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'And some of the females held my banner' (qasida 6:6) This is the motto for this section, which is either for the women view points or for the things that matter the most for them. You can find all special expressions in the Glossary. We need your comments to develop this site for you.
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Mother of believers Hafsah bent Omar [AAH]
She is the mother of believers: Hafsah the daughter of Omar ibn al-Khattab ibn Nafil ibn Abdel-Ozza ibn Rabah ibn Abdullah ibn Qart ibn Ka'b ibn Quraysh. Omar [AAH] was surnamed as Abo-Hafs and he is the second one of the orthodox Caliphs. Sayyda Aisha said about Sayyda Hafsah [AAT] "She was the one who used to sublime with me from the wives of the Prophet [PPBUH]". The mother of sayyda Hafsah: is sayyda Zaynab bent Maz'on ibn Habib ibn Wahb ibn Huzafah ibn Gamh. She was the sister of the honorable companion Osman ibn Maz'on the first one to die in Medina from Muhajerin [the emigrants], the first one to be buried in al-Baqia and the first one to be prayed upon, the funeral prayer, by the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]. Her brother from her father is Abdullah ibn Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH], the famous honorable companion. The birth of sayyda Hafsah [AAH] was in the fifth year before The Prophet's mission [PPBUH] while Quraysh was renewing the building of the Ka'ba and it was also said that this was in the seventh year. When sayydi Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH] embraced Islam, his household followed him to Islam and among them was sayyda Hafsah. The embracing of Islam by sayydi Omar [AAH] had a so good effect, on the souls of those who embraced Islam before him, that some of the Muslims who emigrated to Habasha, [Ethiopia] escaping with their religion from the harm of the polytheists, returned from Habasha to Mecca when they heard the news of Omar's [AAH] embracing Islam. Sayyda Hafsah was a good wife to the honorable companion [Khunais ibn Huzafa as-Sahmi] who was one of the people of the two emigrations. Sayyda Hafsah [AAH] lived with her husband whom she loved and so did he. He emigrated to Habasha with the earlier emigrants, escaping with his religion, then to Medina to support his Prophet [PPBUH]. He participated in Badr first then Ohud. In Ohud he was injured an injury that caused him to die. He left his wife Hafsah bent Omar behind him, young woman in the prime of her age. Sayyda Hafsah was eighteen or twenty years old, when her husband Khunais died, and she did not give birth to any child for him. The marriage of Sayyda Hafsah [AAH] to the Messenger [PPBUH]:
Days passed successive, and no one proposed for her. He [AAH] did not know, then, that she has taken some of the Prophet's interest, so, he [PPBUH] confided to sayydi Abo-Bakr as-Seddik [AAH] that He wants to propose to her. When the days lasted long on sayydi Omar [AAH] and the widowhood was hurting his young daughter, he offered her hand in marriage to Abo-Bakr [AAH]. But Abo-Bakr did not answer him. Then he offered her hand in marriage to Osman ibn Affan [AAH] who said "It seems to me that I should not marry today". Then he became sad with them and left them. He [AAH] complained about this to the Prophet [PPBUH] who said (Hafsah will marry a better one than Osman), he meant the Prophet [PPBUH], (and Osman will marry a better one than Hafsah), he meant sayyda Om-Kolthum [AAH] his daughter [PPBUH] after the death of her sister sayyda Ruqaiya [AAH] who was married to sayydi Osman [AAH] at that time. Al-Bukhary reported from Abdullah ibn Omar [AAH], saying that Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH], when Hafsah became a widow from Khunays ibn Huzafah as-Sahmi who was from the companions of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] and witnessed Badr and died in Medina, Omar said: I met Osman ibn Affan and offered him the hand of Hafsah for marriage and said to him "if you will, I will marry you to Hafsah bent Omar". He said "I will think about my matters". He waited a few nights then said "It seems to me that I should not marry today". Omar said: then I met Abo-Bakr and said to him "if you will, I will marry you to Hafsah bent Omar". Abo-Bakr kept silent and did not reply to me anything. I was sad with him even more than I was with Osman. It was only a few days when the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] proposed to her. So, I married her to him [PPBUH]. Then Abo-Bakr met me and said "Maybe you were sad with me when you offered Hafsah's hand to me and I did not answer you". I said "yes". Then Abo-Bakr said "nothing prevented me from giving you an answer for what you offered, except that I knew that the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] talked about her, and I would never reveal the secret of the Messenger of Allah. And if He [PPBUH] did not propose to her, I would have accept her hand".
