Abdullah ibn Mubarak – Legend Of Islam | Mufti Abu Layth

I want to introduce a personality a legend of Islam and that is okay now Abdullah Mubarak is from that is from the salaf and oh from the ATM though but he's from that era with the turbo I mean he is born in 118 history

and he passes away in 181 just two years after Imam Malik he's very Junior to Imam Malik he's uh he's born in um he's born in marwa I believe which is in the knee shop or a modern day kind of Iran region but he goes on to becoming one of the greatest Scholars of Islam absolutely phenomenal and he is leading in all Fields he's he's absolutely killing it he's amazing in

Hadith he's considered Amir he is has his own madhub arguably although it doesn't really expand much I know that hanafi is tried to sometimes put him as a hand of good old Hannah they try the occasional snatching kidnapping it's like these Scholars wake up they're like where are we you're in the hanafi mother so uh and he he really brings so much

so much to the to the discourse of Islam he's known for his teaching of Quran his teaching of his teaching of Hadith and he really not only invests his own life but was somebody that spent as well as his time so much wealth in serving Islam right up until his final moment so going to his beginning where does this light emerge from Allah now he is he he's his origin is of

turkic kind of roots his father was a slave see this is another thing you know many of the Great Scholars of Islam in early Islam came off very lowly kind of humble origin social structures they were from the mawali okay which is plural for molar which were who were freed slaves so this I mean molar can mean it's one of those words that can also mean protector as well it's one of those that where you can use it as a fact

but but it can also be used as we are his molar in the sense that we are his under his protection or like a servant to God so it has a double kind of uh meaning to it the word so his father was a uh a Slave who was owned by this wealthy um very wealthy Juarez me put um individual this Merchant and he has all these is from Horizon that region up there by that kind of Iranian going

further into kind of Western uh sorry Eastern yeah sorry Western Asia central Asia that kind of region there so this person has he you know he's very wealthy he's got businesses he sets up all these these um he has fields and he he produces all this produce of fruit and so on and sells it and very wealthy and he there's actually an interesting story that he once asks um Mubarak who's the the father to be of Abdullah to go get him a fruit from his field and some say he's a pomegranate or whatever the fruit was and when he

tastes it it's it's um it's sour so he says ah oh it was another fruit and and he throws he says no go get me a sweet one and and he brings him another one and it's sour again and and he does this on a couple of occasions and and he says to him look what's wrong with you I'm telling you like surely you must taste my fruits like you know you must surely you know what they look like you know when you're working on my Fields you must eat so you must have a good idea which fruit is good and which fruit isn't so he he says that I don't he says he says what do you mean he says

I I genuinely says I've never eaten a single fruit from your field to the person says why not and he says because it's not right he says I'm working for what I work you pay me you know like I get a certain allowance for me to take a fruit would be theft like well why would I do that this brutal honesty kind of shocks this owner and he and he starts to kind of to keep

a an eye out on him and see how integral is this slave or servant of his and he finds it you know another interesting thing he finds that this guy often would just fast during the day now check that you know on the side note check this out she has a belief system because this person Mubarak he was a Muslim he'd he was off the token origin he'd become a slave he'd embraced Islam as many people had in that era it was the early expansion era of Islam he would fast

now fasting obviously is for people fast for Allah but look at one way of looking at it is there is a you know like a richness out of heart because I know I'm fasting so I'm not going to eat and if I'm not going to eat I'm I'm not going to ask somebody for their food I'm not going to steal somebody's food I'm not going to be have to be dependent

or grateful later on you know oh this person gave me food I'm kind of indebted to this person you know in order there's this term it's kind of self-reliance like I don't have to rely on anyone like I work I gr I graft I do my craft and I fast Allah Malik you know when it comes towards the end of the day works over I open my fast I could you know there's a like a mentality to it one may say what you see when you look at it from a

different perspective it's so phenomenally powerful as a belief system that it it's a very it's so dignifying in self-respect now this slave I mean this this businessman becomes very Enchanted by him in the coming months and you know time to come that he has a daughter himself that's he just has a a daughter no other child and as he is getting older he says to this person that look I free you from

our contract whatever you're you know you free you're a molar you're free I pay you this much and he says to him look I tell you what I would like you I would like you to marry my daughter so he does and because he says I've not seen someone you know I travel the world I do business I but I've not seen someone with such an upstanding character that who better than that for my daughter so he marries him to his daughter and they they have a great life and as he dies that's that son-in-law this

