angered by anything, nor could anyone provoke him.

His caution was gathered into four principles: he embraced every good so that people might imitate him; he abstained from every ugly deed so that they would refrain from it; he devoted his judgment to what would set his community aright and attend to their needs; and he shouldered whatever united for them the concerns of this world and the Hereafter—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

The entire report was likewise transmitted by Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī, who said: “Abū Ghassān al-Nahdī and Saʿīd ibn Ḥammād al-Anṣārī al-Miṣrī narrated to us, saying, ‘Jamīʿ ibn ʿUmar narrated to us; he said: A man in Mecca narrated to me, from a son of Abū Hālah,’ and he mentioned the report.”

Al-Ṭabarānī also related it from ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from Abū Ghassān al-Nahdī.

I read this before Abū al-Hudā ʿĪsā ibn Yaḥyā al-Sabtī, who said that ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Yūsuf al-Dimashqī would inform you. He said: Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, the ḥāfiẓ, related to us; he said: Abū Saʿd al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Fanīḏī, Abū Muslim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Samanānī, and Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Asadī informed us; they said: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm the merchant informed us; he said: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Jaʿfar ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib—the ʿAlid known as “the nephew of Abū Ṭāhir”—informed us; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī narrated to us; he said: ʿAlī ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī narrated to me, from his brother Mūsā, from Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad, from his father, from ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, who said: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī—may Allah be pleased with them both—said:

“I asked my uncle Hind ibn Abī Hālah about the description of the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings upon him—for he was skilled at portraying him, and I hoped he would mention something I could hold fast to. He replied, ‘He was august and exalted.’ He then narrated a report identical in length to that of Jamīʿ ibn ʿUmar, differing only in a few expressions: instead of ‘broad of chest’ he said ‘expansive of chest’; instead of ‘wide of palm’ he said ‘wide of forehead’; and he said ‘he would begin’ in place of ‘he would hasten.’”