The Shamail - Complete Recital with 'Ijaza
Conducted by Shaykh Ahmed El Azhary, this reading session will cover all 415 narrations contained within Imam al-Tirmidhi's Al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah, and will serve as the culmination of the year-long exploration of the text of the Shama'il. Those who attend will receive a formal 'ijaza, with the complete chain from Shaykh Ahmed to Imam al-Tirmidhi. Shaykh Ahmed explains the significance of this 'ijaza is as follows: "This is an 'ijazah of narration. Initially, the recording of Hadith was in the chests of the narrators. Later, when Hadith began to be documented, compiled, and recorded with ink on paper, the dependency on verbal narration began to be reduced, because people could refer to the narrations that were in the books. "But the scholars of Hadith also wanted to continue the chain of narration from the Prophet ﷺ to the Ummah. They didn't want the people to stop narrating Hadith merely because it was now recorded in books. They knew that chains of narrations are something tha