A Common Problem I Notice Alot Lately.....

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


As salam alykom


No prob Umm u may go off topic we all do sometimes


Insh aAllah I am going to write this story from the top of my mind, not copied from a site, because I am in hurry to post it. Then I will Insh aAllah confirm the contents. I was in hurry to post it. So pls forgive me.


Zainab the senior (because there is Zainab junior who was Fatimah's daughter) was married to Al A`as, both were very much in love with each other. After her father immigrated to Medina, she continued living with her other two sisters, Ruqqiyah and Umm Kulthoum in Mecca with their husbands. Quraish (the tribe of the Messenger Salla Allah A`lyhee wa sallam) planned in order to keep Mohamed Salla Allah A`lyhee wa sallam busy with family problems to push husbands of the three daughters to divorce them. They even tempted them by offering marriages to more beautiful and better social status women. Two of them agreed, but not Al A`as who loved Zainab so much and told them I will never find a better or more beautiful woman than Zainab. When the Messenger Salla Allah A`lyhee wa sallam heard this he said best of the son in laws is Al A`as. Al A`as was among those who were captured during the battle of Badr, while his wife was still back in Mecca.


Each one from the immigrants who had a relative among the captives sent a ransom to free the person. Except Al A`as nobody did. But his loving wife never forgot about him. In order to soften her father’s heart she sent him a necklace that was given to her by her late mother Khadija as a present upon her marriage. Knowing how much her father loved Khadija and respected her memory, she took this approach in order to redeem her beloved husband. Her father looked at the necklace and his eyes were filled with tears, he told the people if u wish u may free her captive and if u wish u may return back her money. The Muslims did free Al A`as and gave her back the necklace.


Mohamed Salla Allah A`lyhee wa sallam sat him free and asked him to allow his daughter to immigrate to Medina to rejoin with him. Al`Aas agreed. He even planned her trip by hiring a guide who knows very well the route to Medina. He put her under cover at night to start her journey. At that time, she was pregnant. But Quraish found out about this secret trip. They attacked her and her guide. They pushed her towards a large rock that she miscarried. She went bakk home until he healed and then took off again for the trip. She joined her father and remained there. later on Ala`as headed a trade caravan and was responsible about large amounts of money that people from Quraish trusted him for. While going back, Muslims were commanded to attack the caravan and take it over. Allah Granted them victory and a number of members of the caravan ran away, of them was Ala`as. He turned to Zainab to help him get back the money.


She accepted to provide him protection. She even announced this next morning after people finished prayer. But at that very special moment the father went into his daughter’s room and directly told her, daughter be very kind to him during his stay, but u can not take him as a husband no more. Allah forbade in His holy book for a Muslim woman to be the wife of a non Muslim. The daughter was bitter but she said yes father. Then the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam made it clear to the companions that it is their choice if they want to give him back his money or keep it as spoils. They chose to give it back.


Al A`as returned back to Mecca, went to a high place where they usually call people when they need to make announcecments, he called each person who trusted him with money in the caravan. He returned back all the trusts he had. Then asked if there was any more liabililites he is holding towards anyone. People said no that he did fulfill all his liabilities.


At this moment, he said now I can say Ash hadu anna la ilaha ila Allah wa anna Mohamadan rasullullah. He explained that if he said that while he was still a captive in Medina or even after being freed people would take it that he was scared of Mohamed Salla Allah A`lyhee wa sallam or wanted to take the money and run away. But now as he is totally free of all liability with no force over him, he is admitting it willingly.


Then he left back to Medina to rejoin with his beloved wife, whom the Messenger Salla Allah A`lyhee wa sallam gave back to him thru either a new or same contract of marriage, they lived together for one year before Zainab became very ill and died.


Well I love this story, I love reading it, telling it, and remembering it every time I go thru any difficulty.