the idolaters would part their hair. Accordingly, he let his forelock hang loose at first and only later did he part it. Al-Bukhārī and Muslim.

Rabīʿah al-Raʾy said: “I saw a strand of the Messenger of Allah’s hair ﷺ, and it was reddish. I asked about it and was told, ‘That is from the perfume he used.’” Al-Bukhārī and Muslim recorded this.

Ayyūb narrated from Ibn Sīrīn: “I asked Anas, ‘Did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ever apply dye?’ He replied, ‘Hardly any grey was visible on him.’” Both compilers include this report, and their Ṣaḥīḥ collections contain several other chains conveying the same meaning from Anas.

Al-Muthannā ibn Saʿīd related—through Qatādah, from Anas—that the Prophet ﷺ did not use dye; he had only a few grey hairs at the ʿanfaqah (the small tuft beneath the lower lip), a few at the temples, and a few on the head. Muslim transmitted it.

Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah and others narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Juhayfah, who said: “I saw the Prophet ﷺ and this part of him was white”—Zuhayr then placed several of his fingers on his ʿanfaqah. Muslim recorded it, and he also transmitted it via the narration of Isrāʾīl.

Al-Bukhārī said: ʿĀṣim ibn Khālid narrated to us, saying: Ḥarīz ibn ʿUthmān narrated to us. I asked ʿAbdullāh ibn Busr, “Was the Prophet ﷺ an old man?” He answered, “He had only a few white hairs in his ʿanfaqah.”

Shuʿbah and others narrated from Samāk, from Jābir ibn Samurah, who, describing the Prophet’s grey hairs ﷺ, said: “When he applied oil they were not apparent, but when he left the oil off they could be seen.” Muslim recorded it.