On Prayers Upon the Prophet (Gems from the Shifa)
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Talut Dawood
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About The Book
Prayers upon the Prophet ﷺ are among the most important devotions by which the devout have approached Allah. Due to this, many scholars have written treatises and even books on its rulings and merits. It is also for that reason that Qadi Iyad devoted to it a section of his celebrated work, al-Shifa. While the section is short, it provides a valuable entry into such literature, distilling rules and benefits for the seeker in brief expressions and beneficial narrations. We selected this section for quick study and review, which will serve both the busy student and the working professional on the go.
Al-Shifa bi Taʿrif Ḥuquq al-Mustafa, directly translated as, ‘The Remedy (or Cure) Through Recognizing the Rights of the Chosen One’, is one of the most celebrated works in the genre of Shama'il. It stands uniquely amongst the works of Qadi Iyad as his most celebrated effort with many surviving manuscripts and commentaries found throughout the Islamic world. Shama'il is a genre of works that deals with the life, characteristics, and descriptions of the Prophet ﷺ and his station.
Al-Shifa, as it is called for short, stands alone as perhaps the most thorough work in this genre, dealing with both the descriptions of the Prophet ﷺ, his station and his perfections, and with the rulings pertaining to one’s belief and treatment of him ﷺ. It is exhaustive in its treatment of the subject, expounding on topics that range from Allah’s praise of the Prophet ﷺ and his status and station before Him, to the obligation of loving him and what that entails. In short, the uniqueness of this work can be attributed to its holistic coverage of the Messenger ﷺ.
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About the author
Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi: Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi (476–544 AH / 1083–1149 CE), honored across the Muslim world as Qadi Iyad, was among the foremost scholars of the Islamic West during the era of the Murabitun (Almoravids). He was born in Ceuta to a family of Andalusian origin that had settled in the Maghrib. From a young age he was immersed in the sciences of his day, mastering hadith, Maliki jurisprudence, Arabic language, and history, and gathering narrations from many teachers, including the hadith scholar Abu Ali al-Ghassani. He was Maliki in law and Ashʿari in creed. Appointed a judge while still young, he served as qadi of his native Ceuta and later of Granada in Andalus, earning a lasting reputation for learning and integrity. His scholarship spans several enduring works. Best known is al-Shifaʾ bi-Taʿrif Huquq al-Mustafa, a tender and exhaustive treatment of the Prophet Muhammad's virtues, character, rights, and miracles, which became one of the most copied and commented-upon devotional books in Islamic history. In Maliki studies he composed Tartib al-Madarik, a major biographical survey of the scholars of the school, alongside works on hadith and creed. With the rise of the Almohads his standing came under pressure, and he died in Marrakesh in 544 AH, remembered as a pillar of Maliki and prophetic learning.
About the translator
Talut Dawood: Ustadh Talut Dawood is an American Muslim translator specializing in classical Arabic Islamic scholarship, with a particular focus on texts from the Tijaniyya tradition and the broader Sunni scholarly heritage. He grew up in New York, North Carolina, and Texas, and received his foundational Islamic education under his father, Shaykh Sulaiman Dawood, himself a classically trained scholar. He went on to study with teachers from Syria, West Africa, the United Kingdom, and North America. In 2018 he formally joined Imam Ghazali Publishing as Senior Translator-in-Residence, undertaking this role with the blessings and formal authorization (idhn) of his principal teacher, Shaykh Mahy Cisse. He currently resides in Mexico, where he has served in a leadership and Imam capacity. Among the works he has translated are The 40 Hadith of Imam al-Nawawi, All the Sultan's Men, Reports on the Dajjal, Miracles of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, The Isra' and Mi'raj, and Inner Dimensions from the Order of the Surahs in the Qur'an, as well as a number of shorter devotional texts published by Imam Ghazali Publishing. He has translated and taught over twenty books for the publisher.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781952306105
Publisher
Imam Ghazali Institute
Author
Qadi Iyad
Pages
86
Translator
Talut Dawood
Year Published
2021
Size
W-5.1 in | H-8 in | D-0.3 in
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