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It was one thing to see
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam hungry,
and in poverty,
it was another thing to see him human and in pain.
If you live in that society, he is your Superman,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
It's uncomfortable to see
the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam in grief.
And there's a difference between the crying
that the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam has,
in his salah, in his prayer, and in his remembrance.
And the crying that he has with tragedy,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, when it strikes his own home.
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Many times when we talk about the death
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's children,
we just mentioned that he buried six out of seven,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And we tend to group them all in together.
And of course, every single death of every child
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam stung him.
But Ibrahim was a very, very different death,
because the circumstances of his life were so different.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was 62 years old when Ibrahim was born.
Meaning, this is when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
was about to die himself Alayhi Salatu Wasallam
And he's over 20 years after the last child,
before his birth.
So Fatimah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha,
is the last child before Ibrahim,
and the rest of them have all passed away.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
has lost all five of them.
His two other sons died when they were little,
and his three other daughters lived to be adults
and get married and the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
and buried them all.
And Fatimah radiAllahu ta'ala Anha,
is of course, a married woman now.
And she has her own children.
And her children are like children
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and then Allah blesses
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
with his first son in Islam.
And it seems to come at a time
when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is about to depart from this world.
And so there is so much that is tied to this child.
Think about the joy
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
for the first time, having a son,
with all of the rituals of Islam.
And it's at this point in his life,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and he's able to take his son, his only son in Islam,
and perform the athaan in his ears.
And to do the tahnik of his own son,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
after he's done that for so many other children.
And to perform the Aqiqah for his own son,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
after he's done that for so many other people's sons.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
would take Ibrahim, his son with such pride.
And he would say to the people,
laqad razaqAllahu nabi Yakum walada wassummaytahu
AAala abi ibraheem
"Look, oh, people, Allah has blessed your prophet
with a son, and I named him after my father, Ibrahim."
Think about that.
Subhanallah, think about being in the masjid
when the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
is holding Ibrahim for the first time, attending the Aqiqah,
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, bringing him around.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
clearly had an attachment to this child.
So he used to visit him daily,
when he was with his wet nurse.
He used to take him with him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
when he would visit the homes of his spouses,
he would bring him to the masjid,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He used to always go out to see him
when he was with his wet nurse.
So it was known that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
some had an excitement to go and see
his own son Ibrahim, now.
After all of these years, his own son,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, that seems to be the one son
that's gonna survive him after his death.
And then Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
speaks about what happened.
Ibrahim was about 16 months old.
So, he's not a little baby in the sense that,
at 16 months old, the baby has a personality.
You have that connection to that baby.
And Anas ibn Malik radiAllahu Anhu
and who describes the scene when the messenger comes,
to the messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
from the house of his wet nurse.
And says, Ya Rasulullah Ibrahim is really sick.
And it looks like he's about to die.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
drops what he's doing, and he goes with his companions
to the home of the wet nurse.
And the husband of the wet nurse was a man
by the name of Abu Sayf, and he was a blacksmith.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
goes to him and he asks for permission to enter.
And he takes Ibrahim.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
who has held this baby and showed him
to all of us like a proud father would,
and who loves this baby so much,
and now is seeing him dying.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
qabbalahu washshamAhu, Anas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
says that he held him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He kissed him.
And he started to smell his hair.
And as he's holding him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
the Sahabah are just looking on at him.
You're looking at him holding his son.
And this is the most human and vulnerable moment
that you're going to see
your Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Ibrahim starts to breathe harder and slower.
And Anas radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
says in the arms of the Messenger
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam his soul left his body.
In the arms of the Messenger SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
How difficult is it for a father to hold their own child
and their child breathed their last in their arms?
And your prophet has a heart full of love and mercy.
So the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
starts to weep.
AbdurRahman ibn Awf radiAllahu Anhu
He looks at the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
And he says, wa anta Ya Rasulullah?
"You too, oh, messenger of Allah?"
And he wasn't saying that with cruelty.
It's not like the men who said that
to the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
when he was kissing Al-Hasan wAl-Husayn,
and he was saying it from a point of arrogance.
It's from a place of admiration and "Ya Rasulullah,
You cry too?"
We're not used to seeing you this way."
We're not used to seeing
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam breakdown.
We're not used to seeing
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
weep in such a fashion.
Over his child.
We see this from other people, and
Rasulullah SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam as he's holding his
son who has now passed away in his hands.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam looks at him,
Ya Abna Awf, O son of Awf
It's rahma.
It's mercy that Allah puts in the heart.
Allah put this mercy in my heart.
I can't help myself, right.
I love this child.
And Anas radiAllahu Anhu
said the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
started to weep more.
And we were staring
at the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
and of course they were crying with him.
How would you not?
If you're sitting with
the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
holding his dead son at that point.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said,
innal ayna tadma wal qalba ya y'Ahsan. Wala na qoolu illa ma
yurdillah wa inna bhi firaqi ka ya Ibrahim la mAh zunoon la
mAh zunoon
"The eyes are shedding tears.
The heart feels sadness.
And we don't say except that, which is pleasing to Allah
Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la.
wa inna bhi firaqi ka ya Ibrahim la mAh zunoon la mAh zunoon
"And we are sad, oh, Ibrahim, over your departure."
"We are sad, oh, Ibrahim, over your departure."
"We're grieving over your loss, oh, Ibrahim."
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
who got to enjoy this one son in Islam,
this one child in Islam, in fact,
that he got to do the rituals of Islam with.
Now, he has to do the rituals of Islam with this child
in terms of his Janazah.
He has to wash him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He has to shroud him, SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He places him in the grave himself,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And he leads his Janazah.
Now, if you live in Medina at the time,
'cause you've probably heard this hadith about the eclipse
a few times.
The eclipse happens, a solar eclipse happens,
on the same day the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam's
son dies.
Ibrahim died that day,
and they looked up and the sun eclipsed the moon.
How would you not think that there's some connection
between the two?
And you have seen the grief
of the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
in a way that you've never seen before.
It's a unique type of grief
that the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is facing.
So of course the Sahabah, they started to say that
the sun eclipsed for the death of Ibrahim.
And that's why we're seeing this phenomenon happen.
Of course, it happens on the same day.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
comes out and he leads the prayer of Kusoof.
He leads the eclipse prayer.
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, and it's so long
that you would faint behind him SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
because of the length of his salah, during that eclipse.
And the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam,
of course you can imagine his duʿās,
and where his heart is in those moments.
But even then,
he's still our teacher SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
He teaches us how to grieve,
Alayhi Salatu Wasallam
to cry like a human being,
to have the softness of the heart.
But at the same time,
to make sure that you don't say anything
that's displeasing to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And even then, the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam
stands up and he says, the sun and the moon are two ayaats.
They're two signs of the signs of Allah.
They don't eclipse for the death of anyone,
nor do they eclipse for the birth of anyone.
So when you see these eclipses,
then make duʿā to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
and pray and give sadaqah.
Subhanallah, even then.
The Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam was teaching
with his actions, and with his words.
And if you feel pain,
know that your Prophet felt pain,
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And if you cry, know that your prophet cried as well.
But also know that your prophet set the example
SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, of patience.
And even in the hardest moment of his life,
the only thing that was coming out of here,
was Alhamdulillah, and that's what was in his heart as well.
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