Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: People who get up from an assembly in which they did not remember Allah will be just as if they had got up from an ass's corpse, and it will be a cause of grief to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone sits at a place where he does not remember Allah, deprivation will descend on him from Allah; and if he lies at a place where he does not remember Allah, deprivation will descend on...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

There are some expressions which a man utters three times when he gets up from an assembly he will be forgiven for what happened in the assembly; and no one utters them in an assembly held for a noble cause...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Hurairah from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) intended to get up from the assembly he used to say in the last. Glory be to Thee. O Allah, and I begin with praise of Thee, I testify that there is no god...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: None of my Companions must tell me anything about anyone, for I like to come out to you with no ill-feelings.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) called me. He intended to send me with some goods to AbuSufyan to distribute among the Quraysh at Mecca after the conquest. He said: Search for a companion. Then Amr ibn Umayyah ad-Damri came to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A believer is not stung twice from the same hole.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

when the Prophet(ﷺ) walked, it looked as if he bent forwards.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I saw the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ). I asked: How did you see him? He said: He was white, good-looking, and when he walked, it looked as if he was descending to a low ground.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade that a man should lie placing(and according to Qutaibah’s version: “should raise”) one of his legs over the other. Qutaibah’s version adds: When he was lying on his back.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

‘Abbad b. Tamim quoted his paternal uncle as saying that he had seen the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) lying on his back in the mosque according to Qa’nabi’s version) placing one foot over the other.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

‘Umar b. al-khattab and ‘Uthman b. ‘Affan used to do that.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a man tells something and then departs, it is a trust.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Meetings are confidential except three: those for the purpose of shedding blood unlawfully, or committing fornication, or acquiring property unjustly.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The most serious breach of trust in Allah’s sight is that a man who has intercourse with his wife, and she with him, spreads her secret.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A mischief-maker will not enter paradise.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The worst of the people is a man who is double-faced; he presents one face to some and another to others.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who is two-faced in this world will have two tongues of fire on the Day of Resurrection.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked: Messenger of Allah! What is back-biting? He replied: It is saying something about your brother which he would dislike. He was asked again: Tell me how the matter stands if what I say...