Religious
Before he was commissioned as a messenger. He ﷺ was religious and devout in worship, detesting idols and unlawful things.
Occupations
He would occupy himself in herding sheep and would later say, ‘Allah did not send a prophet except that he herded sheep (at some point in his life)’; someone once asked and what about you? He ﷺ replied, Yes. He ﷺ would also trade. Al-Sa’ib ibn Abi Sa’ib had a trade partnership with him ﷺ, and it to him who he said on the day of conquest ’ Welcome, my brother and partner’. When conducting business he would neither flatter nor argue. He conducted business for Khadijah and traveled to Sham for this purpose, returning with vast profits.