Yahya Rhodus – Lesson – 5 Al-Shamail Al-Muhammadiyya- Chapter 1 – Hadith 7
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The interviewer discusses various narratives and their meaning in various context, including the use of words like"the Prophet's garments," the importance of shading the Prophet's body from the sun, and the characteristics of his smile, eyes, wines, and body type. The interviewer also describes the characteristics of the Prophet's words, including his actions, actions of the most feirless and feirless words, and his words about himself, followers, and followers in relation to others.
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Bismillah wa salatu wa salamu ala rasulillah wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala.
Now continue our study of the blessed al
-shamal al-muhammadiyyah, Imam al-Tirmidhi radiyallahu ta
'ala anhu, wa nafa'ana bi ilumni fid
darin ya rahman rahimin.
So we have reached the seventh hadith in
this blessed collection, we're moving fairly slowly but
it's okay, the most important thing is that
we benefit.
And so those that are following along in
the book, we are on the, we are
on page number seven, excuse me, page number
five, thank you, hadith number seven.
Bismillah.
So, Imam al-Tirmidhi says in his shama
'il, wa
nafa'ana bi ilumni fid darin ya rahman
rahimin.
wa nafa'ana bi ilumni fid darin ya
rahmin.
So Ahmad ibn Abda, Dhabbi al-Basri, Ali
ibn Hujar and Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Hussain,
who is ibn Abi Halima all narrate to
us, and the meaning was the same, Isa
ibn Yunus narrate to us, and the daughter
of Umar ibn Abdullah, the freed slave of
Ghaffar, who said, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad from the
progeny of Ali ibn Mutalib, radiyallahu anhu, narrated
to me.
When Ali described the messenger of Allah, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, he would say, the Messenger
of Allah ﷺ, was neither extremely tall nor
extremely short.
He was of medium stature among his people.
His blessed hair was neither extremely curly nor
straight, rather it was slightly wavy.
He was not corpulent.
His blessed face was not completely circular but
was slightly round.
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.
He was not hair suit.
A thin line of hair ran from his
blessed chest to his navel.
His blessed hands and feet were full-fleshed
and sturdy.
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.
Between his blessed shoulders was the seal of
prophethood, and he is the seal of prophets.
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.
Whoever saw him unexpectedly would be awestruck.
Whoever interacted with him whilst knowing him would
love him.
The one who would describe him would say,
I saw neither before him nor after him
anyone like him.
Sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
MashaAllah, Tabaraka Allah.
So in this blessed narration, it is narrated
by Sayyidina Ali bin Abi Talib.
And again, some of these descriptions have come
before.
And when Imam al-Tirmidhi mentions them, every
time that we hear them we should be
as if it's the first time we've heard
them because we're imagining these blessed traits in
the password, Sallallahu alayhi wa alihi wa sahbihi
wa sallam.
And then in the different narrations, you also
have additional meanings that weren't in the previous
ones.
So we had spoken about that earlier, about
him being neither extremely tall nor extremely short.
He was of medium stature, Sallallahu alayhi wa
alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam.
In other words, he was of medium stature
relative to the average height among his people.
And this is how he would be described
if he was walked by himself, Sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam.
But we know by way of a miracle,
every time that a taller person walked with
him, the Prophet would appear to be larger
than him.
And so one of the Imams that mentions
a narration, at times the Prophet would be
flanked by two tall men.
Yet he would appear taller than them.
And when they would leave him, they would
be described as tall, and he would be
described as having a medium stature.
And our Prophet Suleyman would say, all goodness
has been placed in moderation.
His blessed hair was neither extremely curly nor
straight.
Rather, it was slightly wavy.
So it was, again, a balance in the
middle.
And then we have this description of that
he's not mutahham.
He wasn't corpulent.
That wasn't the type of body type that
he had, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
His blessed face was not completely circular, but
was slightly round.
So he didn't have a fully circular face,
nor was his face super long and oval.
It was somewhere between the two.
It was the most well-proportioned of faces,
but it had a roundness to it.
And then with his complexion, it was fair
and imbued with a bit of redness.
And there's a note here that says, some
commentators say this slight redness would appear when
the sun would shine and when the wind
would blow.
All the while, the skin color under the
Prophet's garments retained a fair complexion.
Those who described the Prophet as fair complexion
met his skin color underneath his garments, while
those who described him as fair and imbued
with a bit of redness met his appearance
in the sun.
Allah and his Messenger know best.
