 Your faith is not yet complete. It is not perfect. It is not perfect unless I am more beloved to you than yourself. Your parents everything. And then saying, O My Lord, He went and he did, he had to double. He thought about this very hard. And he came back to the Prophet ﷺ to ya Rasoolallah, أحد من كل شيء. حتى نفسي الذي بين الجنبي. I love you more than anything, even more than myself. والنسبة لله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول ، الآن يا أمار ، الآن ، now your faith is complete now your faith is complete so the path of love is معرفة the path of loving the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم or the path of loving Allah سبحانه وتعالى is having no sense or knowledge of them and we see examples of this amongst the صحابة we have موسعب ابن أمير رضي الله تعالى عنه who was a celebrity amongst the خرش when he was non-Muslim he was a nejem he was a celebrity he had a new phobon every day he was a very young man very beautiful man he was a trendsetter you know like celebrities they make trends for people if a celebrity is doing something with their hair we want to do that as well well not us inshallah but generally people want to copy they make a tough lead of famous people that's موسعب ابن أمير and then he became Muslim and his parents caught him off financially completely caught him off so now he was in his teens at the time he was 15 years old the Prophet ﷺ sent him to Al-Hadasha to Al-Sinia he comes back a few years later he walks into the Haram he's wearing a tattered thob with patches and his skin was rough he was barely recognizable the Prophet ﷺ looked back at him and he started crying he started crying profusely and he said he said he said I saw this person in Mecca and no one was more blessed by his parents that he was and then he left all of that with the intention of good and out of love for Allah and his messenger ﷺ there's many examples of this the older man I say who was for his father was a Zoroastrian he was a fire worshiper so a man traveled to Iraq became a Christian الله عالم he spoke to priests and Christian ألماء who told him to go to Hijaz he walks into the Masjid called Quba and he walks behind the messenger of Allah ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ had he has he has discernment so the Prophet knew what he wanted so the Prophet layered his thob a little bit and between his shoulders is a birthmark and when the man got tired the scholar said he entered in his body a love for the Prophet ﷺ in his body from above from above his head until his feet that the love of the messenger entered into his body from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet so this is what we're after here there's many other demonstrations of love of of an importance of love of Allah ﷺ a messenger of Allah of course we know the story of of Allah ﷺ saying upon the tongue of his messenger محمد says my servant does not draw close unto me with anything more beloved by me than his فرائد than his obligatory acts of worship this is the most beloved thing to Allah ﷺ ولا يزالوا عبية تقربوا إليه بالنوافل and he continues to draw close unto me with extra credit extra prayers, extra fasting and أمراء and things like that super arbitrary acts of worship حتى أحبا until I love him this is one way of becoming beloved by Allah ﷺ doing extra credit now many of us we might say well I can't do the extra credit I don't have time and I have to work and I can just do the follow so we take solace in another tradition of the messenger of Allah ﷺ which is better than friend to him say and the Prophet ﷺ he didn't give a date because no one knows the date except for Allah ﷺ so we asked him a question he answered a question with a question a better question وما عددت لأ what did you prepare for it لا شيئا nothing and the محدثين or the scholars of hadith they said this man just did the فرائد when he says لا شيئا and he just did the bare minimum but then he said but I love Allah in his messenger and the Prophet ﷺ said that person will be with those whom he loves right so if we don't have time for موافل then we have to increase in love for Allah in his messenger you see and this is something that we want to attain we learn about the messenger because we want to have closeness to him this is called محيا this is called قرب we want nearness to the messenger of Allah ﷺ we want to do this next to a neighbor in Jannah this is totally possible we can attain this it's not impossible it's conceivable for us to do this there was a man there was a man who brought the Prophet ﷺ a bowl of water for the Prophet ﷺ just a bowl of water the Prophet ﷺ said ask me for something he said I ask you for your companionship and paradise so this is something that the Sahaba they realized the importance of this was extremely important being close to the messenger of Allah ﷺ another way that we can increase our love for the messenger of Allah ﷺ besides learning about his life and learning about his seerah his way of living is by increasing our is increasing our benedictions upon him saying benedictions upon the Prophet ﷺ which is an أمر in the Qur'an الله سبحانه و تعالى uses a فئ العمر يا أيها النادينا عمر و سل لي عليه و سل لي متسليمة and then a مفقود موط العق at the end for double emphasis this is something good for you الله is giving you a command send blessings upon him امان الوبي اضلو كعب he came to the messenger of Allah ﷺ and he said يا رسول الله how much of my daily as a car my daily