The ethics of the new community in Medina

In Medina the Prophet taught his companions manners that build a community: spreading the greeting of peace, feeding the hungry, keeping the ties of kinship, loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself, and making one's neighbour safe from one's harms. ^{1 2}

The Prophet said to Abd Allah ibn Salam: "Spread the greeting of peace, feed people, keep the ties of kinship, pray at night while people sleep, and you will enter Paradise in peace." ¹ He said: "One who does not make his neighbour safe from his harms will not enter Paradise," and that "the Muslim is one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe." ¹ He said that the believers are like one man, that the believer to the believer is like a building whose parts support one another, and that one should love for one's brother what one loves for oneself. ^{1 3} He forbade hatred, envy, and turning away from one another, and that a Muslim should shun his brother for more than three days. ³ He made the removal of harm from the road a charity and one of the branches of faith, and said that charity extinguishes sins as water extinguishes fire. ³

• The hadiths here are as the book cites them, with the narrations of the two Sahihs and the Sunan. The museum mentions them to show the manners on which the new community was founded, not to judge their chains of transmission.