General Behavior (Kitab Al-Adab)

كتاب الأدب

Chapter 140: How many times should one say salam when seeking permission to enter

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Musa through a different chain of narrators in a similar manner. This version has

‘Umar said to Abd Musa: I do not blame you, but I am afraid that the people may talk carelessly about the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him).

Narrated Abdullah ibn Busr

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to some people's door, he did not face it squarely, but faced the right or left corner, and said: Peace be upon you! peace be upon you! That was because there were no curtains on the doors of the house at that time.

Chapter 141: Asking permission to enter by knocking

Jabir said that he went to the prophet (ﷺ) about the debt of my father. He said

I knocked at the door. He asked : who is there? I replied: it is I. he said: I, as though he disapproved of it.

Chapter 143: Asking permission to enter at the three times of undress

Narrated Abdullah Ibn Abbas

Ikrimah said: A group of people from Iraq said: Ibn Abbas, what is your opinion about the verse in which we have been commanded whatever we have been commanded, but no one acts upon it? The word of Allah, Most High, reads: "O ye who believe! Let those whom your right hands possess, and the (children) among you, who have not come of age, ask your permission (before) they enter your presence on three occasions: before morning prayer, while you are undressing for the noonday heat, and after late-night prayer. These are your three times of undress; outside those times it is not wrong for you or for them to move about."

Al-Qa'nabi recited the verse up to "full of knowledge and wisdom".

Ibn Abbas said: Allah is Most Clement and Most Merciful to the believers. He loves concealment. The people had neither curtains nor curtained canopies in their houses. Sometimes a servant, a child or a female orphan of a man entered while the man was having sexual intercourse with his wife. So Allah commanded them to ask permission in those times of undress. Then Allah brought them curtains and all good things. But I did not see anyone following it after that.

Abu Dawud said: The tradition of 'Ubaid Allah and of 'Ata, weakens this tradition.

Chapter 144: Spreading salam

‘Abd Allah b. ‘Amr said

A man asked the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him): When aspect of Islam is best? He replied: that you should provide food and greet both those you know and those you do not know.

Chapter 146: The virtue of the one who initiates the greeting of salam

Narrated AbuUmamah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Those who are nearest to Allah are they who are first to give a salutation.

Chapter 147: Regarding who should be greeted first

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying

The young should salute the old, the one who is passing by should salute the one who is sitting, and a small company should salute a large one.

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him) as saying

one who is riding should salute one who is walking. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition.

Chapter 148: Regarding when a man parts from another, then meets him again, he should greet him with the salam

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas

Umar came to the Prophet (ﷺ) when he was in his wooden oriel, and said to him: Peace be upon you. Messenger of Allah, peace be upon you! May Umar enter ?

Chapter 149: Regarding greeting children

Narrated Anas ibn Malik

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to some children who were playing: He saluted them.

Chapter 150: Regarding greeting women

Asma', daughter of Yazid, said

the Prophet (ﷺ), passed us by when we were with some women and gave us a salutation.

Chapter 151: Regarding greeting Ahl-ad-dhimmah

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of the Jews greets you saying: Death may come upon you, reply: The same to you.

Abu Dawud said: Malik b. 'Adb Allah b. Dinar transmitted it in a similar manner, and al-Thawri transmitted it from 'Abd Allah b. Dinar. He said in this version: The same to you.

Chapter 152: Regarding saying the salam when leaving the gathering

Narrated AbuHurayrah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you comes to an assembly, he should give a salutation and if he feels inclined to get up, he should give a salutation, for the former is not more of a duty than the latter.

Chapter 154: What has been narrated about one person responding on behalf of a group

Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib

AbuDawud said: Al-Hasan ibn Ali traced this tradition back to the Prophet (ﷺ): When people are passing by, it is enough if one of them gives a salutation on their behalf, and that it is enough for those who are sitting if one of them replies.

Chapter 155: Regarding shaking hands

Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If two Muslims meet, shake hands, praise Allah, and ask Him for forgiveness, they will be forgiven.

Chapter 157: Standing to receive someone

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri said

When Banu Quraizah capitulated agreeing to accept Sa’d’s judgement, the Prophet (ﷺ) sent a messenger to him. When he came riding on a white ass, the prophet (ﷺ) said: stand up to (show respect to) your chief, or he said : “to the best of you”. He came and sat beside the Messenger of Allah (May peace be upon him).

Chapter 135: Regarding the rights of slaves

Hilal b. Yasaf said

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 on that day. He said: there is no alternative for you except to free her. I was the seventh child in order of Muqarrin and we had only a female servant. The youngest of us gave a slap on her face. The prophet (May peace be upon him) commanded us to set her free.

Narrated Mu'awiyah ibn Suwayd ibn Muqarrin

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. A man of us slapped her. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Set her free. They said: We have no other servant than her. He said: She must serve them till they become well off. When they become well off, they should set her free.

Chapter 138: Seeking permission to enter

Narrated Huzayl

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 is meant to escape from the look of an eye.

A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Talhah b. Musarrif from a man from Sa’d from the prophet (May peace be upon him) through a different chain of narrators.