Number of human joints: prophet Mohammad (SAW) scientific miracle
Abu Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Man has three hundred and sixty joints. He has to give charity; one for each joint." The people said: "O Allah's Prophet! Who can afford this?" He (peace be upon him) said: "To bury the phlegm you find in the mosque or to remove things (stones) from the path of the people. If you can not afford so, it is sufficient to pray two rakahs of Duha."
The Scientific Fact: The joint is a point of articulation of two bones, a bone and gristle, or two gristles in anypart of the human body.
The total number of joints, according to scientists, is:
1- Skull joints: 86
2- Throat joints: 6
3- Thorax joints: 66
4- Spine and Pelvis joints: 76
5- Upper limbs: 32 x 2 = 64
6- Lower limbs: 31 x 2= 62
Total number of joints: 360
Facets of Scientific Inimitability: The Prophet (peace be upon him) said that the number of joints in the human body is 360, although at that time it was impossible to know such information, for most of the joints are very small and hard to see with the naked eye. The exact number of joints was not discovered until development in the fields of anatomy and histology.
Thus, the Prophet (peace be upon him) accurately pinpointed the number of joints fourteen centuries ago while modern anatomy came to assert this scientific fact only recently.