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Our Prophet Salah O'Alahaleh was

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,

Ibn Isha 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

sallahla alahahiliu is

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

prophecy 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 Imamatilmadi. So Imamatilmadi who wrote the famous Sunan,

he wrote a book of Shamahil. And there are over a dozen books about shamail.

What is shamail?

Shamail are the physical characteristics of the prophet's of the prophet's Islam and his

achlach and mannerisms and his possessions.

Shamāil will talk about his plate, we'll talk about his clothes,

we'll talk about his ring, we'll talk about his sword. This is the genre of

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