“Indeed, We have sent you as a witness, a bearer of glad tidings, and a warner” (al-Fath 48:8)
—and as a safeguard for the unlettered. You are My servant and My Messenger; I have called you al-Mutawakkil (the one who puts his full trust in God). You are neither harsh nor hard-hearted, nor do you raise your voice in the market-places. You do not repay evil with evil; rather, you pardon and overlook. Allah will not take you unto Himself until, through you, He has set the crooked religion aright so that the people will proclaim, “There is no god but Allah,” and He will open blind eyes, deaf ears, and sealed hearts.

This has been related from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām and Kaʿb al-Aḥbār.

Al-Bukhārī (1) said: Musaddad narrated to us; Yaḥyā narrated to us; from Shuʿbah; from Qatādah; from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī ʿUtbah; from Abū Saʿīd, who said, “The Prophet ﷺ was more modest than a veiled virgin in her own chamber.”

Ibn Bashhār narrated to us; Yaḥyā and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us; they said, “Shuʿbah narrated to us the same,” and whenever he disliked something it was apparent on his face. Muslim (2) also transmitted it through Shuʿbah.

Imām Aḥmad (3) said: Abū ʿĀmir narrated to us; Fulayḥ narrated to us; from Hilāl ibn ʿAlī; from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was neither a reviler, nor a curser, nor obscene. When he reproached any one of us, he would say, ‘What is the matter with him—may dust cling to his forehead!’”

Al-Bukhārī (4) related this through Muḥammad ibn Sinān from Fulayḥ.

In the two Ṣaḥīḥs—Muslim giving the wording—Ḥammād ibn Zayd related from Thābit, from Anas, who said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was the most handsome of people, the most generous of people, and the bravest of people. One night the people of Madinah were alarmed by a sound. A group set out toward the noise, but the Messenger of Allah ﷺ met them on his way back, having reached the sound before them. He was riding bareback on a horse belonging to Abū Ṭalḥah, with a sword slung from his neck, and he kept saying, ‘Do not be afraid, do not be afraid.’ He added, ‘We found it (the horse) like the sea—indeed, it is a sea.’” Anas concluded: “That horse had previously been considered slow.”