Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 11

Translation

A man asked al-Bara’ ibn 'Azib: “Was the face of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ like the sword?” He said: “No, it was rather like the moon!”

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 3552Sahih Muslim 2344bMusnad Ahmad 18478al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1914al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 1924Musnad al-Tayalisi 764

Narrators

1. 1
   al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib al-Awsī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AH
   الْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابي
   سأل
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
   Zuhayr

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 172 AH, or: 173 AH, or: 174 AH, 177 AH
   زُهَيْرٍثقة ثبت
   عن
4. 4
   Ḥumayd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 189 AH, or 190 AH, or 192 AH
   حُمَيْدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرُّؤَاسِيُّثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Sufyān b. Wakīʿ

   he was truthful (ṣadūq), except that he was afflicted by his copyist, who inserted into his material what was not his hadith; he was advised but did not accept, so his hadith felld. 247 AH
   سُفْيَانُ بْنُ وَكِيعٍكان صدوقا ، إلا أنه ابتلي بوراقه فأدخل عليه ما ليس من حديثه فنصح فلم يقبل فسقط حديثه
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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

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