Sunan Ibn Majah 3270
Licking the fingers
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حَدَّثَنَا مُوسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ الْحَفَرِيُّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ
لاَ يَمْسَحْ أَحَدُكُمْ يَدَهُ حَتَّى يَلْعَقَهَا فَإِنَّهُ لاَ يَدْرِي فِي أَىِّ طَعَامِهِ الْبَرَكَةُ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Mūsá b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman
- Abū Dāwud al-Ḥafarī
- Sufyān
- Abū al-Zubayr
- Jābir
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
“None of you should wipe his hand until he has licked it, for he does not know where the blessing if in his food.’”
Grades by grader
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Fuad Abd al-Baqi | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| al-Albani | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
Other narrations of this report
Sahih Muslim 2033dSahih Muslim 2033fSahih Muslim 2034al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5440Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 540Musnad Abi Ya'la 1933
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AHأَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ ، ج٤ / ص٤٠٩صدوق إلا أنه يدلسعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AHسُفْيَانَثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 203 AH, or 206 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ الْحَفَرِيُّثقة عابدأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 258 AHمُوسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِثقةحدثنا
- one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AHابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ
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Commentaries
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd
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