The Messenger of Allah then gave them the glad tidings of goodness and of Paradise, and said:
“Indeed Allah has blessed these ten (dirhams): He clothed His Prophet with a shirt, clothed a man from the Anṣār with a shirt, and He freed a slave through them. I praise Allah; it is He who, by His power, has provided us with this.”
This wording is reported by al-Ṭabarānī. In its chain is Ayyūb ibn Nahīk al-Halabī, whom Abū Ḥātim declared weak; Abū Zurʿah said, “His ḥadīth is objectionable,” and al-Azdī said, “He is abandoned.” (1)
Imām Aḥmad (2) said: ʿAffān narrated to us; Ḥammād narrated to us, from Thābit, from Anas: A woman who suffered from a mental impairment said, “O Messenger of Allah, I have a need.” He replied,
“O mother of so-and-so, choose whichever path you wish.”
He then rose and spoke with her in private until her need was fulfilled. Muslim likewise related it (3) through Ḥammād ibn Salamah.
It is also established in the two Ṣaḥīḥs, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, that he said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never found fault with any food; if he wished to eat it he did so, and if not he simply left it.” (4)
Al-Thawrī narrated, from al-Aswad ibn Qays, from Nabīḥ al-ʿAnazī, from Jābir, who said: The Messenger of Allah came to us at our house, so we slaughtered a sheep for him. He remarked, “It is as though they knew we are fond of meat.” (5) — and the narration continues.
Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated, from Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, from Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, from his father, who said: “Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sat and spoke, he would often lift his gaze toward the sky.” Abū Dāwūd transmitted it as well in the Book of Manners of his Sunan (6) with this chain.
Abū Dāwūd also said: Salamah ibn Shuʿayb narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī narrated to us, from Rabiḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from his father, from his grandfather Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī: that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sat, he would draw up his knees and clasp them with his hands. (7)