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(Adab)
أَدَب
The Manners of the Believer
The manners the Prophet ﷺ taught and lived, from waking to sleep.
By Mike Rashid King • Allah's Humble Servant
Salman al-Farsi was told: your Prophet ﷺ has taught you everything, even how to relieve yourselves. He did not argue. He said yes, and he listed what the Prophet ﷺ had taught them.
Nothing in a believer's day sits outside the teaching. How he wakes. How he greets. How he eats. How he speaks. How he lies down at night. That is adab (أدب): the right conduct for each moment.
These pages follow a day from waking to sleep. Each one gives what he ﷺ did and taught, with the source and its grade, and what I take from it. Read one. Practice it until it is yours. Then read the next.
(The day)
Seven topics, from waking to sleep
- 01WakingThe first words of the day, the three knots, and the blessing in the early hours.الِاسْتِيقَاظ
- 02The HomeLeaving the house and coming back to it. In preparation.الْبَيْت
- 03The GreetingThe greeting of peace, given and returned. In preparation.السَّلَام
- 04The MasjidWalking to the place of prostration, entering it, and sitting in it. In preparation.الْمَسْجِد
- 05Eating and DrinkingBefore the meal, during it, and after it. In preparation.الطَّعَام وَالشَّرَاب
- 06SpeechWhat a man says, and what he leaves unsaid. In preparation.الْكَلَام
- 07SleepThe last words of the day and the way he lay down. In preparation.النَّوْم
(A note on method)
How to read these pages
Every practice here is given as it was reported, with its reference and the grade shown for it on sunnah.com. Only reports graded sahih (authentic) or hasan (good) are used. Where the scholars differ on a detail, the page says so. These pages share and reflect. A ruling on your own situation belongs to a scholar you trust.