It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said one day: Be shy of Allah as is His due. We said: O Messenger of Allah! All praise is for Allah, indeed we are shy before Him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: The matter is not as you have understood. Whoever wants to be truly shy before Allah should protect his head and what it contains, and protect his stomach and what it encompasses, and remember death and decay, and whoever intends the Hereafter should leave the adornment of the world. Whoever does so has been shy before Allah as is His due.

Syedna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Modesty is a branch of faith.

Sayyiduna Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Modesty is from faith, and faith leads to Paradise; and foul speech and bad language are from harshness and bad character, and harshness leads to the Fire.

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Abusive language and foul speech, wherever they are found, make that thing defective, and modesty, wherever it is found, makes that thing beautiful.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali bin Umayyah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Verily, Allah Almighty loves modesty and concealment.

Sayyiduna Imran bin Husain (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Modesty is all goodness and virtue.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) heard a man advising his brother regarding modesty. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) said: Modesty is part of faith.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Modesty and inability to speak are two branches of faith, and foul speech and ability to speak are two branches of hypocrisy.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husain (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Modesty brings nothing but goodness and virtue. Basheer bin Ka’b said: It is written in wisdom that some forms of modesty are a cause of dignity and some a cause of tranquility. Sayyiduna Imran (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I am narrating to you from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and you are narrating from your scriptures.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Imran bin Husain (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Modesty is entirely goodness and virtue. Busheer said: In some forms of modesty there is weakness and in some there is humility, but he said: I narrate to you from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and you present things contrary to the hadiths. From now on, as long as I recognize you, I will not narrate even a single hadith to you. However, people said: He is a man of good nature and he has such and such qualities as well. In any case, people kept counting his attributes until Sayyiduna Imran (may Allah be pleased with him) became calm and began narrating hadiths.