Book 70: Food and Meals
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Muhammad bin Kathir narrated to us that Sufyan (Thauri) told us. He narrated from Mansur, Mansur from Abu Wa'il, Abu Wa'il from Hazrat Abu Musa Ash'ari (ra), Hazrat Abu Musa (ra) from the Prophet (saw). He (saw) said: “Feed the hungry, visit the sick and free the captive.” Sufyan said: By al-ani is meant the prisoner of war.
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Yusuf bin Isa (Marwazi) narrated to us that Muhammad bin Fudail told us. He narrated from his father, his father from Abu Hazim (Salman Ashja'i), Abu Hazim from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra). He said: The family of Muhammad (saw) never ate their fill of food for three days, until he (saw) passed away in that very state.
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And with the same chain of narrators it is narrated from Abu Hazim. He narrated from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra): I was suffering from very severe hunger. I met Hazrat Umar bin Khattab (ra) and asked him the meaning of a verse of the Book of Allah. He went into his house and explained it to me. I had not gone far when, from severe weakness and hunger, I fell on my face. Then I saw that the Messenger of Allah (saw) was standing over my head. He (saw) said: “Abu Hurairah (ra)!” I said: Messenger of Allah (saw)! Here I am, at your service. He (saw) took my hand and made me stand up and recognised the state I was in. And he (saw) took me to his house. He (saw) ordered that a bowl of milk be brought for me. I drank from it. He (saw) said: “Abu Hurairah (ra)! Drink more.” I drank again. Then he (saw) said: “Drink more.” I drank more, until my stomach became taut like an arrow. Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra) used to say: Then I met Hazrat Umar (ra) and mentioned to him what had happened to me, and I said to him: Umar (ra)! Allah sent someone to remove my hunger who was more worthy of it than you. By Allah! I asked you the meaning of a verse although I knew it better than you. Hazrat Umar (ra) said: By Allah! Had I taken you into the house, it would have been dearer to me than having red camels.
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Ali bin Abdullah narrated to us that Sufyan (bin Uyainah) told us. He said: Walid bin Kathir told me that he heard Wahb bin Kaisan. Wahb heard Hazrat Umar bin Abi Salamah (ra) saying that I was still a boy, under the care of the Messenger of Allah (saw), and my hand (at mealtime) would keep taking from here and there in the dish. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said to me: “Child, mention the name of Allah, eat with your right hand and eat from what is near you.” Then (after him (saw)) this remained my way of eating.
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Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah (Uwaisi) narrated to us. Muhammad bin Ja'far told me. He narrated from Muhammad bin Amr bin Halhalah Daili, he from Wahb bin Kaisan Abu Nu'aim, Abu Nu'aim from Hazrat Umar bin Abi Salamah (ra), and he was the son of Hazrat Umm Salamah (ra), the wife of the Prophet (saw). He used to say: One day I ate with the Messenger of Allah (saw), and I began to eat from all sides of a dish, so the Messenger of Allah (saw) said to me: “Eat from what is near you.”
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Abdullah bin Yusuf (Tinnisi) narrated to us that Malik told us. He narrated from Wahb bin Kaisan Abu Nu'aim. He said: Food was brought before the Messenger of Allah (saw), and with him (saw) was his stepson Umar bin Abi Salamah (ra). He (saw) said: “Mention the name of Allah and eat from what is near you.”
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Qutaibah (bin Sa'id) narrated to us. He narrated from Malik, Malik from Ishaq bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah; Ishaq heard Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra). He used to say: A tailor invited the Messenger of Allah (saw) to a meal that he had prepared. Hazrat Anas (ra) used to say: I too went with the Messenger of Allah (saw). I saw him (saw) looking for the gourd here and there in the bowl. Hazrat Anas (ra) used to say: From that day on I began to like gourd.
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Abdan narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) informed us that Shu'bah told us. He narrated from Ash'ath (bin Sulaim), Ash'ath from his father, his father from Masruq, Masruq from Hazrat Aishah (ra). She relates: The Prophet (saw) liked, as far as possible, to begin with the right in washing and the like, in putting on shoes and in combing. (Shu'bah said:) When the narrator of this hadith was in Wasit before this, he said in his narration: in every one of his affairs.
