Explanation of the Hadith of Abu Musa - may Allah be pleased with him - he said

The Shaykh : And from Abu Musa, Abdullah ibn Qays al-Ash'ari - may Allah be pleased with him - he said: The Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him - was asked about a man who fights with bravery, fights out of tribal loyalty, and fights for show; which of these is in the cause of Allah? So the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him - said: . So which fighting - this hadith indicates an important matter - which fighting does a Muslim or Muslims engage in where the intention in their hearts regarding this fighting is not that the word of Allah be the highest? That is not in the cause of Allah. Fighting that takes place in the cause of defending the homeland is not in the cause of Allah. Fighting that takes place in the cause of defending the tribe, the clan, or whatever else is listed; all of that is not in the cause of Allah, let alone a person who fights to display his bravery, who fights for show, and in reality is not sincere to Allah - Mighty and Majestic - in that. So all these types of fighting are not in the cause [of Allah] except for the one who fights so that the word of Allah is the highest; he is in the cause of Allah.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes?

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed, without regard for his wealth or his honor, and he intends in that what is not... no, he must intend in that the Face of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - otherwise, the communist fights for his land; is he in the cause of Allah?

The questioner: No.

The Shaykh : Of course, is he a martyr? Yes, they have made "Gawhar Jamel" today, they made him a martyr, why? Because he died in the fight of the national battle. This is of course not in the cause of Allah; especially since he is a disbeliever!!

The questioner : A disbeliever, yes.

The Shaykh : A disbeliever.
So whoever fights, , meaning: the Muslim who intends with all his actions and all his dealings the Face of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He; meaning the hadith is perfectly consistent with this. And it is appropriate that we remind you of an incident that occurred which clarifies that whoever fights for show and bravery, even if he was a brave hero, even if he performed a good performance against the disbelieving polytheists, then he dies as one who killed himself and does not die as a martyr; as long as he did not intend the Face of Allah with that. So in "Sahih al-Bukhari" it is mentioned that a man in some of the battles, perhaps the Battle of Uhud, the Battle of Uhud or Khaybar? Uhud.

The questioner : One.

The Shaykh : Uhud, yes, indeed.
A man was seen fighting among the Companions with very intense fighting, and it is sufficient for you to know the intensity of his fighting that the brave Companions were amazed at the severity of his valiance; until some of them came to the Messenger - peace be upon him - and said: O Messenger of Allah, so-and-so is fighting and fighting, he does not care about death. So his answer - peace and blessings be upon him - was that he said: .

The questioner : Revelation? Revelation...

The Shaykh : Revelation, how would he know that from where? The confirmation that this is revelation will come to you. He said - peace be upon him - , so the reporter turned away with something in his heart regarding this statement.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh, how is he in the Fire while he is the most intense of the Companions in fighting the disbelievers? Then he returned a second time to say: So-and-so, O Messenger of Allah. He said: In the second time he was , and thus three times. The narrator of the hadith, who is Abu Hurayrah - may Allah be pleased with him - says: When the Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him - said in the third time that he is in the Fire, we almost doubted.

The questioner: Allah is the Greatest!

The Shaykh : They almost doubted the statement of the Messenger, and doubt in his statement is disbelief in it, and far be it from the Companions of the Messenger to doubt; therefore he said: "We almost"; meaning they approached and were on the verge of doubting the statement of the Messenger because the truthful news of the Messenger clashed with this visible reality by the...

The questioner : By the eyes.

The Shaykh : Eyes.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : He fights the disbelievers in the cause of Allah with the most intense fighting, and yet the Messenger - peace be upon him - says: . He said: We almost doubted. So one of the Companions pledged to keep close to this man, and wherever he charged, he would charge with him, and wherever he went back and forth, he would go back and forth with him, to see the end and fate of this man about whom the trustworthy, truthful Messenger of Allah - peace and blessings be upon him - informed that he is in the Fire.
So he followed him and kept up with him, and behold, he saw him at the end, when the wounds became severe; because the one who wants to attack the disbelievers and does not care about death must be struck with many wounds, so he did not bear these wounds, so what he did was kill himself with his own hand, he put the head of the sword in his belly and leaned on it like this, so it came out of his back, and that was the end.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : At that time, it seemed as if this man's heart was reassured by the truthfulness of the Messenger - peace be upon him, so he hurried to inform the Messenger, saying: O Messenger of Allah, so-and-so, whom you told us about and you said about him that he is in the Fire, did such and such; he killed himself!! So he said - peace and blessings be upon him - . This is revelation from the sky.
. I was asked yesterday about this hadith, is it authentic? So we said: Yes, it is an authentic hadith, and this is its relevance, , this is a wicked man who fought the disbelievers with the most intense fighting, and behold, he was not sincere to the Face of Allah - Mighty and Majestic - in his fighting, but rather he was fighting either as the question came here, with bravery, or tribal loyalty, or for show, he did not intend the Face of Allah with it, otherwise death would have come to him at the hands of the disbelievers, but he did not bear the wounds, so he killed himself, so he said - peace and blessings be upon him - : . This is a man who acted with the action of the people of Paradise; he fought in the cause of Allah, but he is from the people of the Fire; because his fighting was not pure for the Face of Allah - Blessed and Exalted is He. .
'Umar ibn al-Khattab before his Islam used to do the actions of the disbelievers, so it appeared to the early Companions who responded to the Messenger - peace be upon him - that 'Umar ibn al-Khattab was from the people of the Fire, but the matter was as he said - peace be upon him - : , so just as the end of 'Umar ibn al-Khattab - may Allah be pleased with him - was salvation from the actions of the disbelievers to the actions of the people of faith and the people of Paradise, and he died upon that, this was the opposite of that; he acted with the actions of Islam and faith and struggled in the cause of Allah, but that was not in the cause of Allah, so he died the worst death; and that was by killing himself; so this one did not fight in the cause of Allah, so he did not benefit from the virtue of jihad in the cause of Allah, so the Messenger - peace and blessings be upon him - says: .