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 Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم had commanded me; so I went out and came upon some boys who were playing in the street. All of a sudden the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم who had come up behind caught me by the back of the neck, and when I looked at him he was laughing. He said: Go where I ordered you, little Anas. I replied: Yes, I am going, Messenger of Allah! Anas said: I swear by Allah, I served him for seven or nine years, and he never said to me about a thing which I had done: Why did you do such and such? Nor about a thing which I left: Why did not do such and such?

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? or Why did you not 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 up as he stood up and we saw that an Arabi (a nomadic Arab) caught hold of him and gave his cloak a violent tug making his neck red. Abu Hurairah said: The cloak was coarse. He turned to him and the Arabi said to him: Load these two camels of mine, for you do not give me anything from your property or from your father's property. The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said to him: No, I ask Allah's forgiveness; no, I ask Allah's forgiveness; no, I ask Allah's forgiveness. I shall not give you the camel-load until you make amends for the way in which you tugged at me. Each time the Arabi said to him: I swear by Allah, I shall not do so. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition. He (the Prophet), then called a man and said to him: Load these two camels of his: one camel with barley and the other with dates. He then turned to us and said: Go on your way with the blessing of Allah.

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 ask him to choose any of the bright and large eyed maidens he wishes. Abu Dawud said: The name if the transmitter Abu Marhum is Abdur-Rahman bin Maimun

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 fill his heart with security and faith. He did not mention the words Allah will call him . This version further adds: He who gives up wearing beautiful garments when he is able to do so (out of humility, as Bishr's version has) will be clothed by Allah with the robe of honour, and he who marries for Allah's sake will be crowned by Allah with the crown of Kingdom.

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 he is angry.

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 ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: I know a phrase which, if he repeated, he could get rid of this angry feeling. They asked: What is it, Messenger of Allah? He replied: He should say: I seek refuge in Thee from the accursed devil. Muadh then began to ask him to do so, but he refused and persisted in quarrelling, and began to enhance his anger.

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 repeating which the man could get rid of the angry feelings: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed devil. The man said: Do you see insanity in me.

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 the authority of my grandfather Atiyyah who reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: Anger comes from the devil, the devil was created of fire, and fire is extinguished only with water; so when one of you becomes angry, he should perform ablution.

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 Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم never took revenge on his own behalf for anything unless something Allah had forbidden has been transgressed, in which event he took revenge for it for Allah’s sake.

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 such and such?

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 out, he said: Would that you asked him to wash it from him. Abu Dawud said: Salam is not 'Alawi (from the descendants of Ali). He used to foretell events by stars. He bore witness before Abi bin Arafat to the visibility of moon, but he did not accept his witness.

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 asked: Messenger of Allah! You spoke to him leniently while you said about him what you said! He replied: The one who will have the worst position in Allah’s estimation on the day of resurrection will be the one whom people left alone for fear of his ribaldry.

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 frank and friendly way and spoke to him. When he departed, I said: Messenger of Allah! When he asked permission, you said: He is a bad member of the tribe, but when he entered, you treated him in a frank and friendly way. The Messenger of Allah replied: Aishah! Allah does not like the one who is unseemly and lewd in his language.

The tradition mentioned above has been transmitted by Aishah through a different chain of narrators. This version has: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Aishah! There are some bad people who are respected for fear of their tongues.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik: I never said that when any man brought his mouth to the ear of the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and he withdrew his head until the man himself withdrew his head, and I never saw that when any man took him by his hand and he withdrew his hand, until the man himself withdrew his hand.

Abdullah bin Umar said: The Prophet صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم passed by a man of the Ansar when he was giving his brother a warning against modesty. The Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم said: Leave him alone, for modesty is a part of faith.

Abu Qatadah said: We were sitting with Imran bin Hussain and Bushair bin Kaab was also there. Imran bin Hussain reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: Modesty is a good altogether, or he said: Modesty is altogether good. Bushair bin Kaab said: We find in some books that there is a modesty which produces peace and dignified bearing, and there is a modesty which produces weakness. Imran bin Hussain repeated the same words. So Imran became angry so much so that his eyes became red, and he said: Don’t you see that i am transmitting a tradition from the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم and you are mentioning something from your books? He (Qatadah) said: We said: Abu Nujaid, it is sufficient.

Abu Masud reported the Messenger of Allah صلی ‌اللہ ‌علیہ ‌وسلم as saying: One of the things people have learnt from the words of the earliest prophecy is: If you have no shame, do what you like.