Hadith #523

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English Translation

Then he passed by us another day, and Abū al-Dardāʾ said to him, 'A word that benefits us and does not harm you.' He said: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'What an excellent man Khuraym al-Asadī is, were it not for the length of his hair and the trailing of his lower garment.' When this reached Khuraym, he hastily took a blade and cut his hair to the level of his ears and raised his lower garment to mid-shin. My father told me: I later visited Muʿāwiyah, and there was an elderly man with him whose hair was above his ears and his garment reached his shins. I asked about him, and they said, 'This is Khuraym al-Asadī.'