The Story of Abu Qudama & the
Young Boy
This is a story which
shocked me walahyAlazeem and it is
a story which existed in about the
10thC in the Islamic era.In that time enemies of Islam who were
ruthless were attacking the
Muslims in a place called Al-riqah in
Iraq. And they had invaded
the homes, and raped the women
and stole their children, and killed the old men. This is in history
b/c they said our lord is Allah. After
doing so, there was a man at that
time who existed.
He was a great scholar, and a great
leader in battles. His only cause and motive was to defend the
Muslims wherever they
may be, wherever they were killed or
oppressed. His name
was Abu Qudamah This man Abu
Qudamah, and he was very courageous. He was once sitting in a
masjid when a group of people came up
to him and
said to him "Ya Abu Qudamah we
have free time right now, can
you tell us of an amazing story that happened during your time.
We want to hear the most unusual,
and interesting story ever
to be heard. Can you entertain us ya
Aba Qudamah, and make us
come closer to Allah (swt).?" And then Aba Qudamah sat for a while
and gathered them. When everyone
was silent, like you
are right now he said to them, "I
recall one of the most shocking
stories that ever happened. Until today I dont know how to
explain it. He said One time I went to
that place, Al-riqah in Iraq and I
stood up in the masjid and I went
out to the city to recruit
soldiers who are ready to defend the stories of Al-riqah, to
stand guard over there and if the
enemy attacks to be strong
enough to defend the women and
children. As Allah says in the
quran, "What is wrong with you O'Believers that you dont stand and
fight for the cause of Allah when the
weak and feeble
people are calling out, O'Allah send people
to save us" We are
responsible for the weak ones, whenever and wherever they
may be. And so he began to recruit
people , only a few gathered
with him and so he began to ask for
wealth and money. After
the day had ended he rented a small apartment, a little place to stay in.
He said, "I went into this place and I
stayed there and
then just after ishaa prayer, when I
was praying my night
prayer, and I was about to pray my witr when all of a sudden
in the middle of the night, it was so
quiet you could hear the
crickets outside, when my door began
to knock. I said,
"SubhanAllah nobody knows me here, I've just arrived yesterday and already
my door is knocking, ya'nee someone
is
knocking at my door. So I slowly went
and opened the door
and in front of me there stood a woman I could not see her face
b/c she had covered all her body,
everything. And while she was
covering her hand she reached out
her hand
and before she opened it she asked, "Are you the man who was
calling out for recruitments today?
Were you the man who was
gathering wealth in order to go and
guard our borders and
protect us?". I said "Yes". "You were the one calling to Jihad?". I
said, "Yes, I am". So she said, "Please
open your hand". And he opened his
hand and she dropped a piece of
cloth which was
wrapped up into his hand. And she said, "Take this- it is an
amanah. It is a trust" And she ran
off. Thats all she said. I
wanted to ask her many other
questions. So I went inside and
opened that cloth and I found a piece of paper with something
written on it and a thick lock of hair.
I read the paper, and the paper said,
"Today you were calling out for
recruitments to
fight with you and protect the weak ppl. I am a woman and
unable to fight, and I dont have
enough wealth to give you. So
my heart was struck with shock and
sorrow when I did not
have anything to give you. So I went home and cut a lock of
my hair and that is the one you see
in this cloth. The only thing which I
can give to the cause of this, is my
lock of hair. I ask
you to please use it was your rein, (ya'nee the rope that would
steer the horse), so that maybe Allah
will recognize this and
know I was fighitng with you in that
jihad. [Even though taking
a lock of hair, of a woman's and giving it to a man is not allowed
in Islam but her jihad spirit had
reached that state and it could not
stop her] And she said, "Tomorrow
someone will come to
you, he is a recruitment. See if he is worthy. And that is it" He
said, SubhanAllah. What kind of a
woman is this? He said, so I
took the lock of hair and I did put it
onto my reins. And in the morning I
gathered my troops and we went out into
the battlefields. When we reached
the battlefield, ya'nee the
borders, we noticed that a group of
army after a day began to
make their way towards us. And so I got the army ready and I
told them to stand guard. As we were
about to move forward, I
heard a voice from a far distance
calling out, "Ya Amee Abu Qudamah!
