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Sahih al-Bukhari 3549

The description of the Prophet ﷺ

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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يُوسُفَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْبَرَاءَ يَقُولُ

كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ وَجْهًا وَأَحْسَنَهُ خَلْقًا لَيْسَ بِالطَّوِيلِ الْبَائِنِ وَلاَ بِالْقَصِيرِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Aḥmad b. Saʿīd Abū ʿAbdullāh
  2. Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
  3. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf
  4. his father
  5. Abū Isḥāq
  6. al-Barāʾ

Messenger of Allah ﷺ was the handsomest of all the people, and had the best appearance. He was neither very tall nor short.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3548Sahih Muslim 2347aJami' at-Tirmidhi 3623Muwatta' Malik 49-1al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 329al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9279

Narrators

  1. al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī
    Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
    الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
    سمعت
  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
    عن
  3. Yūsuf b. Isḥāq b. Abī Isḥāq
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. 157 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  4. Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf b. Abī Isḥāq
    truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 198 AH
    إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يُوسُفَصدوق يهم
    حدثنا
  5. Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
    truthful (ṣadūq), criticized for Shīʿismd. al-Bukhārī said: 204 AH, Abū Dāwūd and others said: 205 AH
    إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍصدوق تكلم فيه للتشيع
    حدثنا
  6. Aḥmad b. Saʿīd
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. al-Qabbānī said: after the year of the earthquake, the year 243 AH. Al-Ḥākim said: at the end of 245 AH. Al-Bukhārī reported from Ibn Aḥmad: 246 AH. Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥāfiẓ said: 251 AH, also said: 259 AH
    أَحْمَدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  7. al-Bukhārī
    a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
    الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

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Commentaries

Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)

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