The last days of the Prophetﷺ

13/09/2025

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Auto-generated transcript:Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah wa kafa wa salamun ala ibadihi allatheena astafa amma ba'd.
My dear respected brothers, elders and sisters, inshallah I'd like to first of all give salam to every single one of you and welcome you here today.
And inshallah today I'll be speaking about the final few days of the life of the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
The exact month in which 1436 years ago the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam breathed his last.
In the month of Rabiul Awl.
On the 12th of Rabiul Awl to be precise.
And today inshallah I'm going to just share the narrative of the final moments of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam with you all.
And you might ask yourself,
we don't really speak about this.
We've not heard this.
But there's a reason behind it.
Why is it that the ummah of the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will re-account the final moments of the Messenger?
Number one, it softens the heart.
Number two, things get very real.
Life becomes real.
That the greatest man to walk the face of this earth,
is death.
And number three,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in a hadith, he says,
When any one of my ummah,
in their lives,
face any challenges,
any difficulties,
let them remember my difficulty.
That will be the greatest difficulty the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam will ever see.
This difficulty will become small,
in light of the difficulties that the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam faced.
So it was the 10th year after Hijrah,
that the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
certain changes began to happen in Madinah Munawwara.
The first change,
Ramadan of the 10th year after Hijrah arrives,
the Rasool sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
it was his practice that every year in Ramadan,
he would review the Quran that had been revealed on to that point,
with Jibreel Ali sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
However, this year,
in the 10th year after Hijrah,
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam says,
Inna hu aaradani al-AAam marratain
This year, Jibreel reviews the Quran with me twice.
The month of Ramadan continues.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
it was his practice to sit the final 10 nights of Ramadan in
I'tikaf in the Masjid.
The 10th year after Hijrah, something happens.
Ramadan is the month of Ramadan.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is there,
and the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam sits I'tikaf for 20 nights.
After Ramadan, the month after Ramadan, anyone?
Shawwal alhamdulillah.
Shawwal and then?
Dhikaa'dah.
Dhikaa'dah and then?
Bilhijjah.
So Ramadan finishes and the months of Hajj begin.
The Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam announces to the Arabian Peninsula,
that he is about to perform the Hajj.
The Hajj that today we know as Hajj.
The Hajjatul Wiba.
The farewell Hajj.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is going towards Makkah
and a hundred thousand people gather to assist and accompany the Mesliha sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on this final Hajj.
Jabir radiallahu anhi, in a Raeesah Hadith,
he says,
As far madda basari,
as far as my eye could see,
all I saw were men, women, on camels, on foot, on horses.
And I looked towards my right and I see exactly the same.
I looked to my left, exactly the same.
I looked behind us and exactly the same.
As far as my eye could see.
And you know when you read the Seerah,
you will realize a few years prior to this, this was inconceivable.
It could not have happened.
The Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam on his final Hajj,
again, he's making subtle remarks.
La'alli la'alqaakum ba'da aami hadha khudhu manasikakum.
O my Sahaba, learn your deen from me.
Maybe after this year you will never see me again.
Hajj finishes, the Messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam returns to Madinatul Munawwarah.
And the first month of the eleventh year after Hijrah enters,
the month of?
Now what is this?
Muharram.
It was around this time that the Hadith of Jibreel,
we know the Hadith of Jibreel,