Adab
🤝 Adab of Greeting (Salām)
Spread the salām — it plants love between believers.
- 1.
‘You will not enter Paradise until you believe, and you will not believe until you love one another. Shall I tell you what will make you love one another? Spread the salām among you.’
Muslim 54
- 2.
The rider greets the walker, the walker the seated, and the smaller group the larger.
Bukhārī 6231
- 3.
Return a greeting with one better, or at least its equal.
Qurʾān 4:86
- 4.
Say ‘As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuh’ for the fullest reward — thirty ḥasanāt.
Abū Dāwūd 5195
- 5.
Do not initiate the salām to non-Muslims combatively, but respond kindly to greetings.
Muslim 2167