I have actually heard 2 stories from the prophets life where he is extremely compassionate. In the beginning when he used to go to the Mosque to read the Namaz, he had to pass by an old woman's house who hated his thinking.. Everyday she would throw her garbage over him just as he passed ..and he would smile and dust everything off, walk on. One day she did not throw anything and he asked her something like "Whats wrong today?" ...and another incident where someone wanted to pee while the namaz was being read in the mosque, so he pee'd in a corner of the mosque ...all the men who saw this were about to beat him up with sticks, but Muhammed stopped them, told them its not his fault and he even started cleaning it up himself... but we remember only what we want to. Selective understanding is the cause of most of todays issues.