Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a man makes a promise to his brother with the intention of fulfilling it and does not do so, and does not come at the appointed time, he is guilty of no sin.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I bought something from the Prophet (ﷺ) before he received his Prophetic commission, and as there was something still due to him I promised him that I would bring it to him at his place, but I forgot. When I...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Messenger of Allah! I have a fellow-wife; will it be wrong for me to boast of receiving from my husband what he does not give me? He replied: the one who boasts of receiving what he has not been given...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: Messenger of Allah! give me a mount. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: We shall give you a she-camel's child to ride on. He said: What shall I do with a she-camel's child?...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When AbuBakr asked the permission of the Prophet (ﷺ) to come in, he heard Aisha speaking in a loud voice. So when he entered, he caught hold of her in order to slap her, and said: Do I see you...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I came to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) at the expedition to Tabuk when he was in a small skin tent. I gave him a salutation and he returned it, saying: come in. I asked :...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The only reason why he asked whether the whole of him should come in was because of the smallness of the tent

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) addressed me as: O you with the two ears.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: None of you should take the property of his brother in amusement (i.e. jest), nor in earnest. The narrator Sulayman said: Out of amusement and out of earnest. If anyone takes the staff of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) told us that they were travelling with the Prophet (ﷺ). A man of them slept, and one of them went to the rope which he had with him. He took it, by which he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Allah , the Exalted, hates the eloquent one among men who moves his tongue round (among his teeth), as cattle do.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: On the Day of resurrection Allah will not accept repentance or ransom from him who learns excellence of speech to captivate thereby the hearts of men, or of people.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

When two men who came from the east made a speech and the people were charmed with their eloquence, the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) said: In some eloquent speech there is magic.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

It would have been better for him. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: I think (or, I have been commanded) that I should be brief in what I say, for brevity is better.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

it is better for a man’s belly to be full of pus than to be full of poetry. Abu ‘Ali said : I have been told that Abu ‘Ubaid said : It means that his heart is full of poetry...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

In poetry there is wisdom.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A desert Arab came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and began to speak. Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: In eloquence there is magic and in poetry there is wisdom.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: In eloquence there is magic, in knowledge ignorance, in poetry wisdom, and in speech heaviness. Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhan said: The Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) spoke the truth. His statement "In eloquence there...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Umar passed by Hassan when he was reciting verses in the mosque. He looked at him. Thereupon he said: I used to recite verses when there was present in it the one who was better than you (i.e. the Prophet).

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

so he (‘Umar’) feared that he would refer to the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him); therefore he allowed him.