He used to describe the Prophet ﷺ, saying, "He had broad forearms and long eyelashes, with a wide space between his shoulders. He would turn his whole body when facing someone and turn his whole body when leaving. May my father and mother be sacrificed for him, he was neither obscene nor vulgar, nor was he loud in the marketplaces."
أنه كان ينعت النبي ﷺ قال: كان شبح الذراعين، أهدب أشفار العينين بعيد ما بين المنكبين، يقبل جميعا ويدبر جميعا، بأبي هو وأمي لم يكن فاحشا ولا متفحشا، ولا صخابا في الأسواق.
Ahmad (8352) narrated it - and this is his wording - as did Ibn Saad (1/414), Tayalisi (2432), and Bayhaqi in Dalail (1/244, 316), all of them through the route of Ibn Abu Dhib (whose name is Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman), from Salih the freed slave of Tawama, from Abu Hurairah, who related it.Its chain is hasan because of Salih the freed slave of Tawama, for he is hasan in his narration, and the confusion in his later years does not harm this since Muhammad bin Abdul-Rahman bin Abu Dhib heard from him before the confusion set in.His saying, "long-armed" (shabh al-dhiraayn) means that his arms were long, though it has also been said to mean that they were broad. And his saying, "with thick eyelashes" (ahdab ashfar al-aynayn) means that the hair of his eyelids was long.