What has made you this way (towards me)?
📌What has made you this way (towards me)?” She said: “The beauty of your face O Yusuf!” He (as) said: “Then what (would your state be) if you saw the prophet called Muhammad, who will come in the later ages and will be more handsome than me and have a better character and be more generous than me?”[^21] Note: This has also been narrated in ‘Uddat al-Da’i[^22] In al-Manaqib: He (S) said: “Yusuf was more handsome than me but I am more amiable.”[^23] In Mahajjat al-Bayd’a: He (S) had a proportionate and firm body and had become a little stout in the final years, but he remained muscular - as though the years had not taken a toll on him in the least.[^24] In al-Khisal: In his narration from ‘Abdillah ibn ‘Abbas in a hadith from ‘Ali (as), in his reply to a Jew from the leaders of the Jews: He had the seal of prophethood between his shoulders which consisted of two written lines,…
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