Explanation of the hadith of Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: “The fever asked permission to enter upon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and he said, ‘Who is this?’ She said, ‘Umm Mirdam.’ So he ordered it to be sent to the people of Quba, and they suffered from it what Allah knows, and they came to him and complained about it to him…”

The Shaykh : As for what follows, it is authentic, and we had read it on the occasion of a hadith that passed in the previous lesson, so there is no harm in repeating it, and it is:
His statement: “From Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: It was narrated by Ahmad, and its narrators are the narrators of the authentic collections, and by Abu Ya’la, and by Ibn Hibban in his Sahih, and al-Tabarani narrated it in a similar form from the hadith of Salman, and in it he said: “So they complained of the fever to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and he said: .”
So this hadith here has two narrations, the first from Jabir and the other from Salman, and the important thing is that the hadith is an authentic hadith, and in it is a strange matter of the unseen knowledge of the Prophet that the minds cannot grasp absolutely, no matter how high they rise, and that is his statement that the fever came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and he said: It may come to mind that it came to enter upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in his house, for example, and it is possible that the intended meaning is that it asked permission to enter where he was in his homeland in al-Madinah al-Munawwarah. The important thing is that the strange knowledge in this narration is that the fever is like a person here in this hadith, and it is nothing but, as we know, a disease of severe heat that strikes a person. So how does the fever come? And how does it ask permission? And how does the Messenger (peace be upon him) ask, “Who is this?” So it answers the question of the Messenger: “Umm Mirdam.” So the Messenger (peace be upon him) ordered it to the people of Quba, meaning: the fever that asked permission to enter upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in al-Madinah, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) refused to give it permission, and rather he gave it permission to go to Quba. Quba is a district, a locality, that was formerly for the Ansar who believed in the Messenger (peace be upon him) and supported him, and it has now become, meaning, a locality of al-Madinah due to the connection of the buildings between it and it. And from the Arabic perspective, it can be shortened and it is permissible to lengthen it, so you can say: “Quba” and you can say: “Quba”. So here it came with the shortening, not the lengthening. So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered, when the fever was to not enter al-Madinah, but rather to come to Quba.
Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said, and he was from the Ansar: “So they suffered” meaning the people of Quba, meaning from the severity and from the disease that befalls its owner due to the severe heat that strikes him, The people of Quba returned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) and complained of that to him, meaning they were at ease from this plague, from this disease, so when the Messenger (peace be upon him) gave it permission to come to Quba, they were afflicted by it and suffered from it greatly. So when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) heard their complaint, he gave them a choice and said: , because this is part of the trial,
When the Companions of the Messenger (peace be upon him) from the Ansar, the people of Quba, knew that by the staying of the fever in their town there was a great reward and expiation for their sins, they were patient and accepted it. And so is the case of the Muslim; he prefers what may tire him and what may exhaust him when he knows that he has a reward for it. And I had mentioned to you the story of Ubayy ibn Ka’b, and he was from the Ansar, who invoked against himself, and his story will come now, that he continued to live afflicted by the fever, but he asked in his supplication from his Lord, Exalted is He, that it not exhaust him and not tire him, that he remain able for jihad in the path of Allah and going out to the mosque and the mosque of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and the like of that. So Ubayy ibn Ka’b (may Allah be pleased with him), whenever he was touched in a part of his body, it was as if his body was fire due to the fever, but it did not affect him in terms of obedience and worship. And I raised a doubt and a problem and answered it by mentioning this hadith in which this story is between the people of Quba and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he gave them a choice between the fever remaining with them so that their reward from Allah, Exalted is He, would be the forgiveness of their sins, and between Him removing it from them. So when he gave them a choice, they said something with a point, perhaps some of you did not notice it. They said: “Will you do it? For us?” If the Messenger was giving them a choice, he would say: They said: “Will you do it?” The reason is the problem that I raised yesterday, which is that it is known that the Muslim does not ask Allah, Exalted is He, for trial, but rather he asks Him, Blessed and Exalted is He, to turn this trial away from him. So now here the Messenger is giving them a choice, so they were surprised. But the strangeness disappears when we know that this fever is not a disease that turns the Muslim away from performing his religious duties, and then with its staying with him it becomes an expiation for his sins, as in this hadith, and it is in the hadiths that preceded in the previous lessons. So when they said to him: “Will you do it?” he answered them in the affirmative, he said: , so at that time they said: “Leave it, leave it with us and we will be patient with it.” This hadith reminds us that people differ in this respect, in the respect of patience and not patience, and among them are the patient ones and among them are those less than that. So these people of Quba were patient and accepted what afflicted them of the fever in exchange for the forgiveness of Allah, Exalted is He, for their sins.
Likewise, for example, that woman, and her story also passed with us in this chapter, who used to fall and be exposed when she fell, so she asked the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to supplicate for her. So he gave her a choice: if she wished, he would supplicate for her and Allah would cure her, and if she wished, she would be patient and she would have Paradise. She said: “Then I will be patient and I will have Paradise, but supplicate to Allah for me that I not be exposed.” So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated for her. This is what the sensible person does.
Whereas you find that other blind man, whose story some people cite for what the story does not indicate, who came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and he was blind and said: “O Messenger of Allah, supplicate to Allah that He may cure me.” He said: as he said here to the Ansar exactly, He had no patience, he said: “So supplicate.” So he said to him, peace be upon him: to the end of the hadith.
So people are of different natures, so we ask Allah, Exalted is He, to make our nature from the best of natures, and among that is that He make us patient with what He may try us with of trials and calamities.