Please list some hadeeth(s) and quranic references with regards to doing favours for people and the etiquette of expecting favours in return (or not). Thanks.
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Re: Expecting favours in return for favours bestowed
Peace Prelude,
There are many many hadiths in this regards but all depends on each matters. You can read the following books of Sahih Bukhari regarding favors:
Revelation
Belief
Obligatory Charity Tax (Zakat)
Fasting
Distribution of Water
Judgments (Ahkaam)
However, I’ll quote one hadith which I think will summarize all.
Book ‘Holding Fast to the Quran and Sunnah’ of Sahih Bukhari Hadith No. 395.
Narrated Warrad: (The clerk of Al-Mughira) Muawiya wrote to Al-Mughira ‘Write to me what you have heard from Allah’s Apostle 
.’ So he (Al-Mughira) wrote to him: Allah’s Prophet used to say at the end of each prayer: “La ilaha illalla-h wahdahu la sharika lahu, lahul Mulku, wa lahul Hamdu wa hula ala kulli shai’in qadir. ‘Allahumma la mani’ a lima a’taita, wala mu’tiya lima mana’ta, wala yanfa’u dhuljadd minkal-jadd.” He also wrote to him that the Prophet used to forbid:
(1) Qil and Qal (idle useless talk or that you talk too much about others),
(2) Asking too many questions (in disputed Religious matters);
(3) And wasting one’s wealth by extravagance;
(4) and to be undutiful to one’s mother
(5) and to bury the daughters alive
(6) and to prevent your favors (benevolence to others (i.e. not to pay the rights of others
(7) And asking others for something (except when it is unavoidable).