Physical appearance of the Prophet Muhammad (SAS)

One of the Quranic transcribers, Yazeed al Faarisee, related that he saw the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) in a dream during the era of Ibn Abbas and informed him. Ibn Abbas said, “Allahs Messenger (pbuh) used to say, ‘Satan is unable to imitate my form, so whoever dreamt that they saw me, actually saw me’. Can you describe the person that you saw?” Yazeed replied, “Yes. I saw a man of medium height, of light brown hair, with a nice laugh, black eyes, a nicely rounded face. His beard filled from here to here (from one cheek to another) and almost filled his neck” [at this point the haidth narrator, Awf, interjected that he could not remember the other characteristics Yazeed mentioned]. Ibn Abbas said*, “If you saw him while you were awake you wouldn’t have been able to describe him better!”*

[Musnad Ahmad and authenticated in al-Fath ar-Rabbaanee bol 17, p 225, nt1]

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So tell me how does it help a muslim become naik?

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kaleem, this was a hadeeth i came across while going through Dream Interpretation by Bilal Philips, in order to extract ahadeeth for the other thread.

Its nothing more than a bit of extra information on how the BELOVED looked like. No need to go hyper.

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If you love someone, you would want to know how he looks like. :jazak: for sharing.

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Is that right AQ...Is that why there is so much emphasis in Islam on creation of pictures and the likes of the religious figures

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Is light brown hair their way of describing what we call blonde today? This is the 1st time I've come across a physical description

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^
no....
arabs r not blonde haired and Muhammad (saw) was surely not blonde....

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Bhai! IF you do not wanna know how prophet:saw: looked like, I can understand. No problem :slight_smile:

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then why 'light brown'hair? don't all arabs have black hair?

:(

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^^ Could have been dyed.

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I thought we're not supposed to know what he looks like. So we dont worship him.

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Those are two irrelevent statements. We should not worship him but follow him is correct. Not knowing how he looks like is something I never heard of. There are numerous famous ahaadeeth on how he:saw: looked like.

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Yeah vague stuff, like he had a beard and jolly eyes.

This description is like a more concrete one, that you can bring up a visual in your mind. Its like painting a picture of the Prophet with words...yet we're not allowed to do that with paint?

Doesn't make sense.

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There is a hadeeth by ALI :razi: if I remember correctly that is more descriptive and I gather you will detest it more than this one.

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now just watch how this thread derails.

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How?

can you find me the hadeeth narrated by Ali:razi: ?

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ive seen PROPHETS hair and his tooth in BADSHAHI mosque of lahore .. some retard dip **** stole the hair but they still have his one tooth and his clothing and cane ..

and as far as i know of portraying HIS pbuh pic .. then its haram at the first place .. taking pic of any humen is haram no ? i guess it just gets more strict in Mohammad (pbuh) case since he was a prophet .

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so his companions, wives and family didn’t know what he (saw) looked like?

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**AQ ** - Is it the following?

Ibrahim b. Muhammed (ra), one of the grandsons of Ali (ra), informs us: “When Ali (ra) described the Prophet (saw) he said: *‘He was neither very tall nor excessively short, but was a man of medium size. He had neither very curly nor flowing hair but a mixture of both… He was reddish-white; he had wide black eyes and long eyelashes. He had protruding joints and shoulder-blades… Between his shoulders was the seal of prophecy… He had a finer chest than anyone else, was truer in utterance than anyone else, and had the gentlest nature and the noblest lineage. Those who saw him stood suddenly in awe of him and those who shared his acquaintance loved him. Those who described him said they had never seen anyone like him before or since’.” * Tirmidhi Hadith, Number 1524

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Ibn-e-Sadique: precisely, the one I was refering to.. :jazak: