Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah)

Book 28 of 43 · Sunan Abi Dawud

119 hadith Hadith 3736–3854 Sunni
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Book 28 of 43

Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah)

Sunan Abi Dawud

119 hadith Hadith 3736–3854 Sunni

About This Book

Compiled during the 833–888 CE period by al-Sijistani.

Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah) is book 28 of 43 in Sunan Abi Dawud, containing 119 hadith.

Geography

This collection was compiled primarily in Basra (later life). The narrators in this book are associated with 30 distinct geographic locations.

Asqalan Kufa Makkah Medina Basra Basrah Yemen Hims Sana Bulkh Wasit Baghdad Asbahan Cairo Merv Musal al-Ray Damascus Rome Hamadan al-Raqqa Khurasan Mada'in Iraq Hiran Basri Nisa Abyssinia Beruit Jordon

Narrators in This Book

This book features 264 narrators in its chains of transmission. The most frequently cited are Jabir ibn 'Abdullah, ibn Abbas, ibn Umar, al-Zuhri ابن شهاب الزهري‎, محمد بن مسلم, Masdad bin Masrhad مسدد بن مسرهد بن مسربل.

Hadith in This Book 119 hadith

1 3736 Sahih
when one of you is invited for a wedding feast, he must attend it.
2 3737 Sahih
If he is not fasting, he should eat, and if he is fasting, he should leave it.
3 3738 Sahih
if one of you invites his brother, he should accept(the invitation), whether it is a wedding feast or something of that nature.
4 3739 Daif
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Nafi’ to the same effect through the chain of narrators as mentioned in Ayyub.
5 3740 Sahih
when one of you is invited to a meal, he must accept. If he wishes he may eat, but if he wishes(to leave), he may leave.
6 3741 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who does not accept an invitation which he receives has disobeyed Allah and His Apostle, and he who enters without invitation enters as a thief and goes…
7 3742 Sahih
The worst kind of food is that at a wedding feast to which the rich are invited and from which the poor are left out. If anyone does not attend the feast to which he was invited,…
8 3743 Sahih
The marriage of Zainab daughter of Jahsh was mentioned before Anas b. Malik. He said: I did not see that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) held such a wedding feast for any of his wives…
9 3744 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) held a wedding feast for Safiyyah with meal and dates.
10 3745 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The wedding feast on the first day is a duty, that on the second is a good practice, but that on the third day is to make men hear of it and show it to them.…
11 3746 Daif
When he was invited on the third day, he did not accept but threw pebbles on the messenger.
12 3747 Sahih Isnaad
When the Prophet (ﷺ) returned to Medina, he would slaughter a camel or a cow.
13 3748 Sahih Isnaad Maqtu
He who believes in Allah and the Last Day should honour his guest provisions for the road are what will serve for a day and night: hospitality extends for three days; what goes…
14 3749 Hasan Sahih Isnaad
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Hospitality extend for three days, and what goes beyond that is sadaqah (charity).
15 3750 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: It is a duty of every Muslim (to provide hospitality) to a guest for a night. If anyone comes in the morning to his house, it is a debt due to him. If he…
16 3751 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If any Muslim is a guest of people and is given nothing, it is the duty of every Muslim to help him to the extent of taking for him from their crop and…
17 3752 Sahih
we said: Messenger of Allah! You send us out and we come to people who do not give hospitality, so what is your opinion? The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said: If you come to people who…
18 3753 Hasan Isnaad
When the verse: "O ye who believe! eat not up your property among yourselves in vanities, but let there be amongst you traffic and trade by mutual good will" was revealed, a man…
19 3754 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade that the food of two people who were rivalling on another should be eaten Abu Dawud said: Most of those who narrated it from Jarir did not mention the…
20 3755 Hasan
Safinah AbuAbdurRahman said that a man prepared food for Ali ibn AbuTalib who was his guest, and Fatimah said: I wish we had invited the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he had eaten…
21 3756 Daif
A companion of the Prophet (ﷺ) reported him as saying: When two people come together to issue an invitation, accept that of the one whose door is nearer in neighbourhood, but if…
22 3757 Sahih
When the evening meal is brought before one of you and the congregational prayer is also ready, he should not get up until he finishes(eating). Musaddad’s version adds: When the…
23 3758 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Prayer should not be postponed for taking meals nor for any other thing.
24 3759 Hasan Isnaad
Abdullah ibn Ubaydullah ibn Umayr said: I was with my father in the time of Ibn az-Zubayr sitting beside Abdullah ibn Umar. Then Abbad ibn Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr said: We have…
25 3760 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out from the privy and was presented to him. They (the people) asked: Should we bring you water for ablution? He replied: I have been commanded to…
26 3761 Daif