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Isma'il (bin Abi Uwais) narrated to us that Malik told me. He narrated from Ishaq bin Abdullah bin Abi Talhah; Ishaq heard Hazrat Anas bin Malik (ra). He used to say: Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra) said to Hazrat Umm Sulaim (ra): I have heard the voice of the Messenger of Allah (saw) somewhat weak. I understand from this that he (saw) is hungry; so do you have anything? Hazrat Umm Sulaim (ra) took out a few loaves of barley bread. Then she took out her head covering, placed the loaves one on another and wrapped them in a part of it. Then she hid them under my garment and put some of the cloth (of the head covering) around me. Then she sent me to the Messenger of Allah (saw). Hazrat Anas (ra) used to say: I went with the loaves and found the Messenger of Allah (saw) in the mosque, and people were with him (saw). I stood by them. The Messenger of Allah (saw) asked me: “Has Abu Talhah (ra) sent you?” I said: Yes. He (saw) said: “With food?” He used to say: I said: Yes. (Hearing this) the Messenger of Allah (saw) said to all those who were with him (saw): “Get up,” and he (saw) set off, and I too set off ahead of them and came to Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra). Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra) said: Umm Sulaim (ra)! The Messenger of Allah (saw) has brought the people, and we do not have enough food to feed them. Hazrat Umm Sulaim (ra) said: Allah and His Messenger know best. Hazrat Anas (ra) says: Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra) went out and met the Messenger of Allah (saw), and then Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra) and the Messenger of Allah (saw) came in together. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “Umm Sulaim (ra), bring what you have.” So she brought those same loaves. He (saw) gave instructions about them and they were broken into pieces, and Hazrat Umm Sulaim (ra) squeezed out a small leather container of ghee of hers, and with it she served it as a curry. Then the Messenger of Allah (saw) prayed over that food whatever Allah willed that he should pray. Then he (saw) said: “Give permission to ten men to eat,” and he gave them permission and they ate until they were full and went away. Then he (saw) said: “Give permission to ten men,” and he gave them permission. They ate until they were full and then went away. Then he (saw) said: “Give permission to ten men,” and he gave them permission. They ate until they were full and then went away. Then Hazrat Abu Talhah (ra) gave permission to ten more. In this way all the people ate and were full, and they were eighty (80) men.
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Musa (bin Isma'il) narrated to us that Mu'tamir (bin Sulaiman bin Tarkhan) told us. He narrated from his father. He said: And Abu Uthman (Nahdi) also narrated from Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Abi Bakr (ra). He said: We were one hundred and thirty men with the Prophet (saw). The Prophet (saw) asked: “Does any of you have food?” And one man had a Sa' of flour or about as much, and it was kneaded. Then an idolater, a very tall man, came driving some goats. The Prophet (saw) asked: “Are they for sale or for giving?” or he (saw) said: “for giving free?” He said: No, rather for sale. Hazrat Abdur Rahman (ra) used to say: He (saw) bought a goat from him, which was prepared (for eating). The Prophet (saw) gave the command for the liver to be roasted, and by Allah, there was not a single man among the one hundred and thirty men to whom he (saw) did not cut and give a piece of that liver. If he was present, he (saw) gave him a piece, and for the one who was absent, he (saw) kept it covered. Then he (saw) put the meat of the goat into two large bowls, and all of us ate and ate our fill, and something was still left over in those bowls, which I put on the camel, or there were some such words.
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Muslim (bin Ibrahim) told us that Wuhaib (bin Khalid) narrated to us that Mansur (bin Abdur Rahman) told us. He narrated from his mother (Safiyyah bint Shaibah), his mother from Hazrat Aishah (ra), that the Prophet (saw) passed away at a time when we were eating our fill of the two black things (al-aswadain), that is, dates and water.
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Ali bin Abdullah narrated to us that Sufyan (bin Uyainah) told us. Yahya bin Sa'id (Ansari) said: I heard Bushair bin Yasar. He used to say: Suwaid bin Nu'man narrated to us. He said: We set out with the Messenger of Allah (saw) for Khaibar. When we reached Sahba' (Yahya used to say that it is so far from Khaibar that a person gets there by evening), the Messenger of Allah (saw) asked for food, but only Sawiq was brought to him (saw), and we ate it, turning it about in our mouths. Then he (saw) asked for water and rinsed his mouth, and we too rinsed our mouths, and he (saw) led us in the Maghrib Prayer and did not perform ablution (Wudu). Sufyan said: I heard it from Yahya like this, that he (saw) performed ablution neither after eating the Sawiq nor at the beginning.
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Muhammad bin Sinan narrated to us that Hammam told us. He narrated from Qatadah. He used to say: We were with Hazrat Anas (ra), and his baker was also with him at that time. He said: The Prophet (saw) never ate thin chapati, nor did he eat roasted goat, until he (saw) went to meet Allah the Exalted in that very state.
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Ali bin Abdullah (Madini) told us that Mu'adh bin Hisham (Dastawa'i) narrated to us. He said: My father narrated to me. His father narrated from Yunus (bin Abi Furat). Ali (bin Abdullah Madini) said that this is Yunus Iskaf. He narrated from Qatadah, Qatadah from Hazrat Anas (ra). He said: I do not know that the Prophet (saw) ever ate food placed on a small plate, nor that thin chapati was ever baked for him (saw), nor that he (saw) ever ate at a table. Qatadah was asked: Then on what did they place their food when eating? He said: On the dining cloth.
