s.bint.ahmed -- 10-09-2004 @ 2:13 PM
Jazak Allahu Khairun. May Allah preserve our living scholars and grant our
Salaf Firdous.Ameen.
>From the tape "The life of Abdullah Ibn Zubair-By Shaikh Muhammed Anjaree".
Below are the words of advise Asmaa bint Abu Bakr radiallaahu anha gave to
her son at the age of over 100 years and he himself was over 60 years of age
defending this deen and Allah (subhanna wa ta ala) had granted them the
preservation of their faculties and vigour! May Allah Have Mercy upon
them.Ameen. I think this extract seems to be appropriate to this thread.
Allahu Allam.
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<< The last stage of Abdullah Ibn Zubair life, and that was when he fought
against Hajjaj, which was in the year beginning 70 A.H. Mekkah at that time
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=time&v=56> was surrounded by Hajjajs'
Army and they had laid siege to Mekkah for approximately one and a half
years........
When he entered into Mekkah he (Hajjaj) sent a letter to Abdullah Ibn Zubair
saying you have three choices;
1. You can be taken and chained to Abdul Malik who was then the Khalifah of
Damascus.
2. Or leave by yourself and give up all the lands that he had overcome like
Egypt, Iraq, Yemen /leave the Khalifa.
3. Or continue fighting.
So he had these three chooses from Hajjaj. He then went to his mother (Asma
bint Abu Bakr radiallaahu anha) who was still alive for advice and she was
over a hundred years. So Abdullah Ibn Zubair said, to his mother,
"So the people <http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=people&v=56> have left
me by myself, even my own son, no-one is with me except a handful of people
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=people&v=56> all I have is an hour of
patience and then death and if I were to do what the people
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=people&v=56> want me to do then I will
be free <http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=free&v=56>."
So then Asmaa (radiallaahu anha) replied to her son, she said,
"You know better in your own self that if you are upon the truth and you are
calling towards the truth go forth for people
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=people&v=56> more honourable than you
were killed and have been killed and if you are not upon the truth, then
what an evil son you are, you have destroyed yourself and those who are with
you. If you say what you say, that if you are upon the truth and you will be
killed at the hands of others then you will not truly be free
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=free&v=56>, for this is not the
statement of someone who is free".
Then she said to her son, this is the statement of the mother to her son,
"how long will you live in this world, death is more beloved to me than this
state you are on/ this state of weakness."
Then this conversation between Abdullah Ibn Zubair and his mother continued.
Then he said to his mother after she had told him to go forth and fight.
He said, "I am afraid I will be mutilated by the people
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=people&v=56> of Sham,I am afraid that
they will cut up my body after they have killed me"
So she said to her son,"after someone has died it won't make any difference
what they do to you if you have been killed."
Abdullah Ibn Zubair then said to his mother,"I did not come to you except to
increase myself in knowledge." The shaikh wanted to point out,look at the
manners which he presented towards his mother, this was the manners of the
Salaf how they would behave towards their parents.
He said to her, "I did not come to you except to increase me in knowledge,
look and pay attention to this day for verily I am a dead man, your son
never drank wine <http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=wine&v=56>, nor was
he fornicator, nor did he wrong any Muslim or Kaafir, nor was he unjust, I
am not saying this to you to show off or show how pure I am but rather as an
honour to you."
So then Abdullah Ibn Zubair left by himself on his horse
<http://www.ntsearch.com/search.php?q=horse&v=56> and he was killed by the
Army of Hajjaj and when he was killed by the Army of Hajjaj all the Army
said "Allah hu Akhbar" and Ibn Umer (radiallaahu anhu) heard this and he
said,
" how strange is it that this man when he was born all of the Muslims said
"Allah hu Akhbar" and now that he is killed everyone is also saying "Allah
hu Akhbar".
Then Hajjaj crucified him and said," No one must put down his body except
Asmaa (radiallaahu anha ), she must come to me and ask permission of me and
only then will his body be put down".
Asmaa (radiallahu anha.) refused to go and ask permission to put down her
sons body and it was said to her,
"if you don't go his body will remain like that." So she said " let it be
then".
Until eventually, Hajjaj came to her and said,
"what do you say about this matter " and she said,
" Verily you have destroyed him you have ruined his life and with that you
have ruined your hereafter." >>
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Umm Abdur Rahmaan S bint Ahmed ibn Sulaimaan
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