I read in the Torah that the blessing of food consists in ablution before it. So I mentioned it to the Prophet (ﷺ). He said: The blessing of food consists in ablution before it…
27 3762 Daif Isnaad
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out from the valley of a mountain where he had eased himself. There were some dried dates on a shield before us. We called him and he ate with us.…
28 3763 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never expressed disapproval of food; if he desired it, he ate it, and if he disliked it, he left it alone.
29 3764 Hasan
The Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) said: Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) we eat but we are not satisfied. He said: Perhaps you eat separately. They replied: Yes. He said: If you gather…
30 3765 Sahih
When a man enters his house and mention Allah’s name on entering and on his food, the devil says: You have no place to spend the night and no evening meal; but when he enters…
31 3766 Sahih
The devil considers the food when Allah’s name is not mentioned over it, and he brought his nomad Arab that it might be lawful by means of him, so I seized his hand: then he…
32 3767 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: When one of you eats, he should mention Allah's name; if he forgets to mention Allah's name at the beginning, he should say: "In the name of…
33 3768 Daif
Umayyah was sitting and a man was eating. He did not mention Allah's name until there remained the last morsel. When he raised it to his mouth, he said: In the name of Allah at…
34 3769 Sahih
I do not eat while reclining.
35 3770 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was never seen reclining while eating, nor walking with two men at his heels.
36 3771 Sahih
The Prophet(ﷺ) sent me(for some work), and when I returned to him found him eating dates and squatting.
37 3772 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When one of you eats, he must not eat from the top of the dish, but should eat from the bottom; for the blessing descends from the top of it.
38 3773 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) had a bowl called gharra'. It was carried by four persons. When the sun rose high, and they performed the forenoon prayer, the bowl in which tharid was prepared…
39 3774 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade two kinds of food: to sit at cloth on which wine is drunk, and to eat by a man while lying on his stomach. Abu Dawud said : Ja'far did not…
40 3775 Daif
The tradition mentioned above has been transmitted by al-Zuhri from a different chain of narrators.
41 3776 Sahih
When any of you eats, he should eat with his right hand, and when he drinks, he should drink with his right hand, for the devil eats with his left hand and drinks with his left…
42 3777 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Come near, my son, mention Allah's name, eat with your right hand and eat from what is next to you.
43 3778 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do not eat meat with a knife, for it is a foreign practice, but bite it, for it is more beneficial and wholesome. Abu Dawud said: This…
44 3779 Daif
I was eating with the Prophet (ﷺ) and snatching the meat from the bone with my hand. He said: bring the bone near your mouth, for it is more beneficial and wholesome. Abu Dawud…
45 3780 Sahih
The bone dearer to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was the bone of sheep.
46 3781 Sahih
The tradition mentioned above (No. 3771) has also been narrated by Ibn Mas'ud with a different chain of narrators. This version has: The Prophet (ﷺ) liked the foreleg (of a…
47 3782 Sahih
A tailor invited the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to a meal which he had prepared. Anas said: I went along with the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) barley bread and soup containing pumpkin and…
48 3783 Daif
The food the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked best was tharid made from bread and tharid made from Hays. Abu Dawud said: It is a weak (tradition).
49 3784 Hasan
A man asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Is there any food from which I should keep myself away? I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Anything which creates doubt should not…
50 3785 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited eating the animal which feeds on filth and drinking its milk.
51 3786 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) prohibited to drink the milk of the animal which feeds on filth.
52 3787 Hasan Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade riding the camel which feeds on filth and drinking its milk.
53 3788 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade the flesh of domestic asses on the day of Khaibar, but permitted horse flesh.
54 3789 Sahih
On the day of Khaybar we slaughtered horses, mules, and assess. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade us (to eat) mules and asses, but he did not forbid horse-flesh.
55 3790 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade us to eat horse-flesh, the flesh of mules and of asses. The narrator Haywah added: Every beast of prey with a fang. Abu Dawud said: This view…
56 3791 Sahih
I was an adolescent boy. I hunted a hare and roasted it. Abu Talha sent its hunch through me to the Prophet (ﷺ), so I brought it to him and he accepted it.
57 3792 Daif Isnaad
‘Abd Allah b. ‘Amar was in al-safah. The narrator Muhammed (b. Khalid) said: it is a place in Mecca. A man brought a hare which he had haunted. He said: ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Amr, what…
