Musnad Ahmad 18613

Translation

✧ I have not seen anyone among God's creation more handsome in a red attire than God's Messenger ﷺ, and indeed his locks reached to his shoulders.

Notes

• قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي بُكَيْرٍ لَتَضْرِبُ قَرِيبًا مِنْ مَنْكِبَيْهِ وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ يُحَدِّثُ بِهِ مِرَارًا مَا حَدَّثَ بِهِ قَطُّ إِلَّا ضَحِكَ

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Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4183Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3635

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   سمعت
2. 2
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Isrāʾīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah); he was criticized without any valid proofd. Abū Nuʿaym said, and Qaʿnab b. al-Muḥarrar: 160 AH. Hārūn b. Ḥātim said, from Dubays: 161 AH. Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said, and Muḥammad b. Saʿd: 162 AH, Mughulṭāy said: 164 AH
   إِسْرَائِيلُثقة ، تُكلم فيه بلا حجة
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Aswad b. ʿĀmir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 207 AH, or 208 AH
   أَسْوَدُ بْنُ عَامِرٍثقة
   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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