Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 37

Translation

‘I said to Anas ibn Malik: “Did Allah’s Messenger ﷺ dye his hair?” He replied: ‘He did not get to that, for he was grayed only in the hair covering his temples, but Abu Bakr ᴿᴬ dyed his hair with henna and a herbal mixture called katam.”

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 13329Musnad Ahmad 13372Musnad Ahmad 13780al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 14943al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 19585

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
   قلت
2. 2
   Qatādah b. Diʿāmah

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 117 AH, or: 118 AH
   قَتَادَةَثقة ثبت
   عن
3. 3
   Hammām

   Trustworthy (thiqah), who sometimes erred (rubbamā wahima)d. 163 AH, or: 164 AH, also said: 165 AH
   هَمَّامٌثقة ربما وهم
   أخبرنا
4. 4
   Abū Dāwūd

   trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), who erred in some hadithsd. 203 AH, or 204 AH
   أَبُو دَاوُدَثقة حافظ , غلط في أحاديث
   أخبرنا
5. 5
   Muḥammad b. Bashshār

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 252 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍثقة
   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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