Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When we came to Medina, the women came to me when I was playing on the swing, and my hair were up to my ears. They brought me, prepared me, and decorated me. Then they brought me to the Messenger...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I was swinging and I had my friends. They brought me to a house ; there were some women of the Ansar (Helpers). They said: With good luck and blessing.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

We came to Medina and stayed with Banu al-Harith b. al-Khazraj. She said : I swear by Allah, I was swinging between two date-palms. Then my mother came down; and I had my hair up to the ears. The transmitter...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: He who plays backgammon disobeys Allah and His Apostle.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

If anyone plays backgammon, he sinks his hand in the flesh of swine and its blood.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saw a man pursuing a pigeon. He said: A devil is pursuing a female devil.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The Compassionate One has mercy on those who are merciful. If you show mercy to those who are on the earth, He Who is in the heaven will show mercy to you. Musaddad did not say:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I heard AbulQasim (ﷺ) who spoke the truth and whose word was verified say: Mercy is taken away only from him who is miserable.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Those who do not show mercy to our young ones and do not realise the right of our elders are not from us.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

To Allah, his book, his Apostle, the leaders (public authorities) of the believers and all the believers, and the leaders (public authorities) of Muslim and the Muslims and the Muslims in general.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I swore allegiance to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) promising to hear and obey, and behave sincerely towards every Muslim. AbuZur'ah said: Whenever he sold and bought anything, he would say: What we took from you is dearer to us...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

If anyone removes his brother’s anxiety of this world, Allah will remove for him one of the anxieties of the Day of resurrection; if anyone makes easy for an impoverished man, Allah will make easy for him in this world...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Your prophet (May peace be upon him) said : Every good act is a SADAQAH (almsgiving).

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: On the Day of Resurrection you will be called by your names and by your father's names, so give yourselves good names.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Your names which are dearest to Allah are ‘Abd Allah and ‘Abd al-Rahman.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Call yourselves by the names of the Prophets. The names dearest to Allah are Abdullah and AbdurRahman, the truest are Harith and Hammam, and the worst are Harb and Murrah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Have you some dates? I said : Yes. I then gave him some dates which he put in his mouth, chewed them, opened his mouth and them in it. The baby began to lick them. The prophet (May peace be...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) changed the name of ‘Asiyah and called her Jamilah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Zainab daughter of Abu Salamah asked him: Which name did you give to your daughter? He replied : Barrah. She said: The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) forbade giving this name. I was called Barrah but the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man called Asram was among those who came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: What is your name? He replied: Asram. He said: No, you are Zur'ah.