Sahih Muslim 2337c
Description Of The Prophet ﷺ; He Was The Most Handsome Of People
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حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو كُرَيْبٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلاَءِ حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يُوسُفَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الْبَرَاءَ يَقُولُ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَحْسَنَ النَّاسِ وَجْهًا وَأَحْسَنَهُمْ خَلْقًا لَيْسَ بِالطَّوِيلِ الذَّاهِبِ وَلاَ بِالْقَصِيرِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Kurayb Muḥammad b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Isḥāq b. Manṣūr
- Ibrāhīm b. Yūsuf
- his father
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Barāʾ
Al-Bara' reported that Messenger of Allah ﷺ had the most handsome face amongst men and he had the best disposition and he was neither very tall nor short-statured.
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Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 3548Sahih Muslim 2347aJami' at-Tirmidhi 3623Muwatta' Malik 49-1al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 329al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 9279
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيسمعت
- 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 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 157 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 198 AHإِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ يُوسُفَصدوق يهمعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), criticized for Shīʿismd. al-Bukhārī said: 204 AH, Abū Dāwūd and others said: 205 AHإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍصدوق تكلم فيه للتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistakeأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِثقة حافظحدثنا
- 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 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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