 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا وحبيبنا وشفيعنا وقائدنا وقرّة عيوننا سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم السلطانك اللهم افتح علينا افتوح العارفين اللهم علينا ما ينفعنا وانفعنا بنا علمتنا يا رحم الرحمن الرحمن today inshallah we will talk about one of the unique girls of Islam one of the mothers of the believers the fourth wife of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم حفظة بنت عمر رضي الله عنهما so before we talk about her we know that her father is one of the elite of people one of the very well-known person one of the very well-known lineage in the Arab world and who of us would not know سيدنا حمر ابن الخطاب سيدنا عمر is the father of حفص رضي الله عنه and she is to be known as the daughter of the generous the daughter of the noble ومنين عائشة رضي الله عنها took her as a very special friend and they were two special friends that there is no secret to be kept from each other سيدها عائشة would always praise her she knows how good she is a good person she is and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم knew how special this woman is الحفظ أبو نوعيم الأصباني رضي الله عنهرحمه الله may Allah have mercy on him he said when he talked about her that she was الصوامة القوامة ورثة الصحيفة الجامعة للكتاب she was the one who is always fasting the one who is so much doing the Qiyamul Layl and these two characteristics of her are of the best and of the most of her remarkable merits that we will see in her character so if we talk about those who were the pioneers of getting to Islam حفظة was one of them and she was raised and the love of Islam was raised with her so since she was very young she knew what Islam means so she saw her father declaring his Islam amongst everyone when no one could declare his Islam and she saw her uncles her marital uncles the sons of how they were the leaders amongst the companions how they embraced Islam she saw how her parent of uncle زي دوبن الخطاب was one of the Muslim knights in the school of prophethood and she saw how her aunt فاطمة بنتو الخطاب and her husband سعيد بن زيد she saw how all those people were guided by the light of prophecy how they were guided by the light of Allah سبحانه و تعالى going on the straight path so حفظة رضي الله عنها grew up and she was at the time that she was eligible for marriage so one of the noble young men of بني سهم proposed for her his name was خرصو النحوذافة السهمي and he was one of the pioneers who embraced Islam also and he announced and he pronounced the شهادة at the hands of سيدنا أبو بكر السلطية قرطي الله عنه so حفظة was married to خليس رضي الله عنه and عمر رضي الله عنه was very happy with this blessed marriage he was very happy that he has got a very good husband for his daughter but we all know that the non-believers in Mecca started to show the Muslims the most torture because they embraced Islam and they changed the religion of their forefathers so خريش was trying to torture the Muslims and they were opposing the call for Islam as much as they could and that's why it was the first migration to حبشة to أبسينيا and خليس and his wife were of the very first people who migrated to حبشة so they ran away and they were saved from the torture of خريش but it was not so long that خليس got so much longing for سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he was remembering مكة the best city and he was remembering the Kaaba and these memories would come to him morning and night so until he was not able to stay in أبسينيا anymore so he took his wife and went back to مكة and of course later again the torture of خريش to the Muslims the permission was to migrate to مدينة to the blessed city of المدينة المنورة and later on سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم also migrated to مدينة and there in مدينة سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم made the breadth friendship and the brother of خريس was أبو عبس ودل جبرني الأنصاري so خريس and أبو عبس were so happy with this brothership and they were both two strong knights to fight for the army of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so خريس with this was considered one of the companions who migrated to مدينة so in مدينة حفصة and her husband were learning more and more about إسلام حفصة رضي الله عنها she was so smart she loved to learn more and more she loved knowledge she loved to be very knowledgeable so she started to memorize whatever Quran would be revealed to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she started to understand the meanings she started to understand the lessons out of the ayahs her husband خريس was always watching the movements of the non-believers and he was getting himself to fight them until it was the second year of إجراء and خريس decided to fight the Muslims and we all know the reasons for the better battle that the خريس wanted to save their caravan of trading so خالد بن الولي just got the way to save the caravan and the non-believers did not want to stop until أبو جهل said والله لا نرجعوا حتى نريد بدرا he swore that they will not go back until they get to better to the place called better فنقيموا عليه and so he wanted to stay there for three nights فننحروا الجزر ونطعموا طعامة ونسقي الخمر so they would slaughter the camels and they would feed people and they would drink wine and all the Arabs would know about them fighting محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and so everyone would fear them but what happened when the Arabs the battle started and amongst the army who participated in that battle was خوني سبنه دافة and there was also six of the relatives of Hafsar they also participated in that battle her father her maternal