Manners...more important than your mother thought

Oh...
This relates quite well to the last post, Revert vs. Convert. I found it on a blog I very much enjoy, www.sisteraishah.com. Honestly, I would have thought the manners/spirituality relationship was the other way around (referring to the second hadith).

It was recorded by Abu Dawud with a Sahih chain that the Prophet sallallâhu `alayhi wa sallam said:

"There is nothing heavier on the Scale than good manners."

It was recorded by Abu Dawud and Al-Hakim with a Sahih chain that the Prophet sallallâhu `alayhi wa sallam said:

"Indeed, through good manners does a person reach the levels of the one who stands at night (to pray) and the one who fasts during the day."