Sahih Muslim 2341d

Translation

(They were so few) that if I so liked I could count their number in his head, and he further said: (That is) he did not dye. Abu Bakr, however, dyed them and so did 'Umar dye them with pure henna.

Notes

• وَقَالَ لَمْ يَخْتَضِبْ وَقَدِ اخْتَضَبَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بِالْحِنَّاءِ وَالْكَتَمِ وَاخْتَضَبَ عُمَرُ بِالْحِنَّاءِ بَحْتًا

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 4478عَن ثابتٍ قَالَ: سُئِلَ أَنَسٌ عَنْ خِضَابِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَقَالَ: لَوْ شِئْتَ أَنْ أَعُدَّ شَمَطَاتٍ كُنَّ فِي رَأْسِهِ فَعَلْتُ قَالَ: وَلَمْ يَخْتَضِبْ زَادَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ: وَقَدِ اخْتَضَبَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ بِا

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2341bMusnad Ahmad 12054Musnad Ahmad 12635al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 8143Musnad Abi Ya'la 2829Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 37

Narrators

1. 1
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   سئل
2. 2
   Thābit al-Bunānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
   ثَابِتٌثقة عابد
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Ḥammād b. Zayd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh).d. 177 AH, also said 179 AH
   حَمَّادٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه.
   حدثنا
4. 4
   Abū al-Rabīʿ

   trustworthy (thiqah), no one criticised him with a proofd. 234 AH, also said: 235 AH
   أَبُو الرَّبِيعِ الْعَتَكِيُّثقة , لم يتكلم فيه أحد بحجة
   حدثني
5. 5
   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

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.

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Mishkat al-Masabih 4478