How can the misconception regarding the Prophet’s — may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him — anger and his supplication against some Muslims be removed, despite his infallibility and what is mentioned in hadiths such as his supplication against Mu'awiyah, and Aisha's saying: "Two men entered upon the Messenger of Allah — may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him — and spoke to him about something I do not know what it was, but they angered him, so he cursed and insulted them. When they left, I said, 'O Messenger of Allah! What good did these two attain compared to what they suffered?' He said, 'What is that?' I said, 'You cursed and insulted them.' He said, 'Do you not know what I stipulated with my Lord? I said: O Allah, I am but a human being, so any Muslim whom I curse or insult, make it for him a purification and a reward'"?

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, gets angry like any human being. Al-Bukhari and Muslim narrated from Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "O Allah, verily Muhammad is a human being who gets angry just as human beings get angry. And I have made a covenant with You which You will not break: if I harm, curse, or whip any believer, then make it an expiation for him and a means of drawing him closer to You on the Day of Resurrection."

These hadiths show the Prophet's compassion for his Ummah, and that his supplication against someone who does not deserve it becomes a mercy and expiation for them.

Scholars have interpreted this in two ways:

1. That the one cursed is not deserving of the curse in Allah's knowledge, but outwardly appears to be. 2. That the cursing and supplication were not intentional, but rather a common Arab way of connecting speech without specific intent. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, feared that it might be answered, so he asked his Lord to make it a mercy and expiation.

In Sahih (definition) Muslim, under the chapter heading "Chapter: Whoever the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, cursed, or reviled, or supplicated against, when he was not deserving of it, it will be a purification, a reward, and a mercy for him," it mentions the hadith (definition) of Anas bin Malik concerning the orphan girl whom the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, supplicated against, saying, "May you not grow old." The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, then explained to Umm Sulaim that he had stipulated with his Lord that any supplication he made against a member of his Ummah who was not deserving of it, Allah would make it a purification, a purification, and a means of drawing closer for them.