So look at the detail to which they
point out these differences.
And we all know is that the limbs
that are exposed to the sun might be
slightly different than the limbs that are usually
covered.
And they have in the side notes here,
something of benefit.
They say point of benefit.
Several narrations mention that during the Prophet's childhood,
certain miraculous prophetic precursors appeared.
These are called irhasat, that miracles that happened
before a Prophet becomes a Prophet.
Presaging his emergence as a Prophet and Messenger,
among these signs were clouds that would hover
over him and shield him from the sun.
And in poetry, he's known as the mudallal
bil ghamama.
He's the one that has been shaded by
the clouds.
Ibn Sa'ad, Abu Nuaym, Ibn Ishaq recorded
from Ibn Abbas who said, it was Halima's,
the Prophet's wet nurse's habit to not let
him go far from her sight.
One hot afternoon, however, she was preoccupied.
In a short while later, he went with
his sister from Sakr and Shema to play
with the small sheep in their care.
Soon afterwards, Halima went out in search of
him and finally found him alone with Shema.
Shema, how could you venture out with him
in this heat?
Dear mother, replied Shema, my brother suffered no
heat.
I saw that clouds hovered over him, stopping
where he stopped and moving where he moved
until we reached this spot here.
So the Prophet, peace be upon him, would
move and the clouds would move with him.
Then when it stopped, when he stopped, the
clouds would stop.
Then he would move, the clouds would move
with him.
Until they reached the spot.
They kept shading him, peace be upon him.
Everywhere that he went.
And these are khususiyaat, special qualities of his.
And Abbas, the Prophet's uncle, said to him,
at a later time, do you know why
I believed in you?
And then the Prophet asked him why.
He says that when you were a son,
when you were a baby, and you would
point to the moon, and the moon would
move where you pointed.
And so you know how now you get
cribs and you put like little toys, like
so the babies can like, you know, play
with them and kind of be, what's that?
Well, the Rasul, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
didn't need any of that.
Allah subjected to him the moon itself.
That he would point to the moon and
the moon would move.
Yani, with wherever he would point.
Yani, from his blessing, sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi
wa sallam.
And other narrations show that the Prophet, sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam, stood in the sun at
times and was shaded by his companions, such
as Sayyidina Abu Bakr.
What a blessed thing to be able to
do is to shade the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam, who shaded his blessed body from
the midday sun during the immigration to Medina
and Manawarah.
So then we learn about the eyes of
our Prophet, His blessed eyes were very black.
In Arabic we say, ad ajad aynin.
This means the irises of his blessed eyes
were very black.
And his, that sclera, were very white.
And his eyelashes, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, were
long.
So he had long eyelashes.
His blessed joints were large and, of course,
proportionate to his blessed body, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
And his blessed shoulders were broad.
So he had broad shoulders, sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam.
And he was not hair suit.
Yani, hair suit means that someone has a
lot of hair.
So he didn't have a lot of hair
on his body, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
We already mentioned that previously, that a thin
line of hair would ran from his blessed
chest to his navel.
And then again, we have this description of
his blessed hands and his feet as being
full-fleshed and sturdy.
When he walked with vigor, when he walked,
he walked with vigor, as if descending from
a height.
And then we have this incredibly beautiful description
here.
When he would turn to look at someone
or something, he would turn with his whole
body to give importance to the one he
was turning towards and for the purpose of
speaking with the person or attending to his
needs.
And so he would walk straight ahead, but
if someone addressed him, he would completely turn
towards that person.
And so you and I know if someone's
like this and just kind of turning like
this, it's almost as if they're saying like,
they're not really interested what you need or
what you're saying, they're not really interested in
you.
But he would turn to people completely with
his full body and to give them full
attention.
And what a blessed trait.
This is something we really need to bring
into our lives.
So when he would turn, he would turn
with his whole body between his blessed shoulders
with the seal of prophethood.
And so this is coming in chapter two
on the description of the seal of prophethood,
but essentially that it was a piece of
a protrusion of blessed flesh between his shoulders.
It was the size roughly of a pigeon's
egg, which is coming in shallow time.
And then we learned that and he is
the seal of prophets.
So he had the seal of prophethood and
he sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the seal
of prophets.
And then look at these descriptions of his
blessed heart was the soundest and most generous
of hearts sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And ajwad an-naas sadran.
It doesn't mean the physical chest, sadran here
refers to his heart.