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(Sa'id) bin Abi Maryam narrated to us that Muhammad bin Ja'far told us that Humaid (Tawil) informed us that he heard Hazrat Anas (ra). He used to say that the Prophet (saw) halted in order to marry Hazrat Safiyyah (ra). I invited the Muslims to his (saw) wedding feast (Walimah). He (saw) gave the command about leather dining cloths, and they were spread out, and dates, cheese and ghee were put on them. And Amr quoted from Hazrat Anas (ra) like this: The Prophet (saw) married Hazrat Safiyyah (ra), then had a sweet dish made and placed it on the dining cloth.
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Muhammad (bin Sallam) narrated to us that Abu Mu'awiyah informed us. Hisham (bin Urwah) narrated to us. He narrated from his father and also from Wahb bin Kaisan. He said that the people of Syria used to taunt Hazrat (Abdullah) bin Zubair (ra): O son of the woman with the two waistbands (Dhat-un-Nitaqain)! Hazrat Asma' (bint Abi Bakr (ra)) said to him: O my son! They taunt you with the two waistbands. Do you know what the two waistbands were? It was my waistband, which I tore in the middle into two pieces. With one of them I tied the mouth of the waterskin of the Messenger of Allah (saw), and the other I used to tie up his provisions. Wahb used to say: When the people of Syria taunted him with the two waistbands, he would say: Be quiet. By Allah! This is a reproach whose shame is not hidden from you, but is quite open.
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Abu Nu'man narrated to us that Abu Awanah told us. He narrated from Abu Bishr, Abu Bishr from Sa'id bin Jubair, Sa'id from Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra). (He said) that Hazrat Umm Hufaid bint Harith bin Hazn (ra), who was the maternal aunt of Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra), sent the Prophet (saw) clarified butter, cheese and lizards (dabb) as a gift. He (saw) called (people) to eat them, and they were eaten on his dining cloth, and the Prophet (saw) left them as if he felt an aversion to them. And if the lizards (dabb) had been forbidden, they would not have been eaten on the dining cloth of the Prophet (saw), nor would he have ordered them to be eaten.
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Sulaiman bin Harb narrated to us that Hammad (bin Zaid) told us. He narrated from Yahya (bin Sa'id Ansari), Yahya from Bushair bin Yasar, Bushair from Suwaid bin Nu'man. He told him that he too was with the Prophet (saw) at Sahba', and it is at such a distance from Khaibar that a person reaches it by evening. The time of Prayer (Salat) had come. He (saw) asked for food, but he found no food except sawiq (barley meal). He ate it, moving it around in his mouth, and we too ate it with him in the same way. Then he asked for water and rinsed his mouth. Then he prayed, and we also prayed, and he did not perform ablution (Wudu).
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Abul Hasan Muhammad bin Muqatil narrated to us that Abdullah (bin Mubarak) informed us that Yunus told us. He narrated from Zuhri. Zuhri said: Abu Umamah bin Sahl bin Hunaif Ansari told me that Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra) informed him that Hazrat Khalid bin Walid (ra), who is called Saifullah (the Sword of Allah), told him that he went with the Messenger of Allah (saw) to Hazrat Maimunah (ra), and she was the maternal aunt of Hazrat Khalid (ra) and also the maternal aunt of Hazrat Ibn Abbas (ra). He (saw) found at her house a fried lizard (dabb), which her sister Hufaidah bint Harith (ra) had brought from Najd. Hazrat Maimunah (ra) presented this lizard to the Messenger of Allah (saw), and he seldom stretched out his hand towards any food until he had been told about it and its name had been mentioned. The Messenger of Allah (saw) stretched out his hand towards the lizard. One of the women who were present said: Tell the Messenger of Allah (saw) what you have presented to him. O Messenger of Allah (saw)! This is a lizard (dabb). On hearing this, the Messenger of Allah (saw) withdrew his hand from the lizard. Hazrat Khalid bin Walid (ra) asked: O Messenger of Allah (saw)! Is the lizard forbidden? He said: “No, but it is not found in the land of my people, therefore I find myself in a state in which I feel an aversion to it.” Hazrat Khalid (ra) said: I pulled it towards myself and ate it, while the Messenger of Allah (saw) was looking at me.
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Abdullah bin Yusuf (Tinnisi) narrated to us that Malik told us. And Isma'il also narrated to us that Malik told me. He narrated from Abuz Zinad, Abuz Zinad from A'raj, A'raj from Hazrat Abu Hurairah (ra), that he said: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: “The food of two suffices for three, and the food of three suffices for four.”
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