The Book of Virtues
كتاب الفضائل
Chapter 20: His Avoidance Of Sin, His Choosing The Easier Of Permissible Things, And His Vengeance For The Sake Of Allah If His Sacred Limits Were Transgressed
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Hisham through another chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.
Chapter 22: The Fragrance Of His Sweat, And Seeking Blessing Therefrom
Umm Sulaim reported that Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) visited her house and (took rest) and she spread a piece of cloth for him and he had had a siesta on it. And he sweated profusely and she collected his sweat and put it in a perfume and in bottles. Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) said
Umm Sulaim, what is this? She said: It is your sweat, which I put in my perfume. Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) sweated in cold weather when revelation descended upon him.
Chapter 26: Description Of His Hair
Anas reported that the hair of Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) reached half of the earlobe.
Chapter 29: His Grey Hairs
Anas b. Malik was asked whether Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) 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).
Allah did not blemish him with white hair.
Chapter 15: His Compassion Towards Children And His Humbleness, And The Virtue Of That
Do you kiss your children? He said: Yes. Thereupon they said: By Allah but we do not kiss our children. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: Then what can I do if Allah has deprived you of mercy? Ibn Numair said: (We has deprived) your heart of mercy.
The above hadith has likewise been narrated through another chain of transmitters.
" That the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He who shows no mercy to the people, Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, does not show mercy to him."
Chapter 16: His Great Modesty
This hadith had been narrated on the authority of al-A'mash through another chain of transmitters also.
Chapter 18: His Compassion Towards Women And His Command To Treat Them Kindly
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Anas through another chain of transmitters.
Chapter 20: His Avoidance Of Sin, His Choosing The Easier Of Permissible Things, And His Vengeance For The Sake Of Allah If His Sacred Limits Were Transgressed
Never did Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) make a choice between two things but adopting the easier one as compared to the difficult one, but his choice for the easier one was only in case it did not involve any sin, but if it involved sin he was the one who was the farthest from it amongst the people.
Chapter 21: His Good Fragrance And Soft Touch, And Seeking Blessing From His Touch
I prayed along with Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) the first prayer. He then went to his family and I also went along with him when he met some children (on the way). He began to pat the cheeks of each one of them. He also patted my cheek and I experienced a coolness or a fragrance of his hand as if it had been brought out from the scent bag of a perfumer.
I never smelt ambergris or musk as fragrant as the fragrance of the body of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and I never touched brocade or silk and found it as soft as the body of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ).
Chapter 23: The Prophet (SAW) Sweated When It Was Cold, And When The Revelation Came To Him
When revelation descended upon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) even during the cold days, his forehead perspired.
Chapter 25: Description Of The Prophet (SAW); He Was The Most Handsome Of People
Never did I see anyone more handsome than Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) in the red mantle. His hair had been hanging down on the shoulders and his shoulders were very broad, and he was neither very tall nor short-statured. Ibn Kuraib said he had hair.
Chapter 28: The Prophet (SAW) Was White With An Elegant Face
I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and there is one amongst the people of the earth who (are living at the present time and) had seen him except me. I said to him: How did you find him? He said: He had an elegant white color, and he was of an average height.
Chapter 29: His Grey Hairs
I asked Anas b. Malik whether Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) dyed his hair. He said: He had but little white hair.
Anas b. Malik did not like that a person should pick out his white hair from his head or beard, and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) did not dye, and there was some whiteness in his hair at his chin, on his temples and very little on his head.
I saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) that he had white complexion and had some white hair, and Hasan b. 'Ali resembled him.
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.