Muhammad bin Jubair (may Allah have mercy on him) says that once, when Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) was with a delegation of the Quraysh, and Muhammad was also present among them, news reached him that Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin Aas (may Allah be pleased with him) was narrating this hadith: "Soon there will be a king in Qahtan." Upon hearing this, he stood up angrily, praised Allah as is befitting to Him, and said «اما بعد» : "I have come to know that some of you are narrating such ahadith which are neither in the Book of Allah nor transmitted from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). These people are ignorant. Protect yourselves from such hopes and desires that lead a person astray. I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'This authority will remain among the Quraysh. Whoever disputes with them in this matter, Allah will throw him down on his face, as long as the people of Quraysh remain established on the religion.'"

Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) once said from the pulpit: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say, "Only trials and tests remain in this world, and your deeds are like a vessel: if its upper part is good, this is a sign that its lower part is also good, and if the upper part is bad, then its lower part will also be bad."

Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) once demonstrated to the people how the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) performed ablution. While wiping the head, he took a handful of water and wiped until drops of water began to drip from his head. He placed his palms on the front part of his head and, wiping, drew them back to the nape of his neck, then returned them to the place from where he had started wiping.

Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) once demonstrated to the people how the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) performed ablution, and he washed each part of the ablution three times, and washed his feet without counting the number of times.

A‘raj reports that once Sayyiduna Abbas bin Abdullah married his daughter to Abdur Rahman bin Hakam, and Abdur Rahman married his daughter to Abbas, and they made this exchange itself the dowry. When Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) came to know of this, he wrote a letter to Marwan, "because he was the caliph," and ordered that separation be made between them, and said that this is the same shighar marriage from which the Prophet (peace be upon him) had forbidden.

Ubad says: When Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) came to us for Hajj, we also went with him to Makkah Mukarramah. He led us in two rak‘ahs of Zuhr and went to Dar al-Nadwah. Whereas, from the time Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) started performing the full prayer, whenever he came to Makkah Mukarramah, he would perform four rak‘ahs each for Zuhr, Asr, and Isha, and would shorten the prayer in Mina and Arafat. And when he would stay in Mina after completing Hajj, he would perform the full prayer until he departed from Makkah. When Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) led us in two rak‘ahs of Zuhr (contrary to this), Marwan bin Hakam and Amr bin Uthman stood up and said: "No one has ever criticized your cousin as badly as you have." He asked: "How is that?" Both of them said: "Do you not know that Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) used to perform the full prayer in Makkah Mukarramah?" Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: "Alas! I thought, what is it that I have done? I have only performed two rak‘ahs with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the two Shaykhs (Abu Bakr and Umar)." Both of them said: "Your cousin performed the full four rak‘ahs, and your opposing him is a blameworthy act." So when he came to lead the Asr prayer, he led four rak‘ahs.

Abu Al-Tufail (may Allah have mercy on him) says that once Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) came to the Sacred Sanctuary of Mecca. Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) performed Tawaf and touched all the corners of the Ka'bah. Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him, "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) only touched two corners?" Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) replied, "No corner of the Ka'bah is to be neglected." Shu'bah says that some people narrate this hadith in a different way and say that this last sentence is from Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever drinks alcohol, flog him. If he drinks again, flog him again. Even if he drinks a fourth time, then kill him."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) that I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saying from this pulpit: O Allah! No one can withhold what You give, and no one can give what You withhold, and the honor of an honorable person cannot benefit him before You. Allah grants understanding of the religion to whomever He intends good for.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Muawiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) that I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say: On the Day of Resurrection, the mu’adhdhins will have the longest necks.