Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

If anyone pretends to be the son of a man other than his father, or attributes his freedom to people other than those who set him free, on him will be the curse of Allah that will continue till the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Allah, Most High, has removed from you the pride of the pre-Islamic period and its boasting in ancestors. One is only a pious believer or a miserable sinner. You are sons of Adam, and Adam came...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

If anyone helps his people in an unrighteous cause, he is like a camel which falls into a well and is pulled out by its tail.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I went to the prophet (May peace be upon him) when he was in a skin tent. He then mentioned something similar to it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I asked: Messenger of Allah! what is party spirit? He replied: That you should help your people in wrongdoing.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave us an address and said: The best of you is the one who defends his tribe, so long as he commits no sin. Abu Dawud said: Abu Ayyub b. Suwaid is weak.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

he who summons others to party-spirit does not belong to us; and he who dies upholding party spirit does not belong to us.’

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

the son of a sister of a people belongs to them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

AbdurRahman ibn AbuUqbah quoted his father AbuUqbah who was a client from the people of Persia as saying: I was present at Uhud along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and on smiting one of the polytheists I said: Take...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a man loves his brother, he should tell him that he loves him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man was with the Prophet (ﷺ) and a man passed by him and said: Messenger of Allah! I love this man. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then asked: Have you informed him? He replied: No. He said: Inform him....

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Messenger of Allah! A man loves some people, but he cannot do work like their work. He replied; Yes, Abu Dharr, will be with those whom you love. Abu Dharr then repeated it. The Messenger of Allah (May peace be...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

I never saw the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) so happy about anything as I saw them happy about this thing. A man said : Messenger of Allah! A man loves another man for...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who is consulted is trustworthy.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A man came to the prophet (May peace be upon him) and said: Messenger of Allah! I have been left without a mount. So give me a mount. He replied: I have no mount to give, but go to so...

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Your love for a thing causes blindness and deafness.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Make intercession to me, you will be rewarded, for Allah decrees what he wishes by the tongue of his prophet.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Make intercession, you will be rewarded, for I purposely delay a matter so that you intercede and then you are rewarded. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: If you make intercession, you will be rewarded.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Musa from the prophet (May peace be upon him) through a different chain of narrators.

Sunan Abi Dawud

General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

Some of the children of al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami said: Al-Ala' ibn al-Hadrami was the governor of the Prophet (ﷺ) at al-Bahrayn, and when he wrote to him he began with his won name.