Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I asked : apostle of Allah! I have two neighbors. With which of them should I begin? He replied: Begin with the one whose door is nearer to you. Abu Dawud said: Shu’bah said this tradition : Talhah is a...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The last words which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) spoke were: Prayer, prayer; fear Allah about those whom your right hands possess.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I saw Abu Dharr at Rabadhah. He was wearing a thick cloak, and his slave also wore a similar one. He said : the people said: Abu Dharr! (it would be better) if you could take the cloak which your...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
We called on Abu Dharr at al-Rabadhah. He wore a cloak and his slave also wore a similar one. We said; Abu Dharr! If you took the cloak of your slave and combined it with your cloak, so that it...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
when I was beating a servant of mine, I heard a voice behind me saying: know, Abu Mas’ud-Ibn al-Muthanna said: “twice”-that Allah has more power over you than you have over him. I turned round and saw that it was...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-A’mash in a similar way to same way to the same effect through a different chain of narrators.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Feed those of your slaves who please you from what you eat and clothe them with what you clothe yourselves, but sell those who do not please you and do not punish Allah's creatures.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Treating those under one's authority will produce prosperity, but an evil nature produces evil fortune.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Treating those under one's authority well produces prosperity, but an evil nature produces evil fortune.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and asked: Messenger of Allah! how often shall I forgive a servant? He gave no reply, so the man repeated what he had said, but he still kept silence. When he asked a...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
Abu al-Qasim, the Prophet of Atonement (ﷺ) said to me: If anyone reviles his slave when he is innocent of what he said, he will be beaten on the Day of Resurrection. The transmitter Mu'ammal said: 'Isa narrated it to...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
We were staying in the house of Suwaid b. Muqarrin. There was among us an old man who was hot-tempered. He had a slave-girl with him. He gave a slap on her face. I never saw Suwaid more angry than...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I slapped a freed slave of ours. My father called him and me and said: Take retaliation on him. We, the people of Banu Muqarrin, were seven during the time of the Prophet (ﷺ),and we had only a female servant....
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
I came to Ibn ‘Umar when he set his slave free. He took a stick or something else from the earth and said; for me there is no reward even equivalent to this. I heard the Messenger of Allah (May...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
when a slave acts sincerely towards his master and worship Allah well, he will have a double reward.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone corrupts (instigates) the wife of a man or his slave (against him), he is not from us.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
A man peeped into some of the apartment of the prophet (May peace be upon him). The prophet (May peace be upon him) got up taking an arrowhead or arrowheads. He said: I can still picture myself looking at the...
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone peeps into the house of a people without their permission and he knocks out his eye, no responsibility is incurred for his eye.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one has a look into the house, then there is no (need of) permission.
Sunan Abi Dawud
General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)
A man came. Uthman's version has: Sa'd ibn AbuWaqqas came. He stood at the door. Uthman's version has: (He stood) facing the door. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to him: Away from it, (stand) this side or that side. Asking permission...