Ya Amee Abu Qudamah entathernee (wait for me my
uncle)!!!" He looked back and he
found a fierce warrior on his
horse galloping fiercely towards him
and he had his face
covered. As soon as this man approached him, Abu Qudamah
looked at him and said, "How can I
help you?" He said, "Wait for
me. Alhamdulilah, Alhamdulilah it
was written for me to meet you and
unite with you. He said, "Calm down, calm down and take a
deep breath." He said, "You don't
understand. I made a duaa all
my life
to have this opportunity and I
thought you were going to beat me. Allah (swt) decreed that I was
going to unite with you.
Alhamduilah! Alhamduilah!" He said,
"Ask me, what do you want?" He said,
"I want to fight with you. I want to
have part in this" And then Abu Qudamah said
to him, "Show me your
face, I want to know who you are!"
And then he reluctantly
took the cloth off his face and Abu
Qudamah said, And I looked at his face and before me was the
most beautiful face I had ever
laid eyes on. The face of a young
man; about 17 or 18 years of age. His
face was like the full moon in its
brightness. And I noticed that he was young. I said, "Son, what
experience do you have?
How can you come to fight with us?
No, you are not allowed to
come and fight with us, you are too
young. Return back." He said, "But my mother came to you
last night?" He said, "Your
mother? He said, "Yes, my mother."
He said, "Who is your mother?" And
he said, "She was the one who gave
you a lock of her hair. And she told you to look
after me." He said, "Is that
YOUR mother?" He said,
"Na'3am" {yes}. He said, "You should
go back and look after her, son. Dont
come here and fight." And he started to hold unto him, the
young boy and he said to him,
"No Abu Qudamah, No! My father
fought in jihad and I want to fight
too. I want to defend. Please accept
me! I have great experience. I have fought many
battles, and I am an experienced
horse rider. I am a really good,
experienced person. Wallahy you
will find me that I am able to help
you alot. When he insisted on him, and he insisted on him Abu
Qudamah looked at him and
said, "Okay, if you are insisting on
traveling along with us then you have
to stand in the last line.And your
work is to prepare food for the soldiers". He said, "Fair
enough. I'll do that." So
they went out and sorry the enemy
was not approaching, they
had news of the enemy approaching.
And so the time of lunch came and the soldiers wanted to eat
and he sent out this young man, his
name was Muhammad, to
go and prepare the meal. And then
when about 1 or 2 hours
passed no food has arrived. So Abu Qudamah said, so I went
searching for him and what had kept
him so long. And when I
arrived I found the pot was boiling in
front of him and he was asleep
beside it. I said, SubhanAllah he must be very tired
because he said during the whole
day he was the most active of
all the men, he would race after this
one and race after that one
and help this person and help that person. He was very active
during the day. I became amazed at
how agile this young boy
is, how enthusiastic this young man
is. So I thought, I felt sorry for him
and I thought maybe he needs some rest. So I did
not interfere and I did not disturb
him, And I began to prepare
and finish and complete off the meal
by myself. But as I was
stirring he said, I heard a small sound coming from him so I
looked immediately at him. All of a
sudden I see his face begin to
smile. He was asleep. After a few
moments, his smile grew. A few
moments later his teeth began to show. And then even a few
moments later he began to laugh in
laughter and giggle. As he
was laughing, his laughter was
intensifying until finally he
awoke. Suddenly, he saw me in front of him with open eyes
and his smile immediately faded
away. As though he was shocked that
I was there in front of him, and
he did not want me to be there; as
though he had a secret. And then he got up immediately and said,
"Ya Amee' I am sorry I did
not know I had gone to sleep. Please
you dont have to prepare
the food, please let me!" Abu
Qudamah said, "No, you sit down! Walahi I will not let you do anything
until you tell me why you were
laughing." He said," I was laughing?"
He said,"Yes you
were laughing! Your laughter could
reach a few meters away." "Ya Amee, Abu Qudamah. Since you
saw me laughing and you
will not let me go I will tell you what
I was dreaming about but
you have to keep it a secret between
you and I. For if I tell you, maybe Allah will not accept my
reward for coming here, maybe it will
be insincere." He said,"Please tell me,
I am listening with open
ears." {I really wanted to know what
he was seeing in his dream} And then the young boy said,
" I slipped and then I
noticed as if the last hour had come,
the world ended and the
day of judgement came. Everybody
was looking up into the sky... 'Khushe'aat Absaroohum. And
then all of a sudden, I hear a voice
calling out: 'Grab Mohammad and
take him to Paradise'
Amongst everyone a light came to me
and took me away. And then there was a man next to me, a
very handsome man. His
light emanating from his face until it
reached the far corners of
what I could see, and he took me into
Jannah. And I asked him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am
one of your servants whom Allah has
made for you in Jannah in the
palace" I said, "where are
you taking me?" And then he began
to smile, and said, "I am taking you to your wealth and to your
family and to your
belongings & possessions in your
palace in jannah." And his
smile grew more (Muhammads). And
then when he reached the great gates & the great doors of his last
position, he said, "I cannot enter
here. For you have women inside and
I am not allowed to set eyes upon
them." His smile grew more. And so
he entered, and he said, "And then I found many beautiful women, their
light was so great that I thought that
if they show their light on earth they
would light the whole earth. And
they grabbed my arm and took me
away. And I thought, "Are you my wives?" And they said, "No, no, no.
