1. Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a trustworthy (and honest).
From Muhammad's sayings:
Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "the signs of a hypocrite are three:
1. Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie.
2. Whenever he promises, he always breaks it (his promise).
3. If you trust him, he proves to be dishonest. (if you keep something as a trust with him, he will not return it.)"agreed upon.
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Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reported : Allah's
Messenger (pbuh) said: "the claimants would get their claims on the day
of resurrection so much so that the hornless sheep would get its claim
From the horned sheep." Narratedby Muslim.
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Umar Ibn Al-khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: when it
was the day of Khaibar a party of companions of the Prophet (pbuh) came
there and said: so and so is a martyr, till they happened to pass by a
man and said: so and so is a martyr. Upon this the Messenger of Allah
(pbuh) remarked: (nay, not so verily i have seen him in the fire for the
garment or cloak that he had stolen From the booty)) .Narratedby
Muslim.
From Muhammad's life:
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Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: the Messenger of
Allah (pbuh) said: "whoever carries arms against us, is not From us; and
whoever cheats us, is not From us" Narratedby Muslim. and, in another
narration of Abu Huraira: the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) passed by a food
container, entered his hand in it and his fingers found it wet, then he
(the Messenger) said: "what is this, o the owner of the food?" he (the
man) said: it is From the sky (rain) came to it, o Messenger of Allah,
he (the Messenger) said: "don’t you make it above the food so people can
see it! whoever cheats us, is not From us)).
2. Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a truthful person.
From Muhammad's sayings:
-Abdullah
Bin mr Bin Al 'aas (may Allah be pleased with them both) reported: the
Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: "four (characteristics) whoever has them
will be a pure hypocrite, and whoever has one of them will have one
characteristic of hypocrisy unless he gives it up: whenever he is
entrusted, he betrays; whenever he speaks, he tells a lie; whenever he
makes a covenant, he proves treacherous; whenever he quarrels, he
behaves in a very imprudent, evil and insulting, unjust manner." agreed
upon.
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'Abdullah Bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: The
Prophet (pbuh) said: "truthfulness leads to righteousness, and
righteousness leads to paradise. And a man keeps on telling the truth
till he is written before Allah, a truthful person. Falsehood leads to
Al-Fajur (i.e. wickedness, evil-doing), and Al-Fajur (wickedness) leads
to the (hell) fire, and a man may keep on telling lies till he is
written before Allah, a liar." agreed upon.
From Muhammad 's life:
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Abu Sufyan Bin Harb (may Allah be pleased with him) reported in his
long speech in the story of heraclius, heraclius said: what does he
order you to do (means the Prophet – peace be upon him)? Abu Sufyan
said: ((he tells us to worship Allah and Allah alone and not to worship
anything along with him, and to renounce all that our ancestors had
said. He orders us to pray, to speak the truth, to be chaste and to keep
good relations with our kith and kin)) agreed upon.
3-Muhammad (pbuh) the speaker
From Muhammad’s sayings:
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Abu-Huraira, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet
peace be upon him said: “and the good word is Al Sadaqa (considered as a
charitable donation)”. agreed upon by the scholars.
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Iben-Omar (Omar’s son), may Allah be pleased with them both, reported
that the Messenger of Allah pbuh said: “if they were three then no two
are to hold secret counsel excluding the third person”. agreed upon by
the scholars.
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was also Narrated by Abu-dawoud with the addition of: Abu-Saleh said:
“i said to iben-omar: what if they were four? he answered: then this
will not harm you.
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And Narratedby Malek, in the book of Al-Mawtaa, reported by Abdullah
Bin-Dinar who said: “ Ibin-Omar and i were at the house of Khaled
Bin-oqbah which was in the market, when a man came and wanted to speak
alone with him and no one was with BIn-Omar but me. Iben-Omar called a
third man so we became four and told us (the new person and i): "walk
further behind, because i heard the Messenger of Allah pbuh saying: “no
two are to hold secret counsel excluding the third person”".
From Muhammad’s life:
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Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet (pbuh)
used to repeat a word three times so it would be understood From him,
and if he came upon some people and greeted them, he would greet them
three times. Narratedby Al-Bukhari.
4-Muhammad (pbuh) the wise patient man:
From Muhammad’s sayings:
-Iben-Abbas
(Abbas’s son), may Allah be pleased with them both, reported : the
Messenger of Allah pbuh told Ashaj Abdulqais: “you have two
characteristics that Allah loves: the patience (endurance) and the
tolerance”. Narrated by Muslim.
From Muhammad’s life:
-Anas,
may Allah be pleased with him, reported:I was walking with the
Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and he had a thick najrani garment, when a
Bedouin approached him and pulled him From his collar very hard, i saw
the Prophet’s neck and saw that the garment had bruised it From the
harsh pull. Then the bedouin said: ay Muhammad order me some of Allah’s
money that you have. The Prophet turned towards him and laughed then
ordered him an endowment. Agreed upon by the scholars.
