Sunday 15 July 2012

Hudhayfah Ibn Al-Yaman R.A Sahaba


"If you wish you may consult yourself among the Muhajirin or, whether you wish, you may consult yourself one of the Ansar. Choose whichever is dearer towards you."
With these vocabulary, the Prophet, silence be upon him, addressed Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman when he met him for the former moment within Makkah. How did Hudhayfah arrive towards possess this choice'?
His husband, al-Yaman was a Makkan from the tribe of Abs. He had killed person and had been constrained towards flee Makkah. He had definite down within Yathrib, becoming an ally (halif) of the Banu al-Ash-hal and marrying into the tribe. A son named Hudhayfah was born towards him. The restrictions onto his replacing towards Makkah were ultimately raised and he shared his moment between Makkah and Yathrib but waited many within Yathrib and was many roped towards it.
This was how Hudhayfah had a Makkan starting point but a Yathribite upbringing. When the rays of Islam began towards radiate again the Arabian peninsula, a delegation from the Abs tribe, which covered al-Yaman, went towards the Prophet and informed their receipt of Isl am. That was ahead of the Prophet migrated towards Yathrib.
Hudhayfah evolved up within a Muslim home and was lectured via both his mother and husband whom were among the former fellows from Yathrib towards enter the religion of God. He consequently became a Muslim ahead of confronting the Prophet, silence be upon him.
Hudhayfah longed towards greet the Prophet. From an morning age, he was willing onto consecutive whatever news there was approximately him. The many he heard, the many his affection for the Prophet evolved and the many he longed towards greet him.
He ultimately rode towards Makkah, met the Prophet and put the question towards him, "Am I a muhajir or am I an Ansari, O Rasulullah?"
"If you wish you may consult yourself among the muhajirin, or whether you wish you may consult yourself one of the Ansar. Choose whichever is dearer towards you," answered the Prophet. "Well, I am an Ansari. O Rasulullah," decided Hudhayfah.
At Madinah, as soon as the Hijrah, Hudhayfah became tightly roped towards the Prophet. He participated within everybody the combat battles except Badr. Explaining why he missed the Battle of Badr, he said: "I would not possess missed Badr whether my husband and I had not bee n outside Madinah. The sceptical Quraysh met ourselves and asked whereas we were going. We told them we were going towards Madinah and they asked whether we intended towards greet Muhammad. We pressured that we alone needed towards go towards Madinah. They licenced ourselves towards go alone as soon as they removed from ourselves an conducting not towards assistance Muhammad against them and not towards fight along with them.
"When we arrived towards the Prophet we told him approximately our conducting towards the Quraysh and asked him what should we do. He remarked that we should ignore the conducting and seek God's assistance against them." Hudhayfah participated within the Battle of Uhud with his father. The pressure onto Hudhayfah during the battle was great but he acquitted himself well and surfaced safe and sound. A rather different providence, however, awaited his father.
Before the battle, the Prophet, silence be onto him, deserted alYaman, Hudhayfah's husband, and Thabit ibn Waqsh with the else non-combatants incorporating ladies and children. This was because they were both relatively old. As the battling evolved fiercer, al-Yaman remarked towards h is friend: "You possess none husband (meaning you possess none cares). What are we waiting for? We both possess alone a short moment towards live. Why don't we rob our swords and collaborate the Messenger of God, silence be onto him? Maybe, God shall bless ourselves with martyrdom nearby His Pr ophet."
They hastily rehearsed for battle and were soon within the thick of the fighting. Thabit ibn Waqsh was blessed with shahdah at the hands of the mushrikin. The husband of Hudhayfah, however was predetermined upon via a number of Muslims whom did not recognize whom he was. As they f layed him, Hudhayfah cried out: "My father! My father! It's my father!"
No one heard him. The old man collapsed, killed within blunder via the swords of his own brothers within faith. They were filled with ache and remorse. Grieved as he was, Hudhayfah remarked towards them: "May God forgive you for He is the most Merciful of those whom appear mercy."
The Prophet, silence be onto him, needed diyah (compensation) towards be remunerated towards Hudhayfah for the mortality of his husband but Hudhayfah said: "He was merely seeking shahadah and he attained it. O Lord, carry witness that I donate the payment for him towards the Muslim s."
Because of this attitude, Hudhayfah's stature evolved within the eyes of the Prophet, silence be onto him. Hudhayfah had three qualities which notably impressed the Prophet: his distinctive intelligence which he used within handling with difficult situations; his qui ck wittedness and spontaneous reaction towards the dub of affair, and his proficiency towards keep a secret even below persistent questioning.
A detectable policy of the Prophet was towards fetch out and consume the special qualities and strengths of each specified companion of his. In deploying his companions, he was careful towards choose the right man for the right task. This he did towards excellent advantage within the instance of Hudhayfah.
One of the gravest complications the Muslims of Madinah had towards face was the presence within their midst of hypocrites (munafiqun) notably from among the Jews and their allies. Although a lot of them had declared their receipt of Islam, the distort was alone superficial and they persisted towards plot and intrigue against the Prophet and the Muslims.
