The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said one day: “Who will give me their pledge?” Thawban, the freed slave of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, asked: “Upon what shall we pledge? Have we not already pledged to you once before, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied: “That you shall never ask anyone for anything.” Thawban asked: “What is in it for [the one who does] that, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied: “Paradise.” So Thawban gave his pledge. Abu Umamah said: “I later saw him in Mecca when the people were at their most crowded; his whip would fall while he was riding, and sometimes it would fall on a man’s shoulder, and the man would pick it up to hand it to him, but he would not take it—he would instead dismount to pick it up himself”.