uncles of man and Abdullah her cousin and so everyone participated so those six people participated and of her cousins were so seven people six people with her husband participated in the battle of better and during the battle خوني س was aggravating the non-believers with the way he was fighting he was a strong knight he was killing right and left he was so brave and خوني س would see the courage of the other Muslims who were fighting and he would go more and he would fight more until the the swords of the non-believers got him in so many places in so many spots of his body so when the non-believers ran away at the end the war ended and the messenger سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم stayed three nights in bedr until the Muslims got back their their him again and خوني س at that time he was bleeding so his wounds just stopped bleeding and خفصة was very happy that الله سبحانه وتعالى gave the army victory that he gave سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم victory against the non-believers and she was very good in treating the wounds of her husband and later his wounds got worse again and her husband passed away so his death was so striking to when سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم knew that خوني س died he was a murderer he ordered that he is to be buried in الجنة البقية next to next to his to his wife's uncle of the uncle of Hafsah so Hafsah was very sad for the death of her husband it was just only a few years of marriage and she lost her husband and of course Hafsah was a very good strong pious woman and she accepted Allah سبحانه وتعالى with Allah's decree that she lost her husband so what did she do she got into a deeper relation with Allah سبحانه وتعالى she would worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى she would continue worshiping Allah سبحانه وتعالى during the day and during the night she would continue praying and connecting it with fasting hoping that Allah سبحانه وتعالى would make things better for her she was only 18 years old when she was a widow so if we stop for a second year we understand that when we worship we get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى more and we say يا الله يا الله so this is what we what we do we just worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى we just remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى more so this is why we say no Allah سبحانه وتعالى during the time of prosperity he will be with you during the time of adversity when we are relaxing we have to remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى because when we when we remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى we are getting some sustenance for our soul and we have calamities our soul can endure that and this is what happened with حفص رضي الله عنه she was a very good pious worshiper and she got more into that state when she was in need for Allah's help so حفص رضي الله عنه was doing karate and it was a few months that four months and ten days until she she got over with her her father the smart عمر رضي الله عنه he would look at her eyes and he would see how clever that woman was and he would see also the sadness in her eyes but he would feel happy when he see her getting connected more and more to Allah سبحانه وتعالى سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم was asking about his companions and he knew that حفص the daughter of رضي الله عنه lost her husband he must have mentioned to سيدنا أبو بكر رضي الله عنه that he is waiting for the right time to propose to propose to حفص so she would be his wife of course سيدنا أبو بكر رضي الله عنه was the secret keeper of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم so he would keep that in his heart and he would not mention it so what happened later on عمر بن الخطام رضي الله عنه her father the father of حفص he wanted to make his daughter happy so he wanted to find her a good husband so سيدنا عمر رضي الله عنه went to سيدنا أثمان ونعفان رضي الله عنه and at that time سيدنا أثمان was so saddened by the death of his wife رقية the daughter of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم he was so saddened by that so عمر رضي الله عنه noticed that and he got the idea why wouldn't he ask us of man رضي الله عنه to marry his daughter so he went to him and knowing that حفص his daughter is not the same as رقية the daughter of سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم but he wanted to try and he got to him and he said to him يا حثمان إن شيطة انتحت كبنة so if you want I would I would ask you to get my if you want you can marry my daughter حفص اثمان رضي الله عنه was surprised with these words but he said to عمر رضي الله عنه a very clear cut okay I would look into this so عمر a few days later he did not get any response from أثمان رضي الله عنه so he met him again and he reminded him to get married to his daughter حفصه but أثمان رضي الله عنه he rejected that offer and he said بدا لي ألا أتزوج في يوميه I don't want to get married عمر رضي الله عنه was so sad he did not expect that so he he was a little upset with سيدنا أثمان رضي الله عنه how would he reject marrying his daughter knowing her how a good noble a pious woman she was عمر رضي الله عنه as thinking for a few days who is to marry his daughter so he met أبو بكر صديق رضي الله عنه and he knows how good a friend to him he was so he said to him يا أبا بكر إنش يتزوج لك حفصه بإنتعوه so if you want I would get you to marry حفصه أبو بكر رضي الله عنه was silent he was silent and عمر رضي الله عنه was upset with سيدنا أبو بكر more than his upset with سيدنا أثمان and he was so surprised why would they refuse getting married to to his daughter so