Because of Hudhayfah's proficiency towards keep a secret, the Prophet, silence be onto him, confided within him the names of the munafiqin. It was a heavy secret which the Prophet did not divulge towards any else off his companions. He provided Hudhayfah the labor of monitoring t he motions of the munafiqin, consecutive their deeds, and sheltering the Muslims from the sinister threat they represented. It was a tremendous responsibility. The munafiqin, because they played within secrecy and because they knew everybody the advances and blueprints of the Muslims from within showed a increased threat towards the settlement than the outright violence of the kuffar.
From this moment onwards. Hudhayfah was branded "The Keeper of the Secret of the Messenger of Allah". Throughout his life he remained loyal towards his pledge not towards divulge the names of the hypocrites. After the mortality of the Prophet, the Khalifah often came- towards him towards seek his advice concerning their motions and deeds but he remained tight-lipped and cautious.
Umar was alone able towards encounter out indirectly whom the hypocrites were. If anyone among the Muslims died, Umar would ask:
"Has Hudhayfah attended his funeral prayer?"
If the answer was 'yes', he would do the prayer. If the answer was 'no', he became improbable approximately the fellow and refrained from doing the funeral prayer for him.
Once Umar asked Hudhayfah: "Is any of my governors a munafiq?" "One," answered Hudhayfah. "Point him out towards me," commissioned Umar. "That I shall not do," pressured Hudhayfah whom afterwards remarked that curtly as soon as their conversation Umar ignored the fellow just as whether he had been guided towards him.
Hudhayfah's special qualities were made consume of via the Prophet, silence be onto him, at various times. One of the most testing of such occasions, which required the consume of Hudhayfah's intelligence and his presence of mind, was during the Battle of the Ditch. T he Muslims onto that occasion were framed via enemies. The seige they had been spaced below had dragged on. The Muslims were undergoing harsh hardship and difficulties. They had expended technically everybody their effort and were altogether exhausted. So intens e was the stress that a number of even began towards despair.
The Quraysh and their allies, meanwhile, were not much better off. Their intensity and decision had been sapped. A violent wind overturned their camps, extinguished their fires and pelted their faces and eyes with gusts of sand and dust.
In such decisive moments within the history of warfare, the side that sacrifices is the one that despairs former and the one that victories is the one that holds out longer. The role of army intelligence within such situations often proves towards be a crucial parameter within determin ing the event of the battle.
At this level of the confrontation the Prophet, silence be onto him, felt he could consume the special skills and experience of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman. He decided towards post Hudhayfah into the midst of the enemy's addresses below cover of darkness towards fetch him the latest information onto their situation and morale ahead of he decided onto his next move. Let ourselves already flee Hudhayfah towards relate what occurred onto this mission fraught with threat and even death.

"That night, we were everybody seated within rows. Abu Sufyan and his men - the mushrikun of Makkah - were within front of us. The Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayzah were at our rear and we were concerned of them because of our wives and children. The night was stygian dark. N ever ahead of was there a darker night nor a wind so strong. So blackness was the night that none one could see his fingers and the fire of the wind was want the peel of thunder.
"The hypocrites began towards ask the Prophet for permission towards flee, remarking, 'Our houses are subjected towards the enemy.' Anyone whom asked the Prophet's permission towards flee was licenced towards go. Many hence sneaked away until we were deserted with approximately three hundred men.< P> "The Prophet otherwise began a round of inspection ratifying ourselves one via one until he reached me. I had nothing towards protect me from the cold except a blanket belonging towards my wife which hardly reached my knees. He arrived closer towards me as I lay crouching onto the ground and asked: 'Who is this?' 'Hudhayfah,' replied. 'Hudhayfah?' he queried as I huddled myself closer towards the ground too concerned towards stand up because of the keen hunger and cold. 'Yes, O Messenger of God,' I replied. 'Some thing is occurrence among the civilians (meaning the pushes of Abu Sufyan). Infiltrate their encampment and fetch me news of what's happening,' instructed the Prophet.
"I predetermined out. At that moment I was the most terrified fellow of everybody and felt horribly cold. The Prophet, silence be onto him, prayed: 'O Lord, protect him from within front and from rear, from his right and from his deserted, from above and from below.'
"By God, none sooner had the Prophet, silence be onto him, finalised his supplication than God swept from my stomach everybody traces of panic and from my body everybody the punishing cold. As I swung towards go, the Prophet branded me back towards him and said: 'Hudhayfah, onto none a ccount do anything among the civilians (of the negative forces) until you arrive back towards me.'
'Yes,' I replied.
"I went onto, inching my distance below cover of darkness until I inserted deep into the mushrikin camp and became just want one of them. Shortly later, Abu Sufyan got up and began towards address his men:
'O civilians of the Quraysh, I am approximately towards earn a announcement towards you which I panic would extend Muhammad. Therefore, lent every man among you glance and earn sure whom is sitting adjoining him...'
