Sahih Muslim 2032b
It is recommended to lick one's fingers and wipe the bowl, and to eat a piece of food that is dropped after removing any dirt on it. It is disliked to wipe one's hand before licking it, because of the possibility that the blessing of the food may be in that remaining part. The Sunnah is to eat with three fingers
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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يَأْكُلُ بِثَلاَثِ أَصَابِعَ وَيَلْعَقُ يَدَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَمْسَحَهَا
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Chain of narrators
- Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá
- Abū Muʿāwiyah
- Hishām b. ʿUrwah
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Saʿd
- Ibn Kaʿb b. Mālik
- his father
Ibn Ka'b b. Malik reported on the authority of his father that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to eat (food) with three fingers and he licked his hand before wiping it (with towel).
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Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 4164وَعَنْ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَأْكُلُ بِثَلَاثَةِ أَصَابِعَ وَيَلْعَقُ يَدَهُ قَبْلَ أَن يمسحها. رَوَاهُ مُسلم
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
- 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 definitivelyكَعْب بْن مَالِك الأَنْصَارِيصحابي مشهورعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 97 AH, or 98 AH; also said 89 AHابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 101 AH and 110 AHعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. 145, or: 146 AH, or: 147 AH, also said: 144 AHهِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَثقة فقيه ربما دلسعن
- 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 AHأَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَثقة ، أحفظ الناس لحديث الأعمش ، وقد يهم في حديث غيرهأخبرنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), an imam (imām).d. 226 AH, or 224 AH, or 225 AH; both of the latter two are mistaken.يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة ثبت إمام .حدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AHمُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)
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