سيدنا عمر رضي الله عنه and he wanted to go to سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and tell him how his two best friends reacted when he offered that they would marry his daughter so he went to the best of the creatures and he said to him يا رسول الله this is what happened سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said يتزوج حفص من هو خير من عثمان حفص will be married with someone who is better than عثمان ويتزوج عثمان من هي خير من حفص and عثمان would get married to someone who is better than حفص and سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم announced that عثمان رضي الله عنه would get married to his daughter after the death of her sister so the idea illuminated in سيدنا عمر's head what's going on it's really right what سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said but who is better than عثمان and he was so happy to think is it possible that سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم is going to get married to حفص his daughter so he got the answer سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم proposed and he got married to her and she was she was blessed with an honor and she became one of the pearls of Islam she became one of the mothers of the believers and that made عمر رضي الله عنه I'm very happy with this marriage so Allah سبحانه و تعالى chose and his choice is always the best again let's stop for a second here sometimes we choose something and we want that something to happen and we meet lots of dua when we ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى and we make him ya Allah we want this ya Allah we facilitate this ya Allah but when it happens we say we realize that it wasn't the best choice that we were mistaken and we would wish that this thing did not happen this is why we make the dua اللهم إنا لانحسن الإختيار فاختر لنا ya Allah we don't know how to choose we don't know what's best we don't know what's good for us we don't know what's bad for us so we ask you to choose for us و لا نحسن تدبير فدبير لنا we don't know how to to manage our affairs so we want you ya Allah to manage our affairs و ربضينا and make us content with whatever you decree for us so we have to have 100% dependence on الله سبحانه وتعالى we have to know that when we want something الله سبحانه وتعالى does something else the good would be in that thing and this is what happened to Hafsah رضي الله عنها so sayidna أبو بكر مد sayidna عمر رضي الله عنه and he apologized and he said يا عمر رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم mentioned to me that he is going to propose for Hafsah and I would have never ever exposed his secret but if he did not marry her of course I would have married her so it was the blessed the blessed marriage to Hafsah رضي الله عنها of course before Hafsah sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after the death of خريش خديجة رضي الله عنها he was married to Sauda and then he was married to Aisha رضي الله عنه so Hafsah sayidna عمر was always advising Hafsah was always advising his daughter that she would not compete with Aisha رضي الله عنه because he knows Hafsah يدن محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم loved Aisha and he know how he loved her father so he said to her اينا انتي من عائشة و اينا ابوكي من أبيها who are you to compare yourself to Aisha and who is your father in comparison to her father so Hafsah got the message and she was a very good friend with Aisha رضي الله عنه of course Hafsah knew that she was not on the level of Aisha رضي الله عنه in knowledge and she knows that Aisha رضي الله عنه got to the heart of sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم before her she knows that that Aisha was so clever so knowledgeable and she always remembered the advice of her father and she was always with Aisha رضي الله عنه and they were the best friends amongst the wives of sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم but a few years later there were more wives for sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم and jealousy started to get into the heart of Hafsah well humans human beings so once عمر رضي الله عنه was talking with his wife and he was arguing with her and she was answering him back and she was not accepting what he's saying and she was arguing in most of the issues that he was talking about and then he was so angry and he said to her you're not supposed to talk back to me she said oh okay but I'm not the only one who talks back to her husband there is someone who is better than me and who is talking back to someone who is better than you and that is Hafsah your daughter and sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم would be angry the whole day because of the talking back of his wife so عمر رضي الله عنه could not accept that he took his his clock and he went back to immediately rushing to his daughter and one of the issues that happened one of the things that Hafsah was arguing with sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم she said to him that she sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said لا يدخل الناره إن شاء الله من أصحاب الشجر أحد من الذين بايا وضحك none of the people who got the pledge under the tree would get into the a hellfire Hafsah رضي الله عنه said they will so he looked at her and he said what are you saying so Hafsah said الله سبحانه وتعالى said in surah to mariam وإن منكم إلا وارجها each and every one of you would see the hellfire would pass by the hellfire and sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم said yes that's right and الله سبحانه وتعالى said ثم نرجل الذين التقوا ونظروا ثم الله will save those who who had Allah سبحانه وتعالى and those