al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4195
✧ News of the Master of Messengers and Seal of Prophets, Muhammad son of Abdullah son of Abdul-Muttalib, the Chosen one, may Allah's blessings be upon him and his pure family.
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ قَاسِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ السَّيَّارِيُّ بِمَرْوَ ثنا أَبُو الْمُوَجِّهِ ثنا عَبْدَانُ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبِي عَنْ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ
«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَشْكَلَ الْعَيْنَيْنِ ضَلِيعَ الْفَمِ» قُلْتُ مَا أَشْكَلُ الْعَيْنَيْنِ؟ قَالَ «يَادَمُ حَثِيمٌ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Qāsim b. al-Qāsim al-Sayyārī Bimarw
- Abū al-Muwajjih
- ʿAbdān
- my father
- Saʿīd
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- Jābir b. Samurah
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had eyes with a reddish tinge and a wide mouth. I asked, 'What does "ashkal al-ʿaynayn" mean?' He said, 'Long and narrow with a reddish tinge.'
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ عَلَى شَرْطِ مُسْلِمٍ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد على شرط مسلم ولم يخرجاه
machine translationThis ḥadīth has a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) chain of transmission, meeting the criteria of Muslim, and the two of them (al-Bukhārī and Muslim) did not record it.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 4217
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Ḥākim said: 72 AH, from Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ: 73 AH, Abū Bakr b. Manjawayh and others said: 74 AH. It is reported from Abū ʿUbayd that he said: 66 AH, and that is a mistakeجَابِرُ بْنُ سَمُرَةَ السُّوَائِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), meticulous (mutqin)d. 160 AHشُعْبَةَثقة حافظ , متقنعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. at the turn of 200 AHأَبِيثقةأخبرني
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 220 AH, or 221 AH, also said: 222 AHعَبْدَانُثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 282 AHأَبُو الْمُوَجِّهِحدثنا
- أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ قَاسِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ السَّيَّارِيُّأخبرنا
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
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