5-Muhammad (peace be upon him) the companion:
From Muhammad’s sayings:
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Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her,reported that the Prophet pbuh
said: “Allah is kind and loves kindness in everything”. agreed upon by
the scholars.
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she also reported that Allah’s Messenger pbuh said: “Allah is kind and
loves kindness; he gives on kindness what he doesn’t give on violence
and what he doesn’t give on anything else”. Narrated by Muslim.
From Muhammad’s life:
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Abu-Huraira may Allah be pleased with him, reported that: “a Bedouin
urinated in the mosque, so a group of people went towards him to stop
him roughly when theProphet pbuh told them: “let him and pour over his
urine a bucket of water, because you were sent as facilitators not as
complicators”. Narrated by Al-Bukhari.
6-Muhammad (peace be upon him) the modest:
From Muhammad’s sayings:
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Ayyadh Bin-Himar, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that the
Prophet (pbuh) said: “Allah informed me that you should be modest so no
one would be proud against each other and should not mistreat each
others”. Narrated by Muslim.
From Muhammad’s life:
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Reported by Al-Aswad Bin-Yazeed that Aysha, may Allah be pleased with
her was asked: what does theProphet (pbuh) used to do at home? she said:
he used to be serving his family, and when the prayer time arrives he
used to go out (to the mosque) for prayer. Narrated by Al-Bukhari.
7-Muhammad peace be upon him kind to everyone around him even to animals
From Muhammad’s sayings:
-Reported
by Iben-Omar, may Allah be pleased with him, that he passed by
youngsters From Quraish, who had tied up a bird and were throwing arrows
at it, they had promised the bird’s owner to give him any arrows that
missed the bird. but when they saw iben-omar approaching they ran away.
Iben-Omar asked: who did this! Allah damns who did this! the Messenger
of Allah pbuh damns who uses anything with a soul as an aiming target.
Agreed upon by the scholars
From Muhammad’s life:
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Reported by Iben-Masoud, may Allah be pleased with him,: we were with
the Messenger of Allah pbuh traveling when he went to relief himself, we
saw a bird with two chicks, so we took them. The bird started trembling
and the Prophet (pbuh) came and asked: “who grieved this bird with its
children? return its children to it”. He also saw an ant village that
we’ve burnt and asked: “who burnt this?” we replied that it was us, he
then said: “No one should torture with fire but the god who created
fire”. Narrated by Abu-Dawoud with a good line of narrators.
8-Muhammad peace be upon him the merciful man:
From Muhammad’s sayings:
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Reported by Abu-kutada Al Harith, may Allah be pleased with him, that
the Prophet (pbuh) said: “when i get up for prayer i want to take my
time in it, but when i hear a child crying i hurry up in my prayer in
the fear of disturBing his mother (who is praying behind me)”. Narrated
by Buckhari.
From Muhammad’s life:
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Abu-Sulaiman Malek Bin Al-Huwaireeth, may Allah be pleased with him,
reported: we visited the Messenger of Allah pbuh when we were kindred
young men, and we stayed with him for 20 nights. The Messenger of Allah
pbuh was merciful and kind, and he thought that we missed our families
so he asked us about our families and whom we left behind From them.
Each of us answered, then he said: “go back to your families and stay
with them and teach them (the religion), order them to apply all the
teachings of islam and to pray each prayer in its time. The Prophet then
added, "pray as you have seen me praying and when it is the time for
the prayer, one of you should make the prayer announcement (athan) and
the eldest of you should lead the prayer.. agreed upon by the scholars
9-Muhammad ( peace be upon him) the ascetic:
From Muhammad’s sayings:
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The Messenger of Allah pbuh said: “the dead is followed by three: his
family, his money and his deeds; two would return and one would stay:
his family and money would return, and his deeds would stay”.
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Al-Mustowred Bin-Shaddad, may Allah be pleased with him, reported that
the Messenger of Allah pbuh said: “this life is in the life after the
same compared with what you get out of the sea when you put your
finger in it, see how much remains!”. Narratedby Muslim.
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Abu-Abbas Sahal Bin-Saad Al-Sa’edi, may Allah be pleased with him,
Narrated that a man came to the Prophet (pbuh) and said: ay Messenger of
Allah lead me to do something to gain Allah's love and the people's
too. he said: “renounce worldly pleasure and Allah would love you, and
renounce people's properties and they would love you”. A good saying
Narrated by Iben-Majah and others with good backgrounds.
From Muhammad’s life:
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Al-Nu’man Bin-Basheer, may Allah be pleased with them both, reported
that Omar Bin-Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, mentioned when
talking about the life of the people in this world: "i’ve seen the
Messenger of Allah (pbuh) would stay a whole day suffering From hunger
and would not find even the worst of dates to fill his stomach. Narrated
by Muslim.
