saw the seal on his back as it were a pigeon’s egg. This Hadith has been narrated on the authority of Simal with the same chain of transmitters. Abdullah b. Sarjis reported: I went in after him and saw the Seal of Prophethood between his shoulders on the left side of his shoulder having spots on it like moles (vol. IV, CMLXXIX, p. 1251). The early Muslim scholars clearly held to the same view of the seal. It was a large hairy mole on Muhammad’s back which signified that he was a prophet. A mole of