Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 238

Translation

“There was a man among the people of the desert — his name was Zahir — and he used to bring the Prophet ﷺ a present from the desert, so the Prophet ﷺ would equip him when he wished to go out to battle. “The Prophet said ﷺ:‘Zahir is our desert, and we are his towns'. He ﷺ used to love him, though he was a homely man, so the Prophet ﷺ came to him one day while he was selling his wares, and embraced him from behind so that he couldn't see who it was. So he said: ‘Who is this? Let go of me!’ Then he turned around and recognized the Prophet ﷺ. Once he recognized the Prophet ﷺ, he kept his back pressed to the Prophet's chest, so the Prophet ﷺ proceeded to say: ‘Who will buy this slave?’ The man said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, in that case, by Allah, you will find me an unsellable commodity!’ The Prophet said ﷺ: ‘But you are not an unsaleable commodity in the view of Allah),’ or he said: ‘You are precious to Allah!'”

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• Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

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  in الشمائل المحمدية, p. 239

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
   عن
2. 2
   Thābit al-Bunānī

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 122 AH, or 123 AH, or 126 AH, or 127 AH, or 129 AH
   ثَابِتٍثقة عابد
   عن
3. 3
   Maʿmar b. Rāshid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), excellent, except that there is some weakness in his narration from Thābit, al-Aʿmash, ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd and Hishām b. ʿUrwah, and likewise in what he narrated in Basrad. at the beginning of 150 AH, or: 152 AH, or: 153 AH, or: 154 AH, 155 AH
   مَعْمَرٌثقة ثبت فاضل ، إلا أن في روايته عن ثابت والأعمش وعاصم بن أبي النجود ، وهشام بن عروة شيئا ، وكذا فيما حدث به بالبصرة
   حدثنا
4. 4
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Isḥāq b. Manṣūr

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt)d. 251 AH
   إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍثقة ، ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

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

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