Syed Omair – Portrait of the Prophet #1
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The speaker discusses the clothing and appearance of the prophet sallavi Alaihi wa sallam, including his clothing, behavior, and appearance. They also mention a book called Hashima Ilutive, which is a collection of text and translation of the book. The importance of following the guide to reach the top of Everest is emphasized, along with the physical features of the prophet's clothing, including his hair, complexion, and weight. The speaker also discusses the importance of learning and following GPS to earn the reward of Islam, as well as the use of visual materials to showcase the hair and eyes of the prophet sallavi Alaihi wa sallam. The importance of forgiveness for mistakes is emphasized.
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Over the next,
3 to 4 weeks, let's see how long
it takes. Our goal in this,
necessarily calling it a class, but this halakat,
this series,
is to go over
an aspect
of the seerah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
which
is sometimes studied in more traditional circles,
especially overseas.
It's something that's making more,
ground here in the West,
with, some recent publications such as one I'll
talk about shortly.
This is called the Shamael of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
This is an aspect of the siref,
but this focuses on the person
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Who
he was? What were his
characteristics. There are some other genres of,
this type of literature as well. We have
something called the,
which is the special or specific miracle to
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as well.
But here, we're not necessarily going to be
looking at, a chronological,
you know, study of the life of the
prophet but more who he was, what were
his likes, what were his habits, etcetera.
So, inshallah, that's, our goal. I'm hoping to
do this over 6 sessions,
Mondays Wednesdays over the next 3 weeks.
And,
we may,
not go into the last 10 days of
Ramadan, but we'll see what happens.
So,
On the topic of text as I was
mentioning,
a recent text which has been published,
two and a half, almost 3 years ago
now is this book, Hashima Il Muhammediyah,
published by Imam, Ghazali Institute in New York.
Translation was done by a friend of mine,
Abdul Aziz Soraka,
and my sheikh Mohammed Aslam, from the UK.
It's a gorgeous book.
If you guys want to see it later,
you can actually see,
the translation, the Arabic commentaries,
everything about this book was done with Ihsan.
So I highly recommend everyone to pick up
a copy just to even have for yourself
at home and read it from time to
time.
There's scholars in the east who do,
an annual khatam of this book. They make
sure that they read this book at least
once a year so that they remember who
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam was.
So again, if anyone wants to see it
later, I'll show you my copy of the
book.
So what
is Shamael or what does this term Shamael
actually mean?
So the word
comes from this book, the title of the
famous book, which is called And
this book, this, text is by the great
imam
of the Al Sunam al Jamaa, Imam Muhammad
bin Isa bin Sarawabin,
Musa.
So this is a text going back to
one of the major imams
of our Hadith tradition, Imam,
who is known,
for writing one of the one of the
6
most, canonical books of the hadith tradition in
Sunni literature.
The root of the word shamael, as we
know Arabic has something called root letters. So
each word in Arabic,
from the Arabic language comes down to 3
basic sounds.
The root from
is Shamala, or sheen, mim, and lam.
And this means to
encompass
or to contain something.
K? Something that's
is something that's full. It's complete.
So
means,
in this context,
a complete or a comprehensive
picture of the qualities
and the attributes of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam. And specifically, this is done
through Hadith themselves. Okay? So this is actually
a collection of Hadith.
It's about 400
Hadith, depending on the,
the rewire that we have. This particular book
has, I believe, is 415,
but I've seen some up to 420
or so.
And we're gonna cover different aspects of the
life of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
from, again, not the chronological
events that happened, but from his appearance,
his clothing, the way he walked, the way
he talked,
the way he sat for food, the way
he did all sorts of things.
So that
we can learn more about him
as a person. Who he was as a
person.
I remember I was teaching this, course once
in my old masjid,
and someone asked
this question.
Why should we even study the Shama'il in
the first place?
And a person might get offended by that,
you know. Someone has a lot of hub,
a lot of love for the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, they might ask, why not?
You know, we have to respond to things
with Adam. Right? So why should we study
the Shamal? It's a very good question actually.
So I thought of a metaphor to try
to explain
why should you study the Shamael. It's an
excellent question. So let's start with our metaphor.
Here's a metaphor.
No. Here's a mountain.
What mountain is this? Anyone know?
This is Everest. Very good.
Everest
is on the border of China and Nepal.
It's the largest mountain in the world by
prominence and by elevation over sea level. Actually,
with the Hawaiian Islands, it's a mountain that's
about 2,000 feet taller,
but it's below sea level, half of it.
The elevation is 29,031
feet
with snowfall.
Without snowfall, it's about 20 feet shorter.
8,846
meters.
