PERTAINING TO THE OLD AGE OF ALLAH’S APOSTLE (MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM)(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Friday, April 25th, 2008Chapter# 27, Book 30, Number 5779:
Ibn Sirin reported: Anas b. Malik was asked whether Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) dyed his hair. He said: He had not become old enough to have white hair. Ibn Idris said that he had a few white hair. Abu Bakr and Umar, however, dyed hair with hina’ (henna).
Book 30, Number 5780:
Ibn Sirin reported: I asked Anas b. Malik whether Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) dyed his hair. He said: He had not reached the stage when (he needed) dyeing (of his white hair). He had a few white hair in his beard. I said to him: Did Abu Bakr dye his hair? He said: Yes, with hina’ (henna).
Book 30, Number 5781:
Muhammad b. Sirin reported: I asked Anas b. Malik whether Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) dyed his hair. He said: He had but little white hair.
Book 30, Number 5782:
Thabit reported that Anas b. Malik was asked about the dyeing (of the hair of) Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him). Thereupon he said.: (They were so few) that if I so liked I could count their number in his head, and he further said: (That is) he did not dye. Abu Bakr, however, dyed them and so did ‘Umar dye them with pure henna.
Book 30, Number 5783:
Anas b. Malik did not like that a person should pick out his white hair from his head or beard, and Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) did not dye, and there was some whiteness in his hair at his chin, on his temples and very little on his head. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Muthanna through the same chain of transmitters.
Book 30, Number 5784:
Anas (b. Malik) was asked about the old age of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him). He said: Allah did not blemish him with white hair.
Book 30, Number 5785:
Abu Juhaifa reported: I saw Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) having some whiteness (in hair) at this place, and Zuhair placed one of his fingers at his chin. Juhaifa was asked how old he had been at that time. He said: I made arrows and put feathers to them (i. e. I had passed my childhood).
Book 30, Number 5786:
Abu Juhaifa reported: I saw Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) that he had white complexion and had some white hair, and Hasan b. ‘Ali resembled him.
Book 30, Number 5787:
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Juhaifa with a slight variation of wording.
Book 30, Number 5788:
Jabir b. Samura was asked about the old age of Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him). He said: When he oiled his head nothing was seen (as a mark of old age) and when he did not apply oil something (of the old age) became visible.
Book 30, Number 5789:
Jabir b. Samura reported that there had appeared some whiteness on the front part of the head and beard of Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him). When he applied oil, it did not become visible, but when he did not (apply) oil, it became apparent. And he had a thick beard. A person said: His face was as (bright) as the sword. Thereupon he (Jabir) said: No, it was round and like the sun and the moon. And I saw the seal near his shoulder of the size of a pigeon’s egg and its color was the same as that of his body.