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behind him. He used to visit the sick , follow the biers, accept invitations of servants and slaves, repair shoes and sew garments. He used to help his family members in their household duties- His companions used not to stand up in his honour as they know his dislike for it. He used to salute the children when passing by them. One day a man was brought to the Prophet and he was afraid to see him. The Prophet said : Be quiet, I am not a king. I .am a son of an humble Quraish woman who used to eat gourd . He used to sit with his companions like an ordinary man.
Whenever any stranger came to see him, he could not at first recognize him till he was introduced to him. Hazrat Ayesha said :
May God sacrifice me to you, eat learning as it easier for you. The Prophet leaned towards the ground so much that it seemed that his head would touch the ground. He used to say : I shall take meal like the eating of a slave and sit like the siting of a slave . He used not to eat in plates till he lived.

(12) PROPHET'S FIGURE AND CONSTITUTION

The Prophet was neither long statured nor short. When he walked alone, he appeared like a middle statured man. If a man of long stature walked with him, his figure looked longer. When two men of long stature walked by his two sides, he appeared longest, but when they became separate from him, the people called them long men. The Prophet was of middle stature. He was pretty, neither too white, nor too brown. He was of pure reddish hue. Some one praised him saying . His limbs which confronted the sun, such as face and neck, appeared more whitish than reddish colour. The sweats of his face were like pearls and more perfumed than musk. His hairs were very pretty, neither straight nor curly . When he combed them, they appeared like lines in sands. It is said that his hairs were kept flowing up to his shoulders sometime he parted his hair into four parts and each two parts were let off through his two ears.
Sometimes he kept his hairs above his ears and his neck then appeared shining like pearls. Grey hairs were found in his. head and beard. Their number was not more than seventeen . The Prophet had a most pretty constitution. Some gave the smile of his beauty to that of the full moon. His forehead was wide and the place between his eyebrows was bright like pure silver and eye-balls were black tinged with reddish hue. The hairs of his eye lashes were profuse. His nose was thin and his teeth were neither separated, nor united. When they were exposed at the time of his smile or laugh, they shone like lighting. His lip was most beautiful and the ends of his face was the most soft. His faces

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