vehicle should I give to the benedictions upon you الصلاحة على النبي he said ربعا he said a quarter of it and the Prophet said that's good but more is better he said half of it he said that's good but more is better he said كله who all of it to have a giant that's good all of it of car can be الصلاحة على النبي and this is a form of worship and this is how we attain the love of Allah سبحانه و تعالى we love his beloved this is why Allah loves us we love Allah's beloved therefore Allah loves us and we follow his beloved a group of people came to the Prophet ﷺ يا رسول الله إلا لحب الله it's an old messenger of God we love Allah إنا نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحن نحب الله we love Allah and then the Aayah was revealed قل إن كنتم تحبون الله فاتبيعني يحبيبكم الله say if you really love Allah you have to follow me and this is what Allah is telling the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم to say قول if you really love Allah you have to follow the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم you cannot expect to be beloved by Allah سبحانه و تعالى by rejecting his beloved it doesn't work like that it doesn't work like that وغيره من أكثر منهم وغيره من بسبب الله ومسجر الله وإي لغيره من أخباره. This is extremely important. There are different things that the Mmea mentioned about this longing to see the Messenger of Allah. Which again is conceivable for us to see him in a dream or an awakened state. It's conceivable. The Prophet ﷺ mentions this. الله صلى الله عليه وسلم then you will see him in your dream but very few of us attain this station right now there are certain dua and we can go over them in this class if you like there are certain dua that many of them I have stated has been a means a sub up by which that I've seen the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم of the dream and we can probably I can probably pass those out a little or write it on the board or something there's confirmed dua but ultimately it's a gift from الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ultimately we take from the asdaq we take from the means because the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم took from the means right but ultimately it's a gift okay so now in this class um we'll talk about this class before it was 16 weeks um we made a lot of comparisons between uh like judo Christianity and Islamic beliefs um we got some like apologetics with regards to see what literature I don't know if we have time to do that in this class though um we might just skip that it's going to be very much an edited or a bridged a مختصر version uh but we'll try to hit every every chapter in the book we'll get to the textbook in a minute here um so our right now our primary text is this book here uh I suggest everyone get a copy uh it's called Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم his life based on the earliest sources uh it's by martin liens okay who died in 2005 ميلادي is born in nanchester to a Protestant family so it's a convert he was a student of c.s. lewis who was a christian apologist and philosopher he wrote these books you know the narnia books have you heard of these things a lion witch in the wardrobe you know such random objects the elephant the easter bunny and the ironing bordering um so if you so in that movie for example I don't know if you've seen a movie there are a lot of christian undertones right and our children watch these things and they kind of take it in and it could be dangerous we just have to kind of not the lion he dies he's killed and he's resurrected jesus is the lion of a tribe of juda things like that it's very christian in its message uh c.s. lewis was a friend of Tolkien who wrote the lord of the rings series which also has a lot of christian archetypes a lot of christian iconography imagery you know like the the final scene you know as it were armageddon gandalf the white you know on his horse coming down and defeating the the armies of evil so on and so forth it was right out of the book of revelation in the bible so these have to think that be careful about when our children watch them 1939 he moved to egypt he was forced to leave in 1952 because of british activity in the region he came back to england and Oxford and did a phd in arabic he's very influential uh in islam's answer to modernity and westernization of the global environment and an advocate of meaningful interfered dialogue and right now actually a lot of muslims don't know this but muslims and christians are are having interfered dialogue at at the highest levels of scholarship you have you have muslims like the sadak and yemen who have transmission from the prophet who are meeting with the archbishop of canterbury or the Vatican right they don't televise these things though because if this is not good for ratings it rather shows some stupid show or you know there's a sleeper cell in new york and they want to blow something up or something stupid like that right but but if they show these things very powerful right you see muslims and christians at the highest level of scholarship and they're having a meaningful discourse all right so this book actually 1983 won an award it was a the national what's it called the national seer conference in islamabad and this book was selected as the best english seer ever written right and there's other there's other ones that have been written seared nectar karen armstrong was a former nun she wrote a