He was asked about his hair and replied, “It was wavy—neither tightly curled nor completely straight—and it hung between his ears and his shoulders.”

Both Ṣaḥīḥs also relate, on the authority of Simāk ibn Ḥarb from Jābir ibn Samurah, that he said, “The Messenger of Allah had a wide mouth, long-slit eyes, and heels with little flesh.” Simāk ibn Ḥarb explained these descriptions, saying: “By that he meant a broad mouth, eyes whose slit was long, and heels that were slim of flesh.”