Amr Ibn Ma'adi Yakrib & His Tales | Mufti Abu Layth

yeah so mad you know what up since since we've mentioned we mentioned to you guys a an incident a historical a bit of history so right it is said in pre-islamic times there was um so there was this person a fata right so let me give you guys a bit of a um a bit of detail for the pre-islamic landscape in

the arabian landscape um figuratively so you had tribes which is understandable but then you also had these people known as and you had fattak these fattakin um so if attack uh i'll explain what they are both of these now a fattak is somebody who kind of seizes and he's a person of resolution you know of like resolute determination okay however

really what it was used for that's maybe what linguistically what it's actually used for is these ruthless kind of i i'm trying to think of a term to describe them that we could relate to they were kind of like sociopaths i don't really know how to refer to them but there were these people that would just go out looking to kill people and kill them as in kill them and rob their stuff and but this was like a trophy for them

it was it was and they had a reputation for this and they were called you know like from the fatah kill arab and they were there obviously they would have a reputation people would be like damn it so and so and and they would just be ridiculous stuff like they would just um you know you get these fame some of them later on converted to islam like amribnum very famous person and he embraces obviously very old by that age but he converts and he lives right through till after islam as well i mean as in after the prophet and in the caliphate of umar ibn khattab and

he has these discussions with umar about and umar asks him tell me in your heydays who was this and who was that and asks all his stories and so these they would do ridiculous things like they would just if they found let's say a person is drinking water at a well they would just come up to him and go right grab your sword and the person would be like what and it would be like

surely i'm i'm about to kill you haven't you got nothing to do it's like and this is it they would just be like in fact a famous incident of him is he would say when he narrates to earth uh to omar omar asks him tell me an incident where you thought somebody was incredibly intelligent and he says yeah he says there was this incident where i approached this man he was you know i could see a horse and he had

a sword hanging on his horse but he'd kind of got off and i think he may be drinking some water or doing something and i approached him and i said hey i said in i'm about to kill you these people honestly well i i can't quite fret i don't know a word how to describe it for today what could we put it as like what it's not like gangsters it's not because it's not over a um a kind of it's just they're on this thing of just they want to approach someone and just kill them

and just take their stuff and just but they want a reputation for this they want to be this kind of like a a serial killer but they're not i don't know maybe they were mental mentally kind of affected um but yeah so he says to amrib he says yes psychopaths but the interesting thing is these people were also quite i suppose psychopaths are intelligent as well yeah maybe they were these kind of psychopaths but some of them had a kind of glory in this psycho you know psychopathy then but because today you wouldn't really in

psychopathy have a glory to it you wouldn't say i'm a psychopath whereas these guys had this glory and i'm a fatah you know and and they named it fattak which means like somebody with you know absolute with resolute determination like somebody who once he commits he does you know that salman khan commitment

that's what it was that these people they claim to be these people of commitment but yes so um yeah so that's so he tells omar that yes there was this person and i said to him i'm about to kill you and the guy said he said yeah you know what he said you disappoint me [Laughter] and he said huh disappoint you what on earth is how do i disappoint you he said look you've approached me and i'm here kind of all crouched down on the floor doing this you know i don't

have my sword i'm not on not horseback look at you on you know you've come to me horseback uh on horseback you've come carrying a sword wielding a sword and on top of that you're this great warrior he's like what a you know you disappoint what a cowardice thing to do so you see this is where you go for the eagle

so the guy said he said he said he said okay he said what do you want he said well you have to give me your word that until i'm not on until i'm not horseback i'm not you know and i don't have my sword you won't raise a finger towards me you know you got to give me your word you got to take an old spite and he said well fair enough go on then so then the guy gets up he walks up to his horse he holds its rain and starts walking

and and he goes well what are you doing he said ah but you took an oath you said until i'm not riding my horse and i'm not wielding my sword you won't touch me so i'm simply not going to do that he's like a bit am i insane why on earth would i want to do that i'm not going to fight you so so amriv namadi akrib says yeah this one is one two clever man so [Laughter] this one troll so this guy gets away

with it and later on in years tells that story this incident to um he's one of the few who reaches islam and becomes muslim