The Honored One: Allah’s Praise of His Beloved ﷺ - Gems from ‘The Shifa’
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Jody McIntyre
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About The Book
From the work, "Any person who has had any engagement with the topic at hand, or possesses the slightest degree of understanding, will be aware of the great esteem in which Allah Exalted holds our Prophet ﷺ. He singled him out for virtues and qualities too numerous to quantify, and any attempt to do so would exhaust tongues and pens.
We can glimpse the honouring of the Almighty for His Prophet ﷺ from that which is stated in His Book, that which He informs us of his elevated positions, and that which He praises of his character. He encourages His slaves to hold tight to the way of the Prophet ﷺ and to join him in obeying His Commands. Allah ﷻ is the One who favoured His Prophet ﷺ [above all creation], then purified him, then praised him on account of that, and finally rewarded him with the greatest reward. To Him belongs Grace in beginning and returning, and to Him belongs Praise and Gratitude in this world and the next.
He presented His Prophet ﷺ to His creation in the most complete and perfect form, and distinguished him with beautiful characteristics and a praiseworthy manner. He had a noble way and was blessed with innumerable virtues. Furthermore, Allah Exalted supported him with the ability to perform astounding miracles and deliver irrefutable signs. These were witnessed by his contemporaries and Companions and their knowledge was passed down to those who came after them, until the understanding of this reality reached us and we were overwhelmed with his light. May the abundant praise and salutations of Allah be upon our Prophet ﷺ."
Al-Shifa bi Taʿrīf 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
Jody McIntyre: Jody McIntyre is a British Muslim translator who embraced Islam and subsequently memorized the Qur'an, becoming a hafiz. He is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. His translation work has focused on classical Arabic texts relating to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, produced for Imam Ghazali Publishing. He rendered into English selections from Qadi 'Iyad ibn Musa al-Yahsubi's Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa - one of the most celebrated works in the genre of Shama'il - producing both The Honored One, which gathers passages on Allah's praise of the Prophet ﷺ, and a companion volume on prophetic miracles. He also translated The Beautiful Garden of the Merit of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, a compilation of forty hadith on the merits of the first caliph, compiled by Imam Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. Additionally, McIntyre produced the first English translation of The Maghazi of Sayyiduna Muhammad ﷺ by the Tabi'i scholar Musa ibn 'Uqba, which represents the earliest known biography of the Prophet ﷺ in existence. His translations cover a range of classical genres, from Shama'il to hadith compilations to early Islamic historical biography.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781952306235
Publisher
Imam Ghazali Institute
Author
Qadi Iyad
Pages
127
Translator
Jody McIntyre
Year Published
2023
Size
W-5.5 in | H-8.5 in | D-0.3 in
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