Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah has revealed to me that you must be humble, so that no one oppresses another and boasts over another.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

While the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting with some of his companions, a man reviled AbuBakr and insulted him. But AbuBakr remained silent. He insulted him twice, but AbuBakr controlled himself. He insulted him thrice and AbuBakr took revenge...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man was reviling Abu Bakr. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition in a similar manner. Abu Dawud said: Similarly, it has been transmitted by Safwan b. ‘Isa, from Ibn ‘Affan, as Sufyan said.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Ibn Awn said: I asked about the meaning of intisar (revenge) in the Qur'anic verse: "But indeed if any do help and defend themselves (intasara) after a wrong (done) to them, against them there is no cause of blame." Then...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When your companion dies, leave him and do not revile him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Make a mention of the virtues of your dead, and refrain from (mentioning) their evils.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: There were two men among Banu Isra'il, who were striving for the same goal. One of them would commit sin and the other would strive to do his best in the world....

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is no sin more fitted to have punishment meted out by Allah to its perpetrator in advance in this world along with what He stores up for him in the next world than oppression and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Avoid envy, for envy devours good deeds just as fire devours fuel or (he said) "grass."

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Sahl ibn AbuUmamah said that he and his father (AbuUmamah) visited Anas ibn Malik at Medina during the time (rule) of Umar ibn AbdulAziz when he (Anas ibn Malik) was the governor of Medina. He was praying a very short...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

when a man cures anything, the curse goes up to heaven and the gates of heaven are locked against it. Then it comes down to the earth and its gates are locked against it. Then it goes right and left,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not invoke Allah's curse, Allah's anger, or Hell.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) say: Men given to cursing will not be witnesses or intercessors.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man cursed the wind. The narrator Muslim's version has: The wind snatched away a man's cloak during the time of the Prophet (ﷺ) and he cursed it. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not curse it, for it is under...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Something of her was stolen, and she began to curse him (i.e. the thief). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to her: Do not lessen his sin.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Do not hate each other; do not envy each other; do not desert each other; and be the servants of Allah as brethren. It is not allowed for a Muslim to keep apart from his brother for more than three...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

it is not allowable for a Muslim to keep apart from his brother for more than three days. When they meet, this turns away from him, and that turns away from him. The better of the two is the one...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: It is not allowable for a believer to keep from a believer for more than three days. If three days pass, he should meet him and give him a salutation, and if he replies to it...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: It is not right for a Muslim to keep apart from another Muslim for more than three days. Then when he meets him and gives three salutations, receiving during that time no response, the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: It is not allowable for a Muslim to keep apart from his brother for more than three days, for one who does so and dies will enter Hell.