And
Thus, Sayydi Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH]
had the honor of being related by marriage to Hafsah [AAH] in the house of Prophecy: The Messenger [PPBUH] married sayyda Hafsah bent Omar on Sha'ban in 3rd year of Hijra, most probably. He [PPBUH] gave her four hundred Dirhams as a dowry. She was, then, twenty years old. Sayyda Hafsah lived in the prophecy house. She was intelligent and rational. She learnt how to write and read on the hand of an honorable companion woman, sayyda ash-Shefa' bent Abdullah, with the encouragement of the Messenger [PPBUH]. Sayyda Hafsah bent Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAT] acquired the high honor that sayyda Aisha bent Abo-Bakr as-Seddik acquired before. She had an honorable rank among mothers of the believers [AAT]. Sayyda Hafsah entered the house of the Prophet [PPBUH] as his third wife, as she came after sayyda Sawdah and sayyda Aisha [AAT]. As for sayyda Sawdah; she welcomed her with satisfaction. As for sayyda Aisha; she did not know what to do with this young wife who is not any one! She was the daughter of al-Farouq Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH] with whom Allah previously enforced Islam and filled the hearts of the polytheists with fear. Sayyda Aisha [AAH] kept silent in front of this sudden marriage. She was annoyed before with the day of her fellow wife sayyda Sawdah, although she did not care much for her. So how would it be with her when sayyda Hafsah takes a third part of her days with the Messenger [PPBUH]. A cordiality relationship between sayyda Aisha and sayyda Hafsah, started after the appearance of the Prophet's wives [PPBUH], Zainab, Om-Salama, the other Zainab, Gowairya and Safiya". That relation had clear cordiality. Sayyda Hafsah was happy with the cordiality and love of her fellow wife sayyda Aisha [AAT] This rare clearness among the fellow wives made sayyda Hafsah pleased. The spread secret:
Sayyda
Aisha and sayyda Hafsah have agreed against the Prophet [PPBUH].
So he [PPBUH]
deserted his women. It is agreed upon from the saying of Omar [AAH]
that ibn Abbas [AAH]
said "I stayed for a year wanting to ask Omar ibn al-Khattab about a
Qur'anic verse, but I
Ataa narrated that he heard Ubaid ibn Umair saying: I heard Aisha said: The Prophet [PPBUH] used to stay with Zainab bent Gahsh and drink honey there. So, me and Hafsah agreed that if the Prophet [PPBUH] came to anyone of us, she would say: I smell the smell Maghafeer from you! Did you eat Maghafeer? [Mahgafeer: means; A liquid which flows from the tree of Arrfat [a kind of trees] and it is to be diluted in water for drinking]. And the Prophet [PPBUH] did enter on one of them and she said that to Him. The Prophet [PPBUH] said (No, but I drank honey at Zainab's and I will not do this anymore). Then Allah, Almighty, revealed [O Prophet! Why banes you that which Allah has made lawful for you…] up to the Almighty's saying [If you two repent unto Allah] al-Tahreim 66:1-4. That is; sayyda Hafsah and Aisha. [When the Prophet confided…] is when he [PPBUH] said (but I drank honey). In a narration of Sahih al-Bukhary: the agreement against the Prophet [PPBUH] was for asking for more expense. And in another narration from Omar [AAH], he said: The Prophet's wives [PPBUH] were gathered in being jealous on him, until it was once, when the Prophet [PPBUH] divorced sayyda Hafsah. Then her two uncles, [Qudamah and Osman the sons of Maz'on], entered to her, she wept and said: By Allah, he did not divorce me for something bad (she meant hatred, fault or defect). Then Gabriel [PBUH] came to the Prophet [PPBUH] and said "Restore Hafsah's marriage back, as she is a praying and a fasting one and she is your wife in paradise". This divorce shock al-Farouk Omar [AAH] and made him put the dust on his head when he heard that news and said "Allah will not care for Omar and his daughter anymore".
The attributes of Sayydah Hafsah [AAH]: Hafsah [AAH], the mother of belivers, the praying and fasting one, an honest testimony from the trustee for the revelation, Gabriel [PBUH]. A certain good tiding was that she is the wife of the Messenger of Allah in paradise. Sayyda Hafsah became aware of Allah's sermons truly and was educated by the morals of His Holy Book the best of education. She devoted herself to the Holy Quran, reciting, reflecting on, understanding and pondering on it. This got the attention of her father al-Farouq Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAH] to her great interest in the Book of Allah, Almighty, which led him to intrust her with the Holy Book, which was written during the age of Abo-Bakr as-Seddik [AAH], after the Prophet [PPBUH] passed away. That book which contained the Qur'an written the same way that was revised by Gabriel twice during the month of Ramadan in the year of passing away of the Prophet [PPBUH]. Keeping the hand written copy of Quran with sayyda Hafsah "the precious deposit": Abo-Na'eim narrated from ibn shehab from Kharegah ibn Zaid ibn Thabet from his father, saying: when Abo-Bakr ordered me to collect the Quran. I wrote it on pieces of leather and animal shoulder bones. And when Abo-Bakr [AAH] passed away, Omar [AAH] wrote that in one parchment. That is; on a parchment of one kind. It was kept with him. When Omar [AAH] passed away, the parchment was left with Hafsah, the Prophet's wife [PPBUH]. Then Osman sent to Hafsah [AAH] asking her to give him the parchment and swore that he would give it back. She gave it to him. He reviewed his Holy Book against the parchment then he gave it back to her. Then he was satisfied, and ordered the people to write copes of this Holy book. This Holy Book distinguished with the features of the second collection of the Holy Qur'an which was done during the Caliphate of sayydi Abo-Bakr as-Seddik with an advice from sayydi Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAT]. That was after killing many of the Quran holders [the ones who were memorizing Qur'an] in the fighting of "Musailamah the liar", when seventy of the holders, who memorized the whole Qur'an, were killed in Yamamah battle. Sayydi Omar ibn al-Khattab was a partner, in this great task, with sayydi Zaid. Urwah ibn az-Zubair narrated that Abo-Bakr said to Omar and Zaid "sit down at the Masjid's door and whosoever comes to you, with two witnesses on anything from the Book of Allah, write it". Hafez as-Sakhawy said in "Beauty of the Readers": the purpose of the witness is to confirm that it was written in front of the Prophet [PPBUH] or it was one of the ways the Qur'an was revealed.
