Sahih al-Bukhari 5901

Translation

I did not see anybody in a red cloak looking more handsome than the Prophet. Narrated Malik: The hair of the Prophet ﷺ used to hang near his shoulders. Abu Ishaq said, "I heard him relate it more than once. He always laughed when he related it." Narrated Shuʿba: The hair of the Prophet ﷺ used to hang down to the earlobes.

Notes

• قَالَ بَعْضُ أَصْحَابِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ إِنَّ جُمَّتَهُ لَتَضْرِبُ قَرِيبًا مِنْ مَنْكِبَيْهِ قَالَ أَبُو إِسْحَاقَ سَمِعْتُهُ يُحَدِّثُهُ غَيْرَ مَرَّةٍ مَا حَدَّثَ بِهِ قَطُّ إِلاَّ ضَحِكَ تَابَعَهُ شُعْبَةُ شَعَرُهُ يَبْلُغُ شَحْمَةَ أُذُنَيْهِ

  machine translationSome of my companions said, from Mālik: "His forelock used to reach nearly to his shoulders." Abū Isḥāq said: I heard him narrate it more than once; he never narrated it except that he laughed. Shuʿbah corroborated him: "His hair reached the lobes of his ears." Report a problem

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Other narrations of this report

Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2811Sunan ad-Darimi 58al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9584al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9585al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7383Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 10

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
   عن
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
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Mālik b. Ismāʿīl

   Trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb), devout (ʿābid)d. 217 AH, or 218 AH, or 219 AH
   مَالِكُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة متقن ، صحيح الكتاب ، عابد
   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

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