Yahya Rhodus – Lesson – 4 Al-Shamail Al-Muhammadiyya- Chapter 1 – Hadiths 4-6
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The Prophetrows and their shathna are discussed in a story. The shathna represents the shathna's soft and bouncy hands, while the shathna's weight and length are also highlighted. The story also describes a woman named Dakhbar Ras who had a thin and long hairline. The speaker describes the physical characteristics of the Prophet's hand, including his soft and intense form, his long dominant dominant hand, and his broad neck and shoulder. The shathna's teachings and commandments, including his belief that no one should create something equal to the Prophet's creation, are also discussed.
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Bismillah al-salatu al-salam ala Rasulillah wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man and we
will just take what we can biidillahi ta
'ala from the blessed shemail of Rasulullah ﷺ.
So I highly encourage everybody to get a
copy of the book.
If any student wants a copy of the
book but they're unable to get a copy
for financial reasons, that we will find ways
to get them for you inshallah ta'ala.
Having this book is really important.
So we have reached the fourth hadith.
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Wa sallallahu ala sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi
wasallam.
His blessed shoulders were broad.
It was neither short nor tall.
So, remember that we mentioned the three different
descriptions that we have of the hair of
the Prophet ﷺ?
The wafra, the limma, and the jumma.
And the jumma is where the hair reaches
all the way to the shoulders.
The wafra is where it stops at the
earlobes.
So, jumma all the way to the shoulders.
Wafra, it would come down to the earlobes.
And then limma is somewhere between the earlobes
and the shoulders.
And so, our Prophet ﷺ had the most
beautiful hair of all that was wavy and
very dark.
And he ﷺ would have it be different
lengths at different times.
So, Muhammad
ibn Ismail narrated to us, Abu Naeem narrated
to us, Mas'udi narrated to us, The
Prophet ﷺ was neither tall nor short.
His blessed hands and feet were full-fleshed
and sturdy.
His blessed head was large as were his
joints.
He had a thin line of hair that
ran from his blessed chest to his navel.
When he walked, he would lean forward slightly
as if descending a height.
I never saw before him nor after him
anyone like him.
Okay, so this is narrated by Imam Muhammad
Ismail.
That's Imam Bukhari.
So, Imam al-Tirmidhi heard this hadith and
took this hadith directly from Imam Bukhari.
Imam Bashuri says about him, he's the Jabal
al-Hifth.
He was a mountain of memorization.
Wa imam al-dunya, and the imam of
the world.
And he went blind when he was a
young boy, but from the blessing of his
mother's dua that he was healed from that.
He was ambidextrous, he mentions this here, that
he used to be able to write with
his right hand and his left hand.
MashaAllah, TabarakAllah.
And it's narrated that he said that, I
have memorized 100,000 hadiths that are sahih,
that are authentic.
And 200,000 that aren't sahih.
So he passed away in the year 256.
This is Imam al-Bukhari.
And then the chain eventually goes back to
Sayyidina Ali ibn Abi Talib, Abu al-Hassan.
This is Kunya, the father of Hassan.
And he was the very first of any
of the young people to become Muslim.
The very first one was Sayyidina Khadija.
The very first older man was Sayyidina Abu
Bakr.
The very first younger person was Sayyidina Ali.
The very first slave was Sayyidina Bilal.
The very first Mawla was Sayyidina Zayd.
And the Prophet ﷺ, when he left him
behind, because he fought in all of the
battles with the Prophet ﷺ except Tabuk.
And he left him behind and said, Do
you not want, are you not content to
have the station with me that Aaron had
with Moses?
Other than there is no Prophet after me.
So you learn so much in these blessed
narrations.
And so this is the chain.
And then they reported that the Prophet ﷺ
was neither tall nor short.
So we've had this on more than one
occasion.
His blessed hands and feet were full-fleshed
and sturdy.
What's known is that shathnul kafayn.
Meaning is that he had that beautiful fleshy
hands ﷺ.
So they weren't like super skinny and bony.
And when we give these descriptions, that they're
all with the utmost proportion and the utmost
beauty.
And they say though, is that even though
that he had these sturdy full-fleshed hands,
is they were extremely soft.
And Imam Rajul mentions here this meaning of
shathna, which means to actually be a little
bit rough.
