Ahmad Saleem – Shamail al-Muhammadiyya #003
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The Shamaal and their various introductions are important in understanding the science of the Shamaal. There are only 2,200 hadiths, with only 4,000 related to the Shamael of prophet's events. The importance of learning from the experience of the prophet's death and the history of the Prophet's hair are discussed. The Bible is not a source of poison and is used for personal health.
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So last
our last,
gathering of Shama'i at Tirmidhi,
just to quickly recap for those of you
that were here and this
is
long hair and microphone are not going well
today.
K.
So for those of you that were here
last,
last week, just a quick recap. So we
talked about Shamayl at Tirmidi, we talked about
the science,
and
we talked about the science of Shamayl at
Tirmidi,
and we said
various introductions. We gave different introductions about the
Shamayil.
And we said that
the ulema in the past, whenever they would
embark upon a journey and they would want
to teach a new science, they would have
certain introductions that they would pass around
in reference to that
science.
So we said for example,
the name of the science.
Where does this science come from? It is
from
It comes from all the sciences of Quran,
Hadith, and Sunnah.
Who is the one who initiated this? Somebody
came back after and he said They corrected
me. They said, no no. You made a
mistake.
I said, Yeah. It's Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
who initiated
the descriptions. Then the first book that was
ever
written was by ibn Shihab al Zuhri
at the command of Ubun ibn Abdul Aziz.
He was the first one who commanded Shihab
al Dinazuri to go and write a book
on Shamayl of Muhammad
there was an interesting question that came to
me, and I thought it was necessary to
address it.
How many types of books have been written
about prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
There is an entire book
written on
just describing the types of books
that have been written on Prophet Right?
There's a book
called al Mu'ajam,
Maja'a an Muhammad
It is the book,
the the dictionary
of those books that have been written about
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Okay? In that book,
it has close to 1600
books that have been written on Prophet
What's the topic?
Rasulullah
Topics such
as his vest,
the type of vest he
wore, his sandals.
There's an entire book written on the sandals
of Prophet
sha'aruhu,
his hair.
Ajeeb yani, the amount of tafasil
that you have, you have 1600
titles.
And in that book, I have a pdf
of that book. That book you can look
up. Those are whose Arabs I can share
that with you. It's amazing. You wanna know
about
the the travels of Prophet Oh, dawadbihi,
all the animals he owned.
There's
an entire book written on that.
So the books
will never be able to ever reach the
maqam of Rasulullah
One thing we must understand that whatever we
study in the science of Shama'il,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, he says,
Which means what?
That there is something called huluq. There's something
called characters.
Prophet
he's above all of those characters.
As as some of these mufasirun they have
said, Huazinatul
Khuluq.
He is the one who adorns every single
lofty character.
He is above all of these.
So whatever we study about his shamael, about
his descriptions,
those are
I. E. It gets you as close as
possible to understanding Prophet
No matter what you describe him as, he
is not like that.
He is above that.
He is way above that.
The next part about this, and this is
in reference to a hadith.
So somebody is like, how is it possible
for somebody to memorize 1,000,000 hadith? And how
is it possible for Imam Tirmidhi, Imam Bukhari,
all of these things that we read? Aren't
those
fabricated
information?
K. It's a good question because it addresses
the doubts
that a lot of times our youth have
today, and it also addresses the doubts of
the orientalists.
It's not possible for somebody to have million.
It's not possible for somebody to like Imam
Ahmad ibn Hanbal, he says,
I have in my memory,
he says, 1,000,000 hadiths.
So to answer that question,
and I think this would address that,
in total,
there is 22 elements of hadith. 1st, we
must understand that. Any hadith has something called
riuaya, which is the chain of narration.
I heard, I heard, he said, all of
that.
So that's called the riwaya.
Then you have something which is called the
diraya which is the metin of the text.
Now all of the mutun
I. E. The diraya, the text
of all of the ahadis, if you were
to collect them,
even Hajjar al Asqalani, who did the shahraf
Imam Bukhari in Asahi Al Bukhari, and the
7 100, 600 hijri, he said,
they will not exceed 60,000.
So dirayat, I. E. The text. If you
ever pick up Imam Bukhari, he repeats that
same hadith.
But then why is he repeating the same
hadith in the same chapter?
He's repeating that because he heard this hadith
from Ahmed, and he heard this hadith from
Fahd, and he heard this hadith from Zuhir,
and he heard this hadith from Nadeem. So
he heard all of these hadith from different
different people, and he just wants to make
sure that all those chains are preserved.
