al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 3173
✧ Handsome Appearance
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قَالَ ابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَ: حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّ، حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ، عَنِ الْحَضْرَمِيِّ بْنِ لَاحِقٍ ؓ، قَالَ: إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، قَالَ:
« إِذَا أَبْرَدْتُمْ بَرِيدًا فَأَبْرِدُوهُ حَسَنَ الْوَجْهِ، حَسَنَ الِاسْمِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Ibn Abū ʿUmar
- Bishr b. al-Sarī
- Hammām
- Yaḥyá b. Abū Kathīr
- Abū Salamah
- al-Ḥaḍramī b. Lāḥiq
- In al-Nabī ﷺ
✧ «When you send a messenger, send one with a handsome face and a good name.»
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Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 7753Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33680Musnad al-Bazzar 4390Musnad al-Bazzar 8635
Narrators
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. between 111 and 120 AHالْحَضْرَمِيِّ بْنِ لَاحِقٍلا بأس بهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir)d. 94 AH, or 104 AHأَبِي سَلَمَةَثقة ، مكثرعن
- trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he practiced tadlīs and irsāld. 129 AH or 130 AH or 132 AHيَحْيَى بْنِ أَبِي كَثِيرٍثقة ثبت ، لكنه يدلس ويرسلعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AHهَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهمحدثنا
- he was a preacher, trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), he was criticised for holding the view of Jahm, then he apologised and repentedd. al-Bukhārī said: Maḥmūd told me he died in the year 195 AH, and others said the year 196 AHبِشْرُ بْنُ السَّرِيِّكان واعظا ، ثقة متقن ، طعن فيه برأي جهم ، ثم اعتذر وتابحدثنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq); he compiled a Musnad and was a close companion of Ibn ʿUyaynah; but Abū Ḥātim said: He had some heedlessness (ghaflah)d. 243 AH, also said: 244 AHابْنُ أَبِي عُمَرَصدوق ، صنف المسند ، وكان لازم ابن عيينة ، لكن قال أبو حاتم : كانت فيه غفلة
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