Mubarak inherits all this wealth him and his wife Mubarak go on to have a child who is so and he's born in 118 history now he's born into great wealth because his father inherits all this opulence all these you know so much money they're making ridiculous money right all the harvests all the trades and they've got people working for them remember so he makes so much money now Abdullah

Mubarak grows up in just sheer opulence he's so rich and he chilled and he wasn't actually interested I say interested he wasn't really uh that interested in the Islamic stuff I mean he was a Muslim obviously grew up like everybody back then you learned how to read you studied all children would have read the Quran you would have understood the Quran because he speaks Arabic and you know you would learn a very small amount and that's it but he's got money he would just chill up until into his early twenties he was

just a chiller a darsa you know somebody had living the lifestyle he was a great poet they say he was very eloquent and he was very charmer oh charm and and he had a hangout spot he would chill out hang out the with his uh with his with his mates and they would spend the whole night they would drink they would uh play the flute he would sing his poetry sometimes he'd kind of chant his poetry they'd spend

the night chilling has to be done [Laughter] and yeah and he had this poem you know he uh had this I had this poem that um that he would say and that that so that's like one bait one couplet of it

and it went on and um yeah then it goes on and so on and it goes on and on hear this poem and he would sing it and he was a poet himself he would write poetry and he was very impressive so this one time he was there and and he's kind he's he's he's he's drank you know he's he's drunk and um and he's chilling in the late night and you know it's going right through the night and he's

trying to sing this chant this poetry but he he's getting stuck on the woods so he's saying what's next and he can't and it's like it's on the tip of my tongue it's on the tip of my tongue and and he's like kind of drifting off and he's coming back and he's trying it again and he's you know he's he's like he's like I've got it I've got it's on the tip of my tongue it's on the tip it says and he's like

and then he reads and he says and the verse of the Quran comes in Allah that is it not time because the poem that he would read

that is it not time for me from you that you show Mercy this was his poem but as he was kind of stuck and he was in this out of state he reads this that isn't not time for those who have faith that their hearts finally tremble or crumble

in the remembrance of God and what has come to them from truth this verse hit him so powerfully that he just fell he was he was in this you know it was in the night out in this spot where he would normally chill he fell into such rule and it says though these verses were being revealed it's as though this is

the first time he's hearing so powerful it's not a quantitative experience it's not that he didn't know this verse before but it's a qualitative experience he has a mystical encounter he is so struck by this they say that he just remains in that spot on the floor just like just thinking and if this is known as you know I

mentioned previously the the mystical experience and and peop and how William James had Quantified certain qualities and he's the father of modern psychology and you yeah the kind of acronym for them is pint that passivity is the first one passivity is where you are overcome by something because of it you know mysterium tremendum because of its terrifying Glory this passivity in Arabic we can call Joshua

that is a I feel it captures the meaning of and that your hearts are overcome they in that sense tremble in in the presence of the glory that they are overcome this experienced mystical encounter that Abdullah Mubarak has changes the course of history both for him and us because it it really goes on to add to the legacy of Islam he is already in his early 20s he starts

to learn about Islam he goes to teachers he starts to study Hadith he starts to um he does he starts to learn firk he he spends Years first learning and then eventually he has his own analytic um interpretative skills where he comes up with rulings he arguably has his own method although it doesn't go on so much he also participates in a lot of uh the what they had a lot of jihad in that day and age so this is another thing that in

fact is a very famous story and it's it's interesting because you see another incredibly popular quality of Abdullah Mubarak because he comes to Islam he has so much wealth and he brings that angle to serve Islam so one in his General charitable sense because it he's reminded how important it is to help people and then in other so the humanitarian side and then in the in the faith Arena so for example he would help so many

people do Hajj we spoke of Hajj earlier on if he found out that they were financially unable to go he would cover their costs he would if he found people were studying or Scholars he used to in fact sophiana thori he used to give him an annual stipend an annual kind of salary just as a just as a patronage for him even though he disagreed with sophiana thought sophian authorities is um I mean it obviously has his own school of law but he that's how he would honor him Sofia Sofia Praises him to that extent he's from

