believers so they kept him there for a few days until the companions thought that he was killed so the companions gave the blood to say يدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم under the tree under the tree that we are ready يا رسول الله to fight for you to fight for the sake of الله سبحانه وتعالى and they said and that الله سبحانه وتعالى mentioned that in the Holy Quran when when he said إن سورة الفتح بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن الذين يبايعونك إنما يبايعون الله يدوا الله فوق أيديهم يدوا الله فوق أيديهم فمنكث فإنما ينكث على نفسه ومن أوفا بما عاهد عليه الله فسيؤتيه أجر عظيمة indeed those who pledge lines to you يا محمد they are actually pledging lines to الله سبحانه وتعالى they were really doing an alliance for you but they are doing it with Allah so those who he who breaks his words only breaks it to the determination of to himself and those who fulfill that what he has promised الله سبحانه وتعالى الله will reward him highly so what happened after there was they agreed on something and that was صلح الحديبية and the next so the the point that they agreed upon is that they would go back this year and they would not come and they would not do the عمره and imagine how heart breaking this is for the Muslims who were six years away from from Makkah they loved Makkah they loved Makkah so they came back until the next year that was عمره القضاء and نسيبة was one of those who came to do this عمره so this was the second event one more event that I would like to mention of course I'm not mentioning everything that she attended but a few a few events it was فتح مكة the conquering of Makkah and that was in the year 8 of Hijrah so نسيبة was there with with the 10,000 Muslims who came to conquer Makkah and they witnessed how Allah سبحانه و تعالى made them victorious they witnessed how the idols were broken on the broken they witnessed that and they witnessed سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم saying to those people of Quraysh اذابو فأنت مطلقا go you are free I'm not gonna punish you and this was one of the reasons that most of them be got into Islam what is this religion that will make the Prophet forgive after all the bad torture they did to the Muslims so this was the conquering of Makkah event and later on after the conquering of Makkah there was the Muslims heard that the tribe of Hawazan is gathering so many a big army to fight the Muslims and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and the companions went to fight the Muslims in Hunain and Nusaybah و معمارا was with the army so in the army in that battle سبحان الله the Muslims were victorious and Nusaybah witnessed that Later الله سبحانه وتعالى predestined that the Muslims are going to fight مسيلة ملكذاب who proclaimed prophecy so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم sent أم عمارا الزن حبيب to مسيلة ملكذاب with a letter and مسيلة read that letter he turned to حبيب and he said to him do you witness that محمد is the messenger of الله and حبيب said yes I do then he said do you witness that I am the messenger of الله and حبيب said I don't hear what you are saying so to punish him مسيلة ملكذاب was cutting his parts of his body part part part until he passed away and he was a murderer for the sake of Allah and in Medina the mom was suffering for the death for the death of her son but she was at the same time happy that she is a mother of a murderer but she decided she decided to take revenge for her son and for her religion also so shortly after سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away but سيدنا أبو بكر السديق sent the army of أسامة بن زيد to fight those who apostasized from Islam and we mentioned that when we talked about the companion زيد بن الخطاب and how he killed الرجال بن عم فوى and how they were victorious and that that trend was a gun for so that during that battle what happened نسيب رضي الله عنها أم عمارة was fighting with sword with the sword with the men and she was killing this and that and she did not care about anything that would happen to her because she heard the good news from سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he said اللهم جعلهم رفقائي في الجنة and she said I won't care about anything that happens to me in this dunya after this so she was fast she stood fast on the battlefield and she was wounded over 12 wounds and she lost her hand but Allah سبحانه وتعالى made it coolness of an eye for her that مسيلة ملكذاب was killed that one who claimed who claimed that he is a prophet and that the Muslims were victorious and she came back she came back to Medina and every now and then أبو بكر رضي الله عنه would visit her and would check on her to see how she is doing and to see how أم عمارة the one the female woman who came to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم in أحد and he said whenever I turn right or left I will see أم عمارة fighting defending me so this is أم عمارة this is her story and it gives us women the strength that whatever is whatever we can do for the sake of Allah we should not hesitate to do it be brave raise great kids to be coolness of an eye to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم do everything you can to prove your love to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم then we move now to سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري and we all know this name his real name is خالد بن زيد and he was one of the helpers of الأنصار we all know that at the beginning when سيدنا محمد got the message he was calling it to Islam in secret he was calling those who he trusted very very well and his family members and they were all gathering and meeting in دار الأرقم من أبي الأرقم and they were learning about Islam in دار الأرقم so دار الأرقم was the first center to call for Islam so people can come secretly to learn from رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and it was called دار الإسلام now if we move on from Makkah to Medina have you ever heard in Medina about a house that is very close to المسجد النبوي to the mosque of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم that was the house of أبو أيوب الأنصاري his house was so important it wasn't less in importance than دار الأرقم why? because both houses both houses were