Abu Dawud Book 36. General Behavior

Chapter : Not known. Narated By ‘Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin : ‘Aisha said: Apostle of Allah! All my fellow-wives have kunyahs? He said: Give yourself the kunyah by Abdullah, your son – that is to say, her nephew (her sister’s son).…

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Sufyan ibn Asid al-Hadrami : I heard the Apostle of Allah (PBUH) say: It is great treachery that you should tell your brother something and have him believe you when you are lying.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By AbuHurayrah : The Prophet (PBUH) said: None of you must say: “My slave” (abdi) and “My slave-woman” (amati), and a slave must not say: “My lord” (rabbi or rabbati). The master (of a slave)…

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Buraydah ibn al-Hasib : The Prophet (PBUH) said: Do not call a hypocrite sayyid (master), for if he is a sayyid, you will displease your Lord, Most High.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Hudhayfah : The Prophet (PBUH) said: Do not say: “What Allah wills and so and so wills,” but say: “What Allah wills and afterwards so and so wills.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By AbuHurayrah : The Prophet (PBUH) said: When you hear….(Musa’s version has): When a man says people have perished, he is the one who has suffered that fate most.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By A man : Salim ibn AbulJa’dah said: A man said: (Mis’ar said: I think he was from the tribe of Khuza’ah): would that I had prayed, and got comfort. The people objected to him…

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah : I and my father went to the house of my father-in-law from the Ansar to pay a sick visit to him. The time of prayer came. He said…

Chapter : Not known. Narated By ‘Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin : I never heard the Apostle of Allah (PBUH) attributing anyone to anything except to religion.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Mu’awiyah ibn Jaydah al-Qushayri : The Apostle of Allah (PBUH) said: Woe to him who tells things, speaking falsely, to make people laugh thereby. Woe to him! Woe to him!.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Abdullah ibn Amir : My mother called me one day when the Apostle of Allah (PBUH) was sitting in our house. She said: Come here and I shall give you something. The Apostle of…

Chapter : Not known. Narated By AbuHurayrah : The Prophet (PBUH) said: It is enough falsehood for a man to relate everything he hears.

Chapter : Not known. Narated By AbuHurayrah : The Prophet (PBUH) said: To harbour good thoughts is a part of well-conducted worship. (This is according to Nasr’s version).

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Zayd ibn Arqam : The Prophet (PBUH) 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…

Chapter : Not known. Narated By Abdullah ibn AbulHamsa’ : I bought something from the Prophet (PBUH) before he received his Prophetic commission, and as there was something still due to him I promised him that I would bring it…