I don't know what meters mean. I'm American.
The first
confirmed ascent confirmed
was in May 1953
by Tenzing Norgay, who was
a Sherpa,
person who lived in that area. Sherpa is
actually a
it's a it's a group of people. It's
an ethnic group. It doesn't mean a mountaineer.
He was a Sherpa mountaineer.
It's a common,
misconception, but he's a Sherpa mountaineer.
And he was,
working with a British explorer named Edmund Hillary,
and they first reached the very summit
in 1953.
And this is our first confirmed ascent. K?
People tried before.
There may have been people who did it
before. We just don't know.
But people all the way from the 19
twenties have been trying to climb the mountain.
And as you may or may not know,
several people,
to this day, every year, there's annual deaths
that happen on the mountain. Right?
Thinking where does this have to do with
Shama'el? I'm getting there.
Right?
So what do you need
to climb Everest?
What do you need?
You need a number of things. Right?
You'll need, of course, food and supplies.
K? You'll need
extremely
warm clothing.
K? You'll need
tents. You'll need shelter because you have to
stop on the way.
You'll need oxygen masks, although many, people actually
have done the ascent without oxygen masks. Well,
it's very difficult to do.
You'll need ice picks.
You'll need
10 weeks of your time and about $30,000.
It's a very expensive trip. K?
And 10 weeks is because at each phase
of the mountain, you actually have to stop
there.
K? You gotta stop. Your body actually has
to get acclimated to the the new elevation.
Base camp, which is where most people start,
is already about 40,000 feet up, which is
the height of the rockies.
So you need 10 weeks just to get
there. Right?
And the most important thing that you're gonna
need,
guess it's
a guide. Very good. The most important thing
you need is a guide.
There are 17
routes up the mountain.
Two main ones. 1 from the north from
the Chinese side and one from the Nepalese
side. Two main,
roots. K? And
they'll tell you right off the bat, don't
try this alone because you're gonna die.
It's you're not gonna be able to do
it. You need someone who's already
gone the distance
and who has
expertise
in mountaineering to get you to the top.
And so you need a guide.
So,
if that guide was to tell you
that you should dress a certain way.
If that guide was to tell you to
eat certain foods
in order to reach the top of Everest,
you should eat this food.
If that guide tells you this is how
you should climb, this is how you should
walk.
If that guy tells you, rest here. Stop
here.
If he tells you even basic things, this
is how you should clean yourself at that
elevation. This is how you should use your
water.
A smart person would do what?
It would listen to all of those things.
Right? Because they know,
well, this person knows what they're doing. I
don't.
So let me put my trust in the
guide,
and I know that the guide is
trying to get me to the top.
I know that this guide is trying to
help me, not harm me. So let me
listen.
Right? I'll pay attention. Even in things that
seem mundane,
like what to eat.
Why? Because the guide is telling you, listen,
this is what we eat when we climb
the mountain, so it becomes
significant.
This is what we drink when we climb
the mountain, so it becomes significant.
That's my metaphor. Right?
Rasool Allah SAWHSAWALLAM
is our guide.
Not to the top of the mountain.
Oh, he is our guide to Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala himself. To the pleasure of Allah.
The purpose of the prophet
his main concern, his driving
motivation
is to see this ummah
safely
into
Jannah.
And that's a journey and a half. It's
much more difficult than climbing Everest.
How do we know that Rasulullah
can help us do this? Because he has
already
attained
Allah's pleasure.
He knows the journey.
Right?
So it follows therefore
that the Ummah
of Rasulullah SAWSANAM,
if they follow in his footsteps,
then what will happen?
They will also gain the pleasure of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
I actually read the aya last night in
Traawi
where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the prophet
to say,
Where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells the prophet
to say, say this to everyone. Let
the Ummah know this fact.
If you love Allah, follow me.
And Allah will love you,
and Allah will forgive your sins.
K?
So
the metaphor that I just explained
where
I would dress like my guide does. I
would eat what my guide wants to eat.
I would sit the way my guide sits.
This is a lesson that the Sahaba, li'allahu
alaihi wa'ala anhu, took very literally.
Those who were there, who observed
the prophet
directly with their own eyes,
they took this extremely literally.
To the point where some of them would
say, and we'll probably come across as hadith
later on, I used to hate this food.
This food was disgusting to me. And then
I saw the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam eating
it.
And then I ate it. And then that
thing became the most beloved food to me.
The sahaba would
not just the food he ate, the way
he ate certain things.
My hutba a few, weeks ago, I mentioned
how the prophet
ate grapes.
He would take the entire cluster of the
grape like this.
