Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya

Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya (Arabic: الشمائل المحمدية, romanized: Ash-Shamāʾil al-Muḥammadiyya, lit.

While shama'il lists the physical and spiritual characteristics of Muhammad in simple prose, in hilya these are written about in a literary style.

[4] Among other descriptive Shama'il text are the Dala'il al-Nubuwwah of Al-Bayhaqi, Tarih-i Isfahan of Abu Naeem Isfahani, Al-Wafa bi Fadha'il al-Mustafa of Abu'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi and Al-Shifa of Qadi Ayyad are the main shemaa-il and hilya books.

Between his two shoulders was the Seal of Nabouati or Prophethood, and he was the last of the Nabi.The description attributed by Umm Ma'bad goes as follows:[3] I saw a man, pure and clean, with a handsome face and a fine figure.

His speech was a string of cascading pearls, measured so that none despaired of its length, and no eye challenged him because of brevity.

It is depicted as a mole on the end of his left shoulder blade, in size compared to a pigeon's egg or an apple.

[6] A passage from Sunan Abu Dawood (32.4071), also collected in the Shama'il, reports how one Qurrah ibn Iyas al-Muzani on the occasion of swearing allegiance to Muhammad put his hand inside his shirt to "feel the seal".

An Urdu translation and commentary, Khasa'il Nabawi was written by Muhammad Zakariya al-Kandahlawi in 1926.