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يَحْيَي بْنُ يَحْيَي ، قَالَ : قَرَأْتُ عَلَى
مَالِكٍ ، عَنْ
رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ أَبِي عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ ، عَنْ
أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَهُ يَقُولُ : " كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، لَيْسَ بِالطَّوِيلِ الْبَائِنِ ، وَلَا بِالْقَصِيرِ ، وَلَيْسَ بِالْأَبْيَضِ الْأَمْهَقِ ، وَلَا بِالْآدَمِ ، وَلَا بِالْجَعْدِ الْقَطَطِ ، وَلَا بِالسَّبِطِ ، بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى رَأْسِ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً ، فَأَقَامَ بِمَكَّةَ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ ، وَبِالْمَدِينَةِ عَشْرَ سِنِينَ ، وَتَوَفَّاهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى رَأْسِ سِتِّينَ سَنَةً ، وَلَيْسَ فِي رَأْسِهِ وَلِحْيَتِهِ عِشْرُونَ شَعْرَةً بَيْضَاءَ " .
Anas bin Malik (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was neither very conspicuously tall nor short-statured, and his color was neither glaringly white nor brown; his hair was neither very curly nor very straight; Allah commissioned him (as a Prophet) when he had reached the age of forty years, and he stayed in Makkah for ten years and for ten years in Madinah; Allah took him away when he had just reached the age of sixty, and there had not been twenty white hair in his head and beard.