So he repeats all of that. So from
the 7,653
hadiths that are found in Bukhari, there's only
2,200
and so 2,223
or 26
are the actual text. The rest are repetition.
But those repetitions are to preserve the chains
of narration.
So nobody comes today and says, Oh, we
only have one narration about this hadith.
No no, we have one narration but this
one hadith, we have 17 different narrations.
Now when a hadith has so many chains,
then that hadith becomes what?
Mutawatir.
That hadith becomes mutawatir.
Okay? That hadith becomes mutawatir, which means
that told us about that event are so
many
that it defies falsehood.
K?
So this is in reference to a hadith.
So from the 60,000
dirayat,
the 60,000
hadith that are there
that take care of the text,
there are only 4,000
of them. Ibn Hajar al Laspalani is saying
that there are only 4,000 of them that
relate
to Akam.
Do this, don't do this. Haram, halal, haram,
halal.
How many left?
1.
50. How many left? 1. 20?
1. 56,000.
The remaining 56,000
of them
are all related to the Shamael of prophet
his stories, his events, what happened, Fada'il,
Khazais, Shama'il,
Dala'il,
all of these.
So to understand all of the context. So
all of those hadith combined and this is
where we're not talking about the 'if hadith.
We're talking about hadiths that are Hassan and
Suhayi and Hassan lillaydihi and those levels. Okay?
So that's that's a little bit of introduction
I thought was necessary because a few questions
came,
and I thought that was important for us
to to to embark on that, inshallah.
Now we begin the hadith. We begin.
Allah gives us tawfiq,
and we ask Allah
that he gives us Ikhlas
in this kitab. He accepts from us the
reading of this book and makes this book
a source of putting every single hadith that
we study into our characters, into our huluk.
So we adorn ourselves
with the characters and the huluk of Nabi
salallahu alayhi wa sallam, which are also the
huluk al Qur'aniyya.
So these books are gonna go hand in
hand. You will hear from Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, and then we're going to study the
huluqal Qur'aniy on Tuesdays. So they're gonna go
hand in hand because
Quran. His character was the Quran. So we
would see that character displayed live, and then
we would also study about those characteristics in
our,
Qur'anic
character, inshallah.
The chapter of that which mentions about the
physical descriptions of prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam.
So first hadith,
Generally, when a raawi or a nati narrator,
they say,
which means that
they were in a gathering and somebody told
them about this. Or they asked a question
and that thing was told that, you know,
how was Rasoolullah's life? Then somebody told them,
This was Right? So this was told to
us. Is we were part of a class,
and the teacher was teaching us. So we
heard the hadith from from our teacher. This
hadith has been narrated by,
by Anas ibn Malik. As we said, we
will touch upon the Sahabi a little bit
so we understand some of the Sahabas too.
Anas ibn Malik is it was the khadim
of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
And over here, whenever you hear the word,
Anas,
then in any of the Sharia books, if
Anas is mentioned without any reference, then it's
Anas ibn Malik.
If it is Anas
and some other people, then you will see,
you know, for example,
because
in the chains of narration, there are 5
Anasib
alikhs. But when you say the word just
Anas,
then it's understood that it was the Anas
of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi sallam. Otherwise, you know, Arwaat al
Anas, there are more than 5 in the
chains of medicine. Sometimes people get confused. Which
Anas are we talking about? The one that
is closest to prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam is
the Sahabi. The one that is furthest away
from the chain is Atabihiortabahtabihiortabahtabihiortabahatabihiortabahatabihiortabihiortabahatabihiortabihiortabahatabihiortabihiortabihiortabahatabihiortabihiortabihiortabahatabihiortabih.
His age
what age did he accept Islam?
And it's emblematic.
Somebody said
it. 10. Good.
10.
And how long did he live on this
earth?
Long long. Oh, amashallah. This is amazing. How
long is long long? Bohat long.
Zaday long.
I like that.
Very long. Prophet
he made du'a
for Anas.
O Allah, increase
him in his mal.
And
increase him in his progeny.
And give baraka in his existence.
Then he mentions, Anas ibn Malik, falakat
I
I buried
with my own hands
more than 125
of my own grandchildren.
Imagine how much life Allah gave him and
how much barakah he gave him. Okay?
And only 2 daughters.
So from 125,
2 daughters and 123
male children
from his children's children's children, the ones that
died and he buried them himself.
Okay?
And then the other, whichever
land he had his farm,
that farm will give fruits twice
in a year. Everybody else's farms would give
1. His farm would give 2. And he
he he lived more than
100 years.
He lived more than 100 years.
