The physical description of Ali (may Allah be pleased with him)

Abu Ishaq narrates: I went with my father to the Friday prayer when I was a boy. When Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) came out and ascended the pulpit, my father said to me: O Amr, get up and look at the Commander of the Believers. The narrator says: I got up and saw that Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was standing on the pulpit. The hair of his beard and head was white. He was wearing a waist-wrap and a cloak, and there was no shirt on his body. The narrator says: I did not see him sit on the pulpit until he came down. I asked Abu Ishaq: Did he recite the qunut? He replied: No.

In one narration the wording is: I did not see him dye his beard with henna; his head was large.
Al-Tabarani recorded it with various chains, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Shu'bah narrates: I asked Abu Ishaq: Are you older than al-Sha'bi? He replied: Al-Sha'bi is one or two years older than me. The narrator says: Abu Ishaq had seen Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), and he used to describe his appearance to us: his belly was large, and the hair at the sides of his head had receded. Shu'bah says: Abu Ishaq was older than Abu al-Bakhtari; Abu al-Bakhtari did not live in the time of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) and did not see him.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Abu Raja' al-Utaridi narrates: I saw Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him); he was dignified, and he had no hair at the front of his head. It looked as though there was a sheepskin at his side.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Imam al-Sha'bi narrates: I saw Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) on the pulpit; his beard was white, and it had filled his chest. Yahya bin Sa'id recorded these words in his narration: There were a few sparse hairs on his head.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Al-Waqidi narrates: It is said that Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) was a wheat-complexioned man of medium height, and he was heavily built. His shoulders were broad, his beard was long, there was no hair on the front of his head, his belly was large, his eyes were big, and the hair of his head and beard was white.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators up to al-Waqidi are thiqat (trustworthy).

Abu al-Tufayl narrates: A statement of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) was mentioned before Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him), and he said: Did you not look at his head, which was like a basin, while the part around it was like khifaf? (That is, there was no hair on the middle of his head, while there was hair at the sides.)
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.