Sahih al-Bukhari 5895

Translation

Anas was asked whether the Prophet ﷺ used a a hair dye or not. He replied, "The Prophet ﷺ did not have enough grey hair to dye, (such that) if I wanted to count the fading hairs in his beard (I could have)."

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5786وَعَنْ ثَابِتٍ قَالَ: سُئِلَ أَنَسٌ عَنْ خِضَابِ رَسُول الله صلى الله عَلَيْهِ وَسلم فَقَالَ: إِنَّهُ لَمْ يَبْلُغْ مَا يُخْضَبُ لَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أَعُدَّ شَمَطَاتِهِ فِي لِحْيَتِهِ - وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ: لَوْ شِئْتُ أَنْ أَعُدَّ شَمَطَاتٍ كُنَّ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2341bMusnad Ahmad 12054Musnad Ahmad 12635al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8143Musnad Abi Ya'la 2829Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 37

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
   سئل
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. Zayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AH
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍثقة ثبت ، فقيه.
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Sulaymān b. Ḥarb

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ).d. 222 AH, 223 AH, or 224 AH, also said 227 AH
   سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة إمام حافظ
   حدثنا
5. 5
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 5786