pretty good one mongomery watt who's a christian uh orientalist he wrote one um in the 50s it's pretty good though it's very objective mongomery watt i think taught at ramadan also wrote one so the book isn't perfect okay there's there's there's errors in this book no book is perfect except for the palm right every book has errors but we're going to use it because it's probably the most correct and the language is the most eloquent all right he's he's a shakespearean scholar you know shakespeare back of his hand and i said that about martin lane it's not about shakespeare although he might have sheik zuber right as sheik hamza says so that's the thing if you're going to write about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam you have to use the best language right you have to have very beautiful language when you translate his hadith you have to have very beautiful language and that's what his his his wordology and his phraseology is very beautiful right and we have to be careful that when we talk about the messenger of allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam not to ascribe to him something that he didn't say or do this is uh this is a kabeera this is a major sin the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said in sound hadith uh he says man kathib man kathiba متعمدا فاليتباوق مقاده من النار او كما قاله عليه الصلاة والسلام said whoever ascribes to me something falsely or lies about me intentionally has reserved his seat in the fire right there's there's there's a couple of the liars of this hadith in the sound traditions so our supplementary literature we'll get to the primary sources of this book in a minute so this kind of an introduction class um the supplementary literature are called uh دلائل and شمائل uh literature so the دلائل are proofs of prophecy right like إمام بيحاكي uh we're going to use him and he uses him in this book as well شمائل literature deals with inward and outward aspects of the holy prophet sallallahu and probably the most famous book of شمائل literature is the شمائل النبوية by إمام أبو عيسة ترميدي رهيم الله تعالى and there's other books by قادي إياد الشفاء obviously there's a book i don't know if it's in english it's a contemporary book on شمائل by يوسف النبهاني يوسف النبهاني it's called وسائل الوصول إلى شمائل رسول and basically he takes because شمائل is a very large genre of literature he takes all of the شمائل and he puts it into one volume and he doesn't repeat anything right so it's very useful it's called the the who weighs the means of arriving to the شمائل of the messenger يوسف النبهاني i studied this book when i was in yemen so some of the إمام say you know these these outworld uh descriptions of the prophet you know how what he looked like physically is not important don't worry about that this is what some of them say yeah however we disagree with that because the sahaba mention it why would the sahaba mention it why would they take time mentioning in very distinct detail what the prophet said a lot of something looked like if it wasn't important the sahaba did not waste their time it's the best generation why did they mention that very minute detail they say that the that the the the tol next to the big tol of the prophet was slightly longer than his big tol why are they then who looked at that and why would they write it down somebody saw that and wrote it down because they thought it was important the most minute detail they counted according to the شمائل of the they counted 17 white hairs somebody actually went up to him and counted 17 white hairs on his head he said they're 17 somebody else said no they're 14 so they said i counted 11 right so why is this important it's important because the مخد that wants to hear about the محبوب it's important because the lover wants to hear about his beloved right if you love someone you don't you don't just want to hear about what they're saying you want to look at them you want it you want you want to you want to know everything about them everything about them right this is how the sahaba felt about the مسجر الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the only messiah that فاتم أزهره died from محبة of the messenger of الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إيمان بوسوري died from محبة of the messenger of الله this literally killed them the longing for the messenger of الله صلى الله عليه وسلم this is the the stations that we have to attain so see literature the word سيوة comes from a verb سعر يسيو means to stroll or to walk right yes you this is so this is ماذي مبادي this is past tense is present tense the word سيارة right which means car also comes from the سيارة an automobile the word سيارة is actually in the so it's automobile is obviously a a new application of the term when they came and took use of out of the well it says a سيارة came by the conveyance of some sort right so the word سيارة comes from this root meaning the way of the prophet how he walked right how he walked how he lived his life right so why would somebody write a biography anyone imagine why why would someone write a biography anyone oh we can say to educate right to educate called catechesis to educate to preserve identity right to increase love right so all of these reasons to preserve a teaching or a legacy to preserve the actual teaching right there's many many you know in communist countries the government will pay scholars to write بيارافي of some of the communist