Mahmud ibn Ghaylan
أبو أحمد محمود بن غيلان
Fourth generation, died 239 AH in Marw. Named in the chains of 431 narrations of the library, 39 in Bukhari, 4 in Muslim, 273 in Tirmidhi.
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239 AHhe died, in Marw
In the books of narrators: Trustworthy, ثقة.
Narrations he is named in
Ash-Shama'il
Ash-Shama'il 4“I have never seen anyone endowed with a lock of hair flowing below the ears, wearing a red suit of clothes, more handsome than the Messenger of Allah. He had some hair touching his shoulders. Broad-shouldered, he was neither short nor tall.”Ash-Shama'il 62“I saw the Prophet wearing a red garb, as if I were looking at the sheen of his legs.” Sufyan said: “I think it was a hibara.”Ash-Shama'il 87“The signet ring of the Prophet consisted of silver, including its stone.”Ash-Shama'il 110“The Prophet entered Mecca on the Day of Victory wearing a black turban.”Ash-Shama'il 112“The Prophet addressed the people while wearing a black turban.”Ash-Shama'il 116Sahih“I heard my maternal aunt relate, on the authority of her paternal uncle; ‘While I was walking in Medina, someone behind me said: ‘Raise your loincloth, for that is more pious and conducive to longer wear.’ Lo and behold, he was the Messenger of Allah’, so I…Ash-Shama'il 144“The Messenger of Allah did not eat his fill of barley-bread for two days in a row until he died.”Ash-Shama'il 152“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Eat oil, and anoint with it, for it is from a blessed tree!’”Ash-Shama'il 158“The Prophet used to love sweets and honey.”Ash-Shama'il 161“I was a guest one night together with the Messenger of Allah, so he was brought a grilled flank. Then he took the blade and set about carving, and he carved some for me. Bilal arrived calling him to prayer, so he threw the blade away, and he said: ‘Why have…Ash-Shama'il 166“I heard the Messenger of Allah say: ‘The best of the meat is the back’.”Ash-Shama'il 174“The Prophet came to us in our house, so we slaughtered a sheep for him, and he said: ‘It is as if they knew that we love meat’!” (This
tradition is part of a longer story).Ash-Shama'il 177Hasan“The Prophet used to come to me and say: ‘Do you have something for lunch?’ I would say: ‘No,’ so he would say: ‘I am fasting.’ When he came to me one day, I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, we have been given a gift!’ He said: ‘What is it?’ I said: ‘It is a meal…Ash-Shama'il 186Daif“The Messenger of Allah used to say, when he had finished his meal: ‘Praise be to Allah, who has fed us and quenched our thirst, and has made us Muslims’!”Ash-Shama'il 189“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Allah is surely well pleased with the servant’s eating and praising Him for the food, or drinking and praising Him for the drink’!”Ash-Shama'il 214“The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Men’s perfume is perfume whose scent is apparent and whose color is not, and women’s perfume is perfume
whose color is apparent and whose scent is not’.”Ash-Shama'il 229“The Prophet said to him: ‘O two-eared’!”Ash-Shama'il 247Sahih“When the Prophet went to his mattress, he would say: ‘O Allah, in Your Name I shall die and live,’ and when he woke up, he would say:
‘Praise be to Allah, who has revived us after He caused us to die, and to Him is the resurrection!’”Ash-Shama'il 267Sahih“I performed the ritual prayer one night with the Messenger of Allah (All^ bless him and give him peace), and he remained standing until I almost did something bad.” He was asked: “What did you almost do?” He replied: “I nearly sat down and left the Prophet…Ash-Shama'il 277“I asked Aishah: ‘Did the Prophet perform the mid-morning ritual prayer?’ She said: ‘Yes, four cycles, and he used to add whatever Allah wished (Almighty and Glorious is He).’”Ash-Shama'il 288“The Prophet used to fast until we would say: ‘He does not intend to break fast,’ and he used to break fast until we would say: ‘He does not intend to fast during it.’ He did not fast for a whole month after arriving in Medina, with the exception of Ramadan.”Ash-Shama'il 294Aishah said;
“The Prophet used to fast on the Saturday of one month, and on the Sunday and the Monday, as well as on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of another month.”Ash-Shama'il 296“I said to ‘Asha: ‘Was the Messenger of Allah used to fasting three days out of every month?’ She said; ‘Yes!’ I said: ‘Which days did he fast?’ She said: ‘He was not concerned about which days he fasted.’’”Ash-Shama'il 306“I used to hear the Quranic recitation of the Prophet during the night while I was on my pallet.”Ash-Shama'il 307“I saw the Prophet on his she-camel on the Day of Victory, and he was reciting: ‘We have surely given you a clear victory, so that Allah may forgive you your former and your latter sins.’ (Al-Fath 48:1-2) He recited in a quivering voice.”Ash-Shama'il 311“The Messenger of Allah told me: ‘Recite the Qur’an to me,’ so I said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, shall I recite the Qur’an to you when it was to you that it was revealed?’ He said: ‘I like to hear it from someone other than myself,’ so I recited the Sura of the…Ash-Shama'il 313Hasan“The Messenger of Allah took hold of a daughter of his who was dying, then embraced her and she died in his arms. Umm Aiman cried, so he, meaning the Prophet said: ‘Are you weeping in the presence of the Messenger of Allah?’ She replied: ‘Am I not seeing you…Ash-Shama'il 322Sahih“The Messenger of Allah performed the Pilgrimage on a shabby camel saddle, on which there was a velvet sheet worth less than four silver coins, so he said: ‘O Allah, make it a Pilgrimage devoid of hypocritical ostentation and no notoriety!’”Ash-Shama'il 346“He was more bashful than the virgin in her boudoir, and when he disapproved of something, we knew it from the expression on his face.”Ash-Shama'il 347“I never looked at the private parts of the Messenger of Allah.” (Or she said: “I never saw the private parts of the Messenger of Allah.”