Musnad Ahmad 27167

Translation

✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ used to eat with three fingers and would not wipe his hand until he licked it.

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Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 2033dSahih Muslim 2033fSahih Muslim 2034

Narrators

1. 1
   Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī

   a well-known Companiond. during ʿAlī's caliphate, or in the days when ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was killed, or in the year 51 AH, also said: 50 AH, and al-Wāqidī and Abū Ḥātim stated it definitively
   كَعْب بْن مَالِك الأَنْصَارِيصحابي مشهور
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Sulamī

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. during the caliphate of Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik
   ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقة
   عن
3. 3
   ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Saʿd

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 AH and 110 AH
   عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقة
   عن
4. 4
   Hishām b. ʿUrwah b. al-Zubayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AH
   هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلس
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Muʿāwiyah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), the best memorizer of people for the hadith of al-Aʿmash, though he may err in the hadith of othersd. 194 AH, or 195 AH
   أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيره
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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