So he replied:

The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was perpetually cheerful, easy-natured, and gentle. He was neither harsh nor hard-hearted, neither loud-voiced nor foul-tongued, neither fault-finding nor tight-fisted. He would overlook what he disliked, never driving away those who placed their hopes in him, nor ever letting them leave disappointed.

He had renounced for himself three things: disputation, excessive talk, and whatever—⦗24⦘