îKNOW YOUR COMPANIONS & ROLE MODELSí ½í±¬ BARAKAH(R.A)...cont. Alhamdulillaahî for another Special Day-Friday. Lets contunue from where Aminah passed on and left Muhammad in the custody of Barakah. Barakah returned with the orphan child to Makkah and placed him in the care of his grandfather. She stayed at his house to look after him. When Abd al-Muttalib died two years later, she went with the child to the house of his uncle Abu Talib and continued to look after his needs until he was grown up and married the lady Khadijah. Barakah then stayed with Muhammad and Khadijah in a house belonging to Khadijah. I never left him and he never left me, she said. One day Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, called out to her and said: Ya Ummah! (He always called her Mother.) Now I am a married man, and you are still unmarried. What do you think if someone should come now and ask to marry you? Barakah looked at Muhammad and said: I shall never leave you. Does a mother abandon her son? Muhammad smiled and kissed her head. He looked at his wife Khadijah and said to her: This is Barakah. This is my mother after my own mother. She is the rest of my family. Barakah looked at the lady Khadijah who said to her: Barakah, you have sacrificed your youth for the sake of Muhammad. Now he wants to pay back some of his obligations to you. For my sake and his, agree to be married before old age overtakes you. Whom shall I marry, my lady? asked Barakah. There is here now Ubayd ibn Zayd from the Khazraj tribe of Yathrib. He has come to us seeking your hand in marriage. For my sake, dont refuse. Barakah agreed. She married Ubayd ibn Zayd and went with him to Yathrib. There she gave birth to a son whom she called Ayman and from that time onwards people called her Umm Ayman the mother of Ayman. Her marriage however did not last very long. Her husband died and she returned once more to Makkah to live with her son Muhammad in the house of the lady Khadijah. Living in the same household at the time were Ali ibn Abi Talib, Hind (Khadijahs daughter by her first husband), and Zayd ibn Harithah ( we shall be learning about some of these companions later in sha Allah). When Muhammad was blessed with prophethood, Barakah and Zayd were among the first to believe in the message he proclaimed. Lets see how Barakah contributed to Islam after Muhammad became a prophet(PBUH) in our next episode. Till then Jumua Mubarak Wa Salaam! îîî
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