Muhammad

Arabian political leader and the founder of Islam

571–632

10 quotes, most often on Charity.

The best among you are those who are best to their wives.
Narrated in Ibn Majah, #1978, and Al-Tirmizi, #3895.
- Marriage
O believing women! Let none of you despise giving to her neighbour even if it is only a roasted sheep’s trotter.
Sunni Hadith
- Charity
Treat the people with ease and don’t be hard on them; give them glad tidings and don’t fill them with aversion; and love each other, and don’t differ.
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Number 275
- Advice
- Leadership
If a man says to his Muslim brother, ‘O unbeliever!’ it is true about one of them.
Sunni Hadith
- Religion
People, beware of injustice, for injustice shall be darkness on the Day of Judgment.
Sunni Hadith
- Justice
It is better for any of you to carry a load of firewood on his own back than to beg from someone else.
Riyadh-Us-Saleheen, Chapter 59, hadith 540
- Work
The upper hand is better than the lower hand. The upper hand is the one which spends and the lower is the beggar’s.
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
- Charity
Modesty is part of belief.
Hadith, in Riyadh as-Salihin by al-Nawawi, vol. 4, no. 681
- Faith
- Virtue
One of the most evil of people is the two-faced person who shows one face to these people and another face to those people.
Muwatta of Imam Malik, Speech, hadith 21
- Character
- Good & Evil
A strong person is not the person who throws his adversaries to the ground. A strong person is the person who contains himself when he is angry.
Muwatta of Imam Malik, Good Character, hadith 12
- Anger

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