Her Knowledge and education [AAH]: Throughout the years that she lived beside the Prophet [PPBUH], she tasted from his noble merits and honorable attributes and this made her report this accurate picture of his manners and morals. She gave this picture for his right guidance and attributes, his speech and expressions, and the states of his worshiping. So, we find her saying "The Messenger of Allah [PPBUH] used to fast three days from the month: Monday and Thursday and the Monday of the following week". She [AAH] also said "if the Messenger of Allah goes to his bed, he would put his right hand under his cheek and say: (O, Lord, preserve me from Your torture on the day You resurrect Your slaves) three times". Gebriel [PBUH] testified for her righteousness and asceticism when he asked The Prophet [PPBUH] to restore her marriage after he [PPBUH] divorced her one time, and said to him [PPBUH]: "she is praying and a fasting one. And she is your wife in paradise" narrated by al-Hakem and at-Tabarany. Sayyda Hafsah [AAH] kept on being a reference for the great companions who knew her knowledge and goodness, so that her father Omar [AAH] asked her about the longest period a woman can tolerate the absence of her husband, and she told him it was 4 months. It is narrated about her eloquence [AAH] what she said to her father when the Magus stabbed him "O, my father, what saddens you? Is it the return to a Merciful Lord with no liability to any one? I have a good tiding for you but I will not tell a secret twice. What an excellent intercessor for you, the justice is! It has never been unknown to Allah, Almighty, your coarse life, your abstinence from appetite, and your suppression of the polytheists and corrupters". She [AAH] was a narrator of the Hadith of the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH]. The two sheikhs agreed upon four Hadiths from her and Muslim had six more alone. When Abdullah ibn Omar [AAH] wanted to refrain from marriage, she as mother of believers told him to marry advising and explaining to him the purpose of marriage of having a righteous son praying for his father. She said to him "get married and if you get a son and he lived after you, he will pray for you". A high class dialogue with a superior level:
From
the Prophet's humoring [PPBUH]
with his wife Hafsah [AAH],
what Imam Muslim narrated in his Sahih from Gaber ibn Abdullah, that
he said: Om Mubsher told me that she heard the Prophet [PPBUH]
saying at Hafsah's place (No one, ISA, of the people of the
Her passing away [AAH]: Hafsah [AAH] devoted herself to worshiping – a praying and fasting one, until she passed away at the beginning of the caliphate of Mu'aweyah ibn Abo-Sufian in 41 H, at Medina "the year of grouping". She was sixty or sixty one years old. Marwan ibn al-Hakam prayed unto her, the funeral prayers, while he was the worker of Medina [the ruler working for the people]. Then he escorted her funeral procession to Baqeia and stayed till she was buried. Abdullah and Asem the two sons of Omar [AAH] and Salem, Abdullah and Hammzah the sons of Abdullah ibn Omar went down her grave. The people of Medina escorted her funeral to her final resting place in Baqeia with the rest of mothers of believers [AAT]. We lived with the sweet biography of sayyda Hafsah [AAH], who was praying, fasting, reproaching her self, inheritor of the comprehensive parchment of the Book of Allah, Almighty, and keeper of Qur'an. She is sayyda Hafsah the daughter of sayydi Omar ibn al-Khattab [AAT] whom sayyduna Muhammad [PPBUH] said about (Allah has made the truth on the tongue of Omar and inside his heart). mentioned in the traces. Imam Fakhruddin [AAH] said about him in his Divan: [As for Abo-Hafs, it is seen in his face A bloom and does not have the fatigue of the weary] (54/12) May Allah accept and please sayydi Omar and his daughter, mother of believers, sayyda Hafsah.
Written by Rawya Ramadan. Translated by Fatima az-Zahraa
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Sayydi
Omar ibn al-Khattab [
the Prophet [
could not because of his reverence. Until he
went to Hajj and I went with him. When we were on the way back, he
turned to the pushes for his need. I stood till he finished then I
walked with him and said: O, price of the believers, who were the
two wives of the Prophet [
In the
narration of Abo-Saleh, Omar entered on Hafsah, one time, while she
was weeping, he said "Did the Messenger of Allah [
This
was the precious deposit that prince of believers Omar ibn
al-Khattab [
tree,
who pledged allegiance under it, will go to hell). Hafsah said:
No, O, Messenger of Allah. So, He [