forefathers and they and they have to make it very positive so obviously this is not an objective biography right and we'll see that when it comes to سيارة literature with the prophet some of them they said them the scholars were very objective right no one's paying him to do anything right even if you look in the four gospels in the bible uh you have four very different views about yis alay salam the polemical tractates they're trying to persuade people into believing something right it's not they're not meant to be historical at all they're meant to be polemical we're trying to convert you right so this again is not objective there's a polemical aim so سيارة is not a exact science okay it's a distinct science but it's not an exact science the reason why we study سيارة other than what i mentioned before to increase in love and marry for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam the reason the early mustady seerah in depth is because it contains many of the many of the the context of quranic ayat why a verse was revealed right so if you want to know the context of the verse the scholars will first go to the seerah for example Allah says in the quran don't say don't say i will do that tomorrow except don't say i will do that tomorrow without saying inshallah right so that's a that's a a preset in the quran but people want to know why was it revealed what was the occasion of revelation the شعن المزل right so then we go to seerah literature and we find and we'll study this inshallah to Allah at the quraish to send the correspondence to the jews in medina and they said this person is claiming to be a prophet of the god of Abraham uh can you give us some test questions we can examine him and they said yes they sent a correspondence back ask him about the spirit ask him about the part of main right ask him about what has happened right ask him about these three things so they asked him about these and the prophet said i'll do that tomorrow and in 15 days go by and there's no jibil al islam does not come there's no right so many of the quraish started mocking the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam you said tomorrow it's not happening but many of them started thinking he's not making this up he's waiting for something to come right why would he why would he embarrass himself like that and then the verse was revealed don't say except if Allah wills he forgot to say inshallah and this is the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has isma he's infallible but he has human characteristics and it's conceivable for a prophet to forget something it's conceivable to make errors in judgment it's conceivable he cannot willfully sin right that's the difference so this is this is one of the reasons why we study this as well also the purpose of seer literature according to the early scholars like ibn ishaq was to in atabari ibn jadeed atabari رحم الله تعالى was to collect as many traditions about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam as many traditions as as they can get their hands on without expressing any type of value judgment on those traditions was just to collect everything they could okay whether it was strong weak whether it was fabricated whatever they get their hands on and then they would let them have the theme the scholars of hadith actually go through the literature and extract things that had strong senate right there has to be a chain of transmission this is extremely important there has to be a strong to really pick and choose and indiscriminate seer literature is not hadith we have to be very clear about this seer literature is not had now they put hadith in seer literature sometimes you put a hadith right but you have to look at the senate of some of the stories some of the stories have no senate right there are powerful stories right you you're not obliged to believe in them right so we look at hadith there are the three grades of hadith basic grades of hadith okay there's hadith that are known as hadith multawater okay tawater they've reached tawater multiple attestation in other words groups and groups of people have reported the same thing about the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam okay which makes it impossible for them to have collaborated and conspired to fabricate something impossible there's less than a thousand hadith that have reached tawater less than a thousand denial of a hadith that is multawater is kufr okay it has it has a it's a firmly established proof it's equal to quran right without a doubt this is what the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said hadith multawater okay for example an example of the hadith multawater is the traditions about asheran مباشرينة بالجنة but there's 10 men that promise paradise and the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he promised many people paradise many women is a seida right she's a she's a master of the women of paradise she heard the footsteps of the law of the rabbah in paradise hasalan hussein the leaders of the youth of paradise right but these 10 men is established to it's it's a it's a tawater tradition that means groups and groups of people from all over the muslim world are reporting the same thing right so anyone who says hashella that one of the uh uh the the killiffs that precede mama ali was died upon nifap or kufr this is kufr to say that because this is established through the the second grade of hadith is hadith