Imagine
the grape is here. He would take it
by the cluster,
and he would eat it he would eat
it
with his mouth. He wouldn't pick the individual
grapes off. He would eat it off of
the cluster.
And later,
after the death of the prophet,
some of the Sahaba or some of the
people, the new
converts to Islam, they saw some of the
Sahaba doing this. Like, what are you doing?
Why are you eating like that?
And I believe it was saying that Omar
was ready to beat someone. He said,
Especially if you're desi,
and you have a glass of,
water, some and you if you don't drink
it in 3 sips, what does your mom
do?
Why do we drink in 3 sips?
That's the way the prophet salsam used to
do it.
That's part of the shama'il themselves.
So, just like the mountain guide,
the sahaba imitated
the way he ate, what he ate, how
he dressed, how he sat.
Because they knew whatever he does,
he has earned Allah's pleasure.
So we want to be like him, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, and we also want to
earn Allah's pleasure.
So the safest thing to do
is just to do what he does.
The first
Muslim after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasalam and
his immediate family was whom was in Abu
Bakr alaihi salaam. And this is a story
that
Sheikh Hamid told him that he said,
when Abu Bakr became Muslim, what do you
think the prophet told him to do?
He asked himself, and Abu Bakr asked, what
should I do now?
And Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, you do
what I do.
That's it. That's your Islam. Just do what
I do.
There's your Islam right there.
So
we're gonna start insha'Allah with the first few
chapters
from the text. So we have as I
mentioned, about 400 hadith. We're not gonna go
through all of them.
I've done that once. It takes a very
long time. We're gonna go through snippets from
each chapter. And each chapter, the way that
Imam al Tirmidhi, Rahimullah
organized it is that each chapter has a
topic.
K? So you can see here chapter 1.
We're starting with the physical features
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And then in each chapter, he'll give
usually several
a hadith. Some of these hadith might be
very short. Some of them might be very
long.
I've tried to compile
a good selection. Some of the short ones,
some of the long ones, and some of
the ones that give us,
a more complete picture, you know, by comparison.
We'll see how these how these kind of
build on top of one another inshallah.
So we'll start inshallah today. We'll see how
far we go. I'm not sure
I have the whole
presentation ready, but we'll see how far we
can. So we might finish all of it.
And we're gonna start
with the physical appearance, the physical features
of Rasulullah.
You might think, well,
that's not something I could imitate.
Right?
Why should I study that? I've actually had
that question before.
What's the second thing you're gonna be asked
in the grave?
Who is your lord?
Sorry. The third question. What's your deen? And
what do you say about
this man?
Right. What's the third question?
Yeah. Who is your prophet and the way
that they worded is what do you say
about this man?
So some of the scholars say in the,
you'll actually see the prophet.
And after the terror of the sets in,
maybe you'll want a way to recognize him.
Right?
To recognize who this man actually is.
So even from that perspective, well, there's other
several reasons to learn the character of the
prophet and the appearance of the prophet as
well, but we do study his appearance.
And even if you copy
part of the appearance of the prophet
with the intention of copying him, it's actually
an act of Ibadah.
And we'll see in as we go. So
I've numbered these according to
the hadith number that they are in the
book. So you'll see we can jump around
a bit. Wanna start with the second hadith
from this book,
which comes to us from the authority of
Anas bin Malik
in which he says,
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
was of medium stature.
Neither exceedingly tall nor short.
He had a handsome physique.
His blessed hair was neither extremely curly nor
straight.
His complexion was fair,
but with some redness.
And when he walked, he would walk swiftly
and with vigor
and lean forward slightly.
We learn a few things here. The prophet
was not extremely tall nor was he extremely
short.
How tall do you think he was?
5, 10?
I think a lot of people are looking
at a global average. Right?
Which is not the correct way.
Yeah. He oh, actually see it probably in
another hadith. He was considered
a medium stature
for the Quraysh.
Not on a global
global level that would be about 57, 58.
The prophet, sallam, according to what we know,
according to people who actually have studied this
for their entire lives, he's probably around 62
or 63.
Prophet
by our standards was probably tall.
A tall person of the Quraysh was probably
over 7 feet tall. Like I say, like
I say, Hamza,
they were probably over 7 feet tall. And
we can deduce this from certain descriptions of
them.
But, anyway,
the prophet salaam was probably around 6 3.
Ali, who
was considered short
for the, and they say he was probably
around 510, 511.
That for them was short because they are
a tall people.
K?
He had
a handsome physique.
And what's meant here is that everything within
his body was
proportioned
equally.
His hands were not extremely long or his
legs. Everything was as well proportioned.
