“I gave the Prophet (ﷺ) a gift of a
sheep,
and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat on his knees to eat. A
Bedouin
said: ‘What is this sitting?’ He said: ‘Allah has made
me a humble and
generous slave (of Allah) and has not made me
arrogant and stubborn.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 29, Hadith 13