We are just your servants. But you
have your princess waiting inside on
a khidr, inside the tent reclining on
the silk sheets waiting for you." And
so I entered, and all of a sudden I see a woman that almost made my
soul escape from my body. And I said
to her, "Who are you?" And the smile
grew when his teeth began to show.
And she said, "I am whom Allah has
promised you. I am your wife in Jannah. I am the one who Allah has
gifted to you." 'Wa ma tadry ma
Ukhfeya lahum min quraaty a'yun'
And no Mu'min what Allah has gifted
for them in Jannah. And then he
said, he came and extended his arm to touch her and then she grabbed
his arm and returned it back gently
and she said to him, "No Ya
Muhammad! Not now. I ask Allah to
save you from any bad acts, I am not
yours yet, and it is because you have saved yourself from haram acts with
other women Allah gave me to you.
So keep yourself pure, ya Muhammad!
Wa maw3edunah Ghadaan 3enda Al-
Futoor. Our meeting is tomorrow and
we shall break our fast together [because Muhammad used to fast
every other day, one day on one day
off] And then he said, when she was
speaking to me I began to laugh and
I really wanted to approach her and
she would say "no ya Mohammad, not now!" and I began to laugh and laugh
until I woke up. That is my story, Ya
Amee Abu Qudamah! Please keep it a
secret between you and me otherwise
my rewards will be gone. He said, "Its
my secret." Abu Qudamah, said I kept my eyes open watching this young
boy. The next day the enemy arrived;
it was fierce and we attacked and
charged. I looked behind me where
Muhammad was supposed to be
standing and all of sudden he was right in the front. And he did not
have any experience in fighting
because he could not hold his sword.
Muhammd had decieved Abu
Qudamah in saying he has
experience. He said, I could not reach him anymore but he was right in the
frontline. And he would call out the
message of his mother "Ya Ibnee etha
Laqetahum falaa tuwalyhim duburak
(My son if you meet them, dont run
away and show them your back) Allahu Akbar!" He would call out like
that. And he would fight whoever
would hold a sword against him and
against the Muslims. He would
protect that person and then that
person, until finally Abu Qudamah says that so much dust came into my
eyes I lost sight of him. I do not
know where he was. Finally Allah gave
us victory because we were fighting
for a noble cause, and at the end of
the victory we started looking for our martyrs. And then I just wanted to
find, Muhammad the young boy. I
did not care about anyone else, I
kept searching and searching; when
all of a sudden I see at a distance a
young boy holding out his arm saying "Amee, Amee" And I could barely hear
him. So I ran to him as fast as I
could, and I grabbed his beautiful
head as though he were my son and
I looked at his face, at a face that was
once youthful, at a face that was once beautiful, at a face that was so
handsome and a body so young and
strong. The horses had trampled him,
the wheels had crushed his
bones....his face was undescribable.
And he was holding a piece of his shirt, which was ripped and he was
taking deep breaths, dying. And then
Abu Qudamah held his face and he
began to cry, "He said my son I told
you the war is very fierce. Didn't I
tell you that the battle is not what you think! And didnt I tell you that
you are still young. I told you my
son, and you had to go forward! Why
have you dont this to yourself!" And
he looked at me and said to me,
"Amee Abu Qudamah: "This is what my mother raised me for, my father
died in this cause as well. Do you
want to deny me, and you all of all
people Amee Abu Qudamah. You are
telling me to go back when Allah says
in the Quran 'And what do you fear, fighting for his cause'". He said to
me, "Ya Amee this is what I want.
