Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to sit with us in meetings and talk to us. When he stood up we also used to stand up and see him entering the house of one of his wives. One day he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Good way, dignified good bearing and moderation are the twenty-fifth part of Prophecy.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If anyone suppresses anger when he is in a position to give vent to it, Allah, the Exalted, will call him on the Day of Resurrection over the heads of all creatures, and ask...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

He then mentioned a similar tradition described above. This version has: Allah will fill his heart with security and faith. He did not mention the words "Allah will call him". This version further adds: He who gives up wearing beautiful...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Whom do you consider a wrestler among you? The people replied: (the man) whom the men cannot defeat in wrestling. He said: No, it is he who controls himself when he is angry.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Two men reviled each other in the presence of the Prophet (ﷺ) and one of them became excessively angry so much so that I thought that his nose will break up on account of excess of anger. The Prophet (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Two men reviled each other in the presence of the Prophet (ﷺ). Then the eyes of one of them became red and his jugular veins swelled. The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) said: I know a phrase by repeating which the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to us: When one of you becomes angry while standing, he should sit down. If the anger leaves him, well and good; otherwise he should lie down.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) sent Mu`adh for some of his work. He then transmitted the rest of the tradition mentioned above. Abu Dawud said: This tradition is sounder of the two traditions.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

AbuWa'il al-Qass said: We entered upon Urwah ibn Muhammad ibn as-Sa'di. A man spoke to him and made him angry. So he stood and performed ablution; he then returned and performed ablution, and said: My father told me on the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was never given his choice between two things without taking the easier(or lesser) of them provided it involved no sin, for if it did, no one kept farther away from it than he. And the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

the Messenger of Allah (saws ) never struck a servant or a woman.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) was commanded to hold to forgiveness from the conduct of the people.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Prophet (ﷺ) was informed of anything of a certain man, he would not say: What is the matter with so and so that he says? But he would say: What is the matter with the people that they...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man who had the mark of yellowness on him came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The apostle of Allah (ﷺ) rarely mentioned anything of a man which he disliked before him. When he went out, he said: Would...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The believer is simple and generous, but the profligate is deceitful and ignoble.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man asked permission to see the Prophet (ﷺ), and he said: He is a bad son of the tribe, or: He is a bad member of the tribe. He then said : Give him permission. Then when he entered,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man asked permission to see the Prophet (ﷺ), and the Prophet (ﷺ) said: He is a bad member of the tribe. When he entered, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) treated in a frank and friendly way and spoke to...

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...