Al-Bukhārī further relates (1): “Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Zuhayr narrated to us, from Abū Isḥāq, who said: Al-Barrāʾ ibn ʿĀzib was asked, ‘Was the face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ like a sword?’ He replied, ‘No; rather, it was like the moon.’

Al-Tirmidhī (2) records the same report through Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah al-Juʿfī al-Kūfī, from Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī—whose name is ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kūfī—from al-Barrāʾ ibn ʿĀzib; he graded it “sound and good.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī states in Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah (3): “Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Faḍl al-Qaṭṭān of Baghdad informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar ibn Durustawayh informed us; Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān narrated to us; Abū Nuʿaym and ʿUbayd Allāh narrated to us, from Isrāʾīl, from Sammāk, who heard Jābir ibn Samurah when a man asked him, ‘Was the face of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ like a sword?’ He answered, ‘No; rather, it was like the sun and the moon—round.’”

Muslim (4) transmits the same narration through Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Mūsā.

Imām Aḥmad presents a longer version (5): “ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us; Isrāʾīl informed us, from Sammāk, who said that he heard Jābir ibn Samurah say: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had some grey hairs at the front of his head and in his beard. When he applied oil and combed them, they were not noticeable, but when his hair was dishevelled they could be seen. He had abundant hair and a full beard. A man asked, “Was his face like a sword?” He replied, “No; rather, it was like the sun and the moon—round.” He added, “I saw the seal of prophethood by his shoulder; it was like a pigeon’s egg and blended with his body.”’

Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Bayhaqī also reports (6): “Abū Ṭāhir al-Faqīh informed us; Abū Ḥāmid ibn Bilāl informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Aḥmasī narrated to us; al-Muḥāribī narrated to us, from Ashʿath, from Abū Isḥāq, from Jābir ibn Samurah, who said: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a clear moonlit night wearing a red cloak. I kept looking at him and at the moon, and to me he was more beautiful than the moon.’”

Al-Tirmidhī (7) and al-Nasāʾī (8) both transmit this report through Hannād ibn al-Sarī, from ʿAbthar ibn al-Qāsim, from Ashʿath ibn Sawwār. Al-Nasāʾī comments: “He is weak and has erred; the correct chain is Abū Isḥāq from al-Barrāʾ.”