Reports on the traits ingrained in a believer

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): "What is the deed that saves the servant from Hell?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: "Belief in Allah." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked: "O Prophet of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), is there some deed along with faith?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You should give from the provision Allah has given you." Or he said: "He should give from the provision Allah has given him."

Umm Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) said that a man asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): "What is faith?" She (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "Shall I explain in detail or state it briefly?" He said: "No, rather state it briefly." She (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "Whoever is pleased by his good deed and troubled by his evil deed is a believer."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer is not one who taunts and disparages, nor one who curses, nor one who speaks obscenely and foully."

Mus'ab bin Sa'd (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "A believer can become accustomed to all things, but not to treachery and lying."

Abd al-Rahman bin Yazid (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "A believer can adopt all habits except treachery and lying."

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "A believer can adopt all habits, but not treachery and lying."

Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In the last times there will be so many trials, like a portion of the dark night. A man will reach the morning as a believer and reach the evening as a disbeliever, and he will reach the evening as a believer and reach the morning as a disbeliever."

Ata bin Yasar (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin al-Hakam al-Sulami (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I had a slave girl who used to graze my goats at Uhud and al-Jawwaniyyah. One day I went to her, and suddenly a wolf made off with one goat from the flock. He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I am a man from among the sons of Adam; I grieve as they grieve. But I struck her hard on the face. Then I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and this was weighing very heavily on me. I said: "O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), shall I not free her?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Bring her to me." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked her: "Where is Allah?" She said: "In the heaven." He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who am I?" She said: "You are the Messenger of Allah." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Free her, for she is a believer."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), and from al-Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) who traced it back to the Prophet, that a man came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "My mother owes a believing slave woman, and I have a black, non-Arab slave woman." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Bring her to me." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Do you testify that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah?" She said: "Yes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Free her."