And it mentions that he was from one
of the last sahabis to die.
Right? If it's it's accurate or not, it
has been mentioned that. Then the hadith goes
on, and as Abhim alikhs
That prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was not tall.
Now you notice that all the descriptions of
Rasulullah Sallallahu alaihi wasallam is negation, not affirmations.
He was not really tall.
He was not very short.
He was not extremely white.
He was not
extremely
white.
Or neither was He extremely dark.
So why is all of these in negations?
Like literally if you read all hadith, He
was not like this, He was not like
Why is this?
Because people were not capable of describing him.
So they could only describe him with that
which he was not.
So they would look at him, he's like,
man, is he tall? No, he's not very
tall. Is he short? No, he's not very
tall.
The second part is
nobody had the ulama. They said that people
did not have
the audacity to look at Rasulullah's
face and observe him like he had so
much awe and ru'ub and haybah that you
couldn't look at him for that long. So
when you would have a glimpse at him,
you would just pick up like, He's not
really tall. He's not really short. And he
would look down. You didn't have the courage
to look into that person's eye. You know,
I remember like growing up,
whenever, you
know, Abhooji Dantheti,
right? Nijay Dekho. Anybody remembers that?
Aajkal, today's kids, they're like, They don't understand
this. What do you why? I wanna look
at you. I wanna talk to you. Let's
let's have eye contact.
Right? This is a completely different generation.
That our gen you you it was considered
out of this it's like a sign of
disrespect
that you looked into the eyes of your
dad.
You walked ahead of him, you sat before
him.
Over here, you the dad orders food, before
the dad brings the ketchup, the bulgar is
gone.
I'm serious. This what is this is
We're going through
a crisis of of etiquettes
because we don't learn these. The sahabas did
not have. As a matter of fact, all
the sahabas who narrated about Prophet
they were all young Sahabis who could break
the lines of adab.
Anas was 10, 11.
Okay. So when he migrated, he was I
think they say that, you know, he accepted
Islam, and then when he migrated, he was
11 years old.
So by the time Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
passed away, he was a teenager. Still a
teenager.
So Anas Adi Ali radiAllahu an.
So all the people who actually described him,
they were all younger Sahabis who did not
have that ruh.
Because Rasulullah was so loving to these kids
that they could come up to him.
And they were able to really look at
him and describe.
Except this woman,
when Rasulullah was traveling, she didn't know who
this was.
Had she had known this was Prophet she
would have never been able to look at
him.
She she was just a a shepherd's wife.
Like, Can we get some sheep? Yeah. Can
we have the milk? No problem. And she
looked at him, and then when her husband
comes back, Who was he? Somebody called Muhammad.
He uses
and then who describe to him. And then
she described
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in that detail.
Okay?
So, the descriptions, first one, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
first description is
He was not extremely
tall.
Okay?
He was not extremely tall.
In another, it says, tawil alba'in
extreme tallness.
Neither was he really really short in his
height.
You know that white that is so white
that it's not very pleasant looking.
Okay?
So, Amhaq basically means that this is so
bright that it has no redness left in
it. It's just pale white,
and there is no nur on that face
because of that paleness.
It's literally pale white.
Neither
the skin of Prophet
asmar
I. E. It was not the wheatish complexion.
So it was not towards wheatish and brown
complexion. It was in between
the paleness and brownness, something in between.
K?
This is description of his hair.
So this hadith is going to to set
the stage for us,
and then eventually when we go into individual
descriptions of each of these, the face, the
color and stuff, each chapter, then we'll go
into the detail of that. So this hadith
is just setting you the stage that what
we're going to roughly talk about.
So jad is you know,
the curly hair, like people that have Afros,
our African brothers and stuff, when they grow
their hair, they grow into an Afros, that
is called jad al qatah.
K. I e, it's it's harsh, it's tangly,
and it's like it's so tangled up that
you can hang something in there. And if
you see some of the, you know, the
African American culture, they they put those I
don't know what they call them, those combs?
What do they call them? Anybody knows? What
do they call
them? Picks? Picks. Okay.
Picks. Picks. We don't have those because if
we put a pick in our head, it'll
falls out.
It goes right out and doesn't wait.
And neither was his hair like the Japanese
or the, you know, the Chinese hair is
just completely soft.
Like, it's just simply straight, like straight like
like a pencil.
Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was sent.
He was sent at the age of 40
as a nabi.
He stayed in Makkah.
Asherah Salam. Sorry. He stayed in Makkah for
10 years, and he stayed in Madinah for
10 years. Now you guys are gonna correct.
