Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1753
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ، عَنِ الأَجْلَحِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ بُرَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الأَسْوَدِ، عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " إِنَّ أَحْسَنَ مَا غُيِّرَ بِهِ الشَّيْبُ الْحِنَّاءُ وَالْكَتَمُ " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ . وَأَبُو الأَسْوَدِ الدِّيلِيُّ اسْمُهُ ظَالِمُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سُفْيَانَ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Suwayd ibn Nasr informed us: Ibn al-Mubarak informed us, from al-Ajlakh, from Abdullah ibn Buraydah, from Abu al-Aswad, from Abu Dharr, from the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace), who said: ‘The best things with which to change gray hair are henna and katam.’
Abu Isa said: This hadith is hasan sahih. Abu al-Aswad al-Du’ali’s name was Zalim ibn Amr ibn Sufyan.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The English witness begins at Abu Dharr and omits the preceding chain (Suwayd ibn Nasr, Ibn al-Mubarak, al-Ajlakh, Abdullah ibn Buraydah, and Abu al-Aswad). Katam is retained in transliteration as the plant-based coloring named in the Arabic.
حَدَّثَنَا سُوَيْدُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ،
The English witness omits five transmitters preceding Abu Dharr in the Arabic chain.
Can the English witness’s abbreviated isnad be confirmed as an intentional editorial choice?