Makkah he says that I feel that he had so many virtues of Islam that I mean this is an exaggeration of course he says that if it wasn't for the Sabah that the companion someone he said he or he would have in the in terms of Virtues being placed amongst the companions of the Prophet except he didn't see the prophet I mean that's an exaggeration but you can see how much people loved him and they loved him really because it's not just his Elm it's that his heart was in it you know there's an and this is to show

you an example they say that there was a um this is how much how much he would give because giving you know in giving you receive he they they say you every alternating year he would go on Hajj and he had this personal thing where he would go one year he would go on a military Expedition he would go on a Jihad and then on one the following year would go on Hajj and then he would alternate these years and he was also an incredible incredible you know that background he came from because he was so wealthy and he grew up

he he had part of his upbringing he had trained well see in that day and age things like swordsmanship martial arts of that day and age fighting skills spear you know how to handle these things because he had luxury he had the money so he had trained really well in this stuff he was like an excellent swordsman and he was an excellent fighter of like the the the most elite uh League you can imagine now he would take every alternating year and the the fighting to give you an example

they there was there was an expedition that he was on where you know the old Arab systems of of battle they had this system which was called mubarak's uh a dualist mechanism so before a battle would begin a a a kind of like a fighter would a warrior would kind of put he would progress come forward and from the other side one would come forward and they'd have a jewel and they'd kind of so this was called Mubarak so they almost always did that the Arabs did and then if you want if one last another could come forward and they could keep

going until the duel ends whatever and then they would kind of have charge in so there was a mubaras are taking place where they say that um the Muslim uh Soldier had had kind of gone forward and you had the I I can't remember I think it may have been Roman um soldier from the other side and they say that the Muslim Soldier have lost very easily so another one comes forward and he loses now what this would do is it would really dampen the morale and a third comes forward and he loses

and now you can imagine people are like what the hell so there's this known Warrior amongst the Muslim ranks and he comes forward steps forward and says I will deal with him and he goes forward and he's going you know Toe to Toe with this Soldier and it's very close but he's he falls to the ground and is defeated and this almost almost puts out the light of Hope in the Muslim ranks and they say that at that stage a

Horseman comes forward with you know molest them face covered and he goes forward and he and he steps forward for the mubarzan the person says okay and they take and he defeats that Roman soldier and when he does a few only a handful of them that were watching Spectators rushed forward you're not meant to really do that in the Mubarak but they say maybe five or seven Rush forward and this covered swordsman takes them all on defeats them and then comes back and just disappears in the ranks and they're all trying to figure out who

it is and this one person says I I followed him and I I thought who the hell was that and I go right to and he goes into his his tent and he removes his thing it was Abdullah Mubarak I mean he was known in his day and age for just to give you an idea but we're speaking of the Hajj he was on his way to Hajj and he passes through sham and there was a certain area that had been hid by a pandemic um several months before and people in that in that region were starving

and he walks past this not walks past he goes past and he sees this woman uh ravaging through through the litter through rubbish and and she's she finds some carcass of some small kind of dead animal and she's taking and he sees this from a distance and and he goes up to her he's on his horse he goes up to her and he asked her what are you doing and she says like wow wow I'm just getting something he says what are you going to do with it and she says I'm gonna eat it

he is so hit by this like yes alarm all of his Hajj money he gives it to her and he says it and like he he gives it to her and he turns back and goes back he says you know Hajj another time Allah you see this is why people loved him he he was so you see it's really it's because that's what it's about Humanity it's not about it's it's you see the other things

everybody admires but this makes that difference they say that he on this occasion Haruna Rasheed had come to raqqa in sham and when he'd come in people obviously you know they go running oh like they you know that you get like crowds and crowds of people and just coincidentally that day uh Abdullah Mubarak was passing through he he too was coming to for something else he had arrived in raqqa for something else when people found out the crowds ran they went off they're like absolutely you know because

they knew he always gave he gave like with such an open heart he would just give and not even look back he'd give whatever he had such an open heart and people who have a heart like that Allah gives them from his unlimited resources this is a and he's he goes on to spend his years as a one of the greatest Scholars of Islam they say you know by his uh uh his deathbed at his Deathbed because he's con by the way he's considered

this is how high he is in Hadith and they say at his deathbed people ask him that who will there be for Hadith after you why are they asking this because there was an incident in um I think Haruna with Haruna Rasheed that they catch a particular person