His hair,
sallallahu alaihi wasalam, was not
completely straight
nor was it completely curly. It was wavy,
actually. We'll see this later on. It was
some there's some waviness to it.
And its complexion was fair.
A lot of people take fair to mean,
white as in European white, but probably not
the case.
Most people that grow up in Arabia, you'll
know that, their complexion is probably a light
brown, something like that,
but with some redness. So there was a
bit of color to the skin of the
prophet as well.
And when he walked, this is actually something
we can implement,
he walked very,
firmly.
He took very sure steps.
And, actually, the description say that he when
he was walking, he would outpace
almost everyone else around him. When he was
walking, it was like other people running to
catch up to him. He walked very swiftly,
and he leaned forward slightly as he walked.
And a description later tells us as if
someone is going down a hill. What that
means is he would look very carefully down
where he placed his feet, and his gaze
would be down towards the ground as he
walked, and he walked swiftly.
The next hadith
sorry. A bit of a sore throat.
Hadith number 3
from Al Baraib, brother Talanhu. He says, the
messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam was a
man of medium stature, and we talked about
that. This is medium for Quraish.
His blessed shoulders were broad,
and he had a full head of hair
that would reach his blessed earlobes.
So the prophet
had
long hair
by our standards. Right? It's another thing you
can actually implement.
And several scholars actually would do this, that
they would, at least one point in their
life,
grow their hair long.
Why? Because that's what
did. That's how he would keep his hair.
This is one of the 2 longest hadith
in the entire book. There's another one
from,
the uncle of,
Ivali.
It's coming later. Number 6 then comes from
In which he says that the messenger of
Allah
was neither extremely tall nor extremely short.
It was a medium stature
among his people.
That's where I said that caveat, among his
people.
His blessed hair was neither extremely curly nor
straight, rather it was slightly wavy.
He was not corpulent, meaning it was not
obese. He he did not have, you know,
a lot of fat.
His blessed face was not completely circular,
but it had a slight roundness to it.
His complexion was fair and imbued with a
bit of redness.
His blessed eyes were very black and his
eyelashes were long. His blessed joints were large
and his blessed shoulders were broad.
When he walked, he walked with vigor as
if descending from a height.
When he would turn to look at someone
or something, he would turn with his whole
body.
It would face them completely.
This is also something we can implement. Right?
His blessed heart was the soundest and most
generous of hearts. His speech is the most
truthful of speech, and he is the gentlest
of all people in nature and the noblest
of them in social interactions
and companionship. Actually, I had to cut off
the hadith because it keeps going. This is,
of course, Ali who was known the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam since he was a
child, who actually grew up in the house
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So
he had a very
detailed description
of who
his cousin and his father-in-law was.
It's a long list of them.
Chapter 2 then, we'll move on. As I
said, I'm taking a few hadith from each
chapter.
And our goal here, by the way
what's our niya? You know, everything has a
niya. What's our niya when we're here, when
we're reading this, when we're studying?
You can have multiple niyas among them to
read the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Right? That itself is an act
of worship.
Because this the statements of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam and the statements of the
Sahaba
are things that have,
divine approval.
Right? Prophet
we know never spoke out of his own
nuffs, out of his own.
He spoke out of a divinely inspired speech,
and the Sahaba had a shadow of that
as well.
Right?
Secondly, we can also intend
to ask Allah
to show us the prophet
by reading about him.
You may or may not know there are
3 things.
Just by looking at them,
you're doing an act of worship. You know?
There's 3 things to look at,
which are acts of worship. The first is
the Kaaba.
To look at the Kaaba
and do nothing else, just to look at
it, it's an act of worship.
The second is the Quran.
K? This is why even if you have
memorized the surah or something, it's still sunnah
to open it up and look at it.
Look at the Quran.
Looking at it as an act of worship.
And the third thing
to look at and to do an act
of worship is Rasulullah
himself.
To see him is an act of worship.
The prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam actually told
us that people who see me in their
dreams,
they do truly see me.
Is that shaitan cannot impersonate
even the physical features of Rasool Allah
So chapter 2 now is
the khatam, the seal of prophethood
that was on the back of the prophet
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So from,
this is hadith 17 or the
He says that I saw the seal of
prophethood
between the blessed shoulders of the messenger of
Allah
It was a morsel, meaning a morsel of
flesh. It was a piece of flesh
that was slightly raised
over his skin. And so not something like
hanging off of his body.
You can imagine it was like a a
bump on his back.
Reddish in color
and like a pigeon's egg inside. So it's
right on his back between his shoulder blades,
the slight bump in the skin that was
slightly reddish in color.
