(to enter the dwelling place of somebody else)

CHAPTER 1. The small number (of persons) should greet the large number (of persons).

8:250 Narrated Abü Huraira:

The Prophet said, “The young should greet the old, the passerby should greet the sitting one, and the small group of persons should greet the large group of persons.”

CHAPTER 2. The walking person should greet the sitting one. 

8:252 A Narrated (Abü Huraira)

Allah’s Messenger said, “The riding person should greet the walking one, and the walking one should greet the sitting one, and the small number of persons should greet the large number of persons.”

CHAPTER 3. To greet those whom one knows and those whom one does not know.

8:253B Narrated ‘Abdullâh bin ‘Amr:

A man asked the Prophet “What sort of deeds or traits of Islam are good?” The Prophet said, “To feed others, and to greet those whom you know and those whom you do not know.”

CHAPTER 4. Asking permission (for entering) is enjoined because of looking (i.e., lest one should look at the occupants of the house who may be in a state in which they dislike to be seen by others).

8:258 Narrated Sahi bin Sa’d;

A man peeped through a round hole into the dwelling place of the Prophet while the Prophet had a Midra (an iron comb) with which he was scratching his head, the Prophet; said, “Had I known you were looking (through the hole), I would have pierced your eye with it (i.e., the comb).” Verily! The order of taking permission to enter has been enjoined because of that sight, (that one should not look unlawfully at the state of others).

CHAPTER 5. (What is said regarding) the adultery of the body parts other than the private parts.

8:260 Narrated Ibn ‘Abbâs;

(on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Prophet said: “Allah has written for Adam’s son his share of adultery which he commits inevitably. The adultery of the eyes is the sight (to gaze at a forbidden thing), the adultery of the tongue is the talk, and the innerself wishes and desires and the private parts testify all this or deny it.”

CHAPTER 6. To greet the boys.

8:264 Narrated Anas bin Mâlik;

that he passed by a group of boys and greeted them and said, “The Prophet to, used to do so.”

CHAPTER 7. If somebody says, “Who is that?” And another replies, “I.”

8:267 Narrated Jâbir bin ‘Abdullâh came to the Prophet in order to consult him regarding my father’s debt. When I knocked at the door, he asked, “Who is that?” I ” replied, ” I,, He said, I, I? He repeated it as if he disliked it.

CHAPTER 8. To make room in the assemblies.

8:286, 287 Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:

The Prophet said, “A man should not make another man get up from his (the latter’s) seat (in a gathering) in order to sit there, but should make room and spread out.”

CHAPTER 9. The Ihtibâ’ with the hand, [i.e., Al-Qurfusa’ (a sitting posture wherein one sits with one’s legs drawn up and wrapped in one’s garment or surrounded with one’s arms.)]

8:289 Narrated (Ibn ‘Umar)

I saw Allah’s Messenger, in the courtyard of the Ka’ba in the Ihtibá’ posture putting his hand round his legs like this.

CHAPTER 10. If in a gathering there are more than three persons, then there is no harm if two of them have a secret talk.

8:305 Narrated ‘Abdullâh:

The Prophet, u said, “When you are three persons sitting together, then no two of you should hold secret counsel excluding the third person until you are with some other people too, for that would grieve him.”

CHAPTER 11. Fire (lanterns, etc.) should not be kept lit in the house at bedtime.

8:309 Narrated Abü Müsa:

One night a house in Al-Madina was burnt with its occupants. The Prophet spoke about them, saying, “This fire is indeed your enemy, so whenever you go to bed, put it out to protect yourselves.”

CHAPTER 12. What has been mentioned regarding the buildings.

8:315 Narrated Ibn ‘Umar ‘:

During the lifetime of the Prophet, I built a house with my own hands so that it might protect me from the rain and shade me from the sun and none of Allah’s creatures assisted me in building it.