Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3645
Regarding The Description of the Prophet ﷺ
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِ أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَجَّاجُ هُوَ ابْنُ أَرْطَاةَ عَنْ سِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ
كَانَ فِي سَاقَىْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ حُمُوشَةٌ وَكَانَ لاَ يَضْحَكُ إِلاَّ تَبَسُّمًا وَكُنْتُ إِذَا نَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهِ قُلْتُ أَكْحَلَ الْعَيْنَيْنِ وَلَيْسَ بِأَكْحَلَ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Manīʿ
- ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām
- al-Ḥajjāj
- Ibn Arṭāh
- Simāk b. Ḥarb
- Jābir b. Samurah
"The two shins of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ were thin, and he would not laugh except as a smile, and whenever I looked at him I would say: "He put kohl on his eyes,' but he ﷺ did not use kohl."
Notes
Abū ʿĪsá said that this Ḥadīth is Ḥasan-Ṣaḥīḥ-Gharīb in this particular context.
قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ غَرِيبٌ مِنْ هَذَا الْوَجْهِ
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Ahmad Muhammad Shakir | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Weakin ضعيف الترمذي, p. 3645 | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked |
What scholars said about it
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- al-Tirmidhi
هذا حديث حسن غريب
machine translationThis is a good (ḥasan), gharīb ḥadīth.
in جامع الترمذي, p. 4014 - al-Tirmidhi
حسن غريب من هذا الوجه
machine translationGood and gharīb (ḥasan gharīb) by this route.
in سنن الترمذي, p. 3645
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 5796وَعَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ: كَانَ فِي سَاقَيْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حُمُوشَةٌ وَكَانَ لَا يَضْحَكُ إِلَّا تَبَسُّمًا وَكُنْتُ إِذَا نَظَرْتُ إِلَيْهِ قُلْتُ: أَكْحَلُ الْعَيْنَيْنِ وَلَيْسَ بأكحل. رَوَاهُ
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 21238al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 2022Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 32467Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 225
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Ḥākim said: 72 AH, from Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ: 73 AH, Abū Bakr b. Manjawayh and others said: 74 AH. It is reported from Abū ʿUbayd that he said: 66 AH, and that is a mistakeجَابِرُ بْنُ سَمُرَةَ السُّوَائِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq); his narrations from ʿIkrimah in particular are inconsistent (muḍṭarib); he changed (taghayyara) towards the end of his life, and at times he would accept prompting (yulaqqan).d. 123 AHسِمَاكِ بْنِ حَرْبٍصدوق , وروايته عن عكرمة خاصة مضطربة , وقد تغير بأخرة ، فكان ربما يلقنعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), who made many errors and practiced much concealment (tadlīs)d. 145 AH, or before it, or 147 AHالْحَجَّاجُ هُوَ ابْنُ أَرْطَاةَصدوق كثير الخطأ والتدليسأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 183 AH, or: 185 AH, or: 186 AH, or: 187 AHعَبَّادُ بْنُ الْعَوَّامِثقةحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 244 AH, or 243 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍثقة حافظحدثنا
- trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AHالتِّرْمِذِيُّثقة 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.
Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī (Mubārakpūrī)
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