Wallahy I can see my palaces in front
of me. If only you could see what I
could see Ya Amee!!!" And then he
said, "But I require one thing of you: My mother when you reach her, she
will be very saddened and she may
not believe you that I have died in
the cause of Allah. So I want you to
take this piece of my shirt and show
it to her so that she can relieve her sadness and know that I am in
Jannah. And once she is raised, she
will also be in Jannah with me. Let
her know, that 'Do not be saddened
my mother, I died and you will be
with me forever in eternity in Jannah. My mother I died in the cause of
Allah, now it will be a guarantee that
you will be with me and we will be
together with my father' He said,
"Because nothing else will calm her
heart" He said, "Ya Amee, Abu Qudamah I also have a young sister.
Her name is Fatimah, and she is only
8 years old. She has grown up with
me to love me very much when my
father passed away and I lover her
extremely. However, my A'3m her love I have never seen before. She is too
attached to me, when you reach her
please try to look after her, please try
to calm her down. Please try to say
soothing words to her, for I fear her
consequence. She loves me too much; and dont show her my shirt." Abu
Qudamah promised, and while he was
holding him in his arms young
Muhammad began to smile and his
smile grew, and then it grew even
more and then even more until he began to giggle with laughter, and he
said, "Ya Amee Abu Qudamah La Elah
Illa Allah eny laa'jedu Al- Mardeyatah
Janbee {The women he saw in his
dreams had a name, Mardeya 'The
Pleasing one'}" He said, "Ya Amee Abu Qudamah, look at her she has just
come down from the sky and she is
lying beside me holding my hand,
she is waiting for me ya A3m. Allah
sadaqanee wa3dah. He gave me what
he has promised. I am going to Jannah with Mardeya. She will keep
me company ya Amee Abu Qudamah.
Our secret between you and I" And
then he died while he was biting
onto his lip, and saying "Ya Amee
remember our secret." And he died, and went to Allah (subhanahu
watallah). A noble death. And then
Abu Qudamah went back to the
village in al-riqah and all the women
went out to meet the mujahideen.
And then came the mother of Muhammad searching for him, and as
she came up to Abu Qudamah she
said to him, "My son? Where is my
son?" Abu Qudamah looked at her
and said, "He passed away and He
fought in the frontlines without returning back and he did what you
had advised him and trained him to
do."And she said. "I dont believe
you!" just as her son said. And then
he said, "But he told me to give you
his shirt." And she looked at his shirt and examined it and she knew the
blood and the stains of her young
son, Mohammad. And then she cried
and put her hands up to Allah and
she said, "Alhamdulilah, the one who
has saved my son. I will now be reunited with him and my husband.
But before that Abu Qudamah saw
something, a young girl fluttering like
a butterfly touching this man and
looking at him then touching that
man and looking at him then turning another man around and examing his
face like a young child does. And Abu
Qudamah knew this was Fatimah
looking for her brother, Muhammad.
And so I went up to Fatimah and I
grabbed her and I hugged her and kissed her and I said to her, "What
are you looking for?" and she said,
"My brother Muhammad. Where's
Muhammad? Where's Muhammad?Do
you know where Muhammad is, my
brother? Do you know where he is? I love him. I want to see him, and he
promised me he will return" {because
Muhammad said to Abu Qudamah
before he died that I promised my
sister I was going to return otherwise
she would never have left me but I am not going to return. She said,
"But he promised me that he is going
to come back. Where is he?" Abu
Qudamah started to cry, he said,
"Fatimah, your brother says Asalamu
Alaikum to you and he says that soon your going to meet him in jannah
inshallah." She said, "Jannah? Did he
die?"Abu Qudamah said, "Yes, but he
died a noble cause....before he could
finish this word Fatimah took a very
deep breathe and she fell unconscious to the ground. He came
to pick her up, but her mother raced
to her and she said leave her. She
took her daughter away and into the
room. Abu Qudamah knocked and
knocked but he was too late. He heard the mother inside crying and
saying, "My husband died for your
cause and he is in jannah inshallah.
My son, I have sacrificed him for you
Ya Allah and I have raised him.
Please do no deny me my unity and presence with him in Jannah. And
now, my daughter has passed away
and followed her brother. Ya Allah my
husband, my son, and my daughter
they are all to you---Ena LillAllah wa
Ena Elayhi Rajeeon, To Allah we belong and to him we shall return!
O'Allah guarantee me a place in
jannah with them, O'Allah unite me
with them" And she began to cry
until her voice faded away into the
darkness. Abu Qudamah kept on knocking but she would not open for
him, so he said so I left her and I
went away.
