The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade sitting along the edges of the streets.The companions said, "Messenger of Allah, we cannot manage without doing so."He replied, "If you must, then give the road its due."They asked, "And what is its due, Messenger of Allah?"He said, "Returning the greeting, responding to the one who sneezes when he praises Allah, lowering the gaze, and guiding the lost traveler."
نهى رسول الله ﷺ عن أن تجلسوا بأفنية الصعدات، قالوا: يا رسول الله إنا لا نستطيع ذلك ولا نطيقه، قال: إما لا، فأدوا حقها قالوا: وما حقها يا رسول الله؟ قال: رد التحية، وتشميت العاطس إذا حمد الله، وغض البصر، وإرشاد السبيل.
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Narrated by Abu Dawud (4816), and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (596), and Hakim (4/264–265), all of them through the route of Bishr bin Mufaddal, who said, Abdul-Rahman bin Ishaq told us, from Saeed Maqburi, from Abu Hurairah, who said, then he related it. Its chain is hasan because of Abdul-Rahman bin Ishaq bin Abdullah bin Harith Madani, for he is hasan al-hadith.His saying "the sadaat" refers to the roads. Saeed, sudud, and sadaat are like tareeq, turuq, and turuqat (path, paths, and pathways).In the same meaning is what was narrated from Bara, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed by a group of the Ansar who were sitting on the road, and he said, "If you must sit, then return greetings, help the wronged, and guide travelers on their way."Narrated by Tirmidhi (2726), Ahmad (18483), and Tayalisi (711), all of them through the route of Shubah, from Abu Ishaq, from Bara, who related it. Shubah said, He did not hear it from him, meaning that Abu Ishaq did not hear it from Bara.Tirmidhi's statement, "hasan gharib," should be understood as meaning that he judged it hasan due to supporting evidence.As for what was narrated by Ahmad (18484) and Ibn Hibban (897), both through the route of Israil, from Abu Ishaq, from Bara, with similar wording, Israil did not state explicitly that Abu Ishaq heard it from Bara, so his use of "an" (indicating an unspecified link) should be taken as concealment of a defect in the chain, as Shubah indicated.As for what was narrated from Abu Shurayh bin Amr Khuzai, who said, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Beware of sitting on the roads. Whoever among you sits on the road, let him give it its due." We said, "O Messenger of Allah, and what is its due?" He said, "Lowering the gaze, returning greetings, enjoining what is good, and forbidding what is wrong." This is daif.Narrated by Ahmad (27163) and Tabarani in Al-Kabir (22/187), both through the route of Abdullah bin Saeed, from his father, from Abu Shurayh bin Amr Khuzai, who related it.Abdullah bin Saeed is Ibn Saeed Maqburi, Abu Abbad Laythi, their freedman, and he is daif according to the majority of the scholars. Hakim said, "His judgment is unreliable," and Haythami relied on this in Al-Majmu (8/61) in faulting him.