considered as centers for people to meet دار الأرقم in Makkah and دار أبو أيوب الأنصاري in Medina so his house was the center in Medina that people would come to meet سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and to learn from him we all know the story of the migration of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and سيدنا أبو بكر from Makkah to Medina the people of Medina and at that time it was called يثرب so the people of يثرب would go out to the outskirts of the city just waiting for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم they know that he left Makkah and he is on his way to Medina they were so happy to see to know that he is coming سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is coming to live in Medina so they would climb the palm trees and they would sit there waiting to see the shade of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم arriving to Medina so their great deep longing to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم made them wait during the heat of the sun made them wait on the burning sand waiting for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he was delayed and the companions were always going from the beginning from the early morning, early dawn to wait for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they would go back during the noon time because of the excessive heat so every day they would go wait and come back until one day after they came back home one person cried رسول الله arrived رسول الله is here the messenger of Allah is approaching so everybody all those who were Muslims in Medina rushed to see سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the Muhajireen who migrated before سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and the helpers the Ansar who received the Muhajireen they all went to see سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم they all got out saying لا إله إلا الله لا إله إلا الله and they all had the very well-formed famous song طلع البدر علينا so yes, Reb was filled with excitement was filled with happiness everyone was delighted to see سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and سيدنا أبو بكر everyone was very happy to see them safe after this very long journey and since that day the name يثرب was changed to Medina and it would be a sin to call المدينة يثرب after that so المدينة before the arrival of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم it was called يثرب and there was a plague there was it was there was drought and it wasn't a pleasant place but when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم came everything changed it became the most pleasant place it became the best place it became the best blessed place because of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم arriving there so the Ansar, the helpers all of them rushed they wanted to have the honor that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم would stay in their houses and they would beck him يا رسول الله stay with me everyone would come to يا رسول الله stay with me for as many days as you want for as long as you want and everyone would be shouting يا رسول الله stay with me يا رسول الله choose me يا رسول الله but what was the answer سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he said let my she camel go freely Allah gave her the order where to stop and the place where she where this camel will stop will be the place where our mosque will be built so that she camel was controlling the whole situation and everybody was following this camel until it stopped at the place where بن النجار are بن النجار are the uncles of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم the uncles of سيدنا عبد المطلب the grandfather of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so that was the place where سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم built the mosque and the houses of his wives were built in the same place so when that when the she camel kneeled down سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم asked أيوب ويوتي أهلنا أقرب which house of our companions of our relatives is the closest to here and here comes أبو أيوب الأنصاري رضي الله عن he came delighted happy and he said يا رسول الله it's my house this is my house and he carried سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he carried his stuff سيدنا أبو أيوب carried the stuff of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم to his house he was so thankful to الله سبحانه وتعالى that he was the chosen one and he was so eager to serve سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so أبو أيوب says when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم came into my house we have a lower level and an upper level so سيدنا محمد chose the lower level and me and my wife أمو أيوب were in the upper level so one one night he was walking in the room in the upper level and he said to his wife we are walking and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is below us we are on top of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they chose a corner and stayed there until the morning about a you stayed up all night and he came in the morning to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he asked him to switch to the upper level but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said to him no أبو أيوب the lower level is more convenient for me and also for the guests who come to see me so أبو أيوب it was a very good convincing reason that أبو أيوب رضي الله وعال had to obey سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم one day he was with his wife and the water container broke so he got the blanket the only thing that was in the room and they tried to dry it and they tried to dry it and dry the water and fearing that a few drops would drop on سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that would bother him so again he went back to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said يا رسول الله I cannot live up and upstairs and you are downstairs and he kept begging him until سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم agreed he had good manners all the time that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was in the lower level أبو أيوب and his