He had the most blessed of all hearts
and that he is the most beautiful, generous
and had the purest of hearts free of
any blemish sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And then Imam Bajuri says here so beautifully
wahoo kinayana adaman malan man an-naas ala
ikhtilafi diba'ihim.
Is that he had extreme amount of patience
despite people's different natures and their different backgrounds.
And so that he didn't get annoyed easily.
His heart was open and vast.
He'd be patient with people and accepting and
accommodating to people.
Ajwad an-naas sadran sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And translated here as the most generous of
hearts.
His speech is the most truthful of speech.
And they have a note here that says
the word used is lahja and literally means
tone of voice.
The narrator used this word instead of qawwil
which means statement because even those who don't
accept the truthfulness of the Prophet's statement sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam could feel the truthfulness of
his tone.
Isn't that beautiful?
Even those who don't accept the truthfulness of
the Prophet's statements could feel the truthfulness of
his tone.
So you see how if we are the
way we should be, people will know the
realities of Islam through how we are.
Abu Jihad for example knew about the truthfulness
of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam but
denied him due to the jealousy of Bani
Hashim.
And Allah says about his beloved, nor does
he speak from caprice, it is but revelation
revealed.
And he is the gentlest of all people
in nature and the noblest of them in
social interactions and companionship sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
He also read as ashira which means the
noblest of them in lineage and ancestry.
And then we have one of the most
famous descriptions ever.
Man ra'ahu badiha tan abahu wa man
khalatahu ma'rifatan ababahu.
And this is one of the most important
things of all to memorize in the Shema,
this phrase.
This translates whoever saw him unexpectedly will be
awestruck.
Whoever interacted with him whilst knowing him would
love him.
And so there's a mixture of jalal and
jamal, of majesty and beauty in the Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
People will be in awe of him when
they first saw him but when they got
to know him and they would spend time
with him, they fell in love with him.
And this is one of the greatest criterion
that we can use for the real scholars.
When you spend time with them, do you
come to love them?
How do they carry themselves?
What do they say?
Do they bring you closer to Allah?
Do they uplift you?
If they're really following the Sunnah of the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, they're not gonna
be speaking about other people.
They're gonna bring you closer together.
They're gonna be a means of healing.
They're gonna be a means of people coming
together.
And because of their character and how they
are, when you get close to them, you
come to love them.
And if that's not happening, we have to
look inside of ourselves like, what's wrong?
Something's wrong with us then.
We're not truly following the Messenger the way
that we should.
If we're short-tempered and picky and critical
and all these other type of things, people
aren't gonna love us when they get close
to us.
Alhamdulillah.
And so, whoever saw him unexpectedly would be
awestruck and whoever interacted with him whilst knowing
him would love him.
And I have a note here, it says,
Imam Bajuri comments, meaning whoever saw him before
observing his exalted character and splendid states will
be struck with awe of him because of
his majestic qualities and his divinely bestowed awe
-inspiring aura.
Allahu Akbar.
And then Imam Bukhari recorded his Adab al
-Mufrad.
The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, the best
of my ummah are those who, when seen,
Allah is remembered.
Scholars say this is due to their hearts
being filled with the majesty of Allah and
his love, which is mirrored upon their faces
in physical forms.
If that is the case for those who
are the best of his ummah, one can
only imagine the majesty and greatness of the
leader of his ummah, our Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wasallam.
The one who interacted with him would come
to love him for what he encompassed of
perfection, beauty and majesty and for his inner
and outer qualities of affection, mercy and sincerity
for the well-being of his ummah, sallallahu
alayhi wasallam.
The one who would describe him would say,
I neither saw before him nor after him
anyone like him.
Scholars have remarked that this was Sayyidina Ali
who was described as the door to the
city of knowledge.
Imam al-Tirmidhi al-Hakim and others recorded
that the Prophet said, I am the city
of knowledge and Ali is this door.
This hadith reveals that Sayyidina Ali felt completely
incapable of describing the Prophet's perfections and greatness
as if to say who in this world
would ever be able to do justice in
describing what Allah has granted him.
But we say what is that we can
say so that the heart then attaches.
The more that we talk about him, the
more that we come to know him, the
more that we realize he's deserving of our
love.
And if we keep learning about him, he
will become more beloved to us than our
parents, than our children, than all people and
more beloved to us even than our own
selves.
May Allah Ta'ala actualize that within us.
Ya arham al-rahmeen wa sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam
walhamdulillahi rabbil alameen