The Prophet Muhammad’s Sandal (Allah bless him and give him peace) - Shukr Online

There is not a civilization that has loved and celebrated its leader as Islamic civilization has loved and celebrated its Prophet, our master Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace). Love is the strongest of all human attachments, and is the greatest thing that distinguishes the relationship of Muslims with their Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), who said, “None of you [truly] believes until I am more beloved to him than his very self, wealth, and all people.”

Motivated by this love, as
well as by an understanding of the immense importance of the personal
example of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), the Muslim
community recorded and preserved his entire life in the most exacting
detail. The Islamic scholars did not limit their attention to the moral
and legal example of the Prophet alone (Allah bless him and give him
peace). Rather, they also focused on his daily life, like his habits of
eating, drinking, and sleeping, as well as other matters that do not
have immediate legal implications. From that time, until this present
day, Muslims have sought to imitate the example of their Prophet (Allah
bless him and give him peace) in all its details, unless they were of
the particular matters that Allah Most High chose only for him.

The
Prophet’s (Allah bless him and give him peace) external, physical
appearance was also among the matters that Muslims paid great attention
to, as were his habits of dress. Among the matters of external
appearance, the Prophet’s noble sandals received particular
attention… [Read on….]