a flock of sheep that filled the space between two mountains. When the man returned to his people he said, “My people, embrace Islam, for Muhammad gives like one who has no fear of poverty.”

In the two Ṣaḥīḥs it is related from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī who said: “The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—was more modest than a secluded virgin, and whenever he disliked something we could see it in his face.”

The two Ṣaḥīḥs also report from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr—speaking of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him—that he said: “He was neither foul-mouthed nor deliberately coarse.”