Describing Prophet Muhammad

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Bismillah,

Al-Hamdulillah wa sallallahu ala rasulillah,

Brothers, this topic is heart movig. Becuase it’s about Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him.

Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him was of a height a little above the average. He was of sturdy build with long muscular limbs and tapering fingers.

The hair of his head
was long and thick with some waves in them.

His forehead
was large and prominent, his eyelashes were long and thick, his nose was sloping, his mouth was somewhat large and his teeth were well set.

His cheeks
were spare and he had a pleasant smile. His eyes were large and black with a touch of brown.

His beard
was thick and at the time of his death, he had seventeen gray hairs in it. He had a thin line of fine hair over his neck and chest.

He was fair of complexion and altogether was so handsome that Abu Bakr composed this couplet on him:
“as there is no darkness in the moonlit night so is al-Mustafa, the well-wisher, bright.”

His gait
was firm and he walked so fast that others found it difficult to keep pace with him.

His face
was genial but at times, when he was deep in thought, there there were long periods of silence, yet he always kept himself busy with something.

He did not speak unnecessarily and what he said was always to the point and without any padding. At times he would make his meaning clear by slowly repeating what he had said.

His laugh
was mostly a smile. He kept his feelings under firm control - when annoyed, he would turn aside or keep silent, when pleased he would lower his eyes (Shamail Tirmizi).

ALLAH… I ask Allah to grant us seeing the Prophet in the dream! And to gather us with him in Paradise. May Allah have mercy on whomever says ameen.

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Dress
His dress generally consisted of a shirt, tamad (trousers), a sheet thrown round the sholders and a turban. On rare occasions, he would put on costly robes presented to him by foreign emissaries in the later part of his life (Ahmed, Musnad).

His blanket had several patches (Tirmizi). He had very few spare clothes, but he kept them spotlessy clean (Bukhari). He wanted others also to put on simple but clean clothes.
Mode of living

His house
Was but a hut with walls of unbaked clay and a thatched roof of palm leaves covered by camel skin. He had separate apartments for his wives, a small room for each made of similar materials.

His own apartment contained a rope cot, a pillow stuffed with palm leaves , the skin of some animal spread on the floor and a water bag of leather and some weapons. These were all his earthly belongings, besides a camel, a horse, and an ass and some land which he had aquired in the later part of his life (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud).

Once a few of his disciples, noticing the imprint of his mattress on his body, wished to give him a softer bed but he politely declined the offer saying, "What have I to do with worldly things. My connection with the world is like that of a traveler resting for a while underneath the shade of a tree and then moving on."

Amr Ibn Al-Harith, a brother in law of the prophet peace be upon him, says that when the prophet died, he did not leave a cent, a slave man or woman, or any property except his white mule, his weapons and a piece of land which he had dedicated for the good of the community (Bukhari, Sahih Bukhari).

He advised the people to live simple lives and himself practised great austerities. He lived an austere life bordering on privation. His wife Aiysha (Radiya Allahu ^anha) says that there was hardly a day in his life when he had two square meals (Muslim, Sahih Muslim, Vol.2, pg 198). When he died there was nothing in his house except a few seeds of barley left from a mound of the grain obtained from a Jew by pawning his armour (Bukhari, Sahih Bukhari, Chapter "Aljihad").

He had declared unlawful for himself and his family anything given by the people by way of zakat or sadaqa (types of charity). He was so particular about this that he would not appoint any member of his family as a zakat collector (Sahah-Kitab Sadqat).

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**Prophet Muhammad is the best of Allahs' creations. Yet he's a human being, Allah created him and made him the best of the Prophets.

One of the evidence of so, is his miracles. Scholars said: the miracle of Moses bringing by the will of Allah, water from the stone, Prophet Muhammad's miracle was water came out from between his fingers and many many sahabah drank from that.

That was one of the indications that Prophet Muhammad has higher rank. Because the stones normally do have water inside them, but a human being from flesh, it's an astonishing Miracle.**

Allah knows best.