صحيح also called hasan okay which is a strong sound hadith denial of such a hadith is not kufr but it's very the advised to do that because probably the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said this hadith okay so the hadith are used uh to formulate creedal statements okay they're also used for legislation they're also used um for uh for advice general counsel to muslims to water sahih hadith are not used for creed okay they're not used for creed unless the ulama by ijma by complete consensus agree on that statement okay they're usually used for sharia to make sacred law for legislation and obviously for advice and then you have hadith that are da'if that are weak hadith and weak hadith are not fabricated hadith that's a different category some people say don't quote weak hadith because it's probably wrong no weak hadith is one of our teachers said it was like a c- or c right if you get a c- on a test you pass the test it's a bad grade right you're probably unhappy with it but you passed right that's a that's a hadith a da'if it's not a fabricated hadith there's some weakness in the senate in the chain of transmission and these are only used for general counsel not for legislation and not for deriving creedal statements okay so we have four sources usulu-shara quran sunnah right which is not only the the words of the prophet but his f i his actions and his tacit approvals and disapprovals so quran sunnah ijma consensus of scholarship and qias right which is uh analogical reasoning based on established precedent okay these are our sources not seah literature this is extremely important because a lot of these a lot of the stories that are mentioned in seah that Muslims don't even believe in are being used by christians like evangelical christians to uh invalidate the lembuah of the prophet and in other words they're they're judging our religion by things we don't even believe in okay that's not that's that's not a proof that's not a believe against us if we don't believe in it how can we use it against us again the purpose of the early historians was not to express a value judgment on any tradition will suggest a mass as many traditions as possible because they were trying to be objective right and let the muhadithing go in and separate right so so you might come across a story in seah literature that has no sanad it just comes from nowhere it comes from uh israeli act tradition it comes from uh jewish tradition right it might be true right but you don't have to believe it there's no sanad it's just a story okay uh so that has to be made clear you can quote it it's permissible to quote from like you can quote from the bible and things like that as long as it doesn't contradict your akhita you can quote it and use it as an example but if it contradicts and you stay away from it be very cautious about that and some of the olem I said don't even quote the bible don't quote it at all just be safe and some said the dominant opinion abu hamad al-vazali he says you can quote it but be very careful when you quote it because many of it doesn't have a sanad okay so the sources of this book the first source uh that he uses here is called sila to rasulullah okay this is where abu bakr محمد ibn ishaq ibn ishaq okay uh and this is the oldest complete sirah of the messenger of Allah ﷺ although uh there was evidence that sahabah did write down sirah and tabi'een wrote down sirah okay oh lord ibn az-zuber uh رحمه الله تعالى who is the son of uh az-zuber ibn awam who is from the ten promise of paradise his mother was uh asma bintu abibakr siddiq so the son of asma the daughter of abu bakr and uh az-zuber he wrote down sirah literature that his works are in fragmentary form they haven't been preserved completely right there's many there's many examples like وها ابن منابه was from the tabi'een he lived at the time of the tabi'een in yemen he wrote down sirah literature his work is lost right but there's evidence that he wrote it abdullal ibn abbas who is مفصد القرآن right he's a companion of the messenger of Allah ﷺ he's the founder of the science of quranic exegesis he's the founder of usura tafsir quranic hermeneutics he wrote down sirah on alluah on tablets he wrote down the sirah of the prophet ﷺ but this is lost right so the oldest surviving a complete sirah of the prophet ﷺ is by محمد ابن إسحق who wrote it about 120 years after the passing of the prophet ﷺ so it's considered foundational but also very problematic it's considered very problematic because he includes again many of the apocryphal stories he just took from any source right so it's problematic in a sense that if you don't know how to approach it it could be problematic right and this is a sirah that christians and you know atheists they love this sirah because they don't know how they don't know how to approach sirah literature you don't just take it any tradition if you go to some of these websites like whatever i hate islam.com or something and i've seen these websites you go there there's articles about the prophet ﷺ and then you scroll down to the footnotes and you know it says very rarely will they quote directly from quran or hadith right so this is the main thing they attack is sirah literature okay especially ibn ishaq's sirah there's a lot of apocryphal stories in the sirah in that sirah but there was a very strong old tradition amongst the muslims it's an oil society i visited moritanya a couple years ago and you meet