Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 5

Translation

“The Prophet ﷺ was neither tall nor short, endowed with sturdy hands and feet, stout head and limbs, and lengthy hair on the chest. When he walked, he inclined forward, as if he were descending a downward slope. I have never seen the like of him, neither before him nor after him.”

Notes

• حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ وَكِيعٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيِّ بِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ نَحْوَهُ بِمَعْنَاهُ

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What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī

  سئل الدارقطني عنه فذكر الاختلاف فيه قال والصواب قول من قال عن نافع بن جبير عن علي ولم يذكر فيه جبيرا والله أعلم فإن بعضهم ذكره عن نافع عن أبيه عن علي وبعضهم يقول عن نافع عن أبيه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationAl-Dāraquṭnī was asked about him, and he mentioned the disagreement concerning it. He said: The correct view is that of those who said, "from Nāfiʿ b. Jubayr, from ʿAlī," without mentioning Jubayr in it, and God knows best. For some of them mentioned it from Nāfiʿ, from his father, from ʿAlī, and some of them say: from Nāfiʿ, from his father, from the Prophet ﷺ. Report a problem

  in الشمائل المحمدية, p. 5
• Dāraquṭnī

  سئل الدارقطني عنه فذكر الاختلاف فيه قال والصواب قول من قال عن نافع بن جبير عن علي ولم يذكر فيه جبيرا والله أعلم فإن بعضهم ذكره عن نافع عن أبيه عن علي وبعضهم يقول عن نافع عن أبيه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم

  machine translationAl-Dāraquṭnī was asked about him, and he mentioned the disagreement concerning it. He said: The correct view is that of those who said, "from Nāfiʿ b. Jubayr, from ʿAlī," without mentioning Jubayr in it, and God knows best. For some of them mentioned it from Nāfiʿ, from his father, from ʿAlī, and some of them say: from Nāfiʿ, from his father, from the Prophet ﷺ. Report a problem

  in الشمائل المحمدية, p. 5
• Dāraquṭnī

  والصواب قول من قال عن نافع بن جبير عن علي ولم يذكر فيه جبيرا

  machine translationThe correct view is that of those who said, "from Nāfiʿ b. Jubayr, from ʿAlī," without mentioning Jubayr in it. Report a problem

  in الشمائل المحمدية, p. 5

Same hadith, other wordings

• Syama'il Muhammadiyah 6حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنِ الْمَسْعُودِيِّ بِهَذَا الْإِسْنَادِ نَحْوَهُ بِمَعْنَاهُ:

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 1053Musnad Ahmad 746Musnad Ahmad 796Musnad al-Bazzar 682Musnad Abi Ya'la 369

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAlī b. Abū Ṭālib

   One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرة
   عن
2. 2
   Nāfiʿ b. Jubayr b. Muṭʿim al-Nawfalī

   trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 99 AH
   نَافِعِ بْنِ جُبَيْرِ بْنِ مُطْعِمٍثقة فاضل
   عن
3. 3
   ʿUthmān b. Muslim b. Hurmuz

   He has some leniency (layyin)
   عُثْمَانَ بْنِ مُسْلِمِ بْنِ هُرْمُزَفيه لين
   عن
4. 4
   al-Masʿūdī

   Truthful (ṣadūq); he became confused (ikhtalaṭa) before his death, and the rule is: whoever heard from him in Baghdad heard after the confusion.d. 160 AH, also said: 165 AH
   الْمَسْعُودِيُّصدوق ، اختلط قبل موته ، وضابطه : أن من سمع منه ببغداد فبعد الاختلاط
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Nuʿaym

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 218 AH, 219 AH
   أَبُو نُعَيْمٍثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث
   حدثنا
7. 7
   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.