Is the hadith about the mustache and beard of the envoys of Persia authentic?
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Ibn Jarir at-Tabari, while reporting the visit of two emissaries of the King of Persia to the Prophet (ﷺ), records:
> ودخلا على رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وقد حلقا لحاهما، وأعفيا شواربهما، فكره النظر إليهما، ثم أقبل عليهما فقال: ويلكما! من أمركما بهذا؟ قالا أمرنا بهذا ربنا- يعنيان كسرى- فقال رسول الله: لكن ربي قد أمرني بإعفاء لحيتي وقص شاربي
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> Two [emissaries] with shaven faces and dangling moustaches came to the Prophet (ﷺ). Disgusted to see their faces, he turned away from them. Then he faced them and said: “Woe be to you! Who told you to adopt such an appearance.” They replied: “Our Lord, the King of Persia bade us so.” The Prophet (ﷺ) then remarked: “But my Lord has directed me to shorten the moustache and lengthen the beard [instead].”
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> [ Tarikh al-Tabari](https://al-maktaba.org/book/9783/1281)
Is this hadith authentic?
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