Manners, Etiquette & Character

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) led us in the Zuhr prayer, offering only two rak`at and then (finished it) with Taslim, and went to a piece of wood in front of the mosque and put his hand over it. Abu Bakr and...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) passed by two graves and said, "Both of them (persons in the grave) are being tortured, and they are not being tortured for a major sin. This one used not to save himself from being soiled with...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The best family among the Ansar is the Banu An-Najjar. "

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

A man asked permission to enter upon Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Admit him. What an evil brother of his people or a son of his people." But when the man entered, the Prophet (ﷺ) spoke to him...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

Once the Prophet (ﷺ) went through the grave-yards of Medina and heard the voices of two humans who were being tortured in their graves. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "They are being punished, but they are not being punished because of...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) saying, "A Qattat will not enter Paradise."

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Whoever does not give up false statements (i.e. telling lies), and evil deeds, and speaking bad words to others, Allah is not in need of his (fasting) leaving his food and drink."

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the double faced people who appear to some people with one face and to other people with another face."

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

Once Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) divided and distributed (the war booty). An Ansar man said, "By Allah ! Muhammad, by this distribution, did not intend to please Allah." So I came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and informed him about it whereupon...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) heard a man praising another man and he was exaggerating in his praise. The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to him). "You have destroyed (or cut) the back of the man."

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

A man was mentioned before the Prophet (ﷺ) and another man praised him greatly The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "May Allah's Mercy be on you ! You have cut the neck of your friend." The Prophet (ﷺ) repeated this sentence many...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

that his father said; "When Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) mentioned what he mentioned about (the hanging of) the Izar (waist sheet), Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! My Izar slackens on one side (without my intention)." The Prophet (ﷺ) said,...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) continued for such-and-such period imagining that he has slept (had sexual relations) with his wives, and in fact he did not. One day he said, to me, "O `Aisha! Allah has instructed me regarding a matter about...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales; and do not look for the others' faults and do not spy, and do not be jealous of one another, and do not desert (cut...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do not hate one another, and do not be jealous of one another, and do not desert each other, and O, Allah's worshipers! Be brothers. Lo! It is not permissible for any Muslim to desert (not...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales. and do not look for the others' faults, and do not do spying on one another, and do not practice Najsh, and do not be...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I do not think that so-and-so and so-and-so know anything of our religion." (And Al-Laith said, "These two persons were among the hypocrites.")

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

`Aisha said "The Prophet (ﷺ) entered upon me one day and said, 'O `Aisha! I do not think that so-and-so and so-and-so know anything of our religion which we follow."'

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying. "All the sins of my followers will be forgiven except those of the Mujahirin (those who commit a sin openly or disclose their sins to the people). An example of such disclosure is that...

Sahih al-Bukhari

Good Manners and Form (Al-Adab)

A man asked Ibn `Umar, "What did you hear Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying regarding An-Najwa (secret talk between Allah and His believing worshipper on the Day of Judgment)?" He said, "(The Prophet (ﷺ) said), "One of you will come close...