uh people that are umniyoon they don't know how to read or write but for father quran how can you be a hafiz of quran you can't write your own name because it's very auditory right it's a very oil culture the sherpa is in front of him and you'll recite to him and he just repeats and he's got it that's it right so they're still and it's a pre-modern society very i mean moritanya is kind of middle of nowhere but they're still societies like this a very strong old tradition okay they said that the knowledge of the salaf was in their breasts imam shafa even pointed his chest this is where my knowledge is right so you know he didn't carry on his books we know the famous story of imam rizali when he studied in uh nizam and mulk he studied under juwaini imam al haramein right he was a he was a most learned professor abou hamana rizali right he's coming back from samathand and he's he's uh he's a group of brigands right robbers they they they rob him right and uh they want to take his books and he says to one of them don't take my books that's my knowledge and he says this is your knowledge what kind of knowledge do you have that the likes of me can take it from you you're not a scholar right so imam rizali suddenly realized that i have to memorize this so he committed the next two years he committed all of his notes to memory your knowledge is not in books your knowledge is in your sub-border it's in your chest it's in your brain it's in your mind right this is it is extremely important and some of these scholars say that during their exchange imam rizali found out that this man was fasting and he was robbing him so as a vibrato imam rizali said you're fasting and you're robbing me what kind of Muslim is that and the man said i didn't want to close all the doors to my lord i didn't want to close off all the doors to my lord so imam rizali even learned a lesson from that and it said that many years later imam rizali was making tarafa on the ka'aba and he found the man that was clinging to the kiswah he was clinging to the curtain that the ka'aba was crying and it was the same brigand right so you leave a door open to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you don't close the doors off so of course you know in christian history as well there's also a strong old tradition like the gospel of john was written at 110 about 80 years after isa al-asala the difference however is that christians believe the gospel of john is the word of god whereas no muslim believes that seerah is the word of god and the gospel of john written in greek which is not the language of isa al-asala by an anonymous person right whereas we know this is written in arabic and we know we wrote it even his hack even his sham so on and so forth there's a major difference now the three errors in this book that i'll say now um so just to keep in mind uh and this is probably uh something that he did kind of just um to um make it easier for christians to understand i think he he equates isa al-asala in the christian tradition as being the logos right which is a divine incarnation an avatar he equates that with the quran he says jesus is the word made flesh the quran is the book made word or the the word made book right so this is true up to a point we believe the quran is uncreated and the christians believe that isa al-asala is uncreated that christians also believe that isa al-asala is god and that he's separate in distinct from الله سبحانه وتعالى or the father in heaven wherever you want to call him one of the christians call him right whereas we don't believe that the quran of الله سبحانه وتعالى is deity in and of itself it's an attribute of الله سبحانه وتعالى so that's something to be careful about the other thing he mentions is at the uh he says that the prophet and i wouldn't know if he's getting this from um he obviously he has a source of some he didn't just make it up we have a good opinion of him رحيم الله وتعالى very blessed man she's not only this was also known as sheikh abu bakr asiraj رحيم الله وتعالى that was his muslim name sheikh abu bakr asiraj died about five years ago رحيم الله وتعالى he says uh the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam he destroyed all the idols except an icon of marwan and isa he left that in the kaba so this is not true he didn't leave anything he didn't leave any iconography in the kaba okay so it's it's not considered an insult to destroy an icon of isa alaihi sallam it's considered actually a praising of isa alaihi sallam to do that because nothing can capture the essence of isa alaihi sallam no orders can render anything that comes even close to the essence of isa alaihi sallam or any of the prophets right the other thing he mentions is uh and he implicates this is that when uh the marriage of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam to zaynab bintu jahsh is in the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam sees her and then suddenly he's enamored with her right uh so this is something that we reject completely it he implies that's what happened all of the marriages of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam are by command of الله سبحانه وتعالى okay one نجم إذا هوا مضى الله صحيبكم وما غوا وما ينطيقوا عن الآوة انه إلا وحيو يوحى علمه شديد وقوة that the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam does not speak from his howa from his own caprice he doesn't he doesn't make decisions based on his own howa right his