Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī reported, through Ḥuṣayn, that Ibn ʿUmar said, “I sometimes go out with no purpose other than to greet people and have them return my greeting.” ⦗1⦘
Maʿmar transmitted from Abū ʿAmr al-Nadabī, who said: “I went out with Ibn ʿUmar once, and he did not meet anyone—young or old—without offering him salām.” ⦗2⦘
ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥāṭibī ⦗3⦘ said: “I saw Ibn ʿUmar trim his moustache so closely that I thought he was plucking it by the roots. I never saw him except with the buttons of his shirt undone ⦗4⦘ and his lower wrap (izār) reaching halfway down his shins.”
It was also said that on a journey he would tie an izār over his tunic, that he sealed documents with his signet ring yet seldom wore it, and that he would go to the marketplace asking, “How much is this being sold for?” He used to dye his beard yellow.
Ibn Abī Laylā and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated from Nāfiʿ that Ibn ʿUmar would grasp his beard and cut whatever extended beyond his fist. ⦗5⦘
Mālik said, “After Zayd ibn Thābit, the person regarded among us as the people’s imām was ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar; he spent sixty years issuing legal opinions to the community.” ⦗6⦘
Al-Hafiz cites the report in Al-Isabah, 2/348, attributing it to Yaqub b. Sufyan al-Fasawi. In that passage the name Abu al-Waziʿ is misprinted as Abu al-Dariʿ. Abu al-Waziʿ is Jabir b. Amr al-Rasibi; Al-Hafiz says in Taqrib that he is “reliable but liable to make mistakes.”
(1) Ibn Saʿd also records it, 4/155, through al-Fadl b. Dukayn → Abu Maʿshar → Saʿid al-Maqburi; 4/156, through Muslim b. Ibrahim → Hisham al-Dastuwaʾi → al-Qasim b. Abi Bizza → Abd Allah b. Ataʾ; and 4/170, through Abd al-Wahhab b. Ataʾ → Usama b. Zayd → Nafiʿ.
(2) The report appears in Al-Musannaf (no. 19442). Abu Amr al-Nadbi is Bishr b. Harb, a narrator of doubtful reliability.
(3) He is Uthman b. Ibrahim b. Muhammad b. Hatib al-Jumahi. Abu Hatim said: “a shaykh whose hadith may be written,” and Ibn Hibban included him among the trustworthy. See Ibn Saʿd, 4/175-177.
(4) In the printed edition the word is corrupted to “al-azar.”
(5) Reported by Ibn Saʿd, 4/178, and by al-Bukhari, 10/295-296, through Muhammad b. Minhal → Yazid b. Zurayʿ → Nafiʿ, with the wording: “Whenever Ibn Umar performed Hajj or Umrah he would grasp his beard, and whatever extended beyond his fist he would cut off.”
(6) Recorded by al-Fasawi in his Tarikh, 1/491, and, through his chain, by al-Khatib, 1/172: “Muhammad narrated to us …”