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Sahih Muslim 2035a

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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وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَهْزٌ حَدَّثَنَا وُهَيْبٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُهَيْلٌ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ

إِذَا أَكَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيَلْعَقْ أَصَابِعَهُ فَإِنَّهُ لاَ يَدْرِي فِي أَيَّتِهِنَّ الْبَرَكَةُ

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Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Ḥātim
  2. Bahz
  3. Wuhayb
  4. Suhayl
  5. his father
  6. Abū Hurayrah
  7. al-Nabī ﷺ

When any one of you eats food he should lick his fingers, for he does not know in what part of the food sticking to his fingers the blessing lies.

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Sahih Muslim 2033dSahih Muslim 2033fSahih Muslim 2034al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 5440Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 540Musnad Abi Ya'la 1933

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Dhakwān al-Sammān
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ
    truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH
    سُهَيْلٌصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
    حدثنا
  4. Wuhayb
    memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), trustworthy and reliable (thiqah thabt), but he changed slightly at the end of his lifed. 165 AH, also said: 169 AH
    وُهَيْبٌالحافظ ، ثقة ثبت ، لكنه تغير قليلا بآخره
    حدثنا
  5. Bahz
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 197 AH, ʿUqbah b. Mukram al-ʿAmmī said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal: before 198 AH, others said: after 200 AH
    بَهْزٌثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  6. Muḥammad b. Ḥātim
    truthful (ṣadūq), sometimes had lapses (wahm), and he was virtuousd. 235 AH, also said: 236 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍصدوق ربما وهم ، وكان فاضلا
    حدثني
  7. Muslim
    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 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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