Abu Burda* told that when the Prophet sent his grandfather Abu Musa and Mu'adh to the Yemen he said, “Make things easy and do not make them difficult; gladden and do not scare; comply with one another and do not disagree.”
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
* This should be Sa'id b. Abu Burda on his father’s authority. C f. Bukhari, Maghazi, 60.
Ibn ‘Umar reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The perfidious one will have a standard set up for him on the day of resurrection, and announcement will be made that this is the perfidy* of so and so, the son of so and so.”
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
* This is explained as meaning the sign, result, or punishment of his perfidy.
Abu Musa told that when God’s Messenger sent one of his companion’s to attend to some of his affairs he said, “Gladden people and do not scare them; make things easy and do not make them difficult. ’
