Chapters on Manners

كتاب الأدب عن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم

Chapter 16: What Has Been Related About Paring The Moustache

Narrated Zaid bin Arqam

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Whoever does not take from his mustache, then he is not from us."

Chapter 17: What Has Been Related About Taking From The Beard

Narrated 'Amr bin Shu'aib

from his father, from his grandfather that he Prophet (ﷺ) would take from his beard; from its breadth and its length.

Chapter 24: Chapter ['A Man Is Not To Be Lead In His Dominion']

Narrated Abu Mas'ud

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "A man is not lead in his dominion, and his seat of honor in his house is not sat in without his permission."

Chapter 26: What Has Been Related About The Permission Regarding Using Anmat (Curtains, drapes, sheets, etc.)

Narrated Jabir

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "Do you have Anmat?" I said: "Where would we get Anmat from?" He said: "Soon you will have Anmat" He said: "I would say to my wife: 'Remove your Anmat from my sight.' But she would say: 'Did not the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: "Indeed you shall soon have Anmat?" He said: "So I left it."

Chapter 27: What Has Been Related About Three Riding On A Beast

Narrated Iyas bin Salamah

from his father who said: "I guided Allah's Prophet (ﷺ) and Al-Hasan and Al-Husain, on his gray mule until I brought him to the apartment of the Prophet (ﷺ), this one was in front of him, and this one behind him."

Chapter 28: What Has Been Related About The Unexpected Glance

Narrated Ibn Buraidah

from his father (from the Prophet (ﷺ)) who said: "O 'Ali! Do not follow a look with a look, the first is for you, but the next is not for you."

Chapter 33: What Has Been Related About Lengthening One's Hair, Seeking To Have Ones Hair Lengthened, Tattooing, And Seeking To Be Tattooed

(Another chain) with a similar narration

Chapter 34: What Has Been Related About Women Who Imitate Men

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the women who imitate men and the men who imitate women."

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed those men who behave effeminately and those women whose behavior is masculine."

Chapter 38: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked For Man's Skin To Touch A Man's Skin And A Woman's Skin To Touch A Woman's Skin

Narrated 'Abdullah

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "A woman is not to touch a woman such that she can describe her to her husband as if he is looking at her."

Chapter 40: What Has Been Related About The Thigh Being Part Of The 'Awrah

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "The thigh is 'Awrah."

Chapter 45: What Has Been Related About the Disdain of Wearing Garments Dyed With Safflower For Men And Al-Qassi

Narrated 'Ali bin Abi Talib

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited the gold ring, Al-Qassi, Al-Mitharah, and Al-Ji'ah (beer)."

Narrated Al-Bara bin 'Azib

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ordered us with seven things and he forbade us from seven. He ordered us to follow the funeral, visit the ill, reply to the sneezing person, accept the invitation, assist the oppressed, to help the one who made an oath, and to return the Salam. And he forbade us from seven things: From the gold ring, or ringlets of gold, silver vessels, wearing silk, Ad-Dibaj, Al-Istabraq, And Al-Qassi."

Chapter 48: What Has Been Related About The Green Garment

Narrated Abu Rimthah

"I saw the Messenger of Allah wearing two green Burud."

Chapter 51: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked For Men To Use Saffron And Khaluq (a fragrance made from saffron and other fragrances which is mostly red and yellow)

Narrated Anas bin Malik

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited saffron for men.

Chapter 52: What Has Been Related About It Being Disliked To Use Silk And Ad-Dibaj (Heavy silk)

Narrated The freed slave of Asma

from Ibn 'Umar who said: "I heard 'Umar mentioning that the Prophet (ﷺ) said: 'Whoever wears silk in the world he shall not wear it in the Hereafter.'"

Chapter 53: Chapter [The Prophet (SAW) Keeping A Cloak For Makhramah And His Courteousness With Him]

Narrated Al-Miswar bin Makhramah

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) distributed some cloaks but he did not give anything to Makhramah. Makhramah said: 'O my son! Let us go to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ).' So I went with him. He said: 'Enter and call him for me.'So I called the Prophet (ﷺ) for him, then the Prophet (ﷺ) came out wearing one of the cloaks. He (ﷺ) said: 'I kept this one for you.'" He said: "So he looked at him and said: 'Makhramah is pleased.'"

Chapter 57: What Has Been Related About 'The One Whose Counsel Is Sought Is Entrusted'

Narrated Abu Hurairah

that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "The one whose counsel is sought is entrusted."

Chapter 25: What Has Been Related About 'A Man Has More Right To The Front Of His Beast.'

Narrated 'Abdullah bin Buraidah

"I heard my father Buraidah saying: 'I was walking with the Prophet (ﷺ) when a man came to him with a donkey, so he said: "O Messenger of Allah! Ride" and the man moved toward the back. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "No, you have more right to the front of your beast, unless you allot it for me." He said: "I have allotted it for you.'" He said: 'So he rode.'"

Chapter 29: What Has Been Related About Women Veiling From Men

Narrated Nabhan the freed slave of Umm Salamah

to Ibn Shihab, that Umm Salamah narrated to him, that she and Maimunah were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), she said: "So when we were with him, Ibn Umm Maktum came, and he entered upon him, and that was after veiling had been ordered for us. So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'Veil yourselves from him.' So I said: 'O Messenger of Allah! Is he not blind such that he can not see us or recognize us?' So the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: 'Are you two blind such that you can not see him?'"