Joints in the Human Body

(3) the Synovial Joints. The fibrous joints are of two types and include sutures and syndesmoses. The cartilagious joints are of two kinds. One is Synchondrosis, and the other is Symphysis. The intervertebral discs are examples of symphyses. The synovial joints are of six types: (1) the Plain Joint (2) the Hinge Joint, (3) the Pivot Joint, (4) a Condyloid Articulation, (5) the Saddle Joints, and (6) the ball and Socket Joint. After giving complete details of all these joints the writer sums up the article with these words: Therefore, the number of joints in the human body is 360. This is an average figure with minor individual variation according to age, etc. Detailed morphological knowledge of the human body was only perfected during the last two hundred years or so. Therefore, the giving of an exact average count of the joints of the human body 1,400 years ago by an unlettered person can only mean one thing: that this knowledge was transmitted to him by God, the Creator of the human body. In other words, the authentic sayings (Ahadith) of the Holy Apostle, indeed, are divinely inspired. Another significant feature of Traditions of the Prophet highlighted by this marvellous Hadith is the meticulous care, profound faith, and complete honesty of Muslim scholars of the science of Hadith throughout the fourteen centuries which have elapsed ever since the time of the Prophet . □