Abu Bakr As-Siddique

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the dramatic events of the morning of 17 Ramaḍān 2 AH, as both armies lined up at Badr, from the straightening of ranks to th…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi relates two peripheral incidents from the lead-up to the Battle of Badr, each carrying a principle with lasting relevance. **Incident…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the opening moments of the Battle of Badr and the Prophet's ﷺ own role in the fighting, a topic that generated scholarly disc…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates what happened on the Muslim side as they marched toward Badr and discovered they would not be meeting a caravan of 40 guards…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the night before the Battle of Badr, a night of extraordinary spiritual intensity, Divine mercy, and Prophetic vigil. **The…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi explains the theological and strategic framework behind the early Muslim military expeditions. He emphasizes this is descriptive histo…

Dr. Yasir Qadhi narrates the most important consultation (*Shūrā*) of the early Muslim state, the moment when the Prophet ﷺ asked his 315-man army, no…

Speaker introduction: Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq is the closest companion of the Prophet (SAW) and is regarded as the greatest of all companions. This story c…

At some point on the desert journey from Makkah to Madinah, after ʿAbdullāh ibn Urayqiṭ the guide had led them to the familiar road and departed, a ca…

The Banū Shayban ibn Thaʿlabah were a distinguished Arab tribe from northeast Arabia, living in the borderlands adjacent to the Persian Sassanid Empir…

Bilāl ibn Abī Rabāḥ رضي الله عنه was an Abyssinian slave owned by Umayya ibn Khalaf of the Banū Jumah clan, and Umayya had a sadistic streak that the…

Ibn ʿAbbās said that Allāh revealed one āyah describing the night of the Hijrah. It is Sūrat al-Anfāl, verse 30: *Wa-idh yamkuru bika lladhīna kafarū…

After the Prophet ﷺ slipped past his would-be assassins and made his way to Abū Bakr's house, the two of them rode out into the darkness, heading due…

Speaker note: This covers the return journey to Mecca, the Prophet's ﷺ announcement to the Quraysh, the miracle of the Baitul Maqdis image, and Abu Ba…

The Kindah were one of the most historically prestigious Arab tribes. They once had something approaching a kingdom, a political structure rare in Ara…

**Arrival Date** There is genuine scholarly uncertainty about the exact date the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Madinah. The 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal is frequent…

One of the first acts of the Prophet ﷺ in Madinah, even before the Masjid al-Nabawī was built, was the institution of **al-Muʾākhah** (المُؤَاخَاة): t…

When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم went public with the Dawah, the social architecture of Makkah determined who bore the consequences. Everything in…

The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was not immune to physical harm in Makkah. While the Quraysh generally tolerated some limits, knowing that the Banū Hās…

For days, the Anṣār had been going out of the city every morning toward what is now **Qubāʾ**, the first settlement outside the city gates, waiting an…

This is ʿĀʾishah's narration in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, her earliest memory of the Hijrah, told from the perspective of a girl of six or seven, sitting insi…

Surāqah ibn Mālik narrated this story himself, in the first person, after he accepted Islam. It is recorded in the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad. **The bounty…

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib narrated: "I do not know of anyone who performed the Hijrah publicly except for ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb." Every other Muslim who emig…

Umm Maʿbad narrates this story herself, and she later became a Muslim. She was an elderly Bedouin woman living with her husband in a tent at a place…

The Tribute to Mutim ibn Adi Before deciding the fate of the prisoners, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam walked among them surveying their fac…

Three Wisdoms of Allah's Correction on Prisoners The previous lesson established that Allah corrected the Prophet's decision to ransom the Badr priso…

One of the most remarkable features of the Battle of Badr is that on the very same day, in the same twenty-four-hour period, thousands of miles away,…

