A man came to the Prophet ﷺ, and he was a handsome man. He said, "Messenger of Allah, I am a man who has been made to love beauty, and I have been granted of it what you see, to the point that I do not like anyone to surpass me even" — he said either "by the strap of my sandal," or "by the thong of my sandal" — "is that from arrogance?"He replied, "No. Rather, arrogance is rejecting the truth and looking down on people."
أن رجلا أتى النبي ﷺ وكان رجلا جميلا، فقال: يا رسول الله، إني رجل حبب إلي الجمال، وأعطيت منه ما ترى، حتى ما أحب أن يفوقني أحد إما قال: بشراك نعلي، وإما قال: بشسع نعلي، أفمن الكبر ذلك؟ قال: لا، ولكن الكبر من بطر الحق، وغمط الناس.
Reported by Abu Dawud (4092), and Bukhari in Adab al-Mufrad (556), and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (5467), and Hakim (4/181), all of them through Hisham bin Hassan, from Muhammad bin Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, who narrated it. Its isnad is sahih. Hakim said, "This is a hadith sahih in isnad."His words, "belittling people," mean scorning people, holding them in contempt, and disdaining them, not regarding them as worth anything.His words, "rejecting the truth," mean pushing it away and denying it out of arrogance and haughtiness.