Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

the Prophet (ﷺ) said: `A’isha! There are some bad people who are respected for fear of their tongues.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I never said that when any man brought his mouth to the ear of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he withdrew his head until the man himself withdrew his head, and I never saw that when any man took...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) passed by a man of the Ansar when he was giving his brother a warning against modesty. The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) said : Leave him alone, for modesty is a part of faith.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

We were sitting with `Imran b. Hussain and Bushair b. Ka`b was also there. `Imran b. Hussain reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Modesty is good altogether, or he said: Modesty is altogether good. Bushair b. Ka`b said...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

One of the things people have learnt from the words of the earliest prophecy is : If you have no shame, do what you like.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is nothing heavier than good character put in the scale of a believer on the Day of Resurrection. Abu al-Walid said: I heard 'Ata al-Kaikharani say: Abu Dawud said: His name is 'Ata b. Ya'qub....

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I guarantee a house in the surroundings of Paradise for a man who avoids quarrelling even if he were in the right, a house in the middle of Paradise for a man who avoids lying even...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

neither the Jawwaz nor the Jazari will enter paradise. He said that the Jawwaz is the one who is coarse and uncivil.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The she-camel of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) called al-Adba’ had not been outstripped by another, but an A`rabi (a nomadic Arab) came on a young riding camel of his and it outstripped it. That distressed the companions of the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

It is Allah’s right that nothing should become exalted in the world but he lowers it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man came and praised ‘Uthman in his face, al-Miqdad b. Al-Aswad took dust and threw it on his face, saying : The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) said : When you see those who are given to praising people, throw...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

You have beheaded your friend (saying it three times). He then said : One who cannot help expressing praise of his companion, should say : I consider him such and such (as he intends to say), but I do not...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I went with a deputation of Banu Amir to the apostle of Allah (ﷺ), and we said: You are our lord (sayyid). To this he replied: The lord is Allah, the Blessed and Exalted. Then we said: And the one...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Allah is gentle, likes gentleness, and gives for gentleness what he does not give for harshness.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Al-Miqdam ibn Shurayh, quoting his father, said: I asked Aisha about living in the desert. She said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to go to the desert to these rivulets. Once he intended to go to the desert and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is hesitation in everything except in the actions of the next world.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who does not thank the people is not thankful to Allah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Immigrants (Muhajirun) said: Messenger of Allah! the Helpers (Ansar) got the entire reward. He said: no, so long as you pray to Allah for them and praise them.