Young Boy
This is a story which
shocked me walahyAlazeem and it is
a story which existed in about the
10thC in the Islamic era.In that time enemies of Islam who were
ruthless were attacking the
Muslims in a place called Al-riqah in
Iraq. And they had invaded
the homes, and raped the women
and stole their children, and killed the old men. This is in history
b/c they said our lord is Allah. After
doing so, there was a man at that
time who existed.
He was a great scholar, and a great
leader in battles. His only cause and motive was to defend the
Muslims wherever they
may be, wherever they were killed or
oppressed. His name
was Abu Qudamah This man Abu
Qudamah, and he was very courageous. He was once sitting in a
masjid when a group of people came up
to him and
said to him "Ya Abu Qudamah we
have free time right now, can
you tell us of an amazing story that happened during your time.
We want to hear the most unusual,
and interesting story ever
to be heard. Can you entertain us ya
Aba Qudamah, and make us
come closer to Allah (swt).?" And then Aba Qudamah sat for a while
and gathered them. When everyone
was silent, like you
are right now he said to them, "I
recall one of the most shocking
stories that ever happened. Until today I dont know how to
explain it. He said One time I went to
that place, Al-riqah in Iraq and I
stood up in the masjid and I went
out to the city to recruit
soldiers who are ready to defend the stories of Al-riqah, to
stand guard over there and if the
enemy attacks to be strong
enough to defend the women and
children. As Allah says in the
quran, "What is wrong with you O'Believers that you dont stand and
fight for the cause of Allah when the
weak and feeble
people are calling out, O'Allah send people
to save us" We are
responsible for the weak ones, whenever and wherever they
may be. And so he began to recruit
people , only a few gathered
with him and so he began to ask for
wealth and money. After
the day had ended he rented a small apartment, a little place to stay in.
He said, "I went into this place and I
stayed there and
then just after ishaa prayer, when I
was praying my night
prayer, and I was about to pray my witr when all of a sudden
in the middle of the night, it was so
quiet you could hear the
crickets outside, when my door began
to knock. I said,
"SubhanAllah nobody knows me here, I've just arrived yesterday and already
my door is knocking, ya'nee someone
is
knocking at my door. So I slowly went
and opened the door
and in front of me there stood a woman I could not see her face
b/c she had covered all her body,
everything. And while she was
covering her hand she reached out
her hand
and before she opened it she asked, "Are you the man who was
calling out for recruitments today?
Were you the man who was
gathering wealth in order to go and
guard our borders and
protect us?". I said "Yes". "You were the one calling to Jihad?". I
said, "Yes, I am". So she said, "Please
open your hand". And he opened his
hand and she dropped a piece of
cloth which was
wrapped up into his hand. And she said, "Take this- it is an
amanah. It is a trust" And she ran
off. Thats all she said. I
wanted to ask her many other
questions. So I went inside and
opened that cloth and I found a piece of paper with something
written on it and a thick lock of hair.
I read the paper, and the paper said,
"Today you were calling out for
recruitments to
fight with you and protect the weak ppl. I am a woman and
unable to fight, and I dont have
enough wealth to give you. So
my heart was struck with shock and
sorrow when I did not
have anything to give you. So I went home and cut a lock of
my hair and that is the one you see
in this cloth. The only thing which I
can give to the cause of this, is my
lock of hair. I ask
you to please use it was your rein, (ya'nee the rope that would
steer the horse), so that maybe Allah
will recognize this and
know I was fighitng with you in that
jihad. [Even though taking
a lock of hair, of a woman's and giving it to a man is not allowed
in Islam but her jihad spirit had
reached that state and it could not
stop her] And she said, "Tomorrow
someone will come to
you, he is a recruitment. See if he is worthy. And that is it" He
said, SubhanAllah. What kind of a
woman is this? He said, so I
took the lock of hair and I did put it
onto my reins. And in the morning I
gathered my troops and we went out into
the battlefields. When we reached
the battlefield, ya'nee the
borders, we noticed that a group of
army after a day began to
make their way towards us. And so I got the army ready and I
told them to stand guard. As we were
about to move forward, I
heard a voice from a far distance
calling out, "Ya Amee Abu Qudamah!
