Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

AbuKhirash heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If one keeps apart from his brother for a year, it is like shedding his blood.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The gates of Paradise are opened on Mondays and Thursdays, and forgiveness is granted to every man who does not associate anything with Allah, except for a man between whom and his brother there is rancor. Command will be given...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Avoid suspicion for suspicion is the most lying form of talk. Do not be inquisitive about one another, or spy on one another.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The believer is the believer's mirror, and the believer is the believer's brother who guards him against loss and protects him when he is absent.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Shall I not inform you of something more excellent in degree than fasting, prayer and almsgiving (sadaqah)? The people replied: Yes, Prophet of Allah! He said: It is putting things right between people, spoiling them is...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who forged in order to put things right between two persons did not lie. The version by Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Musaddad has: The liar is not the one who puts things right between people,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I did not hear the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) making a concession for anything people say falsely except in three matters. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would say: I do not count as a liar a man who puts things...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) came and visited me in the morning when I had been conducted to my husband, and sat on my bedding as you are sitting beside me. Some little girls of ours...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to Medina, the Abyssinians played for his coming out of joy; they played with spears.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Nafi' said: Ibn Umar heard a pipe, put his fingers in his ears and went away from the road. He said to me: Are you hearing anything? I said: No. He said: He then took his fingers out of his...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I was sitting behind Ibn ‘Umar on the mount when he passed a shepherd who was blowing a pipe. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition in a similar manner. Abu Dawud said : Between Mut’im and Nafi the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When we were with Ibn ‘Umar, he heard the sound of a man who was blowing a pipe. He then mentioned a similar tradition. Abu Dawud said : This is more rejected.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

They began to play, amuse and sing. He united the support of his hand round his knees that were drawn up, and said: I heard Abdullah (ibn Mas'ud) say: I heard the apostle of Allah (ﷺ) say: Singing produces hypocrisy...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Am effeminate man (mukhannath) who had dyed his hands and feet with henna was brought to the Prophet (ﷺ). He asked: What is the matter with this man? He was told: "Messenger of Allah! He imitates the look of women."...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

if Allah conquers al-Ta’if for you tomorrow, I shall lead you to a woman who has four folds of fats in front and eight behind. Thereupon the Prophet (May peace be upon him) said: Put them out of your houses....

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (May peace be upon him) cursed effeminate men (mukhannathan) and women who imitated men, saying: Put them out of your houses, and put so-and-so out. (that is to say, the effeminate men)

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I used to play with dolls. Sometimes the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) entered upon me when the girls were with me. When he came in, they went out, and when he went out, they came in.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) arrived after the expedition to Tabuk or Khaybar (the narrator is doubtful), the draught raised an end of a curtain which was hung in front of her store-room, revealing some dolls which belonged to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) married me when I was seven or six. When we came to Medina, some women came. according to Bishr's version: Umm Ruman came to me when I was swinging. They took me, made me prepared...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The tradition mentioned above (No. 4915) has also been transmitted by AbuUsamah in a similar manner through a different chain of narrators. This version has: "With good fortune. " She (Umm Ruman) entrusted me to them. They washed my head...