Noble Qualities of the Sahabiyyāt to Inculcate
- Ustadh Mohammed

- Oct 8, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 1, 2025
Generosity and Charity: like how on the day of ʿĪd, the women were the ones who gave the most charity from their treasured jewellery, despite their hard circumstances, as they were keen to carry out the Prophet ﷺ's instructions without hesitation.
Sincere Devotion: like how Zaynab (raḍī Allāhu ʿanhā) would pray until she would have to hold on to a rope to stand in prayer, or how the sister of ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmīr pledged to walk to the kaʿbah, but the Prophet ﷺ instructed her to walk parts and ride at other parts.
Honesty/Admitting Faults: like how the woman who wanted to blame another for a needle that had gone through her hand, when she was reminded of the verse of the Qur'ān [3:77], she retracted her claim.
Patience in Adversity: like the mother of Hāritha when she lost her son to martyrdom, upon hearing from the Prophet ﷺ that he was in Jannah; bore the trial with patience.
Aspiring to Perfection: like the woman who had epilepsy that chose to bear the trial with patience over having the Prophet ﷺ make duʿa to cure her, and only asking that he made duʿa so she wouldn't get uncovered in such epileptic fits in order to preserve modesty; despite there being no blame on her for becoming uncovered due to something she couldn't control.
Self-Sacrifice: like in the ḥadīth where a woman, who was about to be thrown into a fire for refusing to renounce her faith, remained steadfast and surrendered to Allāh, holding to the words of her young son: "Mother, remain steadfast, because you are following the truth."
Dutifulness to Parents in Life and Death: like the woman who came to the Prophet ﷺ asking if she should fast and do ḥajj on behalf of her mother, and the woman who asked to fast on her mother's behalf since her mother died before fulfilling her pledge to fast.
Preserving One's Chastity: like one of the three men from the ḥadīth of the Prophet ﷺ that were trapped in a cave behind a rock who wished to commit the unlawful with his female cousin. When the opportunity was presented to him, and she told him: "Fear Allāh and do not take me except lawfully," he rose and left her alone.
Keenness to be Purged of Sin: like the Ghāmidī woman who came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and admitted to committing the sin of adultery; looking to expiate her sins with the punishment prescribed by the shariʿah.


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