In answer to the video "How to Spot Muhammad in a Crowd (David Wood)"
When some ahadith depict the prophet as white, it isnt caucasian white but in the middle eastern understanding, even nowadays when an Arab is said to be "blond" it means light skinned from the Arabic skin tone. When the Arabs called the Romans Bani Asfar/yellow, it wasnt in reference to blond hair but the skin tone which they believed was due to their forefather Rum ibn Al-Ais Ibn Ishaq. Others thought their land was conquered partly by the Abyssinians of Africa with whom they intermarried, resulting in offspring with a yellowish skintone. Many ahadith describe his skin color. Elsewhere it is said
‘he had a rosy color, neither absolutely white nor deep brown’.
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