Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 1351
✧ The physical and moral character of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ فُورَكٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حدثنا يُونُسُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، حدثنا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، حدثنا زُهَيْرٌ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ،
قَالَ: قِيلَ لِلْبَرَاءِ: أَكَانَ وَجْهُ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ كَالسَّيْفِ؟ قَالَ: " لَا بَلْ كَالْقَمَرِ "
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machine translationAbū Bakr b. Fūrak informed us, ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar informed us, Yūnus b. Ḥabīb narrated to us, Abū Dāwūd narrated to us, Zuhayr narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq,
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He said: It was said to al-Barāʾ: "Was the face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ like a sword?" He said: "No, rather like the moon."
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رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ فِي الصَّحِيحِ، عَنْ أَبِي نُعَيْمٍ، عَنْ زُهَيْرٍ وَأَخْرَجَهُ مُسْلِمٌ مِنْ حَدِيثِ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ، غَيْرَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: " لَا بَلْ مِثْلُ الشَّمْسِ وَالْقَمَرِ مُسْتَدِيرًا " قَالَ الْإِمَامُ أَحْمَدُ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ: ورُوِّينَا فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: " رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ فِي لَيْلَةِ إضْحِيَانٍ وَعَلَيْهِ حُلَّةٌ حَمْرَاءُ فَجَعَلْتُ أَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ وَإِلَى الْقَمَرِ فَلَهُوَ كَانَ أَحْسَنَ فِي عَيْنِي مِنَ الْقَمَرِ "
machine translationAl-Bukhārī narrated it in the Ṣaḥīḥ, from Abū Nuʿaym, from Zuhayr. Muslim also transmitted it from the hadith of Jābir b. Samurah, except that he said: "No, rather like the sun and the moon, round." Imam Aḥmad, may Allah have mercy on him, said: We have narrated in another narration, from Jābir b. Samurah, that he said: "I saw the Prophet ﷺ on a bright moonlit night, and he was wearing a red garment. I began to look at him and at the moon, and he was more beautiful in my eyes than the moon."
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