he himself used to talk about his ugliness. it was narrated that a woman asked him to take her to his goldsmiths shop. when she got there she said to the goldsmith like this and left. aljahiz asked the goldsmith what the woman meant by that. he replied that she had asked for a picture of a devil to be drawn on the bezel of her ring so she took him to draw his picture. this confirms the ugliness of the picture he had.
وهو نفسه كان يتحدث عن قبحه. فقد روي أن إمرأة طلبت منه أن يصطحبها إلى دكانه أحد الصاغة، فلما وصلت هناك قالت للصائغ مثل هذا ، وانصرفت. فسأل الجاحظ الصائغ، ماذا قد عنت المرأة بقولها ذاك، فأجابه بأنها قد طلبت رسم صورة شيطان على فص خاتمها، فاصطحبتك لتمثيل صورته. وهذا ما يؤكد بشاعة الصورة التي كان عليها.