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Reported by Amr Bin-Al-Hareth the brother of Juwairiya Bint-Al-Harith,
the mother of Momineen (wife of the Messenger pbuh), may Allah be
pleased with them both, said: the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) did not
leave, when he died, a dinar, nor a Dirham (money currencies) nor a
slave male or female, not a thing, except his white mule which he used
to ride, and his weapon and a land that he left as a charity for the
travelers in need. Narrated by Al-Bukhari.
-Abdullah
Bin-Al-Shikh’air, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: i approached
the Prophet pbuh while he was reciting From the Quran: {the mutual
rivalry (for piling up worldly things) diverts you} when he said: “the
son of adam would say: my money my money! and what would you get oh son
of adam From your money but what you have eaten and ended, or wore and
worn, or given as charity and be with it?!”. Narrated by Muslim.
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Reported by Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her,: the family of
Mohammed (pbuh) never felt filled (had enough) From the bread of wheat
two consecutive days until he died. agreed upon by the scholars.
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And in another Narration: The family of Mohammed pbuh never had enough
From the food of wheat for three consecutive nights since they arrived
to Al-Madeena until he died.
-Reported
by urwa, that Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, used to say: oh my
nephew (my sister’s son), by Allah, we used to watch the crescent moon
pass to the next crescent moon to the next: three crescent moons in two
months and not a fire would be started in any of the Messenger of
Allah’s, pbuh, houses. i asked her: oh aunt, so how did you live? she
answered: by the two blacks: the dates and the water, but the Messenger
of Allah, pbuh, used to have neighbors From Al-Ansar (the citizens of
Ml-Madinah who helped and gave aid to the immigrates) who used to have a
cattle and sent theProphet (pbuh) From its milk and he sent it to us to
drink. agreed upon by the scholars.
10-Muhammad (pbuh) bedding farewell :
From Muhammad's sayings:
Umar Ibn Al-Khattab narrated:
"I
sought permission of the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) to perform Umrah.
He gave me permission and said:"my younger brother, do not forget me in
your supplication. "
He
(Umar) said: he told me a word that pleased me so much so that i would
not have been pleased if i were given the whole world."
In another narration he (the Prophet)said: "my younger brother, share me in your supplication."
From Muhammad's life:
Abu-Sulaiman
Malek Bin Al-Huwaireeth, may Allah be pleased with him, reported: we
visited the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) when we were kindred young men,
and we stayed with him for 20 nights.The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) was
merciful and kind and he thought that we missed our families so he asked
us about our families and whom we left behind From them. Each of us
answered, then he said: “go back to your families and stay with them and
teach them (the religion), order them to apply all the teachings of
Islam and to pray each prayer in its time. The Prophet then added, "pray
as you have seen me praying and when it is the time for the prayer, one
of you should make the prayer announcement (athan) and the eldest of
you should lead the prayer.. agreed upon by the scholars
11-Muhammad(pbuh) the grateful :
From Muhammad's sayings:
Osama
Ibn Zaid (may Allah bless both of them) narrated: "the Prophet said:
"if someone makes you a favor and you said to him "may Allah reward you
handsomely.", you praised him very well"
From Muhammad's life:
Sa'd Ibn Abuwaqqas (may Allah bless him) reported:
"We
went out with the Prophet (peace be upon him) From mecca towards
Medina. when we were near Azwra', he got down his camel then raised his
hands, and made supplication to Allah for a time, then he prostrated to
Allah for a long time. this he did three times.
He
then said :" i begged Allah for intercession to all my followers, he
gave me a third of them, so i prostrated thankful to Allah. Then i
raised my head and begged him again for intercession to all my
followers, and he gave me another third of them, so i prostrated
thankful to Allah. then i raised my head and begged for intercession to
all my followers again and he gave me the remaining third, so i
prostrated to thank Allah for all that."
12-Muhammad (pbuh) being justice:
From Muhammad's sayings:
'Abdullah
.B. 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) reported, that the Prophet
(pbuh) said:" behold! the dispensers of justice will be seated on the
pulpits of light beside god :( the dispensers of justice are) those who
are justice in their rules, regarding their families and every single
detail in their life."
Jabir
B. Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's
Messenger (peace be upon him) said: "beware oppression, because it turns
into darkness on the day of resurrection, and beware penny-pinching
because it destroyed those who lived before you, as it incited them to
shed blood and commit incest."
From the life of Muhammad(pbuh):
An-Nu'man Bin Bashir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported:
That
his father took him to the Prophet and said, "i have given my son a
slave." the Prophet asked, "have you given all your sons the same like
you did with him?" he replied: "no". The Prophet said, "take back your
gift then."
