Sahih Muslim 2337b

Translation

Never did I see anyone more handsome than Allah's Apostle ﷺ in the red mantle. His hair had been hanging down on the shoulders and his shoulders were very broad, and he was neither very tall nor short-statured. Ibn Kuraib said he had hair.

Notes

• قَالَ أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ لَهُ شَعَرٌ

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Shahih al-Bukhari 3551كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ مَرْبُوعًا بَعِيدَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَنْكِبَيْنِ لَهُ شَعَرٌ يَبْلُغُ شَحْمَةَ أُذُنِهِ رَأَيْتُهُ فِي حُلَّةٍ حَمْرَاءَ لَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا قَطُّ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ
• Sunan Abu Dawud 4072كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَهُ شَعْرٌ يَبْلُغُ شَحْمَةَ أُذُنَيْهِ وَرَأَيْتُهُ فِي حُلَّةٍ حَمْرَاءَ لَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا قَطُّ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ
• Misykatul Mashabih 5783وَعَنِ الْبَرَّاءِ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَرْبُوعًا بَعِيدَ مَا بَيْنَ الْمَنْكِبَيْنِ لَهُ شَعْرٌ بَلَغَ شَحْمَةَ أُذُنَيْهِ رَأَيْتُهُ فِي حُلَّةٍ حَمْرَاءَ لَمْ أَرَ شَيْئًا قَطُّ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ.
• Sunan an-Nasa'i 5233مَا رَأَيْتُ مِنْ ذِي لِمَّةٍ أَحْسَنَ فِي حُلَّةٍ مِنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَلَهُ شَعْرٌ يَضْرِبُ مَنْكِبَيْهِ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Abi Dawud 4183Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3635Musnad Ahmad 12175Musnad Ahmad 18666Musnad Abi Ya'la 1698Musnad Abi Ya'la 1704

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   عن
2. 2
   Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AH
   أَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخره
   عن
3. 3
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   سُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   عن
4. 4
   Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ

   Trustworthy, a memorizer, devout (thiqah ḥāfiẓ ʿābid)d. 196 AH, or 197 AH, or 198 AH
   وَكِيعٌثقة حافظ عابد
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Kurayb

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
   وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Muslim

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
   مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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