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Muawiya Bin AlHakam said: While I was praying with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ; a man in the company sneezed. I said: Allah have mercy on you! The people stared at me with disapproving looks; so I said: Woe be upon me; why is it that you stare at me? They began to strike their hands on their thighs; and when I saw them urging me to observe silence I became angry but I said nothing. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had said the prayer and I declare that neither before him nor after him have I seen a leader who gave better instruction than he for whom I would give my father and mother as ransom. I swear that he did not scold; beat or revile me but said: Talking to persons is not fitting during the prayer; for it consists of glorifying Allah; declaring his Greatness. and recitation of the Quran or words to that effect. I said: Messenger of Allah. I was till recently a pagan; but Allah has brought Islam to us; among us there are men who have recourse to Kahins. He said; Do not have recourse to them. I said. There are men who take omens. That is something which they find in their breasts; but let it not turn their way from freedom of action. I said: Among us there are men who draw lines. He said: There was a prophet who drew lines; so if they do it as they did; that is allowable. I had a maid-servant who tended goats by the side of Uhud and Jawaniya. One day I happened to pass that way and found that a wolf had carried a goat from her flock. I am after all a man from the posterity of Adam. I felt sorry as they human beings feel sorry. So I slapped her. I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and felt this act of mine as something grievous I said: Messenger of Allah; should I not grant her freedom? He the Holy Prophet said: Bring her to me. So I brought her to him. He said to her: Where is Allah? She said: He is in the heaven. He said: Who am I? She said: Thou art the Messenger of Allah. He said: Grant her freedom; she is a believing woman.