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