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Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “The riding one should greet the walking one, and the walking one should greet
the sitting one, and the small number of persons should greet the large number of persons.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘Beware! Avoid sitting on the roads.” They (the people) said, “O Allah s Apostle!
We can’t help sitting (on the roads) as these are (our places) here we have talks.” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ‘ l f
you refuse but to sit, then pay the road its right ‘ They said, “What is the right of the road, O Allah’s
Apostle?” He said, ‘Lowering your gaze, refraining from harming others, returning greeting, and
enjoining what is good, and forbidding what is evil.”

When we prayed with the Prophet (ﷺ) we used to say: As-Salam be on Allah from His worshipers, As-
Salam be on Gabriel, As-Salam be on Michael, As-Salam be on so-and-so. When the Prophet (ﷺ) finished
his prayer, he faced us and said, “Allah Himself is As-Salam (Peace), so when one sits in the prayer,
one should say, ‘at-Tahiyatu-li l-lahi Was-Salawatu, Wat-Taiyibatu, As-Salamu ‘Alaika aiyuhan-
Nabiyyu wa Rah-matul-iahi wa Barakatuhu, As-Salamu ‘Alaina wa ‘ala ‘Ibadillahi assalihin, for if he
says so, then it will be for all the pious slave of Allah in the Heavens and the Earth. (Then he should
say), ‘Ash-hadu an la ilaha illalllahu wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan `Abduhu wa rasulu-hu,’ and
then he can choose whatever speech (i.e. invocation) he wishes ” (See Hadith No. 797, Vol. 1).

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah created Adam in His picture, sixty cubits (about 30 meters) in height. When
He created him, He said (to him), “Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen what they
will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring.” Adam (went
and) said, ‘As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).’ They replied, ‘AsSalamu-‘Alaika wa
Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah’s Mercy be on you) So they increased ‘Wa Rahmatullah’ The Prophet (ﷺ)
added ‘So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam Since then the
creation of Adam’s (offspring) (i.e. stature of human beings is being diminished continuously) to the
present time.”

Al-Fadl bin `Abbas rode behind the Prophet (ﷺ) as his companion rider on the back portion of his she
camel on the Day of Nahr (slaughtering of sacrifice, 10th Dhul-Hijja) and Al-Fadl was a handsome
man. The Prophet (ﷺ) stopped to give the people verdicts. In the meantime, a beautiful woman From the
tribe of Khath’am came, asking the verdict of Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). Al-Fadl started looking at her as her
beauty attracted him. The Prophet (ﷺ) looked behind while Al-Fadl was looking at her; so the Prophet (ﷺ)
held out his hand backwards and caught the chin of Al-Fadl and turned his face (to the owner sides in
order that he should not gaze at her. She said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! The obligation of Performing Hajj
enjoined by Allah on His worshipers, has become due (compulsory) on my father who is an old man
and who cannot sit firmly on the riding animal. Will it be sufficient that I perform Hajj on his behalf?”
He said, “Yes.”

Two men sneezed before the Prophet (ﷺ) and he said Tashmit to one of them, while he did not say
Tashmit to the other. So that man said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! You said Tashmit to that fellow but you
did not say Tashmit to me. “The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “That man praised Allah, but you did not praise Allah.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah loves sneezing but dislikes yawning; so if anyone of you sneezes and then
praises Allah, every Muslim who hears him (praising Allah) has to say Tashmit to him. But as regards
yawning, it is from Satan, so if one of you yawns, he should try his best to stop it, for when anyone of
you yawns, Satan laughs at him.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “Allah likes sneezing and dislikes yawning, so if someone sneezes and then praises
Allah, then it is obligatory on every Muslim who heard him, to say: May Allah be merciful to you
(Yar-hamuka-l-lah). But as regards yawning, it is from Satan, so one must try one’s best to stop it, if
one says ‘Ha’ when yawning, Satan will laugh at him.”

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, ” If anyone of you sneezes, he should say ‘Al-Hamduli l-lah’ (Praise be to Allah),
and his (Muslim) brother or companion should say to him, ‘Yar-hamuka-l-lah’ (May Allah bestow his
Mercy on you). When the latter says ‘Yar-hamuka-llah”, the former should say, ‘Yahdikumul-lah wa
Yuslih balakum’ (May Allah give you guidance and improve your condition).

Two men sneezed before the Prophet. The Prophet (ﷺ) said to one of them, “May Allah bestow His Mercy
on you,” but he did not say that to the other. On being asked (why), the Prophet (ﷺ) said, “That one
praised Allah (at the time of sneezing), while the other did not praise Allah.”