al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3099
✧ Looking in the Mirror, Etiquette of Kohl, Wearing Sandals, and Starting with the Right
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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحُصَيْنِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ، عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ؓ، قَالَ:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا نَظَرَ فِي الْمِرْآةِ قَالَ: « الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ الَّذِي حَسَّنَ خَلْقِي وَخُلُقِي، وَزَانَ مِنِّي مَا شَانَ مِنْ غَيْرِي »، وَإِذَا اكْتَحَلَ جَعَلَ فِي كُلِّ عَيْنٍ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَوَاحِدًا بَيْنَهُمَا، وَإِذَا لَبِسَ نَعْلَيْهِ بَدَأَ بِالْيُمْنَى، وَإِذَا خَلَعَ خَلَعَ الْيُسْرَى، وَكَانَ إِذَا دَخَلَ الْمَسْجِدَ أَدْخَلَ رِجْلَهُ الْيُمْنَى، وَكَانَ يُحِبُّ التَّيَمُّنَ فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَخْذًا وَعَطَاءً
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Yaʿlá
- ʿAmr b. al-Ḥuṣayn
- Yaḥyá b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Ṣafwān b. Sulaym
- ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār
- Ibn ʿAbbās
✧ When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked in the mirror, he would say: “Praise be to Allah, who has beautified my creation and my character, and adorned in me what He has made ugly in others.” When he applied kohl, he would put two [applications] in each eye and one between them. When he put on his sandals, he began with the right, and when he took them off, he took off the left first. When he entered the mosque, he entered with his right foot first. He used to like beginning with the right in all things, whether taking or giving.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 268aSunan Abi Dawud 4141Jami' at-Tirmidhi 608al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10795Musnad Abi Ya'la 2612Musnad Abi Ya'la 4852
Narrators
- One of the Companions who narrated most prolifically (mukthirūn).d. 65 AH, or 67 AH, or 68 AH, also said: 69 AH, also said: 70 AH; also said: 73 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍأحد المكثرين من الصحابةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a mufti, a devout worshipper, accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 124 AH, or 132 AHصَفْوَانَ بْنِ سُلَيْمٍثقة ، مفت عابد ، رمي بالقدرعن
- Accused of fabrication.d. close to 160 AH.يَحْيَى بْنُ الْعَلَاءِرمي بالوضع .حدثنا
- abandoned (matrūk)d. after 230 AHعَمْرُو بْنُ الْحُصَيْنِمتروكحدثنا
- d. 307 AHأَبُو يَعْلَى
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