Question:
Who is more handsome, Prophet Yusuf or Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ?
Answer:
Our Prophet ﷺ is the most handsome of this ummah due to the statement of Al-Barā: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was the most handsome of the people and the best of them in character not too tall not too short.” [Muslim (2337)]
And in a wording with Ahmed;
“I have not seen a man better looking that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ in a red Hullah (two piece garment comprising of an izār and ridā).”
And Yusuf ﷺ is the most handsome of Prophets due to the hadith of Anas that the Prophet ﷺ said the night of I’rāj: “All of a sudden I was with Yusuf, and indeed he has been given half of the beauty.”
They interpreted that he was given half the beauty of our Prophet ﷺ, Al-‘Aīnī in ‘Umdatul-Qārī (17/26) said concerning this interpretation: “And in it is what is in it (of discrepancy).”
And they interpreted other than that from the interpretations as has come in Al-Fath ul-Bārī explaining this hadith: (3887) he said may Allāh have mercy on him:
“And in Hadith Abi Sa’īd with Al-Bayhaqi and Abi Hurairah with Ibn Ā’idh and At-Tabrāni: “All of sudden I was with a man the most handsome of what Allāh created, he has surpassed the people in beauty like the full moon in comparison to the rest of the stars,
And this is clear that Yusuf ﷺ was more handsome than all people but Tirmidhi narrated from Hadith Anas: “Allāh did not send a Prophet ﷺ except with a handsome face and handsome voice and your Prophet ﷺ was the most handsome of them in terms of face and voice,
So this is understood that the intent of the hadith of Al-Mi’rāj is concerning other than the Prophet ﷺ and what aids it is the statement of the one who said verily the one speaking does not enter into the generality of his speech, and as for the Hadith of this chapter then Ibn Munīr understood it that Yusuf ﷺ was given half of the beauty of our Prophet ﷺ and Allāh knows best.” [End of speech of Ibn Hajr]
I say: “The Hadith which Al-Hāfith (Ibn Hajr) mentioned was narrated by Abu Bakr Ash-Shāfi’ē in ‘Al-Ghaylānāt’ (329) and Ibn Adiyy in Al-Kāmil (3/326) via Al-‘Abbās bin Yazīd Al-Bahrānī: He said Nūh bin Qais narrated to us, he said Hissām bin Misak narrated to us, on the authority of Qatādah on the authority of Anas he said: “Allāh did not send a Prophet at all except with a handsome face and handsome voice and your Prophet ﷺ was the most handsome of them in terms of face and voice except that he will not return.”