He's like, oh, it's 13 and stuff. Wait.
It's coming, inshallah.
And somebody who asked that question on the
is he here, the brother?
No. It's okay. I mean, it
was a good question to ask if he's
here.
So we'll explain this.
So Bukhari
in Bukhari, the hadith is
that he sallallahu alaihi wasallam, he stayed 13
years, and another, it stays it states 10
years 10 years.
Now, the Arabs in general,
they were masters of approximation
because they did not have written documents.
Even
when some of my friends, their grandfathers, grandparents
were coming,
they did not have birth certificates. So like,
you know, what's the age? I think 76.
Okay, when? June?
Let's put your January. So a lot of
the documents you're going to see, it says
112
111-1961,
111951.
Because even up until recent time, people didn't
have records.
So this is called at taqrib. The Arabs,
they were known for
rounding the figure.
So if it was 13, like Asher.
So he's like Asher
Okay.
Wafi riwaya, there's also other riwayats about that.
There's 12 years, there's 13 years and stuff.
Al Muham, he stayed there for 13 years.
That's the most famous riwaya.
K. Wabil Madina Ashtarasana, and he stayed in
Makkah, in Madina for 10 years.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
He took his life. He took him away
and his his wafat began with a disease,
with sickness.
And that sickness initiated by the meat that
he ate at the hands of the Jews
1 year before.
That shat, that that shoulder that he ate,
the meat of the
shoulder, was poisoned.
When prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam took
he took a bite from it,
the sheep spoke to Prophet
and said,
Don't eat me. I'm poisoned.
So then Rasulullah
invited that woman
that cooked the food.
She says, Did you put poison in it?
She said, Yes I did.
She said, Why did you put it? He
said, If you are a Nabi, Allah will
send you a wahi
and inform you.
And if you are not a Nabi,
ani will die and hamdulillah, 1 Museeba is
over for us.
I
look at their audacity,
straight up.
And then she's like, Who told you?
She wants to know, Why did you get
a wahi or something?
Then he says, This
sheep right here told me.
Right? That is why Al Mu'azzi'at,
when it comes to the Mu'azzi'at of Nabi
salawahu alayhi salawam, that 56,000
hadiths, you have an entire, you have documented
with Sahih hadith more than 1400
morejizas of Rasool Allah sallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And if you add the 'if hadith to
that, it's close to 3,000.
These Mu'ajizat,
as Imam Suyuti, he mentions
that every mu'ajizah of Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
was greater than any other nabi.
So for example,
Isa alaihis salam, he used to do he
used to resurrect people from the dead.
What is greater, to resurrect something that was
that had life that died and bring back
life
or to bring life into something that never
had life?
Which is greater?
Something had life, the life went away and
you bring back life, which was Isa alaihi
sallam. For prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
that tree trunk was dead.
It never had life of of It it
was never an animate object. It was never
able to speak and cry and show and
express its feelings.
It was never a sentient being.
But when prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam left it
and built a mimbar,
that tree started crying.
When Prophet
he placed al hasa, he placed the pebbles
in his hand,
The pebbles started saying the tasbih.
Pebbles don't have so these are inanimate objects
where Allah gave. So every muajizah of Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
every nabi that has a muajizah, Rasulullah's
muajizat were much greater.
Musa alaihi sallam parting of the sea, Prophet
splitting the moon.
Right? And then the list goes on. K.
Watawafahu
and Prophet
died because of that meat that he ate
1 year later.
He
died
and he was sick for more than 13
days.
He just had a small bite, but that
was enough that, you know, it took 1
year 1 year of poison. Right? And then
Jews, if you read history,
it's a known fact.
Jews were known as masters of poison that
they could put in your food that would
take sometimes 6, 7 months,
and nobody would be able to tell who
killed that person.
So many of the rulers and Khalifa of
the past were killed at the hands of
the Jews,
By and it was it's a known fact
if you read history of the the
of 300 Hijri, 400 Hijri,
500 Hijri. Even if you read history not
from Hijri, if you read history from the
era of 700, 800, 900 AD, like that
era, the Common Era, you will find a
lot of information about
the the Jews, and then later, that became
the Crusaders that became experts of prevent bringing
certain types of poison that could they could
spread, and they would formulate. They had people
that would formulate these poisons
that would never ever
so they would spread it and nobody would
ever know within the community that it was
spread by them.
And Allah
took his life.
He died at the age of
in the beginning of 60 years, which means
63. Right? He crossed 60, and it was
the early sixties.
