{"id":24214,"date":"2025-10-13T15:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=24214"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:57:00","slug":"hazrat-bilaal-radhiyallahu-anhu-being-in-charge-of-keeping-the-spear-of-rasulullah-sallallahu-alaihi-wasallam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/?p=24214","title":{"rendered":"Hazrat Bilaal (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) Being in charge of Keeping the Spear of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-24220\" src=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/English_127_8.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The King of Abyssinia (Najaashi (rahimahullah)) once sent three spears to Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) as a gift. After receiving the three spears, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) gave one spear to Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu), he gave the second spear to Hazrat \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) and he kept the third spear for himself.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the two Eids, Hazrat Bilaal (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) would carry the spear of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) and walk in front of him. He would walk in front of Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) while holding the spear out of honour and respect for Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam).<\/p>\n<p>When Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) and Hazrat Bilaal (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) would reach the Eidgaah, Hazrat Bilaal (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) would insert the spear in the ground so that it may serve as a sutrah for Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) during the Eid salaah.<\/p>\n<p>After Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) left this world and Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) became the khalifah, Hazrat Bilaal (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) would conduct in the same way with Hazrat Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) on the occasion of the two Eids. <em>(Siyar A\u2018laam Nubalaa\u2019 3\/221)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The King of Abyssinia (Najaashi (rahimahullah)) once sent three spears to Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) as a gift. After receiving the three spears, Rasulullah (sallallahu \u2018alaihi wasallam) gave one spear to Hazrat \u2018Ali (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu), he gave the second spear to Hazrat \u2018Umar (radhiyallahu \u2018anhu) and he kept the third spear for himself. On the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,882,774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-articles","category-hazrat-bilaal-radhiyallahu-anhu","category-sahaabah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24257,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24214\/revisions\/24257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihyaauddeen.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}