“Your smiling in the face of your brother is charity, commanding good and forbidding evil is charity, your giving directions to a man lost in the land is charity for you. Your seeing for a man with bad sight is a charity for you, your removal of a rock, a thorn or a bone from […]
“Whoever gives someone some milk or silver, or guides him through a strait, then he will have the reward similar to freeing a slave.”
“There is no gift that a father gives his son more virtuous than good manners.”
“I was beating a slave of mine and I heard someone behind me saying: ‘Beware O Abu Mas’ud! Beware O Abu Mas’ud!’ So I turned around and saw that it was the Messenger of Allah. He said: ‘Allah has more power over you than you do over him.” Abu Mas’ud said: “I have not beaten […]
“A man came to the Prophet and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! How many times should the servant be pardoned?’ The Prophet was silent. Then he said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! How many times should the servant be pardoned?’ He said: ‘ Seventy times each day.’”
“When one of you beats his servant then he (should) remember Allah and, withhold your hands.”
“That a man should discipline his son is better for him than to have given a Sa’ in charity.”
“Jibril – may the Salawat of Allah be upon him – continued to recommend me about (treating) the neighbors so (kindly and politely), that I thought he would order me to make them heirs.”
“Abdullah bin Amr had a sheep slaughtered for his family, so when he came he said: ‘Have you given some to our neighbor, the Jew? Have you given some to our neighbor, the Jew? I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: ‘Jibril continued to advise me about (treating) the neighbors so (kindly and politely), that […]
“The companion who is the best to Allah is the one who is best to his companion. And the neighbor that is the best to Allah is the one that is best to his neighbor.”