And in his entire hair, all of his
hair and beard, there were less than 20
here that were wiped
at age 63.
It's a it's a real story. I met
somebody. He came to me and said Sheikh
Hayzal Rasoolallah
in the dream.
I said,
Can he describe him to me? He said,
Wallahi, he was sitting on this pedestal, he
was wearing these white bright clothes,
subhanAllah,
And he faced Nurani and completely white hair.
I said, you definitely didn't see a prophet
because prophet when he died, he only had
20 hair white.
Right? He's like, He must have gotten older.
It's been a while.
So you know,
the benefit of this science
is twofold.
One, insha'Allah Allah gives us a tawfiq to
see Prophet in our dreams, in this life.
But if we see him in this life,
that's amazing.
But if we don't, then when do we
see him the first time?
Nope.
Nope.
In the grave.
Prophet
says that 2 angels come.
That person is gonna be made to sit
sit up.
And then he's gonna say, Madinuk.
What's your religion? Manrabbuk.
Who's your
rub?
What do you say about this man?
And you would see Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And that's why the ulema they said that
this 'il is shib wajib. It's almost wajib
because the 3 questions that are going to
determine
your success for eternity,
one of them is you must you are
going to be shown a description of Prophet
If you're not able to tell if you
don't know that description now, how are you
going to identify who that is?
And that is why the science,
they say that if a person is alone
or they are a minority in a country,
and this is like in in in the
in the Sharjah of this book, it says,
if a person is alone or they are
a minority, then this ilm is wajib. Right?
I'm not saying it's wajib, I'm just saying
the the the the the narrator and this
this the book writer of the book, he
says that this ilm is wajib.
But if you're living in the masses of
Muslims, then it becomes fardkifa'a
I. E. That some people in the community
must know how
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's description was.
Okay?
The second thing about the description and the
hadith is that every description that we share
has been
reached to us with tawatur.
There are so many chains of narration that
it is almost impossible for us to negate
any of these descriptions.
They have come to us with almost tawatur
level. K?
Finishing the hadith,
and he did not have
and he did not have in his head
or in his beard.
20 here that were white.
We'll stop over here, inshallah.
This is first hadith. Now as we go
on, I'll go into much more details on
every single description as he touches upon. Insha'Allah.
The other part that I mentioned, some people
had asked me, they wanted to see the
shahada or they wanted to see,
the Ijazah that I have.
So my ijazah,
that I have is from Imam Tirmidhi,
Rahimahullah.
From there it goes to Kulayb ibn Shashi
Al Hadath Kulayb ibn Shashi. From there it
goes to Ahmed Al Khuzai, very famous Al
Khuzai, the famous scholar Al Khuzai, Abu Qasim
ibn Ahmed.
From there, it goes
to Muhammad
Al Baghdadi,
very famous, Al Baghdadi, the famous scholar of
Baghdad,
Qasem al Fagal. And from there, it goes
to
and this is an interesting one.
The chain that I have goes through Zaynab
bint Kamal,
and she was a very famous Muhaddissa.
I have over, I think in this chain,
I have like 6 chains from Shama'il, like
6 different chains of Shama'il to Imam Tirmidhi.
And in all of the chains that I
have,
it's really fascinating to see that women women
were fore in front. You have A'isha, you
have Zainab, you have so many of the
female scholars. Some of them are at the
level that they used to have their open
hadith circles,
where where these famous scholars have taken hadith
from them.
And when when she says when the the
the the chain says haddathana,
right, that I was told by Zainab,
this means there was a gathering that she
was having of a class,
and she was teaching a class and these
were the people who took those chains of
narrations.
One of my teachers, doctor Akraman Nedawi from
UK,
if you guys don't know him, he's a
professor at Oxford and he's also a graduate
of Naidawi. He's probably one of the most
profound scholars.
He's a Hanafi jurist.
He has written a book
about
Muhaddithat
female scholars
and it's available in English. It's been translated
in English. He wrote it in Arabic, and
then he
that was his PhD thesis, and then he
later translated in English and stuff like that.
So it's it's worthwhile. Doctor Akraman Naidawi, if
you type it on Amazon, you will get
some of his books. And and that book
is fascinating, because we have an image
and an understanding that women were not in
the forefront of of of education at all.
And that's not right.
That's that's not true. With all the adab
and characteristics
of of a masjid
intact,
they would teach open gatherings where you would
have majma'a of sisters and brothers that would
be sitting and they would be studying.
And it was not considered aib.
Right? It has just become culturally in our
recent times. But anyhow, inshallah, Allah
gives, you know, to whoever
he wishes.