Ya Amee Abu Qudamah entathernee (wait for me my
uncle)!!!" He looked back and he
found a fierce warrior on his
horse galloping fiercely towards him
and he had his face
covered. As soon as this man approached him, Abu Qudamah
looked at him and said, "How can I
help you?" He said, "Wait for
me. Alhamdulilah, Alhamdulilah it
was written for me to meet you and
unite with you. He said, "Calm down, calm down and take a
deep breath." He said, "You don't
understand. I made a duaa all
my life
to have this opportunity and I
thought you were going to beat me. Allah (swt) decreed that I was
going to unite with you.
Alhamduilah! Alhamduilah!" He said,
"Ask me, what do you want?" He said,
"I want to fight with you. I want to
have part in this" And then Abu Qudamah said
to him, "Show me your
face, I want to know who you are!"
And then he reluctantly
took the cloth off his face and Abu
Qudamah said, And I looked at his face and before me was the
most beautiful face I had ever
laid eyes on. The face of a young
man; about 17 or 18 years of age. His
face was like the full moon in its
brightness. And I noticed that he was young. I said, "Son, what
experience do you have?
How can you come to fight with us?
No, you are not allowed to
come and fight with us, you are too
young. Return back." He said, "But my mother came to you
last night?" He said, "Your
mother? He said, "Yes, my mother."
He said, "Who is your mother?" And
he said, "She was the one who gave
you a lock of her hair. And she told you to look
after me." He said, "Is that
YOUR mother?" He said,
"Na'3am" {yes}. He said, "You should
go back and look after her, son. Dont
come here and fight." And he started to hold unto him, the
young boy and he said to him,
"No Abu Qudamah, No! My father
fought in jihad and I want to fight
too. I want to defend. Please accept
me! I have great experience. I have fought many
battles, and I am an experienced
horse rider. I am a really good,
experienced person. Wallahy you
will find me that I am able to help
you alot. When he insisted on him, and he insisted on him Abu
Qudamah looked at him and
said, "Okay, if you are insisting on
traveling along with us then you have
to stand in the last line.And your
work is to prepare food for the soldiers". He said, "Fair
enough. I'll do that." So
they went out and sorry the enemy
was not approaching, they
had news of the enemy approaching.
And so the time of lunch came and the soldiers wanted to eat
and he sent out this young man, his
name was Muhammad, to
go and prepare the meal. And then
when about 1 or 2 hours
passed no food has arrived. So Abu Qudamah said, so I went
searching for him and what had kept
him so long. And when I
arrived I found the pot was boiling in
front of him and he was asleep
beside it. I said, SubhanAllah he must be very tired
because he said during the whole
day he was the most active of
all the men, he would race after this
one and race after that one
and help this person and help that person. He was very active
during the day. I became amazed at
how agile this young boy
is, how enthusiastic this young man
is. So I thought, I felt sorry for him
and I thought maybe he needs some rest. So I did
not interfere and I did not disturb
him, And I began to prepare
and finish and complete off the meal
by myself. But as I was
stirring he said, I heard a small sound coming from him so I
looked immediately at him. All of a
sudden I see his face begin to
smile. He was asleep. After a few
moments, his smile grew. A few
moments later his teeth began to show. And then even a few
moments later he began to laugh in
laughter and giggle. As he
was laughing, his laughter was
intensifying until finally he
awoke. Suddenly, he saw me in front of him with open eyes
and his smile immediately faded
away. As though he was shocked that
I was there in front of him, and
he did not want me to be there; as
though he had a secret. And then he got up immediately and said,
"Ya Amee' I am sorry I did
not know I had gone to sleep. Please
you dont have to prepare
the food, please let me!" Abu
Qudamah said, "No, you sit down! Walahi I will not let you do anything
until you tell me why you were
laughing." He said," I was laughing?"
He said,"Yes you
were laughing! Your laughter could
reach a few meters away." "Ya Amee, Abu Qudamah. Since you
saw me laughing and you
will not let me go I will tell you what
I was dreaming about but
you have to keep it a secret between
you and I. For if I tell you, maybe Allah will not accept my
reward for coming here, maybe it will
be insincere." He said,"Please tell me,
I am listening with open
ears." {I really wanted to know what
he was seeing in his dream} And then the young boy said,
" I slipped and then I
noticed as if the last hour had come,
the world ended and the
day of judgement came. Everybody
was looking up into the sky... 'Khushe'aat Absaroohum. And
then all of a sudden, I hear a voice
calling out: 'Grab Mohammad and
take him to Paradise'
Amongst everyone a light came to me
and took me away. And then there was a man next to me, a
very handsome man. His
light emanating from his face until it
reached the far corners of
what I could see, and he took me into
Jannah. And I asked him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am
one of your servants whom Allah has
made for you in Jannah in the
palace" I said, "where are
you taking me?" And then he began
to smile, and said, "I am taking you to your wealth and to your
family and to your
belongings & possessions in your
palace in jannah." And his
smile grew more (Muhammads). And
then when he reached the great gates & the great doors of his last
position, he said, "I cannot enter
here. For you have women inside and
I am not allowed to set eyes upon
them." His smile grew more. And so
he entered, and he said, "And then I found many beautiful women, their
light was so great that I thought that
if they show their light on earth they
would light the whole earth. And
they grabbed my arm and took me
away. And I thought, "Are you my wives?" And they said, "No, no, no.