um he's been up to he's been up to all kinds of stuff so they catch him and they about to persecute him and he says that he says so what you guys think you're so good he says you know I've already fabricated 3 000 Hadith and put them into circulation what a thing I don't want a thing to get to get people back huh he says he says so what you know I've already fabricated three thousand ahadith and put them into circulation ha

that's a bit like you know there's this story where of this Imam story from Pakistan what I heard that this they call this Imam to do Imam they said that you know what can you lead and we'll pay you such you know x amount of money at the end so he says oh okay then cool so so when it comes to the end they say to him that he goes he goes you know that money and the guy says what money because

you know to lead the Salah I just said that you know I just I just lied I just wanted you to lead the salaf rather slide and then he says huh he goes okay [Laughter] he says well all of you know that there were some days that I led the Salah without wudu what are you gonna do about that

this is so this guy had said look I fabricated 3 000 Hadith put them into circulation what you gonna do about it and they say that uh what foreign to as a project to go out and seek like to research the because Hadith was his Forte and find and they say he found this is what they say three thousand um fabricated narrations in circulation

and highlighted them this is why he was so such a like a dawn of this field so on his deathbed they asked him that they say who is there for the because remember he passes away 181. 179 Imam Malik has passed away see the great Legends have all passed away so they say yeah

who is there to serve this knowledge after you and he says Allah said Legends will be born for it Legends Allah see you all in good time that Allah has a Divine algorithm apply it's amazing you know this and speaking of

dreams we spoke earlier they say that somebody saw Imam in a dream after his death Imam Shafi is Junior too um up to like normal body can pass it away a few decades after him he passes away in 204 history so they say that they saw Imam Shafer and they asked him you know what what what came of you in the afterlife and he says you know alhamdulillah you know it's it's amazing in a state of bliss and they asked him in the dream

that what what about Abdullah Mubarak he says is in the divine presence of God Allah as in he's way ahead of us but he was such a legend of Islam yeah I'll tell you a an incident will wrap up this he had a great you know the thing about him is and you find this with a lot of the turbo I mean they had a great sense of humor you find that as time moves forward the scholars start to diminish their humor and they start to become more

kind of very serious all the time but in the salaf era the turbain especially have a great sense of humor you find people like shabby and all these people Abdullah Mubarak and all these and all these guys have a great sense of humor they always like tongue-in-cheek saying stuff and they're being like proper but they'll they'll do they'll say things and maybe not everybody will get it but some people might get the joke so yeah um so there's an incident where he you see

because he studied with Imam of hanifa loads and he did take from him although he traveled and had his own views he didn't restrict himself to Imam of hanifa's teaching but there's an incident um much later he comes back because he traveled a lot you see he's very wealthy he goes around travels around and he comes back to kufa on this particular incident and he's praying he meets Imam and he's praying next to Imam so both of them are praying and so they bring their Salah and everything and so when they finish is has like a smirk

[Laughter] so Abdullah Mubarak looks at him and he says like mabi she says what's up she says what's up with you like he asked Imam what honey what's up with you says to him that he says he says he says you know because

are you trying to fly away are you trying to Flap so you can like are you trying to fly away like meaning is that like your wings you're trying to fly so so some people burst out laughing and then he obviously replies like he says well you know he says you know he says if the first one doesn't help me take off then I'm sure the others are fine as well but this was their kind of banter they would they didn't really you know they didn't take these things too hard unlike

unfortunately people afterwards who miss the spirit that these people had but they were great um you know um Legends really so I hope that of some inspiration and but you know one of the major things you can learn from that if I could say two lessons that really anchor this great personality one is his his living example of giving

he had this heart that really just it just shown you know they were just light that he would give wherever he could and the other was understanding that all in good time he was somebody well into like he had reached his twenties he was not somebody who was interested in Islam or that kind of Legacy he was a poet he was you know living a luxurious kind of Lifestyle enjoying chilling but it wasn't by preaching it wasn't by somebody telling him you need to pray

you need to do this alcohol is Haram oh it was a realization this poetic quality this end it's not a it's not information it's an understanding so no new information was added to him it was a realization and that happens in its own time and Allah gives to whom he Wills I hope that's been of some help so shukran for that