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Is the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) pool round or square?

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The questioner : He says: May Allah reward you. You mentioned that the Prophet’s pool is round, even though a round shape has no length and no width; what fits length and width is either a square or a rectangle. So what is the answer?

The Shaykh : They replied: May Allah bless you. They said that the Messenger’s pool has a length of one month and a width of one month, encompassing all directions. This is only possible if it is round, because in a square, the corners extend beyond the flat surface. Is that clear? I mean, did you hear what I said? Yes, what Allah willed, you have become geometers. Now, before you is a square. Are the western and eastern corners longer than the flat surface, or not? Therefore, its corners must be more than one month. But if the length is one month and the width is one month from all sides, it must be round. Yes, that is right. That is, whether we measure from the right, from the left, or from any side, its length is one month and its width is one month. The corners are not called that. Yes. Yes. It is not required for them. No, as long as the Messenger attributed it to all of them, with a length of one month and a width of one month, then it is round. The scholars have explicitly stated this, meaning it is not something you invented from your sisters.
But despite that, I initially thought it was square, and that a length of one month and a width of one month means a square, like the Ka'bah, for example, a square building. But I saw them discuss this and say that it is round, and they justified that with this. Two cubes. Yes, it will be longer, without a doubt. Yes. Destroyed.
No, the Messenger did not say square; he said its length is one month and its width is one month. And if you want to measure the length from every side, a length of one month and a width of one month, it must be round. As for the dominance of the humble. Huh?
The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) always speaks in terms of distance by the month, and the scholars said that this is based on the travel of loaded camels. There are no questions, there are no questions. I do not know how this question came up. My sweet, contradictory son, may Allah have mercy on us. I did not see it; I understood it initially to be square.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 384 - 4600 هل حوض النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم مدور أم مربع؟ ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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