‘Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) says that’ when the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) intended to write or wrote a letter (to the king of Rome or Persia), it was said to him that those people do not read a letter without a seal (i.e., they do not give it importance). So the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) had a silver ring made, on which “Muhammad Rasul Allah” was engraved. (Sayyiduna Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, says: It feels as if) I am (even now) looking at the whiteness of it in the blessed hand of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).