From Abu Nabra al
Awakih,
he says that I asked Abu Sayed al
Khudri
about the seal of the messenger of Allah
meaning the seal of prophethood. And he replied,
it was a slightly raised morsel of flesh
on his blessed upper back.
Size of a pigeon egg. Wanna give you
some context. That's about how big a pigeon
egg is, about inch to an inch and
a half. So you can imagine it's about
this big.
It was right in the middle of the
shoulder blades of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam or slightly above that.
So I whenever I teach Shamal, I always
use visual
materials so you can actually see what's going
on. And that we'll see as we go
further and further
with that some more things.
Chapter 3, the hair of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi
wa sallam. From say that Aisha Radha Salamha,
she says, the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam and I would bathe from a single
container.
His blessed hair was above his shoulders,
yet reached past his earlobes.
Above the shoulders,
but past the earlobes.
From
Umhani bint Abita Allah,
she says that the messenger of Allah, salaam,
once entered Mecca
whilst wearing 4 braids.
In travel, it was common that they would
actually braid their hair.
They tie it into
a a thick braid so that it didn't
disturb them as they were traveling.
So the prophet
would tie
his front hair in one braid
past his,
his ear. And behind his ear, he would
tie a second braid.
He did that on the other side of
his head as well. So one braid here
and one braid back here. And it said
that his ears would poke out between the
two braids on either side of his head.
It 4 total braids
when he used to travel.
And from Anas
who he says the blessed hair of the
messenger of Allah
reached the middle of his ears.
So it's actually three lengths
that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam would commonly
keep his hair.
The first is to his ear lobes. The
hair would be equal to his ear lobes.
That's the minimum that he kept it unless
he was shaving it for when he did
ombre or something like that, but he would
normally keep his hair in line with his
earlobes.
That's the shortest. The longest that he used
to keep it is down to his shoulder
blades.
And sometimes he would keep it in the
middle.
There's 3 different lengths that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam usually kept his hair. And
if he got past his earlobes, he would
actually trim it until it's back up a
bit.
From ibn Abbas,
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam would
let his blessed hair fall freely.
I'll explain what that means in a second.
The idol worshipers used to part their hair.
And the people of scripture, meaning the Al
Kitab,
would let their hair fall freely.
He, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, preferred
to accord
or to agree with the practices of the
people of the scripture, so long as he
was not given a specific command regarding the
matter.
But thereafter,
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam also
began to part his hair from time to
time. So what it means to fall freely
is,
basically, what I've done here, it's just letting
your hair fall back.
This is falling freely.
And the other way is to part it
in the middle using a comb or something
like that. We know that the prophet
earlier
would let his hair fall back,
but that later in his life, in his
prophethood,
he would also part it in the middle.
Now we're on chapter 4,
the practice of combing, using a comb that
the prophet
used to do.
Hadith number 33 from
he says, the messenger of Allah
Hopefully, everyone is saying that at least in
their heart. We all know the Hadith. Right?
The stingiest person is a person who doesn't
say
when his name is mentioned.
The messenger of Allah
would frequently apply oil
to his blessed head
and comb his blessed
beard. He Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would often use
a cloth,
which would eventually look like the cloth of
an oil harvester as a yat.
Cloth, by the way, is what they used
to put whenever they oiled their hair. They
would put a cloth
on top of their oiled hair.
K? And then they would wear
whatever they were wearing, the or whatever they
would wear over the cloth
so that the oil did not stain their
So so used to wear a cloth between
his hair and whatever he is wearing on
his head.
And they said that he'd he used oil
so much
that if a person was just to look
at him, they would think he was an
oil seller.
That's how often he used to oil his
hair.
This pinat cloth was always covered in oil,
basically.
From Aisha at
least 34, she says,
the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam like
to start from the right side in his
purification
when purifying,
in his combing when combing,
and in his wearing of sandals when putting
them on. Of course, know the importance of
doing everything with your right first.
That's another visible,
artifact
of the
that we have in our daily lives. Right?
Why do our parents tell us eat with
your right? Put your right shoe on first.
Enter the Masih with your right foot. Why
do we do that? That's part of the
literature. Right?
We're following the prophet
in our actions.
Chapter 5,
just the white hairs of Rasool Allah
From Katada,
number 37.
From Katada
He says that I asked Anas bin Malik
did the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
dye his blessed hair?
He replied,
it did not reach that point.
Meaning that he had to dye his entire
hair.
He only had a few white hairs on
his blessed temples,
which is here.
Abu Bakr
however,
did dye his hair with Hannah and with
Ketam.