wife were not happy with that أبو أيوب served سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم his wife would cook the food and would get would سيدنا أبو أيوب would take it to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he is done they would أبو أيوب would get back or whatever is left of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and they would try to get the traces where his hands his blessed hands where and they would eat from that food one night they sent him the dinner but سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم did not eat anything and أبو أيوب went to him immediately and he said يا رسول الله بأبي أنت و أمي و قدت عشاءك و لم أرى فيه موضع يدك يا رسول الله you sent back your food and I did not see that you you even ate from it و كنت إذا رددته علينا فيممت أنا و أمي إيوب من موضع يدك نبتغي بذلك البركة and they always when you would send the food I would انتظر للمساعدة مع my wife trying to get the blessings ببركة سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ساد إني وجدت فيه ريح هذه الشجرة وأنا رجل أناجة أم بأنتم فأقولوا so I smelled garlic and I am a person who is being revealed to جيبريل يشهدني with revelation so I cannot eat from that garlic from the garlic it has a smell that might that might not be pleasant to the angels but you can eat it so they ate it and they never used garlic in their food سيد محمد I mean while preparing the food for سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم قمت seven months في المنزل من سيد أبو أيوب حتى المسجد والمسجد والنبوي كانت تطلق والمنزل من سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم لأيضاً لأيضاً ومعنى لأيضاً لأيضاً لأيضاً كانت تطلق فهي ملت إلى هذا المنزل سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم seven months أبو أيوب رضي الله عنه وردت سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وسيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم كانت في منزل منه كانت تصميم وقرآن كانت تصميم في منزل منه كثير من الناس قمت بمنزل منه وردت من المساعدين أو من المساعدين من المهاجرينة أو الأنصار المنزل قمت بمنزل منه ونحن في منزل منه سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم كانت لأي بيس للمنزل منه ومعنى لأيوب الأنصار في منزل منه لذا سيدنا أبو أيوب always cared for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he witnessed the events with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and one time it was the battle of خيبر and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم had أم المؤمنينة صافية the mother of believers صافية رضي الله عنها and there was a tent put for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so during the night أبو أيوب was up all night carrying his sword protecting سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and going around the tent going around the tent so when سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم woke up he said to him what's going on أبو أبو أيوب he said يا رسول الله I was scared of your wife you killed her father her husband and her people and she is a new a new Muslim and I was scared that she might do something that she might harm you سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم made dua for أبو أيوب and he said يا الله اللهم محفظ أبو أيوب كما بات يحفظوني يا الله protect أبو أيوب as he was protecting me during the night we all want to be like أبو أيوب so أبو أيوب was always always careful and caring and protecting سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so once we know that سيدنا أبو أيوب who attended the events with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and when after the death of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he also participated in the army with the armies going to fight for the sake of Allah and in one of the battles he was going to the army was heading to Constantinople to fight the Byzantines and along the way he he he was sick and he knew that it's death so he said if I die then bury me in Constantinople so he wanted to to be buried there and he said before his death I heard the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم telling me لا يدخل النار أحد قال لا إله إلا الله no one who witness that there is no God except Allah is going to be in Hellfire is going to be forever in Hellfire whoever whoever says لا إله إلا الله will end up in Jinn and we know the so many narrations that talk about the virtues and the merits of saying لا إله إلا الله one of them that one one person was his deeds were scale and the right deeds and the left deeds were equal and suddenly the a paper of لا إله إلا الله was put in the scale of the good deeds and it was so heavy that that person believed in لا إله إلا الله he said لا إله إلا الله he had لا إله إلا الله as his liquor and that saved him وَكَانَتْ هَذِقَانَهِ كَانَتْ وَصِيَّةَ so his it was his will that he will be buried in constant humble so they did so now whoever visits Istanbul Turkey go and visit the grave of سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري so when after the companions buried سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري some righteous people of Allah came to them the people of Turkey the people of Constantinople they came to them and they said يا معشر العرب قد كان لكم الليلة تشاء something happened today what happened with you today and يزيد ابنو عاوية was the commander-in-chief of the army he said مات رجل من أكابري أصحاب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم one of the greatest companions of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم passed away and we buried him here so they built a white doom over over his grave and they lit some lanterns and people always visited his grave until today people would go and visit سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري and at that time if they were if they had any drought they would they would ask Allah for rain because of this great companion and they would have the rain so when the Ottomans ruled Turkey they built a great mosque over there and in that mosque all the Ottoman caliphs were given the bledge in that in that mosque so don't forget to visit سيدنا أبو أيوب الأنصاري when you go to Istanbul this was our session for today and we insha' Allah will meet next time next week insha' Allah والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته