Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 224

Translation

“I said to my maternal uncle, Hind ibn Abi Hala, who was skilled at describing people: ‘Describe for me the manner of speech Allah’s Messenger ﷺ!’ He said: Allah’s Messenger ﷺ was constantly sympathetic with sorrows, persistent in thought, having no repose, prolonged in silence. He would not speak unnecessarily. He would introduce and conclude his speech with: 'Bismillahi ta'ala [In the Name of Allah, Exalted is He]!' He would speak using simple words bearing many profound meanings [bi-jawami'i ’l-kalim]. His speech was concise, neither excessive nor abridged. It was neither uncouth nor contemptible. He would extol a blessing, however small, and he would not find fault with any aspect of it. He neither condemned nor praised those who enjoyed food and drink, and he would not be angered by this world. If the truth were overstepped, he would be so furious that he could do nothing but right the wrong. He would not be angry for his own sake or come to his own defense. When he beckoned, he beckoned with the whole of the palm of his hand, and when he was astonished, he turned it over, and when he spoke, he gestured with his hands, and placed his right palm over the base of his left thumb. When he was angry, he turned away and averted his face, and when he was happy, he lowered his gaze. Most of his laughter was in the form of a smile that revealed teeth as white as hailstones'.”

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• Abū Daʾūd

  أخشى أن يكون موضوعا

  machine translationI fear that it is fabricated (mawḍūʿ). Report a problem

  in الشمائل المحمدية, p. 225

Narrators

1. 1
   Hind b. Abī Hālah rabīb al-Nabī ﷺ

   d. martyred on the Day of the Camel with ʿAlī, also said: he lived after that
   هِنْدُ بْنُ أَبِي هَالَةَ رَبِيبُ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
   قال
2. 2
   al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī sibṭ Rasūl Allāh

   grandson of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his sweet basil; he accompanied him and memorized from himd. it is said: 44, also said: 48 AH, also said: 49 AH, also said: 50 AH, also said: 51 AH, also said: 56 AH, also said: 58 AH, also said: 59 AH
   الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّسبط رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وريحانته ، وقد صحبه وحفظ عنه
   عن
3. 3
   Ibn of Abī Hālah
   ابن لأبي هالة
   عن
4. 4
   A man from Banī Tamīm from son of Abī Hālah husband of Khadījah known by the kunyah Abā ʿAbdullāh
   رجل من بني تميم من ولد أبي هالة زوج خديجة يكنى أبا عبد الله
   حدثني
5. 5
   Jumayʿ b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿIjlī

   weak (ḍaʿīf), a Rāfiḍīd. between 181 AH and 190 AH
   جُمَيْعُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الْعِجْلِيُّضعيف رافضي
   حدثنا
6. 6
   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
7. 7
   al-Tirmidhī

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

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