own emotions his emotional state right this is extremely important so uh when we when we get to that so these are three problematic aspects again no book is perfect except the book of allah okay so mistakes are inevitable now uh in addition to ibn ishaq uh there is a مختصر of ibn ishaq which is much more uh um reliable it's called uh the مختصر of abdul malik ibn hisham it's three volumes ibn hisham uh and basically he went through ibn ishaq and removed a lot of these stories that were causing a lot of controversy amongst the early muslims that ibn ishaq hook from uh sources that were not sound right so this is the most popular seerah probably in the world is the seerah of ibn hisham okay um for example he removes this story recorded by ibn ishaq uh this the satanic versus story right there's a story um and we'll talk about that insha'Allah but this is rejected by you know abul bakr ibn arabi فخردين الرازي ibn taymiyah ibn kathir qadi iyad go right down the line complete fabrication he also quotes and this is if you get the books um this is uh at the end the new copies have this at the beginning but there's a page called key to references okay so these are his sources okay so he's not like making things up he has sources here okay so he says here he also quotes from ibn sa'ad it's called the tabaqat um and then also from muhammad ibn umar al-waqidi كتاب المغازي which is a chronicle of the military expeditions of the prophet ﷺ also quotes uh أخبار مكة by azraqi and then uh ابن جارير تبري تاريخ الورفل والملوك right the annals of that Tabari right which is extremely important work as well as a famous exigit مفصل of the quran um and then obviously he quotes from eight traditional books of canonized hadith he quotes from the sound six right asihasita who can name the sound six who can name the sound six you heard the sound six you can imagine two more and he also quotes from the sunnan of Ahmed ibn hambal okay which is a great scholar is a muchtahid right and uh داري مي امام داري مي so these are the eight books of hadith that he quotes he tries to serve it in the sahi tradition right the strong hadith in the mutawater حديث finally there is an occasional reference to bay haqi and the mishkat he says it was written by baghawi but that seems to be an error the mishkat was written by khateed tabrizi um it's about six thousand hadith it's a very beautiful book the mishkat um so we'll take a few minutes now what time is isha ten o'clock okay we'll take um we'll do this on the board then next time inshallah we'll do a historical overview of what the world was like at the time of the birth of the prophet sallallahu and why it was so necessary the world was literally in chaos what was happening in europe was unbelievable there was there was barbarian hordes everywhere pillaging and plundering there was just an unbelievable the dark ages right so we'll talk about that we'll quote from a christian scholar who is a uh he has a this is a text that we've studied in in seminary at the graduate school level about what the world was like during this period right around the sixth century but before we do that it's important for us to know the lineage of the prophet sallallahu and many of you i've already i've already do this to you if you took the previous zero class or the lives of the prophet's class we're doing in san remone um so it's important to know his lineage his confirmed lineage okay um we can go all the way back to adam right but only names that we know for sure are the ones that he named sallallahu and so there's a poet who said وحفظ أصول المستفى حتى ترافي سلسلاته أصوله عدنانا so remember the lineage of the prophet sallallahu and until you get to a man named عدنان فهو نان فى تف when you get there stop وعلم برث إيه إلى إسماعي لكانا للأبي مئوانا but know that it goes back to إسماعي عليه السلام who was a helper to his father so obviously the first person on this is abin عليه السلام okay the first human being خديفة الله سبحانه وتعالى and then the prophecy moved to the second prophet name either شي or شايف شي or شايف there's a difference it's set so these are Hebrew names right they're not Arabic names most of the prophets a lot of muslims don't know this most of the prophets name in the wallah so Hebrew and her israeli prophets not israeli prophets there's a difference between Israel and israeli okay israeli is the the bani israel with muslima before the prophet sallallahu وعالي سلام when i talk about israeli's we're talking about israeli okay so the second person that was at a dinner party or something and there was a brother there and he was from Iran and his name was yasha and i said uh did you know your name yasha is a Hebrew name that means the just one and his friend next to him started laughing ستقوم بإمكانك دخول sincerity وإمكانك إائل الصحيح وإمكانك فعل مصر كمkor شهرت مقاتلية كما انتت مرحبا ثم قمتissıllك وإمكانك فعل مصر كمار كمار فعل مصر في تأثير سكانك لا وقوم بإمكانك الظمت فأصدر الله يقول لقد انت لك جهة خلالك هذا الشيء يأتي من دلسة هذا شخص who is disciplined who is learned يجرس عليه السلام إذن كثير يجرس عليه السلام يجرس عليه السلام إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى إذا كنت أرى امام العام سام وشم ذلك إنها سم سم كل شيء سام هو أبي سماe أعطوناه محافظاً على الموضوع الصوتي. ثم نستطيع الرجال الثلاثة. لدينا إبراهيم عاليل سلام. وإن من الشيعة هي إبراهيم. إذا كنت أبدأ إبراهيم عاليل سلام. ثم آلاء الإبراهيم عاليل سلام. إسماعيل عريسلان إبراهيم يعني أعظ رحم في إبراهيم أعظ مرسي إسماعيل سميع