Adnan Rajeh – Recitations from the book of Prophetic Descriptions #1

We'll start inshallah ta'ala a series for

this week and probably a few weeks to

come as the custom of all of the

scholars that I have learned from within Damascus

specifically whether they are the scholars of the

Hanafi Madhhab, Maliki Madhhab, Shafi'i or Hanbari

they all within the month of Rabi' would

recite from And this is a habit and

a custom that you find literally in every

single masjid all across of Damascus throughout every

single year it brings itself back year after

year and they rarely ever read the whole

book within the month or so but they

would read from it and then the year

after they would read a little bit more

from it and they keep on reading from

it as a way to remember the Prophet

ﷺ within the month that he was born

in but also the month that he passed

away in ﷺ and what exists between the

day that you're born and the day that

you die is your life basically so what

we are celebrating or what we are thinking

about here what we are focused on is

the legacy of Muhammad ﷺ, his life, the

life that he lived which was khair for

us when he was Imam al-Shafi'i

in the Kitab al-Risala, the very famous

book that he wrote called al-Risala he

says the following he

says radiAllahu ta'ala on Imam al-Shafi

'i in the book al-Risala that was

not even designated for this purpose but he

says to

obtaining it within our lives ﷺ and when

you're offered a reasoning within time to remember

something like this you take that advantage and

Ali ﷺ should be remembered and praised and

learned from at all times at every opportunity

and every moment but I won't be talking

about Hajj for example until Ramadan is closer

and we take this opportunity to talk about

him ﷺ so what I'll do is I'll

recite every night that I'm doing this hadith

from this book that was gifted to me

by my brother Shaykh al-Janabi two years

ago and I've been waiting for the opportunity

to do from it I know these are

hadith but I like the barakah of reciting

I won't recite, if you have this book,

al-Shama' al-Muhammadiyah it's written by Imam

al-Tirmidhi, sahib al-Jami'ah Imam al

-Tirmidhi is the known scholar of hadith who

has probably one of the most, if not

the most famous book of hadith it outfames,

by the way, for scholars, Sayyid al-Bukhari

it's not more authentic than it but it

outfames it in terms of the amount of

study and effort that was put into gathering

it and bringing it together Imam al-Tirmidhi

is a scholar of his own accord, of

the highest level so what I'll do is

I'm going to recite every night a hadith

I won't recite them all, I'll start with

the first and then I'll skip a few

and read another one what is agreed upon,

and this is on the authority of my

teacher, Shaykh Nudin ibn Atil Allah on the

authority of his teacher, Shaykh Abdullah Sirajuddin, rahmatullah

alayhi that every hadith in this book is

a hadith worthy of recitation all the hadith

in this book can be recited, they can

be conveyed none of them are of a

level of weakness where they should not or

cannot be conveyed or explained to people a

weakness of a hadith have different degrees and

have different reasons for why they are weak

and not all a hadith that have weaknesses

should not be conveyed or should not be

explained because sometimes maybe the sanad is daif

but the matin isn't meaning the chain of

narration may have weakness but the actual and

those of you who attended my hadith course

will know this that when you study a

hadith you have to look at two things

the sanad, the chain of narration and the

matin, the actual wording sometimes you'll have a

sanad that is correct but the matin there's

something wrong with it and vice versa and

this is left for scholars of hadith to

study and to give their opinions upon it

and almost every hadith in this book is

worthy of conveying and explaining and contains nothing

that requires for us to shy away from

so I'll start with the first hadith and

I'll recite the whole thing because I think

there's barakah in doing that this is the

wording of Imam al-Tirmidhi Malik ibn Anas

of course is the imam malik of the

sahib al-muwatta and the imam of the

maliki madhab which was called Rabi'at al

-ra'i back in the day, one of

the great scholars of Islam in the tabi

'i period he heard Anas and this is

the hadith obviously every hadith in this book

is narrated by Imam Tirmidhi because it's his

book but they're also narrated in other books

and this hadith is in Bukhari and Muslim

and it's the wording of Anas describing the

prophet and he says the following فَأَقَامَ

بِمَكَّةَ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ وَبِالْمَدِينَةِ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ وَتَوَفَّاهُ اللَّهُ

تَعَالَى عَلَى رَأْسِ سِتِّينَ سَنَةً وَلَيْسَ فِي رَأْسِهِ

وَلِحْيَتِهِ عِشْرُونَ شَاعَرَةً بَيْضًا he says indeed the

prophet was not tall to the point that

he stood out of everyone who was around

him so if you saw him in a

group he wasn't tall to the point where

you saw him standing out but he wasn't

that tall meaning he was so tall that

it was obvious that everyone else was very

short to him, he wasn't like that nor

was he shorter than the people that he

stood around if anything whenever you saw him

standing with someone he always either leveled up

or seemed a little bit taller and you

saw him he was not white, pale in

his color nor was he very dark skinned,

he was something in between and his hair

was not extremely curled and difficult nor did

it flow as the hair of women does

Allah granted him prophecy at the beginning of

his 40th year of life he lived in

Mecca for 10 years roughly see the sahaba

didn't care about the fractions it was either

10 or 20, it didn't really matter they

didn't care for the change that existed between

years Arab till this day don't my dad

has been 60 for the last 25 years

he's been 60 years old may Allah grant

him a long life inshallah and all of

you and your parents as well so Arab

don't care for the change in numbers so

Anas is just saying it in general and

I love the way he summarizes it he

lived in Mecca for 10 years he lived

in Medina for 10 years and Allah subhanahu

wa ta'ala took him away from us

at the beginning of his 60th year and

the day he passed away and within all

of his hair on his head and the

lihya on his face you wouldn't count 20

white hairs and that's Anas's description I will

share with you every night inshallah a description

of him for this week it will be

just describing his face and the way he

looked so that if you don't have a

visual image of him you can build a

visual image of him just think of something

extremely enlightened and extremely beautiful and you'll get

it Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala took him away from

us at the beginning of his 40th year

and he lived in Mecca for 10 years

and in Medina for 10 years and Allah

subhanahu wa ta'ala took him away from

us at the beginning of his 60th year

and within all of his hair on his

head you wouldn't count 20 white hairs