9This short work is a translation of a section from Kitāb al-Shifā bi T rīfi Ĥuqūq al-Muşţafā, which is one of the finest biographies of the Prophet ﷺ. Many scholars have said that: "A book of this kind has not been written in the history of Islām."Qadi Iyad is a prominent ĥadīth scholar, Mālikī jurist and an author of many important works. Nobody disputes that Shifā is his most famous work and he is best known as the author of Shifā.