As he did...

As he did, he would say, "I am a slave [of Allah]; I eat as slaves do, and I sit as a slave sits." A woman with a sharp tongue once saw him sitting at a mountain's foot, so she said to him, "O Muhammad! By Allah!

You eat as slaves eat and you sit as a slave sits." The Messenger of Allah said, "Is there a more dedicated slave [of Allah] than I am?" His Humbleness Im"m S"diq said the following in his description of the Messenger of Allah: "He used to prefer to ride on the donkey without a saddle, eat while sitting on the most modest of all types of flooring in the company of the slaves, handing something to the beggar in his own hand. He used to ride a donkey and seat his slave or anyone else behind him.

He used to ride a mare, a mule or a donkey without any hesitation." On the day the Muslims scored a victory over Bani Quraydha, he was riding a donkey whose reins were made of cable made of date-tree's leaves. [it was possible for the…