Month: August 2023

The Deputation of Udhrah
Volume 1, Parts II.74.52
He (Ibn Sa’d) said: Muhammad Ibn ‘Umar informed us; he said: Ishaq
Ibn ‘Abd Allah Ibn Nastas related to me on the authority of Abu ‘Amr
Ibn Hurayth al-‘Udhri; he said:
I discovered it in a writing of my ancestors; they said: Our deputation of
twelve members including Hamzah lbn al-Nu’man al-‘Udhrï, Sulaym and
Sa’d, sons of Malik, and Malik Ibn Abi Riyah came to the Apostle of
Allah, may Allah bless him, in Safar of the ninth year. They were lodged
in the house of Ramlah Bint al-Harith al-Najjariyah. Then they came to
the Prophet, may Allah bless him, and greeted him in the manner of the
days of Jahiliyah. They said: We are the uterine brothers of Qusayyi and
we are those who uprooted Khuza’ah and Banu Bakr from Makkah. We
are related to you and have kinship with you. The Apostle of Allah, may
Allah bless him, said: Hail to you and I welcome you. I was not
introduced to you. What prevented you from the way of Islamic greeting?
They said: We have come here as pioneers of our people. They asked the
Prophet, may Allah bless him, about affairs related to their faith. He gave
reply to them. They embraced Islam and stayed for some days. Then they
returned to their people. He ordered them to be rewarded as he had been
rewarding the deputationists and covered one of them with a sheet.
Volume 1, Parts II.74.53
He (Ibn Sad) said: Hisham Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Sa'ib informed us; he said: Sharqi Ibn al-Qutamï related to me on the authority of Mudlij Ibn al-Miqdad Ibn Zamil al-Udhri; (second chain) he (Ibn said) said: Abu
Zufar al-Kalbi related to me some portions of it; they said:
Zamil Ibn ‘Amr al-Udhri waited in a deputation on the Prophet, may Allah bless him, and informed him of what he had heard from their idol. Thereupon he said: He is a faithful jinn. Then he embraced Islam. The Apostle of Allah, may Allah bless him, made a flag for him (appointing him chief of) his people. Subsequently he took part in (the battle of) Siff ïn on the side of Muawiyah. He was also with him at al-Marj where he
was slain. When he had attended the Prophet, may Allah bless him, he
had recited:
“0 Apostle of Allah! I have directed my beast towards you,
I toiled it through uneven impassable routes of sand.
I wish to extend strong unflincling support to the best of mankind,
I want to bind a rope from your ropes to mine.
I bear witness that there is nothing except Allah,
I shall live on His creed till my foot keeps my shoe heavy.”

Supplication of Blessings on the Prophet Mohammed
Can Turn Something Bitter Into Sweetness

One day the Holy Prophetَ,
peace and blessing be upon him,
asked a bee as to how they make honey?

The bee replied.
that they go out into the garden
and collect nectar
from the flowers in their mouths
and fly back to the hive and release it,
and that becomes honey.

The Holy Prophet,
peace and blessings be upon him,
then said to the bee,
“but nectar have different tastes,
some are bitter some are sour –
how does it become so sweet?”

The bee replied,
“God has taught us
after collecting the nectar
to recite supplication of blessings upon you
until we reach our hive;

so the sweetness in the honey
is a divine gift
from the supplication of blessings
we recite upon you,
that turns something bitter
into such sweetness.”

– Recorded in the Mathnawi
of Mawlana Rumi قدس سرہ العزیز