We are just your servants. But you
have your princess waiting inside on
a khidr, inside the tent reclining on
the silk sheets waiting for you." And
so I entered, and all of a sudden I see a woman that almost made my
soul escape from my body. And I said
to her, "Who are you?" And the smile
grew when his teeth began to show.
And she said, "I am whom Allah has
promised you. I am your wife in Jannah. I am the one who Allah has
gifted to you." 'Wa ma tadry ma
Ukhfeya lahum min quraaty a'yun'
And no Mu'min what Allah has gifted
for them in Jannah. And then he
said, he came and extended his arm to touch her and then she grabbed
his arm and returned it back gently
and she said to him, "No Ya
Muhammad! Not now. I ask Allah to
save you from any bad acts, I am not
yours yet, and it is because you have saved yourself from haram acts with
other women Allah gave me to you.
So keep yourself pure, ya Muhammad!
Wa maw3edunah Ghadaan 3enda Al-
Futoor. Our meeting is tomorrow and
we shall break our fast together [because Muhammad used to fast
every other day, one day on one day
off] And then he said, when she was
speaking to me I began to laugh and
I really wanted to approach her and
she would say "no ya Mohammad, not now!" and I began to laugh and laugh
until I woke up. That is my story, Ya
Amee Abu Qudamah! Please keep it a
secret between you and me otherwise
my rewards will be gone. He said, "Its
my secret." Abu Qudamah, said I kept my eyes open watching this young
boy. The next day the enemy arrived;
it was fierce and we attacked and
charged. I looked behind me where
Muhammad was supposed to be
standing and all of sudden he was right in the front. And he did not
have any experience in fighting
because he could not hold his sword.
Muhammd had decieved Abu
Qudamah in saying he has
experience. He said, I could not reach him anymore but he was right in the
frontline. And he would call out the
message of his mother "Ya Ibnee etha
Laqetahum falaa tuwalyhim duburak
(My son if you meet them, dont run
away and show them your back) Allahu Akbar!" He would call out like
that. And he would fight whoever
would hold a sword against him and
against the Muslims. He would
protect that person and then that
person, until finally Abu Qudamah says that so much dust came into my
eyes I lost sight of him. I do not
know where he was. Finally Allah gave
us victory because we were fighting
for a noble cause, and at the end of
the victory we started looking for our martyrs. And then I just wanted to
find, Muhammad the young boy. I
did not care about anyone else, I
kept searching and searching; when
all of a sudden I see at a distance a
young boy holding out his arm saying "Amee, Amee" And I could barely hear
him. So I ran to him as fast as I
could, and I grabbed his beautiful
head as though he were my son and
I looked at his face, at a face that was
once youthful, at a face that was once beautiful, at a face that was so
handsome and a body so young and
strong. The horses had trampled him,
the wheels had crushed his
bones....his face was undescribable.
And he was holding a piece of his shirt, which was ripped and he was
taking deep breaths, dying. And then
Abu Qudamah held his face and he
began to cry, "He said my son I told
you the war is very fierce. Didn't I
tell you that the battle is not what you think! And didnt I tell you that
you are still young. I told you my
son, and you had to go forward! Why
have you dont this to yourself!" And
he looked at me and said to me,
"Amee Abu Qudamah: "This is what my mother raised me for, my father
died in this cause as well. Do you
want to deny me, and you all of all
people Amee Abu Qudamah. You are
telling me to go back when Allah says
in the Quran 'And what do you fear, fighting for his cause'". He said to
me, "Ya Amee this is what I want.