who were non believers they will stay forever in in hellfire so when عمر رضي الله عنه went directly to his to his daughter he asked her would you talk back to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and that he would be angry all day she said yes we all his wife we all talk back to him and he asked him would any and each one of you anyone of you would she leave him during the day until the night and she said yes and sayidna عمر رضي الله عنه he said to his daughter Hafsah I'm warning you I'm warning you of punishment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى I'm warning you that sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم would get angry with you and then he said he said something very special والله لقد علمت أن رسول الله لا يحبك ولولا أنا لطلقك I swear that sayidna محمد does not love you and if had it not been you would have divorced so Hafsah calm down and she accepted the advice of her father and she was always obedient happy and very good wife to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and if we stop here for a second now with today's marriages if the parents knew that their daughter is not happy at the house of their husband they would do their best to get them divorced they would try to to end that marriage but what did sayidna عمر do this is a lesson to all the parents you have to give best advice to your daughter do not get your daughter to get divorced for silly reasons try to keep the marriages strong try to keep the bond of the daughters with their husbands strong so Hafsah was so good to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم after that until one day sayidna حاتبو بن أبي بالتع came back from his trip to Egypt he was with a mission going there and the governor the christian governor of Alexandria sent so many gifts to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and among these gifts there were two slave women that they were very special to the governor so he sent them as a gift to sayidna محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and these these were Marya and her sister Serene the daughters of Shamroon and Marya was known as Mary the cop Marya القطية and during along the way when Hafsah was going back to Medina he talked to Marya about Islam and he was wishing that he would become a Muslim and he talked a lot about all aspects of Islam until Allah سبحانه و تعالى gave her the light and she accepted Islam and she became a Muslim and along the way also her sister Serene became a Muslim also so in Medina took Marya as a wife of the slave and she was in a house in the house of very close to the mosque of which is very close to the houses of the wives of so we know that we mentioned that where the best friends that there is no secrets from each other so each one of them was talking to the other about her worries from this very beautiful slave woman that she used to spend a lot of time with her and one day as she said to visit her parents to visit her father Marya came and she entered the house of Hafsa and she stayed a few days with the Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم when Hafsa came back she saw Marya in her house she did that, got him and she waited until Marya went out and when she came in she was she went to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم because he was so high with her and she was crying that she said you did something bad to me it's my house it's my bed you made it so hard on me how would you do that to me so Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so that jealousy and he wanted to calm his wife and he didn't want her to talk about it so he said how about if I I don't get again with her with the condition that you do not mention it and she said okay but the jealousy did not leave Hafsa and she went to her best friend and she mentioned what happened and she said رسول الله he made it Haram on him to be again with Marya and of course it didn't stop there so the news were spreading amongst the wives of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was revealed to by جبريل عليه السلام that Hafsa did not keep his secret so knowing what happened that the wives also talked about it so Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم had an oath that he would he would not meet with his wives for a whole month Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم went up to a room and his servant was at the door of the room and he was away from his wives for one whole month the wives of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم were so sad that they realized what they did and especially Hafsa that she exposed the secret of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم the people also the Muslims the companions thought that Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم divorced all his wives that's why he is not getting with them for a whole month so Sayyidina Omar صلى الله عليه وسلم went and he wanted to get into the room and he asked Rabah to get in and to get permission from Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so Sayyidina Omar was not given the permission and he asked for permission again and again but he did not get that permission until Omar صلى الله عليه وسلم said it in a loud voice يا رباح استأذن لي عندك على رسول الله فإني أظن أن رسول الله زن أني قد جئت من أجل حفظ so Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was listening to him that he did not come for a Hafsa والله لأن أمرني رسول الله بضربعونقها لأضربنا عونقها if Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم would order me to slaughter her I will so رباح رضي الله and gave the permission which was given to him from Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم that Omar رضي الله عنك can get in so Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم came and he saw Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم يعني that he was very very very state in a state that he there the only thing that was in the room was just thick carpet and nothing else except some barely that was in the room and some camel thing that was camel leather that was in the room and he cried Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said and Sayyidina Muhammad said the kings of Rome and they are in the best state of they have everything and you you are in this room and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said أما ترضى أن تكون لهم الدنيا ولن الأخرة won't you accept that this life is for them and we will be enjoying the day after the life after so this is another lesson for us it's okay to to to have some wealth but we have to be careful this wealth should be in in our pocket and never in our hearts we we want to when we have the money to give the poor we want to do charity we don't we want to to help others but to enjoy this thing that is vanishing no one is taking anything of his wealth into the grave we are leaving everything behind so Sayyidina Muhammad started now talking about the issue of his wives and he he asked him did you divorce your wives and he said no so Sayyidina Muhammad was very happy and he said can I rush to the Muslims outside they are waiting so that I would tell them that you did not divorce them and Sayyidina Muhammad and I gave him the permission for that so Omar and I gave the good news to the companions and he talked to his wife and she was so happy to to his daughter I mean and she was so happy to hear that and Allah سبحانه وتعالى revealed the ayahs of surah yeah yeah and so on until he said um um um so if Allah سبحانه وتعالى is going to uh you he will if Prophet Muhammad divorce you all the wives then he would he would substitute for him wives better than you submitting to Allah believing devouting obedient repentant worshipping so he all the wives repented and they were very uh obedient to sayyidina Muhammad now if we want to briefly mention about who would say she was a very pious woman fasting during the day doing lots of and uh and uh and he said to him in and he is she's a fast woman who fast during the day she's a woman who praise during the night and she is your wife in in heaven so from the very beginning since she was young she was uh known to be very smart and sayyidina Muhammad so that and he encouraged her to learn he encouraged her to read he encouraged her to learn how to read how to write and he asked to teach her and he also she also uh one day one day uh sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم came came back to to Hafsar in her house and she uh she she saw she was with her and he said to her so so teach her how to cure people from the certain type of sickness the same way that you told her how to write so this is another lesson you woman you should seek knowledge do not stop اطنو بالعلم من البهتي الى لحت try your best to keep learning until the very end the more we learn the more we realize that we know nothing the knowledge of all people on earth compared to the knowledge of Allah سبحانه و تعالى is as if a bird gets into the ocean gets a drop of water and drinks it so this is the comparison the more we learn the more we realize that there is a lot that we have to learn so keep learning حفص رضي الله عنها was one of the best people in فقه and everyone would go back to check with her and عمر رضي الله عنها would go back to her to ask her about some of the women's issues in فقه about the period and that stuff so it was she was one of the best people knowledgeable people if she was also a pioneer in that field she was also a pioneer in literature she was very eloquent in her speeches and we saw so many times when she talked she would say a lot حفص رضي الله عنها got the best merit that she was entitled to the collection of the Holy Quran when the Quran was written was collected at the Rashidi era it was kept with her so she was the guard of the book of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and this was one of her best merits that she was a memorizer of the Quran she was someone who knows the meanings of the Quran and she was the one who kept the Quran written until it was the time of that he got that one one Quran from her and then the Quran was copied so another thing that she was she was also in addition to being so connected to the Quran she was one of the people who narrated so many Hadith of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم she narrated 60 of the Hadith of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and so many men narrated on the authority of Hafsah رضي الله و عين so so many things still to talk about but we'll end with what during during the Rashidi era it was the time that everyone would would talk highly about Sayyida Hafsah رضي الله و عينها everyone respected her everyone knew how knowledgeable she was everyone knew her status everyone knew her position and everyone respected her so when it was the time the 45th year after Hijrah she felt weak and a few days later she passed away she was 60 years old when she passed away سبحان الله may Allah سبحانه و تعالى unite us with her may Allah سبحانه و تعالى unite us all under the banner of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and until next time I leave you with a special Salam with special greetings to our beloved Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم و السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته