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al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 6737

✧ The recommended amount of food a person should consume

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أَخْبَرَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عُثْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ جَدِّهِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِي كَرِبَ الْكِنْدِيِّ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ «مَا مَلَأَ آدَمِيٌّ وِعَاءً شَرًّا مِنْ بَطْنٍ حَسْبُ الْآدَمِيِّ لُقْمَاتٌ يُقِمْنَ صُلْبَهُ فَإِنْ غَلَبَتْهُ نَفْسُهُ» ثُمَّ ذَكَرَ كَلِمَةً مَعْنَاهَا فَثُلُثٌ طَعَامٌ وَثُلُثٌ شَرَابٌ وَثُلُثٌ لِلنَّفَسِ خَالَفَهُ بَقِيَّةُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. ʿAmr b. ʿUthmān
  2. Muḥammad b. Ḥarb
  3. Abū Salamah
  4. Ṣāliḥ b. Yaḥyá from his grandfather al-Miqdām b. Maʿdī Karib al-Kindī

✧ I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “No human being fills a vessel worse than his stomach. It is sufficient for the son of Adam to have a few morsels to keep his back straight. But if his self overcomes him—” then he mentioned a word whose meaning is: “—then a third for food, a third for drink, and a third for breath.” Baqiyyah b. al-Walid disagreed with him.

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