Hadith on Behavior (Adab)

Anas said: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم was one of the best of men in character. One day he sent me to do something, and I said: I swear by Allah that i will not go. But in my heart I felt that I should go to do what the prophet of..

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: I served the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم at Madina for ten years. I was a boy. Every work that I did was not according to the desire of my master, but he never said to me: Fie, nor did he say to me: Why did you do this?..

Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم used to sit with us in meetings and talk to us. When he stood up we also used to stand up and see him entering the house of one of his wives. One day he talked to us and we stood..

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Good way, dignified good bearing and moderation are the twenty-fifth part of Prophecy. ..

Narrated Muadh ibn Jabal: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: if anyone suppresses anger when he is in a position to give vent to it, Allah, the Exalted, will call him on the Day of Resurrection over the heads of all creatures, and..

Suwaid bin Wahb quoted a son of a Companion of the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم who said his father reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: He then mentioned a similar tradition described above. This version has: Allah will..

Abdullah (bin Masud) reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: Whom do you consider a wrestler among you? The people replied: (the man) whom the men cannot defeat in wrestling. He said: No, it is he who controls himself when..

Narrated Muadh ibn Jabal: Two men reviled each other in the presence of the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and one of them became excessively angry so much so that I thought that his nose will break up on account of excess of anger. The Prophet صلی..

Sulaiman bin Surad said: Two men reviled each other in the presence of Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. Then the eyes of one of them became red and his jugular veins swelled. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: I know a phrase by..

Narrated Abu Dharr: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said to us: When one of you becomes angry while standing, he should sit down. If the anger leaves him, well and good; otherwise he should lie down. ..

Bakr said: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم sent Muadh for some of his work. He then transmitted the rest of the tradition mentioned above. Abu Dawud said: This tradition is sounder of the two traditions. ..

Narrated Atiyyah as-Saadi: Abu Wail al-Qass said: We entered upon Urwah ibn Muhammad ibn as-Saadi. A man spoke to him and made him angry. So he stood and performed ablution; he then returned and performed ablution, and said: My father told me on..

Aishah said: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم was never given his choice between two things without taking the easier (or lesser) of them provided it involved no sin, for if it did, no one kept farther away from it than he. And the..

Aishah said: The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم never struck a servant or a woman. ..

Explaining the Quranic verse “hold to forgiveness”, Abdullah bin Al-Zubair said: The prophet of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم was commanded to hold to forgiveness from the conduct of the people. ..

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: When the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم was informed of anything of a certain man, he would not say: What is the matter with so and so that he says? But he would say: What is the matter with the people that they say..

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: A man who had the mark of yellowness on him came to the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم rarely mentioned anything of a man which he disliked before him. When he went..

Narrated Abu Salamah ; Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: The believer is simple and generous, but the profligate is deceitful and ignoble. ..

Aishah said: A man asked permission to see the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم, and he said: He is a bad son of the tribe, or: He is a bad member of the tribe. He then said: Give him permission. Then when he entered, he spoke to him leniently. Aishah..

Narrated Aishah, Ummul Muminin: A man asked permission to see the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم, and the Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: He is a bad member of the tribe. When he entered, the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم treated in a..