Shama'il Muhammadiyah

The Shamā'il Muhammadiyyah The Appearance of prophet Muhammad is a collection of hadiths compiled by Tirmidhi regarding the details of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's appearance, belongings, manners and life. The book contains 416 narrations from the successors of Muhammad which are divided into 56 chapters.

Shama'il lists the physical and spiritual characteristics of prophet Muhammad in simple prose, in hilye these are written about in a literary style. 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.