al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 4202
✧ 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 إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِ ثنا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ
«مَا كَانَ فِي رَأْسِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِلَّا شَعَرَاتٌ بِيضٌ فِي مَفْرِقِ رَأْسِهِ إِذَا أَدْهَنَ وَارَاهُنَّ الدُّهْنَ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Saʿīd al-Aḥmasī
- al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥumayd
- Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥajjāj
- Ḥammād b. Salamah
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- Jābir b. Samurah
✧ There were only a few white hairs on the head of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, at the parting of his hair. When he applied oil, the oil concealed them.
Notes
هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ مُسْلِمٍ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ على شرط مسلم
machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of Muslim, yet they did not record it (meaning al-Bukhārī and Muslim). On the criteria of Muslim.
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What scholars said about it
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- Abū ʿAbdullāh al-Ḥākim
هذا حديث صحيح على شرط مسلم ولم يخرجاه
machine translationThis is an authentic (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith meeting the criteria of Muslim, though the two of them did not record it.
in المستدرك على الصحيحين, p. 4224
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), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخرهحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), makes occasional mistakes (yahimu qalīlan)d. 231 AH, or 232 AH, or 233 AHإِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْحَجَّاجِثقة يهم قليلاحدثنا
- 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.