Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Gladden people and do not scare them; make things easy and do not make them difficult.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I came to the Prophet (ﷺ). The people began to praise me and make a mention of me. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: I know you, that is, he knew him. I said: My father and mother be sacrificed...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat talking (to the people), he would often raise his eyes to the sky.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) spoke in a distinct and leisurely manner.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) spoke in a distinct manner so that anyone who listened to him could understand it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Every important matter which is not begun by an expression of praise to Allah is maimed. Abu Dawud said: It has also been transmitted by Yunus, 'Aqil, Shu'aib, Sa'id b. 'Abd al-Aziz from al-Zuhri from the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Every sermon which does not contain a tashahhud is like a hand cut off.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A beggar passed by Aisha and she gave him a piece of bread. Another man who wore clothes and had a good appearance passed by her, and she made him sit down and he ate (with her). When she was...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Glorifying Allah involves showing honour to a grey-haired Muslim and to one who can expound the Qur'an, but not to one who acts extravagantly regarding it, or turns away from it, and showing honour to a...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: One should not sit between two men except with their permission.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: It is not lawful for a man to separate two persons except with their permission.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat, he had his knees drawn up supported by his hands. Abu Dawud said: 'Abd Allah b. Ibrahim was an old man and his traditions were rejected.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

She saw the Prophet (ﷺ) sitting with his arms round his legs. She said: When I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in such humble condition in the sitting position (according to Musa's version), I trembled with fear.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came upon me when I was sitting thus: having my left hand behind my back and leaning on the fleshy part of it, and said: Are you sitting in the manner of those with whom...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade sleeping before the night prayer and talking after it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Prophet (ﷺ) prayed the dawn prayer, he sat cross-legged where he was till the sun had come well up.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Two persons should not talk privately ignoring the third, for that will grieve him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Abu Salih said: I asked Ibn `Umar: If they are four? He replied: Then it does not harm you.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I was sitting with my father and there was also a boy with him. He got up and then returned. So my father mentioned a tradition on the authority of Abu Hurairah from the Prophet (ﷺ) saying: If anyone gets...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would sit and we would also sit around him. If he got up intending to return, he would take off his sandals or something he was wearing, and his Companions recognising his purpose (that he...