al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4196
✧ 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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أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْأَحْمَسِيُّ ثنا الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ ثنا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ ثنا حَجَّاجٌ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ
«كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَا يَضْحَكُ إِلَّا تَبَسُّمًا وَكَانَ فِي سَاقَيْهِ حُمُوشَةٌ» وَكُنْتُ إِذَا نَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهِ قُلْتُ «أَكْحَلُ الْعَيْنَيْنِ وَلَيْسَ بِأَكْحَلَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Saʿīd al-Aḥmasī
- al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥumayd
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām
- Ḥajjāj
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- Jābir b. Samurah
"The two shins of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were thin, and he would not laugh except as a smile, and whenever I looked at him I would say: "He put kohl on his eyes,' but he ﷺ did not use kohl." (Using translation from Tirmidhī 3645)
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحُ الْإِسْنَادِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ حجاج لين الحديث
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
هذا حديث صحيح الإسناد ولم يخرجاه
machine translationThis hadith has an authentic chain of transmission (ṣaḥīḥ al-isnād), though they did not record it.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 4218
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
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AHحَجَّاجٌصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليسحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 183 AH, or: 185 AH, or: 186 AH, or: 187 AHعَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- d. 282 AH, or 283 AHالْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍحدثنا
- أبو سعيد الأخمسيأخبرني
- d. 403 AH, or 405 AHالحاكم
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.