Hadith 1

as covering the nerves and the veins between them and the participation of the greater tibia in the joint of the foot to make sure and strengthen the joints of flexion and extension. As for the foot, it is composed of twenty-six heel bones by which it completes the joint with the leg, and the heel by which is the stability pillar, which is the greatest, and the plantar canal with it, and four bones of the wrist with which it connects to the metacarpal, and one of them is a cuboid bone like a pistol placed on the lateral side, and with it improves the stability of that side, on the ground and five metacarpal bones with the number of fingers in one row and fourteen interphalangeal phalanges, each of which has three except the thumb, which has two. As for the heel, a human being is more cuboid than the heels of other animals, and it is as if it is the most honourable bone of the foot that is useful for movement, just as the heel is the most honourable bone of a man that is useful in stability. It is placed between the two ends of the stems that grow from the shin, containing it with their concave sides from its sides, and its ends inserted into the heel in two grooves. And it is in the middle, between the tibia and the heel, by which it improves their connection, strengthens the joint between them, and secures turbulence. It is actually placed in the middle, and the navicular bone is connected to it from the front by an articulated connection, and this scaphoid is attached to the calcaneus behind and in front by three carpal bones, and from the lateral side to the wedge-shaped bone. As for the heel, it is placed under the heel, solid, rounded to the back to resist trampling and pests. The bottom is smoothed in order to improve the levelling of the foot and the fit of the foot on the stable when standing. It creates a triangle to elongate, hammering little by little until it ends, and it fades at the sole to the lateral, so that the concavity of the sole is gradual from behind to medium. As for the (foot) wrist, it contrasts with the wrist of the palm, as it is one row, and that one is two rows, and its bones are fewer in number, and that is because the need in the palm to move and inclusion is more, and in the foot to closeness is greater. And the shape of the foot was created elongated to the foreleg to aid erection by relying on it and created for it the soles of the feet on the medial side, so that the inclination of the foot when erect, especially when walking to the opposite side to the side of the leg that is moving, so that the stature is straightened, and the footing on the rounded and protruding objects is well-groomed without pain, and so that the foot includes something similar to the stairs, and that some of its parts are separated from the ground, so walking is lighter, and the galloping is easier
And for such benefits it was created from many bones, and thus, it is inclusive upon the folding on it like the palm on the one who is seized. Clarification in the dictionary is the ‘Al-Zarfeyn’ with pressing and by the fracture, a ring for the door or an Arabized year, and they have decorated its temples, making them like ‘Al-Zarfeyn’. And Al-Jowhary said, ‘The neck is like the coat of mail, and it is the shield inside the throat, part of it in a part, and the neck, by movement of the shields, and the neck is it’s Maker – end. They likened the connection of the bellies of the brain to each other and their intertwining with shields and their weaving. He said in ‘Al-Qanoun’, ‘For the brain in it’s length, there are three bellies, and even though in each belly, in its width is with two segments, and the front part is tangible separation into two parts, right and left, and this part helps in inhaling and exhaling grace with sneezing, in distributing the most sensitive soul, and in the actions of the perceived powers of the subconscious. As for the posterior