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Sahih Muslim 2059c

The virtue of sharing a small amount of food, and the food of two is sufficient for three, and so on.

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حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى وَأَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ عَنِ الأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

طَعَامُ الْوَاحِدِ يَكْفِي الاِثْنَيْنِ وَطَعَامُ الاِثْنَيْنِ يَكْفِي الأَرْبَعَةَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Yaḥyá b. Yaḥyá and ʾAbū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah Waʾabū Kurayb Waʾisḥāq b. Ibrāhīm
  2. Abū Bakr Waʾabū Kurayb
  3. al-Ākharān
  4. Abū Muʿāwiyah
  5. al-Aʿmash
  6. Abū Sufyān
  7. Jābir
  8. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

Food for one suffices two and food for two suffices for four.

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Jami at-Tirmidzi 1820bطَعَامُ الْوَاحِدِ يَكْفِي الاِثْنَيْنِ وَطَعَامُ الاِثْنَيْنِ يَكْفِي الأَرْبَعَةَ وَطَعَامُ الأَرْبَعَةِ يَكْفِي الثَّمَانِيَةَ
  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 3254طَعَامُ الْوَاحِدِ يَكْفِي الاِثْنَيْنِ وَطَعَامُ الاِثْنَيْنِ يَكْفِي الأَرْبَعَةَ وَطَعَامُ الأَرْبَعَةِ يَكْفِي الثَّمَانِيَةَ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 4178وَعَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ: «طَعَامُ الْوَاحِدِ يَكْفِي الِاثْنَيْنِ وَطَعَامُ الِاثْنَيْنِ يَكْفِي الْأَرْبَعَةَ وَطَعَامُ الْأَرْبَعَةِ يَكْفِي الثمانيَة». رَوَاهُ مُسلم
  • Shahih Muslim 2059aطَعَامُ الْوَاحِدِ يَكْفِي الاِثْنَيْنِ وَطَعَامُ الاِثْنَيْنِ يَكْفِي الأَرْبَعَةَ وَطَعَامُ الأَرْبَعَةِ يَكْفِي الثَّمَانِيَةَ

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 3255Musnad Ahmad 7320al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 7069Musnad al-Bazzar 165Musnad al-Bazzar 4627Musnad Abi Ya'la 6279

Narrators

  1. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. Ḥarām al-Anṣārī
    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 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Abū Sufyān
    truthful (ṣadūq)d. between 111 and 120 AH
    أَبِي سُفْيَانَصدوق
    عن
  3. al-Aʿmash
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), knowledgeable in the recitations (qirāʾāt), scrupulous (wariʿ), but he practiced concealment (tadlīs)d. Abū ʿAwānah said, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Dāwūd: 147 AH. Wakīʿ said, and more than one: 148 AH. And al-Khaṭīb considered it correct. Also said: 145 AH
    الْأَعْمَشِثقة حافظ , عارف بالقراءات ورع لكنه يدلس
    عن
  4. 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
  5. Abū Kurayb
    trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 248 AH. Also said: 247 AH, which is a mistake
    وَأَبُو كُرَيْبٍثقة حافظ
    حدثنا
  6. 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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