Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: None of you must say: "My slave" (abdi) and "My slave-woman" (amati), and a slave must not say: "My lord" (rabbi or rabbati). The master (of a slave) should say: "My young man" (fataya) and "My...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
He must say: “My master” (sayyidi) and “My patron” (mawlaya).
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not call a hypocrite sayyid (master), for if he is a sayyid, you will displease your Lord, Most High.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
None of you must say Khabuthat nafsi (My heart is heaving), but one should say Laqisat nafsi (My heart is being annoyed).
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
None of you should say Ja’shat nafsi (My heart is being agitated), but one should say Laqisat nafsi (My heart is being annoyed).
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Do not say: "What Allah wills and so and so wills," but say: "What Allah wills and afterwards so and so wills.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
A speaker gave sermon before the prophet (May peace be upon him). He said : he who obeys Allah and his Prophet will follow the right course, and he who disobeys them. He (The prophet) said: get up; he said:...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I was riding on a mount behind the prophet (May peace be upon him). It stumbled. Thereupon I said: May the devil perish! He said: do not say; may the devil perish! For you say that, he will swell so...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When you hear....(Musa's version has): When a man says people have perished, he is the one who has suffered that fate most. Abu Dawud said: Malik said: If he says that out of sadness for the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The desert Arabs may not dominate you in respect of the name of your prayer. Beware! It is al-`Isha, but they milk their camels when it is fairly dark.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
Salim ibn AbulJa'dah said: A man said: (Mis'ar said: I think he was from the tribe of Khuza'ah): would that I had prayed, and got comfort. The people objected to him for it. Thereupon he said: I heard the Messenger...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I and my father went to the house of my father-in-law from the Ansar to pay a sick visit to him. The time of prayer came. He said to someone of his relatives: O girl! bring me water for ablution...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I never heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) attributing anyone to anything except to religion.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The people of Madina were started. The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) rode on the horse belonging to Abu Talhah. He said: We did not see anything, or he said: we did not see (find) any fear....
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
Avoid falsehood, for falsehood leads to wickedness, and wickedness to hell; and if a man continues to speak falsehood and makes falsehood his object, he will be recorded in Allah’s presence as a great liar. And adhere to truth, for...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Woe to him who tells things, speaking falsely, to make people laugh thereby. Woe to him! Woe to him!.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
My mother called me one day when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was sitting in our house. She said: Come here and I shall give you something. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) asked her: What did you intend to give...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: It is enough falsehood for a man to relate everything he hears. Abu Dawud said: Hafs did not mention Abu Hurairah (in his version). Abu Dawud said: No other transmitter except this old man, that is,...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: To harbour good thoughts is a part of well-conducted worship. (This is according to Nasr's version). Abu Dawud said: Mahna' is reliable and he is from Basrah.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) was in the I’TIKAF(seclusion in the mosque). I came to visit him at night . I talked to him, got up and turned my back. He got up with me to...