Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon ‘Aishah, when I was with her, and said: ‘Is there any food?’ She said: ‘We have bread, dates and vinegar.’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘What a blessed condiment vinegar is. O...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
‘Season (your food) with olive oil and anoint yourselves with it, for it comes from a blessed tree.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“I heard Abu Hurairah say: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Eat (olive) oil and anoint yourselves with it, for it is blessed.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would say, when milk was brought to him: ‘A blessing,’ or ‘Two blessings.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“Whoever is given food by Allah, let him say: Allahumma barik lana fihi wa arzuqna khairan minhu (O Allah, bless it for us and provide us with something better than it). And whoever is given milk to drink by Allah,...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah 9saw) used to like sweets and honey.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“My mother was trying to fatten me up when she wanted to send me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (when she got married), but nothing worked until I ate cucumbers with dates; then I grew plump like the best...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) eating cucumbers with dates.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to eat dates with melon.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“A house in which there are no dates, its people will go hungry.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“A house in which there are no dates is like a house in which there is no food.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“O Allah, bless us in our city and in our fruits, in our Mudd and in our Sa’,* blessing upon blessing.” Then he would give it to the smallest of the children present.
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“Eat unripe dates with ripe one and eat old dates with new ones, for Satan gets angry and says: ‘The son of Adam will survive so long as he eats old dates with new ones.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade eating two dates at once unless he asks his companions permission to do so.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
It was narrated from Sa’d, the freed slave of Abu Bakr – and Sa’d used to serve the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he liked this Hadith – that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade eating two dates at once.
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) when he was brought some old dates; he started to inspect them.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon us. We placed a velvet cloth of ours beneath him and sprinkled water on it.* He sat on it, and Allah sent down Revelation to him in our house. We offered him butter...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
My father told me: I asked Sahl bin Sa’d: “Did you ever see dough made from well-sifted flour?” He said: “I never saw dough made from well-sifted flour until the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) passed away.” I said: “Did they...
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“What is this?” She said: “It is food that we make in our land, and I wanted to make a loaf of it for you. He said: “Fold it onto itself and knead it.”
Sunan Ibn Majah
Chapters on Food
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never saw a thin loaf made from well-sifted flour with his own eyes, until he met Allah.”