Musnad Ahmad 13662

Translation

✧ It was said to Anas: Did the hair of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ turn grey? He said: Allah [Mighty and Majestic] did not disfigure him with grey hair. There were in his head and beard only seventeen or eighteen [grey hairs].

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

  إسناد صحيح

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  in مسند أحمد, p. 13812

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2341g

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   قال
2. 2
   Thābit al-Bunānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
   ثَابِتٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادٌثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAffān

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 219 AH, or 220 AH
   عَفَّانُثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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