Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah)

Sunan Abi Dawud

The Prophet(ﷺ) sent me(for some work), and when I returned to him found him eating dates and squatting.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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 was brought, and the people gathered round it....

Sunan Abi Dawud

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 hear this tradition...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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 brought this girl that it...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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 Allah at the beginning and at the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

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 the beginning and at the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

I do not eat while reclining.

Sunan Abi Dawud

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was never seen reclining while eating, nor walking with two men at his heels.

Sunan Abi Dawud

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. He did not touch...