Sahih al-Bukhari 3556
The description of the Prophet ﷺ
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ كَعْبٍ قَالَ
سَمِعْتُ كَعْبَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ يُحَدِّثُ حِينَ تَخَلَّفَ عَنْ تَبُوكَ قَالَ فَلَمَّا سَلَّمْتُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَهْوَ يَبْرُقُ وَجْهُهُ مِنَ السُّرُورِ وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا سُرَّ اسْتَنَارَ وَجْهُهُ حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ قِطْعَةُ قَمَرٍ وَكُنَّا نَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Bukayr
- al-Layth
- ʿUqayl
- Ibn Shihāb
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb
- ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb
I heard Kaʿb bin Malik talking after his failure to join (the Ghazwa of) Tabuk. He said, "When I greeted Messenger of Allah ﷺ whose face was glittering with happiness, for whenever Messenger of Allah ﷺ was happy, his face used to glitter, as if it was a piece of the moon, and we used to recognize it (i.e. his happiness) from his face."
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- a well-known Companiond. during ʿAlī's caliphate, or in the days when ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was killed, or in the year 51 AH, also said: 50 AH, and al-Wāqidī and Abū Ḥātim stated it definitivelyكَعْب بْن مَالِك الأَنْصَارِيصحابي مشهورسمعت
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 97 AH, or 98 AH; also said 89 AHعَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ كَعْبٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a scholard. in the reign of Sulaymān, or: Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malikعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ كَعْبٍثقة عالمعن
- The jurist and memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), whose eminence, precision and reliability are agreed upond. Ḍamrah b. Rabīʿah and others said: 123 AH. The nephew of al-Zuhrī and others said: 124 AH. Ibn Yūnus and others said: 125 AHابْنِ شِهَابٍالفقيه الحافظ ، متفق على جلالته وإتقانه وثبتهعن
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 141 AH, or: 142 AH, or: 144 AHعُقَيْلٍثقة ثبتعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AHاللَّيْثُثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهورحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah) in narrating from al-Layth, but they spoke critically about his hearing from Mālikd. 231 AH or 232 AHيَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍثقة في الليث ، وتكلموا في سماعه من مالكحدثنا
- 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 AHالْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
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Commentaries
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Fatḥ al-Bārī (Ibn Ḥajar)
ʿUmdat al-Qārī (Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī)
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