58 3793 Sahih
Ibn ‘Abbas said that his maternal aunt presented to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) clarified butter, lizards and cottage cheese. He ate from clarified butter and cheese, but left the…
59 3794 Sahih
It is a lizard. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) raised his hand. I (Khalid) asked: Is it forbidden, Messenger of Allah? He replied, No, but it is not found in the land of my people, so…
60 3795 Sahih
We were in an army with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). We got some lizards. I roasted one lizard and brought it to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and placed it before him. He took a…
61 3796 Hasan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to eat the flesh of lizard.
62 3797 Daif
I ate the flesh of a bustard along with the Prophet (ﷺ).
63 3798 Daif Isnaad
I accompanied the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), but I did not hear about the prohibition of (eating) insects and little creatures of land.
64 3799 Daif Isnaad
Numaylah said: I was with Ibn Umar. He was asked about eating hedgehog. He recited: "Say: I find not in the message received by me by inspiration any (meat) forbidden." An old…
65 3800 Sahih Isnaad
The people of pre-Islamic times used to eat some things and leave others alone, considering them unclean. Then Allah sent His Prophet (ﷺ) and sent down His Book, marking some…
66 3801 Sahih
I asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about the hyena. He replied: It is game, and if one who is wearing ihram (pilgrim's robe) hunts it, he should give a sheep as atonement.
67 3802 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited eating fanged beasts of prey.
68 3803 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) prohibited the eating of every beast of prey with fang, and every bird with a talon.
69 3804 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Beware, the fanged beast of prey is not lawful, nor the domestic asses, nor the find from the property of a man with whom treaty has been concluded, except…
70 3805 Sahih
On the day of Khaybar the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) prohibited eating every beast of prey, and every bird with a talon.
71 3806 Daif
I went with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to fight at the battle of Khaybar, and the Jews came and complained that the people had hastened to take their protected property (as a…
72 3807 Daif
that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade payment for a cat. Ibn AbdulMalik said: to eat a cat and to enjoy its price.
73 3808 Sahih
On the day of Khaibar the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) forbade us to eat the flesh of domestic asses, and ordered us to eat horse-flesh. ‘Amr said: I informed Abu al-Sha’tha’ about this…
74 3809 Daif Isnaad
We faced a famine, and I had nothing from my property which I could feed my family ex except a few asses, and the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the flesh of domestic asses. So I came to the…
75 3810 Daif
I think it was Ghalib who had come to the Prophet(ﷺ) with tradition.
76 3811 Hasan Sahih
On the day of Khaybar the Messenger of Allah (may pease be upon him) forbade (eating) the flesh of domestic asses, and the animal which feeds on filth: riding it and eating its…
77 3812 Sahih
I heard Ibn Abi Awfa say when I asked him about (eating) locusts: I went on six or seven expeditions along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and we ate them (locusts) along with him.
78 3813 Daif
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked about (eating) locusts. He replied: They are the most numerous of Allah's hosts. I neither eat them nor declare them unlawful.
79 3814 Daif
Salman said: The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) was asked about locusts. He replied in a similar way(as mentioned above) saying: The most numerous of Allah’s host. The narrator ‘Ali said:…
80 3815 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: What the sea throws up and is left by the tide you may eat, but what dies in the sea and floats you must not eat. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been…
81 3816 Hasan Isnaad
A man alighted at Harrah with his wife and children. A man said (to him): My she-camel has strayed; if you find it, detain it. He found it, but did not find its owner, and…
82 3817 Daif Isnaad
Al-Faji' came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and asked: Is not dead meat lawful for us? He said: What is your food? We said: Some food in the evening and some in the morning.…
83 3818 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: I wish I had a white loaf made from tawny and softened with clarified butter and milk. A man from among the people got up and getting one brought it. He…
84 3819 Hasan Isnaad
The Prophet (ﷺ) was brought a piece of cheese in Tabuk. He called for a knife, mentioned Allah's name and cut it.
85 3820 Sahih
What a good condiment vinegar is!
86 3821 Sahih
What a good condiment vinegar is!
87 3822 Sahih
He who eats garlic or onion must keep away from us. Or he said: must keep away from our mosque or must sit in his house. A dish containing green vegetables was brought to him, and…
88 3823 Daif
The garlic and onions were mentioned before the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). He was told: The most severe of them is garlic. Would you make it unlawful? The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Eat it,…