So
although the prophet
himself did not have to dye his entire
hair,
we can see that
the Sahaba and who is closer than Abu
Bakr to the prophet, the Sahaba saw no
problem in doing that,
which is why you see certain people now
with their hair dyed with. There's nothing wrong
with that. Right? It's actually part of
the heritage of,
Islam because this is something our imams did.
Our.
And it's been Malik also says
38.
I did not count on the blessed head
or beard
of the messenger of Allah
except 14
white hairs total
on his head and on his beard.
And he
died when he was how old?
63 according to most reports.
So 63,
and his head is almost completely
black,
except for a few
hairs that were white.
And Anna's counted 14. Some counted around 20,
they said. 14 is probably the right number.
So what does that tell you about him?
It's a man with vigor.
Man who is a very powerful
individual.
Right?
Man who is not stressed.
What does stress do? It brings white hairs.
All my white hairs are from stress. Right?
He, sallallahu alaihi wasalam, was not stressed.
And we know that because he was always
optimistic.
See that later.
From Semaac Manhar, brother, he says that Jabir
ibn Samura,
who
was asked,
did the messenger of Allah
have any white hair on his head?
He, meaning Jabir, replied, the messenger of Allah
salallahu alaihi wasalam did not have any white
hair on his blessed head,
except for a few strands in the middle
where it would be parted.
And if he applied
oil to his blessed head, the oil would
conceal the white hair.
In this bab, I actually didn't include this,
but in this chapter, in this bab, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said that
what caused his hair to become white
was actually certain surahs of the Quran.
Certain surahs which speak about the day of
judgment,
which speak about the adab of Jahannam.
He said, sassam,
that caused even these few hairs that I
have that are white, that's
what made them white. It was the fright
of certain Suras.
And she skipped a chapter. Chapter 7
is an we skipped chapter 6, which is
also about the same topic of the the
die of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Move on to the kohal.
The kohal of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. Number 49, from Ekrimah,
he says that
said,
you related that the prophet
said, apply
for it strengthens the eyesight
and boosts the growth of the eyelashes. And
he,
said that the prophet
had a kuhl container
from which he would apply kohul each night.
3 times in
this eye and 3 times in this
eye. And from Ibn Abbas also,
the messenger
said, the best of your is
It strengthens the eyesight and boosts the growth
of the eyelashes.
Is actually a physical substance. We know what
it is. Right?
It's not the only thing that you can
use
to do quahr to your eyes, but it's
one of the things. And this is the
one that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
preferred. So I actually see,
in the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he has personal preferences and things. Right? There's
certain substances
like that he liked
over other things for.
There are certain types of that
he liked
as opposed to others. There are certain foods
that he liked as opposed to others.
What is
All the chemistry geeks out there. This is
ethmide.
It's called
stibnite.
I don't know how to pronounce that. Stibnite.
Right? It's actually a sulfide from antimony. Antimony
is a primary element which is s p.
And
basically, this comes as a in a crystalline,
like a gray crystalline structure, and they crush
it up to make ifmid.
A word of caution, by the way, if
you're buying kohal nowadays,
but you should it's sunnah sunnah to use
at night.
Read the ingredients very carefully.
A lot of
that's sold commercially, unfortunately, is,
tainted with a lot of additional
chemicals and things. So if you are looking
to do this and it is it is
a sunnah to do,
just make sure you source,
a very pure,
form of.
Chapter 8.
The clothing of Rasool Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And it's 54 from
she says,
the article of clothing most beloved to the
messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was the shirt, the
the prophet
or
here,
you'll see in the footnotes, it's mentioned in
this book.
Actually meant a long shirt.
K. So not a shirt like we wear
to our waist nowadays, but a shirt probably
that went further.
Not necessarily
below his knees, but probably somewhere between his,
waist and his knees.
What we actually wear in,
many different parts of the world, you see
this.
People in West Africa wear something similar. It's
a very long Khamis
that goes almost to their knees. In the
Indian subcontinent, of course, we wear the same
thing.
That's probably more akin to what the prophets
wore on a daily basis,
which is the Khamis.
K? The full length that we see now
is a thobe.
Actually, according to some of the,
books, it actually comes from Persia. It's not
something that was native to Arabia.
That's something that people adopted as they moved
to Iraq and they and the Islam spread,
you know, to the the other regions.
But the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
almost positively never wore a full phobe like
we wear now.
K? But cloaks and other things he did
wear.
But his preferred,
clothing was the Khamis. And underneath it, he
would wear an,
which we'll talk about soon.
At least 62
from Anas bin Malik, the
article of clothing most beloved to the messenger
of Allah that he used to wear was
the habira. I have a picture of that
in a second.
So it seems like there's a bit of
a conflict here. Right? Two different pieces of
clothing that were most beloved.
