He was the best of the people in generosity, the most truthful of the people in speech, the gentlest of them in temperament, and the noblest of them in social intercourse | He had splendid kneecaps, elbow joints and shoulder blades, free from hair |
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His forearms were long | He had a strip of hair from the top of the chest to the navel |
I also saw Gabriel peace be upon him , and the nearest I have seen in resemblance to him is Dihya.
He was wide-chested, broad-shouldered, endowed with stout limbs and very shiny bare skin | Therefore, it may be said that it is largely due to the science of hadith that the final message of Islam has been preserved in it is original purity for all times |
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I also saw Abraham peace be upon him , and the nearest I have seen in resemblance to him is your Companion meaning himself | He was neither plump nor chubby-cheeked, and in his face there was a rounded quality |
It was as if his neck were the neck of a statue shaped in pure silver | In fact, it was due in part to the absence of such a reliable science that the messages of the former prophets became lost or distorted in the generations that followed them |
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If his forelock became divided, he would part it | He was taller than medium-sized, and shorter than the slender giant |
When he left a place, he would go away striding decisively.
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