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Our Prophet, Allah O'Lahu is the most beloved person in all of human history.

And when he left this earth, the Sahaba and Tabirun and the later generations began writing about him.

The first book of Sira, the first treaties of Sira, was actually written by the sons of the Sahaba. They wrote it for their own records and eventually

Hisham comes along, Abbunizhahat comes along and he takes it from the sons and the grandsons of the Sahaba.

But it wasn't just the life and times that our scholars wrote about.

And today I'm going to introduce you to one genre,

one subset of the writings that our scholars have done and talk a little bit about that.

So to give you a brief overview, Sira is of course the chronological incidents of what happened

to the Prophet Salah O'Alihi was

but it wasn't the only subject that our

scholars were interested in.

And very early on, they began writing

in other subjects and fields about our prophet system as well.

So for example, one of the genres of writing about the process is called Shamahil.

And the most famous book of Shamahil

is by Imamatilmidi.

So Imamatilmidi, who wrote the famous Sunan,

he wrote a book of Shamahil.

And there are over a dozen books about Shamahil.

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