Assalam alaikum, The following hadith are narrated from the Prophet Muhammad, upon whom be peace. They are extracted from a book entitled `The content of character: ethical sayings of the Prophet Muhammad' collected by Al-Amin Ali Mazrui translated by Hamza Yusuf. The text is much more comprehensive and if you like this extract, I suggest you buy the book.
"Love for humanity what you love for yourself" [Bukhari] "If your deeds delight you and your sins distress you, then you are a believer" [Diyya] "Consideration is from God, and haste is from the devil" [Baihaqi] "God is Beautiful and loves beauty" [Muslim] "Beware of suspicion for it is the most deceitful of thoughts [Bukhari] "Keep God in mind wherever you are, follow a wrong with a right that offsets it, and treat people courteously" [Tirmidhi] "Amongst those not graced with God's glance on the day of judgment are a person who breaks the ties of kinship and an obnoxious neighbour" [Daylami] "After obligatory rights, the action most beloved to God is delighting other Muslims" [Tabarani] "Should you become eager to mention another's faults, remember your own" [Rafi] "Should you wish to act, ponder the consequences. If good, carry on, if bad, desist" [Ibn al-Mabarak] "Should any of you burp or sneeze, let him stifle the sound" [Baihaqi] "Should any of you yawn, let him place his hand over his mouth to avoid a yawner's howl. Even Satan derides the howling yawner" [Ibn Majah] "If a people's dignitary pays a visit, honour him" [Ibn Majah] "Since the successful are always envied, use discretion in fulfilling your needs" [Tabarani] "The most virtuous behavior is to engage those who sever relations, to give to those who withhold from you, and to forgive those who wrong you" [Tabarani] "The most rewarding visitation to the sick is the one that is appropriately brief" [Daylami] "May God have mercy on a person who spoke well and gained good, or kept quiet and avoided harm" [Ibn al-Mubarak] "What enables people to enter paradise more than anything is piety and good character" [Tirmidhi] "To acquire some useful knowledge is better than to perform a hundred devotional prayers voluntarily" [Ibn Majah] "Exchange gifts and mutual love arises; shake hands, and enmity will fall away" [Ibn Asakir] "Stay clean as best you can, for God established Islam upon cleanliness" [Raffi] "Seek our remedies for your ailments, o servants of God, for God has not created a disease without creating a corresponding cure" [Ahmad] "Paradise lies beneath the feet of mothers" [Ahmed] "An older brothers right over his younger siblings is similar to a fathe's right over his children" [Bayhaqi] "Set aside what causes you doubt for what does not" [Tirmidhi] "He who directs a person to a good deed is like the one who did the good deed; and certainly, God loves the act of helping the distressed" [Ibn Abu ad-Dunya] "A person has done enough wrong in his life if he simply repeats everything he hears" [Muslim] "If a Muslim consoles his brother during some crisis, God will adorn him in garments of grace on the day of judgment" [Ibn Majah] "God veils the faults of anyone who suppresses his anger" [Ibn Abi ad-Dunya] "Never express joy at your fellow man's afflictions, for God just might free him of them and afflict you" [Tabarani] "Do not do in private what you would conceal from others in public (i.e. bad habbits)" [Ibn Majah] "Anyone who separates a mother from her child is condemned" [Baihaqi] "Whoever does you a favor repay him, and if you are unable to, then at least pray for him" [Tabarani] "He who sins laughing enters hell crying" [Abu Nuaym] The book includes full biographies on these scholars who narrated the hadith, however as a guideline the period in which these scholars lived in are as follows: Abu Nuaym: 4th century Daylami: 5th century Baihaqi: 4th century Bukhari: 2nd century Rafii: 6th century Tabarani: 3rd century Tirmidhi: 3rd century Ibn al-Mubarak: 2nd century Ibn al-Asakir: 6th century Ibn Majah: 3rd century Muslim: 3rd century fi amanillah, wa salam, f