الله سميع الله دار هر الآن لا أتكلم أي شخص حتى أجنان أجنان إسماعيل عريسلان أكثر من أجنان يتكلم أن هناك أجنان قدار who is the son of Ismael and the reason the reason why they say قدار because there is a figure in the Bible who is the son of Ismael who is very prominent and the word قدار in Hebrew is used synonymously with أرب so he was a very important figure in the Bible so we just put that in the parentheses so this is speculative we don't know so after أجنان you have مع أجنان مع can we children Sunday schoolers معد نظار في اليس this is not the prophet اليس عليه السلام this is a different اليس مجليكة so we want to know everything about him that you can tell what a person loves by what their tongue is always saying so someone is always talking about their car my Mercedes Benz it's beautiful that's what they love the tongue reveals the heart so there are youth who know the score of every single whole series since 1901 and you say well that's so useless why would you even well I love it right this is how I remember it when I was in the middle of the Bible for the mother to know this is a good practice نظار نظار نظار name for فهر who's فهر he's known by a more famous name so you want to know good guess not who say قرش it's on a skill called تسغير like حسن and حسين it's diminutive قرش means the bite اكرش is a shark so قرش is a niche maybe they say like when he was a kid or something he bit something and they kind of they called him yeah قرش so it kind of stuck with him but his real name is سدرون قرش this is the قابيلة of the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم this قابيلة is called قرش not either كلاب or حاك this كلاب in Arabic has a bad meaning means dogs that was his name sometimes they say they use it in Arabic كلاب now قرش about 400 of common era who told the Arabs to stop moving around to stay in Mecca and build houses who say قرش is the Messenger of Allah is قرش that's the tribe and then there's a قرش there's a قرش the قرش is داني حاشن قرش is the Messenger of Allah this is his knowing lineage names we know for certain from tradition so maybe we can go further أمضل الله at a brother and he has a son من دعالي the Prophet ﷺ is the daughter of Fatima they marry with حسن and then they have their own lineage stop at that point إن شاء الله is there any issues or any questions now we can take their comments if not next time إن شاء الله we'll start with the historical context and then also read if you get this book you have to get the book maybe it's not a mandatory book but read the first two chapters the house of God and a great loss and maybe what is the hollow the chapter like a page and a half each it's very short chapters and there's a lot of chapters very short okay any questions so probably we can find this book so this book you find anywhere Amazon most bookstores even like Barnes & Noble what not there can you strike it down do you name the book the name of the book I'll hold it up you can write it Martin Leanz L-I-N-G-S Leanz it's very easy to remember if you guys are interested before you leave today just sign up Leanz and any go to amazon.com it'll come right up this is his most famous book there's different editions but they have different covers and they move things around but it's the same text any other questions like I said there's a lot of information we're going to move quickly they're not out there out there they're writing yeah it's my it's my it's out there smiling all of them now Allahu Adam we don't know maybe we don't know my kid art could have been a prophet Allahu Adam as I mentioned in our sources but الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the book some of the prophets we mentioned their stories some we have not most of them الله as Na'a mentioned it's conceivable there have been many prophets because they fall within the prophetic Fathara but definitely there's no prophet between Isa and the prophet S.A because it's a confirmed in Hadith there's no prophet between Isa A.S. the prophet S.A yeah he's a contemporary prophet what's that this linear he's contemporary who's in the who's in the lineage of Isa A.S. he's contemporary I see I see what you're saying this is about this is about 230 years I'm Adnan maybe about 600 Allahu Adam just based on you know this 400 it's 1234 6 names away I'm sure we can calculate it or play an amusement it's serious business we can have fun doing it and it depends you know it's just a way where it's socialized as people need to be entertained and whatnot people find different things entertaining I can sit with a shave for five hours and he can explain the very monotone voice about the c-fact of Allah and I'll be in thrall for four hours but for other people you know it takes a little song and dance and so I'm sorry I'm kind of boring but just this information we have to learn I can't learn it for you it's like with the Arabic class people say you know you have to do this and that and then you have to do the work you have to memorize the brain of a child so ready to absorb it's very easy to learn things when you're a child learn languages it's very easy encourage the children to come and take notes as well and send them so they're welcome to come as long as it's okay with the mustard board I don't mind anyone coming in I'm sure when I see non-Muslims people that look very strange and they're probably you know working for some agency or something but when I have nothing to hide we're teaching love and peace