Muawiya bin Hakam reported,

While I was praying with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, a man from the congregation sneezed. I said, "May Allah have mercy on you." The people glared at me with their eyes, so I said, "May my mother lose me! What is the matter with you, looking at me like this?"They began striking their hands on their thighs. When I saw them trying to silence me, I fell quiet. When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ finished the prayer, may my father and mother be sacrificed for him, I have never seen a teacher before him or after him better at teaching than he was. By Allah, he did not rebuke me, strike me, or insult me.He said, "This prayer is not fitting for any of the ordinary speech of people. It is only glorification, magnification of Allah, and recitation of the Quran," or as the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said.I said, "Messenger of Allah, I have only recently left the age of ignorance, and Allah has now brought Islam. Some men among us go to soothsayers."He said, "Do not go to them."I said, "Some men among us draw omens from birds."He said, "That is something they find in their hearts, but it should not deter them," (Ibn al-Sabbah said, "It should not deter you").I said, "Some men among us draw lines on the ground."He said, "There was a prophet among the prophets who used to draw lines. Whoever's lines match his, that is correct."I had a slave girl who used to tend sheep for me near Uhud and Jawaniyya. One day I checked on them and found that a wolf had carried off one of her sheep. I am a man from the sons of Adam, and I get angry as they get angry, so I struck her a hard blow. Then I came to the Messenger of Allah, and he considered this a serious matter.I said, "Messenger of Allah, should I not free her?"He said, "Bring her to me."So I brought her to him, and he asked her, "Where is Allah?"She replied, "In the heavens."He asked, "Who am I?"She replied, "You are the Messenger of Allah."He said, "Free her, for she is a believer."

عن معاوية بن الحكم السلمي، قال

بينا أنا أصلي مع رسول الله ﷺ، إذ عطس رجل من القوم، فقلت: يرحمك الله، فرماني القوم بأبصارهم، فقلت: وا تكل أمياه! ما شأنكم؟ تنظرون إلي. فجعلوا يضربون بأيديهم على أفخاذهم، فلما رأيتهم يصمتونني، لكني سكت، فلما صلى رسول الله ﷺ، فبأبي هو وأمي، ما رأيت معلما قبله ولا بعده أحسن تعليما منه، فوالله! ما قهرني ولا ضربني ولا شتمني، قال: إن هذه الصلاة لا يصلح فيها شيء من كلام الناس إنما هو التسبيح والتكبير وقراءة القرآن. أو كما قال رسول ﷺ، قلت يا رسول الله! إني حديث عهد بجاهلية، وقد جاء الله بالإسلام. وإن منا رجالا يأتون الكهان، قال: فلا تأتهم قال: ومنا رجال يتطيرون، قال: ذاك شيء يجدونه في صدورهم، فلا يصدنهم (قال ابن الصباح: فلا يصدنكم)، قال قلت: ومنا رجال يخطون. قال: كان نبي من الأنبياء يخط، فمن وافق خطه فذاك قال: وكانت لي جارية ترعى غنما لي قبل أحد والجوانية، فاطلعت ذات فإذا الذئب قد ذهب بشاة من غنمها وأنا رجل من يوم بني آدم، آسف كما يأسفون، لكني صككتها صكة، فأتيت رسول الله فعظم ذلك علي. قلت: يا رسول الله! أفلا أعتقها؟ قال: ائتني بها فأتيته بها. فقال لها أين الله؟ قالت في السماء. قال: من أنا؟ قالت: أنت رسول الله، قال اعتقها، فإنها مؤمنة.