Actually, no.
The commentaries mentioned that the camis is something
he would wear usually in private. Usually within
his own home,
he will wear the camis.
And a habira
is something that he would usually wear out
of the home. Right? And a habira is
actually just a big piece of clothing, and
we'll see a picture of it in a
second.
Whereas a camis is actually stitched. Right? It's
it's a stitched shirt.
As a habira is more like a cloak
that one drapes themselves in.
And I have a picture of it.
And from Abid Johayfar
he said, I saw the prophet
as he was wearing 2 red garments.
It is as if I am looking at
the radiance of his blessed shins now, he
says.
And Sufianath
Thawri,
one of the great imams of the later
generations, he said, I think that this was
referring to a habira, the red garment.
He says, I think this was referring to
a habira.
In this last hadith, we've learned,
that's why I said about Phelps,
That the prophet, sallallahu alaihi wasallam, actually preferred
that his clothing
stopped at his shins.
Right? About the middle of his shins.
So he would wear his clothing
higher up usually than we do, where we
wear almost to our ankles.
Some people are extremely,
stubborn and strict about this. There's no need
to be. Because it's mentioned that the reason
that the the scholars of hadith mentioned he
did this was so that his clothing would
remain clean
and so that it would remain intact
so that it wouldn't just get dirty, you
know, on the ground. It's not because, Abu
Dhabi, some people make it a really strict
deal if you if your clothing goes through
your ankles, you're going to
We don't believe that. Right?
This was done out of cleanliness.
He wanted his clothes to remain clean.
So he'd wear them higher up
than all the way down. In the hadith
that many people usually quote, which is, you
know, a person,
wears their
their clothing and it drags on the ground.
You know, they're they're gonna go now or
something. Actually, the hadith mentioned very specifically,
there's a there's a caveat to that. If
they do that out of
vanity,
Caveats are extremely important.
If a person wears a very long piece
of clothing out of vanity,
yes, then it may be a sin. But
not just because they have a long piece
of clothing and let's condemn them.
This is a habira.
It's
basically a extremely large shawl that used to
drape over himself.
And they still make these to this day.
Actually, next time, Wednesday, I'll wear one because
I have one. Right? It's an ornate
the definition given in the book, it's an
ornate Yemeni mantle made from a soft cotton.
And what he would basically do is wear
his amis,
and he would drape this over his amis.
So.
And sometimes he would drape it also over
his
what we call a turban.
And when draping it over the turban,
it's called a the
specific term for the way that he wore
his
his, his head,
gear. We'll talk about that soon.
But this is basically a habira. It's a
shawl that they used to wear
over their clothing. You can see we know
that the prophet at least had a red
one, which is why I chose
this picture. They're they come in many colors
as well. I'll bring 1 on Wednesday.
Continuing in chapter 8, and I think this
is our last chapter before we'll stop.
Hadith 65 from Abi Rimtha,
He said, I saw the the prophet
wearing 2
green stitched garments.
A stitched garment would be basically a shirt.
Right?
Number 66 from
She said, I saw the prophet
wearing 2 well worn garments dyed with saffron,
though only a slight
trace of saffron remained on them. So this
color has actually mentioned it's not good to
wear very bright colored saffron clothing, but the
prophet
had a pair of clothing that was
from, saffron. It was dyed, but it was
very diluted. It was very,
trace amount. So this is probably a yellowish
garment.
From Ibn Abbas the
messenger of Allah
said, wear white clothing.
Let your living wear them and shroud your
dead in them. For white is the best
of your attire.
And this is especially on Jummah. The prophet
told us wear white on Jummah.
And number 70 from
he said, the prophet
once wore a long
Byzantine
Juba,
an over garment
that had narrow sleeves.
So what do we get from this
this collection here? We have 4 hadith here.
What are we understanding
here?
1, the prophet
wore different colors.
He didn't always wear the same color clothes.
Sometimes he had his red.
Sometimes he had green clothing. Sometimes he had
yellowish clothing. Sometimes he had white clothing.
He preferred white clothing. His favorite was the
white clothing.
He said it's the best.
And you can actually see that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasalam is, as we know, he's
a rahmatul the alamin.
He had things from all over the world.
Mecca was a major trading city. Things would
come from everywhere.
So he had clothing that was from Byzantine,
present day Turkey.
He had clothing which was was from Yemen.
He had clothing which was from Ethiopia. He
had clothing from all over the place.
K? There's also something we can incorporate in
our sunnah.
This is actually the Juba of Rasool
Allah This is specifically according to
what they say. This is the one that
he wore on the Isla of Mi'raj.
It's kept at present day in Istanbul.
