| And he had the ring of prophethood between his shoulders, and it is a prominent thing in his body, peace be upon him, like a mole | And his face, may God bless him and grant him peace, was beautiful and enlightened, especially if he was pleased |
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| And he, peace and blessings of God be upon him, had thick beards, as described by one of his companions, Jabir bin Samra, may God be pleased with him, who said: And there was a lot of beard hair Narrated by Muslim |
5, "One major challenge to examining initial contacts between Byzantium and the early Muslim umma arises from the controversy surrounding the traditional Islamic account.
22| sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later | Moreover, many of them provide evidence of embellishment and invention that were introduced to serve the purposes of political or religious apologetic |
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| "Muhmmad," Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world• See, for example, Bowersock, Glen Warren, Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Oleg Grabar Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World 1999, Harvard University Press p | Al-Baraa was asked whether the face of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was like a sword? He said: No, but like the moon Narrated by Al-Bukhari, and in Muslim It was like the sun and the moon, and it was round |
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