89 3824 Sahih
Zirr ibn Hubaysh said: Hudhayfah traced, I think, to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) the saying: He who spits in the direction of the qiblah will come on the Day of Resurrection in the…
90 3825 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who eats from this plant should not come near the mosques.
91 3826 Sahih
I ate garlic and came to the place where the Prophet (ﷺ) was praying; one rak'ah of prayer had been performed when I joined. When I entered the mosque, the Prophet (ﷺ) noticed the…
92 3827 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade these two plants (i.e. garlic and onions), and he said: He who eats them should not come near our mosque. If it is necessary to eat them, make…
93 3828 Sahih
It is forbidden to eat garlic unless it is cooked. Abu Dawud said: The full name of the narrator Sharik is Sharik bin Hanbal.
94 3829 Daif
Khalid said: AbuZiyad Khiyar ibn Salamah asked Aisha about onions. She replied: The last food which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ate was some which contained onions.
95 3830 Daif
I saw that the Prophet (ﷺ) took a piece of bread of barley and put a date on it and said: This is the condiment of this.
96 3831 Sahih
A family which has no dates will be hungry.
97 3832 Sahih
When the Prophet (ﷺ) was brought some old dates, he began to examine them and remove the worms from them.
98 3833 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) was brought some dates which contained worms. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition to the same effect as the previous (No 3823).
99 3834 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) prohibited anyone taking two dates together with the exception that you ask permission from your companions.
100 3835 Sahih
The Prophet(ﷺ) used to eat cucumber with fresh dates
101 3836 Hasan
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to eat melon with fresh dates, and he used to say: The heat of the one is broken by the coolness of the other, and the coolness of the one by the…
102 3837 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to visit us and we offered him butter and dates, for he liked butter and dates.
103 3838 Sahih
I was on an expedition along with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). We got the vessels and skins of the polytheists and used them. But he did not object to them (i.e. us) for that…
104 3839 Sahih
We live in the neighbourhood of the People of the Book and they cook in their pots(the flesh of) swine and drink wine in their vessels. The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said: If you find…
105 3840 Sahih
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent us on an expedition and made Abu ‘Ubaidah b. al-Jarrah our leader. We had to meet a caravan of the Quraish. He gave us a bag of dates as a light…
106 3841 Sahih
A mouse fell into clarified butter. The Prophet (ﷺ) was informed of it. He said: Throw what is around it and eat.
107 3842 Daif
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: When a mouse falls into clarified butter, if it is sold, throw the mouse and what is around it away, but if it is in a liquid state, do not go near it.…
108 3843 Shadh
The tradition mentioned above (No. 3833) has also been transmitted by Ibn Abbas from Maymunah, from the Prophet (ﷺ) like the tradition narrated by az-Zuhri, from Ibn al-Musayyab.
109 3844 Sahih
when a fly alights in anyone’s vessel, he should plunge it all in, for in one of its wings there is a disease, and in the other is a cure. It prevents the wing of it is which…
110 3845 Sahih
If the morsel of one of you falls down, he should wipe away anything injurious on it and eat it and not leave it for the devil. And he ordered us to clean the dish, for one of …
111 3846 Sahih
If the servant of any of you prepares food for him, and he brings it to him, while he had suffered its heat and smoke. He should make him sit with him to eat. If the food is…
112 3847 Sahih
When one of you eats, he must not wipe his hand with a handkerchief till he licks it or gives it to someone to lick.
113 3848 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to eat with three fingers and not wipe his before licking it.
114 3849 Sahih
When the food cloth was removed, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “praise be to Allah abundantly and sincerely, of such a nature as is productive of blessing, is not insufficient,…
115 3850 Daif
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) finished his food, he said: "Praise be to Allah Who has given us food and drink and made us Muslims."
116 3851 Sahih
When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ate or drank, he said: "Praise be to Allah Who has given food and drink and made it easy to swallow, and provided an exit for it.
117 3852 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone spends the night with grease on his hand which he has not washed away, he can blame only himself if some trouble comes to him.
118 3853 Daif
AbulHaytham ibn at-Tayhan prepared food for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and he invited the Prophet (ﷺ) and his Companions. When they finished (food), the said: If some people…
119 3854 Sahih
The Prophet (ﷺ) came to visit Sa'd ibn Ubaydah, and he brought bread and olive oil, and he ate (them). Them). Then the Prophet (ﷺ) said: May the fasting (men) break their fast…