It's in a masjid called
Jammehirkah
Sharif, which is a Arabic term, al kirkah
sharifa.
Is a piece of clothing, basic.
And you can see there's a lady standing
behind. We can maybe get a sense of
scale.
It's a very large piece of clothing. When
I visited Istanbul a few years ago, we
actually got to see it. You can only
see this during Ramadan.
They only allow you to see the haircut
during Ramadan. You have to go in Ramadan,
and it's kept up in the second floor
of the masjid, and you pass by it.
It's a very large piece of clothing. So
she tells you
the statue of the prophet sassam. He's not
a short man,
fairly tall man by our standards.
This is so many of the pieces that
are kept in Istanbul,
originally, they were actually from Medina.
They were kept in Medina.
And it was actually one of the according
to to a story that one of the,
the Ottoman sheikhs,
the the the great scholars of the Ottoman
Empire,
had a dream
that if you leave them in Medina, they're
gonna be destroyed.
So according to his dream, he moved everything
from Medina to Istanbul,
and he kept it in top copy.
Some of the pieces are in top copy.
There's the jubavs and the Hussain is there.
The jubavs say that Aisha Fatima is there.
Many of the swords of the prophet
are kept there. The bow. Right? So many
things are still in Istanbul.
Yes. There are pieces of hair of the
prophet as well. There's one in Abuayyub Al
Ansari. There's one
opposite the Hagia Sophia
in another, small museum there. And the hair
we know was collected by Sahaba.
And they collected it when the prophet sasam
used to cut his hair.
And they actually have a way of testing
it.
They have a way to test whether the
hairs are authentic or not.
What is that?
Some say they continue to grow. Actually, what
they do is, what they do to test
it
what they do to test it is they
yeah. What they do to test it is
they burn it.
They put it to a fire.
And the hairs of the prophet s as
if don't burn.
They they don't burn at all. Because he
said he said,
my the,
my body is haram to fire.
It can't burn.
So that's how they test the hairs of
the prophet says, anyone anytime someone says they
have a hair of the prophet
immediately take it and try to light it
on fire.
So many of these artifacts are kept still.
They're still there. They're still in Istanbul. You
can go see them.
What they do is they,
they put it in a resin
so that it doesn't fall apart.
Mhmm.
Some of them. Yeah.
Okay. Chapter 9. So the last one, I
believe.
The lifestyle of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Number 71 from Mohammed bin Sireen
He says, we were with Abu Horeira
while he was wearing 2 linen garments
dyed in red clay.
He blew his nose in one of them.
And then he exclaimed, he said,
said this phrase.
And this is him speaking. Abu Horeira is
speaking about himself.
Now blows his nose with linen.
Yet by Allah, there was a time when
I would fall unconscious
Such that a person could come and put
their feet on his neck and it wouldn't
wake him up.
I was thought to be insane,
Abu Gharera saying. I I was thought to
be insane,
but I wasn't. I was or it was
just because of hunger.
He was so hungry in the time of
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
that he would fall over unconscious.
This is the lifestyle that the Sahaba lived
through.
The Sahaba did not live in luxury
ever.
But after
the conquest of Islam spread them to the
rest of the world, right, now all of
a sudden the Sahaba had luxury.
And so here is Abu Huraira noticing this.
He said, oh, I'm I'm blowing my
nose with linen.
And he's saying, which is like a expression
of disgust. Like, I can't believe I'm doing
this.
There was a time I would fall over
from hunger.
That's a lifestyle they lived. And from Malik
bin dinar,
he said, the messenger of Allah
would never eat his full his, fill
either bread or meat
unless he was eating with other people, unless
he was in a dafaf.
So the hadith, you know, we generally tell
people that eat 1 third, 1 third, 1
third.
That was a normal lifestyle of the prophet.
On a daily basis, he would eat 1
third
food, 1 third of drink, and 1 third
left for air
unless he was in a, unless he was
with other people.
Because it's an adab when you're eating with
someone, you'd want to make them happy. Right?
So you actually eat more than you normally
do, eat more than you normally would.
We'll stop there for today, chapter 9. Next
time, which is Wednesday, we're gonna do this
twice a week,
We'll continue with chapter
10,
and,
that's Allah forgive us of any mistakes, any
anything wrong or incorrect that we said. May
Allah forgive us and guide us on the
straight path, Inshallah. May Allah allow us to
learn from
the Hadith of the prophet
from the physical
attributes
and the intangible attributes of the prophet
to inculcate them into our lives. May it.
By
the blessing of this Ramadan and by our
reading of this Hadith collection, may Allah allow
all of us to see
in our dreams
Ameen Ameen Ameen