Wallahy I can see my palaces in front
of me. If only you could see what I
could see Ya Amee!!!" And then he
said, "But I require one thing of you: My mother when you reach her, she
will be very saddened and she may
not believe you that I have died in
the cause of Allah. So I want you to
take this piece of my shirt and show
it to her so that she can relieve her sadness and know that I am in
Jannah. And once she is raised, she
will also be in Jannah with me. Let
her know, that 'Do not be saddened
my mother, I died and you will be
with me forever in eternity in Jannah. My mother I died in the cause of
Allah, now it will be a guarantee that
you will be with me and we will be
together with my father' He said,
"Because nothing else will calm her
heart" He said, "Ya Amee, Abu Qudamah I also have a young sister.
Her name is Fatimah, and she is only
8 years old. She has grown up with
me to love me very much when my
father passed away and I lover her
extremely. However, my A'3m her love I have never seen before. She is too
attached to me, when you reach her
please try to look after her, please try
to calm her down. Please try to say
soothing words to her, for I fear her
consequence. She loves me too much; and dont show her my shirt." Abu
Qudamah promised, and while he was
holding him in his arms young
Muhammad began to smile and his
smile grew, and then it grew even
more and then even more until he began to giggle with laughter, and he
said, "Ya Amee Abu Qudamah La Elah
Illa Allah eny laa'jedu Al- Mardeyatah
Janbee {The women he saw in his
dreams had a name, Mardeya 'The
Pleasing one'}" He said, "Ya Amee Abu Qudamah, look at her she has just
come down from the sky and she is
lying beside me holding my hand,
she is waiting for me ya A3m. Allah
sadaqanee wa3dah. He gave me what
he has promised. I am going to Jannah with Mardeya. She will keep
me company ya Amee Abu Qudamah.
Our secret between you and I" And
then he died while he was biting
onto his lip, and saying "Ya Amee
remember our secret." And he died, and went to Allah (subhanahu
watallah). A noble death. And then
Abu Qudamah went back to the
village in al-riqah and all the women
went out to meet the mujahideen.
And then came the mother of Muhammad searching for him, and as
she came up to Abu Qudamah she
said to him, "My son? Where is my
son?" Abu Qudamah looked at her
and said, "He passed away and He
fought in the frontlines without returning back and he did what you
had advised him and trained him to
do."And she said. "I dont believe
you!" just as her son said. And then
he said, "But he told me to give you
his shirt." And she looked at his shirt and examined it and she knew the
blood and the stains of her young
son, Mohammad. And then she cried
and put her hands up to Allah and
she said, "Alhamdulilah, the one who
has saved my son. I will now be reunited with him and my husband.
But before that Abu Qudamah saw
something, a young girl fluttering like
a butterfly touching this man and
looking at him then touching that
man and looking at him then turning another man around and examing his
face like a young child does. And Abu
Qudamah knew this was Fatimah
looking for her brother, Muhammad.
And so I went up to Fatimah and I
grabbed her and I hugged her and kissed her and I said to her, "What
are you looking for?" and she said,
"My brother Muhammad. Where's
Muhammad? Where's Muhammad?Do
you know where Muhammad is, my
brother? Do you know where he is? I love him. I want to see him, and he
promised me he will return" {because
Muhammad said to Abu Qudamah
before he died that I promised my
sister I was going to return otherwise
she would never have left me but I am not going to return. She said,
"But he promised me that he is going
to come back. Where is he?" Abu
Qudamah started to cry, he said,
"Fatimah, your brother says Asalamu
Alaikum to you and he says that soon your going to meet him in jannah
inshallah." She said, "Jannah? Did he
die?"Abu Qudamah said, "Yes, but he
died a noble cause....before he could
finish this word Fatimah took a very
deep breathe and she fell unconscious to the ground. He came
to pick her up, but her mother raced
to her and she said leave her. She
took her daughter away and into the
room. Abu Qudamah knocked and
knocked but he was too late. He heard the mother inside crying and
saying, "My husband died for your
cause and he is in jannah inshallah.
My son, I have sacrificed him for you
Ya Allah and I have raised him.
Please do no deny me my unity and presence with him in Jannah. And
now, my daughter has passed away
and followed her brother. Ya Allah my
husband, my son, and my daughter
they are all to you---Ena LillAllah wa
Ena Elayhi Rajeeon, To Allah we belong and to him we shall return!
O'Allah guarantee me a place in
jannah with them, O'Allah unite me
with them" And she began to cry
until her voice faded away into the
darkness. Abu Qudamah kept on knocking but she would not open for
him, so he said so I left her and I
went away.
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