He says, how do you square the use
of this word with the way we know
that the Prophet's hands were soft.
And the hadith is going to come eventually,
that there was no silk that was as
soft as the blessed hands of our Prophet
ﷺ.
This was the normal state.
They were full-fleshed and they were soft.
But they said, is that when the Prophet
ﷺ was working, so when he was helping
his family at home, or when he was
fighting with a sword, his hand would get
sturdier and more firm, in order for him
to fulfill those tasks.
And then he says that as soon as
he would move on to something else, his
hand would go back to being as soft
as it could be.
And so if you think about a very
soft hand, if you're doing something that requires
hard work, that it could hurt your hand,
your hand could get blisters and things like
this.
Our Prophet's hand got tough, that when he
needed it to be, whether he was doing
domestic work, helping his family, or whether he
was holding a sword, and that he ﷺ,
or some other tool for war, his hand
would get firm, so that it would be
able to do the task.
And then Dakhbar Ras, he had a large
head ﷺ, a great head.
And this is of course with the utmost
proportion.
And so his head wasn't abnormally large, nor
was it small, but it was Dakham, it
was large with the meaning of great.
And Dakhmal Qaradis, he had that also, very
strong, sturdy joints, ﷺ.
And then he's described as Taweelil Masrooba, and
that takes a whole sentence to translate.
He had a thin line of hair that
ran from his blessed chest to his navel.
So he had a thin line of hair
that ran from here, he didn't have any
chest on either side of his stomach, and
that nor did he have chest here, he
had hair on his upper chest, which is
coming, but then he had a thin line
of hair, that from his chest, that went
all the way down to his blessed navel,
ﷺ.
Yes.
And then, إِذَا مَشَىٰ تَكَفَّعَ When he walked,
he would lean forward slightly.
تَكَفَّعَ كَأَنَّمَ يَنْحَطْ مَنْ صَبَبٍ So that as
if he was descending from a height.
So he would lean forward slightly, ﷺ.
But what this really means is, we know
that when he used to walk, the earth
would fold up for him.
So it's like the way that we walk
on, like a floor, that escalator, right?
Is that you're walking on it, but because
it's moving, you're moving faster than the people
that are normally walking.
So when our Prophet walked, the earth would
fold up for him.
So that he would move faster, ﷺ, even
though he's walking next to someone who's walking
on the same earth, but for the Rasul,
it would fold up for him.
And that as a result, that he would
walk very swiftly.
And in a very determined fashion, it was
as if that he was descending from a
height, and he would lean forward slightly.
But again, we have this blessed description here.
Allahu Akbar.
And again, this is Sayyidina Ali who's saying
this.
لَمْ أَرَى قَبْلُهُ وَلَا بَعْدُهُ مِثْرُهُ ﷺ I
saw neither before him nor after him anyone
like him ﷺ.
And Imam Bashuri mentions here is that يَتَّعَيَّنَ
It's an obligation upon everyone legally responsible to
believe that Allah ﷻ did not create in
His creation anyone with a more beautiful physical
constitution than the Prophet ﷺ, and that nobody
before him or after him was like him.
This is what we have to believe in
our Rasulullah ﷺ.
So imagine what it would be like to
see him ﷺ.
May Allah ﷻ give us tawfiq.
And then in the sixth hadith, it's a
narration who mentions it because it's a similar
report to strengthen it.
وَبِهِ لَنْ قَالَ حَدَّثْنَا صُفْيَانُ بِالْوَقِيَةِ قَالَ حَدَّثْنَا
أَبِيَنَا الْمَسْعُودِ أَذَا لَسْنَاد نَحْوَ بِمَعْنَا صُفْيَانُ بِالْوَقِيَةِ
Narrated to us, my father narrated to us
on the authority of al-Mas'ud who
narrated a similar report.
This chain of transmission.
May Allah ﷻ give us tawfiq.
And fill our hearts with love and knowledge
of the best of creation.
And blessed with commandment, we'll have a complete
following of him ﷺ.
And from these blessed descriptions, may Allah ﷻ
bring our hearts to life and create strong
attachments in them that to the best of
creation.
يَا أَرْحَمُ الرَّحْمِينَ وَصَلَى اللَّهَ عَنَ أَسِيمِ مُحَمَّدًا
وَعَنَ أَرِسَةِ سَلَّمٍ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