al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 2697
✧ Dyeing the hair of the beard
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وَقَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا الْجَرَّاحُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍ، ثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْحَمِيدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْعِجْلِيُّ، ثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي سَارَةَ، عَنْ ثَابِتٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ [ ؓ، قَالَ]:
إِنَّ رَجُلًا دَخَلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَبْيَضَ الرَّأْسِ وَاللِّحْيَةِ، فَقَالَ ﷺ: أَلَسْتَ مُسْلِمًا ؟ قَالَ: بَلَى. قَالَ ﷺ: " فَاخْتَضِبْ.
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- al-Jarrāḥ b. Makhlad
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman al-ʿIjlī
- ʿAlī b. Abū Sārah
- Thābit
- Anas
✧ A man entered upon the Prophet ﷺ with a white head and beard. He ﷺ said: "Are you not a Muslim?" He said: "Yes." He ﷺ said: "Then dye [it]."
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Narrators
- a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AHأَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AHثَابِتٍثقة عابدعن
- weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 171 and 180 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي سَارَةَضعيفحدثنا
- إسماعيل بن عبد الحميد بن عبد الرحمن العجليحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. close to 250 AHالْجَرَّاحُ بْنُ مَخْلَدٍثقةحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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