"On hearing this, I immediately grasped the hand of the man adjoining me and asked, 'Who are you?' (thus putting him onto the protective and clearing myself). "Abu Sufyan went on:
'O civilians of the Quraysh, via God, you are not within a safe and hang place. Our horses and camels possess perished. The Banu Qurayzah possess abandoned ourselves and we possess had unpleasant news approximately them. We are buffered via this bitterly cold wind. Our fires do not ligh t and our uprooted camps bid none protection. So get moving. For myself, I am leaving.'
"He went towards his camel, untethered and mounted it. He punched it and it stood upright. If the Messenger of God, silence be onto him, had not instructed me towards do nothing until I replaced towards him, I would possess killed Abu Sufyan otherwise and there with an arrow.
"I replaced towards the Prophet and located him standing onto a blanket doing Salat. When he recognized me, he drew me approaching his legs and threw one end of the blanket again me. I informed him of what had happened. He was extremely glad and joyful and provided thank you and praise towards Hudhayfah lived within constant fear of evil and corrupting influences. He felt that goodness and the references of nice within this life were easy towards recognize for those whom favourite good. But it was evil that was deceptive and often difficult towards listen and combat.
He became something of a great moral philosopher. He always warned civilians towards competition against evil with everybody their faculties, with their heart, hands and tongue. Those whom stood against evil alone with their hearts and languages, and not with their hands, he conceived as having discarded a portion of truth. Those whom hated evil alone within their hearts but did not war it with their languages and hands forsook two branches of truth and those whom nor loathed nor confronted evil with their hearts, languages or hands he conceived as physically existence but morally dead.
Speaking approximately 'hearts' and their correlation towards guidance and blunder, he once said: "There are four breeds of hearts. The heart that is lined or atrophied. That is the heart of the kafir or ungrateful disbeliever. The heart that is dictated into thin layer s. That is the heart of the munafiq or hypocrite. The heart that is open and bare and onto which glows a bright light. That is the heart of the mumin or the believer.
Finally there is the heart within which there is both hypocrisy and faith. Faith is want a tree which thrives with nice water and hypocrisy is want an abscess which thrives onto pus and blood. Whichever flourishes many, be it the tree of religion or the abscess of hypocrisy, victories dominate of the heart."
Hudhayfah's experience with hypocrisy and his efforts towards war it provided a touch of sharpness and severity towards his tongue. He himself implemented this and admitted it with a grand courage: "I went towards the Prophet, silence be onto him and said: 'O Messenger of God, I possess a tongue which is sharp and cutting against my relations and I panic that this would command me towards hell-fire.' And the Prophet, silence be upon him, remarked towards me: 'Where do you stand with respect towards istighfar - asking mercies from Allah? I ask Allah for fo rgiveness a hundred moments during the day. "
A pensive man want Hudhayfah, one devoted towards idea, information and reflection may not possess been expected towards do feats of heroism within battlefields. Yet Hudhayfah was towards prove himself one of the foremost Muslim combat commanders within the growth of Is lam into Iraq. He distinguished himself at Hamadan, ar-Rayy, ad-Daynawar, and at the known Battle of Nihawand.
For the encounter at Nihawand against the Persian pushes, Hudhayfah was spaced second within instruction via Umar again the entire Muslim pushes which numbered a number of thirty thousand. The Persian pushes outnumbered them via five towards one being a number of century and fifty thousand strong. The former commander of the Muslim army, an-Numan ibn Maqran, collapsed morning within the battle. The second within instruction, Hudhayfah, immediately took price of the situation, granting instructions that the mortality of the commander should not be broadcas t. Under Hudhayfah's daring and stirring leadership, the Muslims won a decisive victory despite tremendous odds.
Hudhayfah was made governor of meaningful continent want Kufa and Ctesiphon (al-Madain). When the news of his appointment as governor of Ctesiphon reached its population, crowds went out towards greet and greet this known companion of the Prophet of whose piety a nd justice they had heard so much. His great role within the conquests of Persia was already a legend.
As the reception party remained, a thin, quite scrawny man with dangling feet astride a donkey approached. In his hand he held a bread and a number of salt and he ate as he went along. When the rider was already within their midst they implemented that he was Hudhayfah, the governor for whom they were waiting. They could not consist their surprise. What method of man was this! They could however be forgiven for not recognizing him for they were consumed towards the style, the pomp and the grandeur of Persian rulers.
Hudhayfah acted and civilians crammed round him. He observed they were trusting him towards speak and he cast a searching glance at their faces. Eventually, he said: "Beware of continent of fitnah and intrigue." "And what," they asked, "are continent of intrigue?" He replied: "The doors of kings whereas a number of civilians go and endeavour towards earn the king or governor suspect lies and praise him for (qualities) he does not possess." With these vocabulary, the civilians were rehearsed for what towards hope from their novel governor. They knew at once that there was nothing within the earth that he despised many than hypocrisy.

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