Context: Revelation at Badr Sūrat al-Anfāl (Q 8) is often called 'the Quran of Badr.' Virtually every verse of its 75 āyāt is connected to the events…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As the false rumor of the Prophet's (ﷺ) death spread, small groups of Ṣaḥābah began searching desperately for him. The f…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The final confirmation that the battle had ended came through a public exchange between Abū Sufyān and the Muslims. Havi…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Concerned that the retreating Quraysh might regroup and turn back to finish what they started, the Prophet (ﷺ) announced…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Ḥafṣah bint ʿUmar, born a few years before the daʿwah began, had married young, around eleven or twelve, to Khunays ibn…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ZAYNAB BINT KHUZAYMAH Zaynab bint Khuzaymah al-Hilāliyyah, of the Banū Hilāl of Najd rather than Quraysh, was already k…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Umm Salamah, Hind bint Abī Umayyah of Banū Makhzūm, was married to Abū Salamah (ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbd al-Asad), the Prophet…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: BACKGROUND TENSIONS By the time of their expulsion, Banū al-Naḍīr already carried a history of friction with the Muslim…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After the public assembly, the Prophet (ﷺ) came to ʿĀʾishah's parents' house together with Abū Bakr and ʿUmar to speak w…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ABŪ BAKR AND MISṬAḤ Abū Bakr had long financially supported his poor relative Misṭaḥ ibn Uthāthah, a fellow veteran of…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: At ʿUsfān, roughly midway to Makkah, Busr ibn Sufyān returned with his report: Quraysh had learned of the Prophet's ﷺ de…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: When Budayl's mission failed to move Quraysh, ʿUrwah ibn Masʿūd al-Thaqafī, a senior leader of Thaqīf present in Makkah,…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The treaty's terms, dictated largely by Suhayl and written by ʿAlī, were: a ten-year truce with no fighting between the…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: ʿUmar voiced what many Companions were feeling. He went to the Prophet ﷺ with a string of rhetorical questions: "Are you…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The fiqh lessons of al-Ḥudaybiyyah: **Peace treaties with even the worst enemy** Quraysh were the worst enemy the Umma…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **TEN DAYS AT AL-NĀʿIM** The tribes of Khaybar locked themselves inside their separate fortresses, and therein lay thei…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **FEED THE GRIEVING, DON'T BE FED BY THEM** The Prophet ﷺ ordered that food be prepared for Jaʿfar's household, iṣnaʿū…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: A few weeks after Muʾtah, in the winter of the 8th year of the Hijrah, the Prophet ﷺ sent out one of the small expeditio…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Realising the treaty was broken, Quraysh sent Abū Sufyān to Medina to beg its renewal, the chief who for a decade had en…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Perhaps the oldest man alive in Mecca was Abū Quḥāfah, Abū Bakr's father, blind, barely able to walk, and long opposed t…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: At twelve thousand, never so many before, a Muslim boasted, "How can we be beaten today?" The Prophet ﷺ rebuked it, tell…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The first category is miracles with inanimate things, not animals, food, or drink, but stones and the like. In Ṣaḥīḥ al-…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The expedition's second and, among the Companions, more common name is Jaysh al-ʿUsrah, the Army of Hardship, Bukhārī he…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Six months earlier the Prophet ﷺ had held the whole treasure of Ḥunayn and Ṭāʾif in his hands, and had given every coin…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: **The man of the two coarse cloths** A bijād was a cheap, coarse woollen sack-cloth; bijādayn is two of them; and dhū m…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After the killing of ʿUrwah ibn Masʿūd, the people of Ṭāʾif were terrified. His blood was on their hands, their conscien…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Another story, from one of the tribes of Azd, and this one is a miracle, each of these small delegations carries its own…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Having jumped ahead to gather the delegations, we now step back in the chronology to the next great event of the ninth y…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: As soon as Abū Bakr had left Medina, within a few hours, before he had even reached the *mīqāt* of Dhū al-Ḥulayfah, whic…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: This ninth-year Ḥajj was the one and only time in all of history that Muslims and idolaters performed Ḥajj side by side,…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: After the Farewell Ḥajj the Prophet ﷺ returned to Medina in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the tenth year, and this was his final jour…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Around the fifth day of his sickness, six or seven days before he passed, he asked for buckets of water from a particula…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: Now it is Monday, the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, and the fever is at its fiercest. He is passing in and out of consciousnes…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: So many elegies were written, *rithāʾ*, the poetry of mourning and praise for the departed, by Ḥassān ibn Thābit, poet o…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The Prophet ﷺ died Monday morning, the 12th of Rabīʿ al-Awwal, after Fajr. Within hours the Anṣār began to gather, not b…

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains: The private bayʿah at the Saqīfah settled the matter among the senior Muhājirūn and Anṣār within hours of the death, a m…

The first phase of the Dawah was not public. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم moved carefully, privately, speaking only to those who were closest to him…

Despite all the blessings of Madinah, its lush date palms, its water, its generous and welcoming Anṣār, the early Muhājirūn did not love Madinah. Not…