He never laughed at anything at all for fear of sinning...

He never laughed at anything at all for fear of sinning, nor was he ever seen angry. He never joked with any one. He never expressed his delight at something of this life’s wares when he earned, nor did he ever grieve about anything. He married a number of women and had a number of children but many of his children died before coming of age, yet he never wept over the death of any of them.

He hardly passed by two men contending of fighting without reconciling between them, and he never left them before resolving their dispute or coming to peaceful terms. Whenever he heard someone saying something which he appreciated, he asked for its explanation and whom he had learnt it from. He quite often attended the meetings of religious experts and men of wisdom.

He often visited Judges, Kings, and Sultans, so he would pity the Judges because of their trials and seek Allah’s mercy for Kings and Sultans due to their merits before Allah and their dignity in it. He derived wisdom and taught himself that which would help him overcome his own inclinations and struggle against his own desires and seek refuge through it from Satan. He used to heal his heart with meditation and console himself with moral lessons.