Sahih Muslim 2032c
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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وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ أَنَّ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنَ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَوْ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ كَعْبٍ أَخْبَرَهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ كَعْبٍ أَنَّهُ حَدَّثَهُمْ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ
كَانَ يَأْكُلُ بِثَلاَثِ أَصَابِعَ فَإِذَا فَرَغَ لَعِقَهَا
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr
- my father
- Hishām
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Saʿd
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb b. Mālik Aw ʿAbdullāh b. Kaʿb
- Abīh Kaʿb
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
'Abdullah b. Ka'b reported that his father Ka'b narrated to him that Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to eat with three fingers and when he had finished (eating), he licked them.
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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
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- 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 مشهورحدثهم
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 97 AH, or 98 AH; also said 89 AHعَبْدَ اللهِ بْنَ كَعْبٍثقةأخبره
- 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 AHهِشَامٌثقة فقيه ربما دلسحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a man of hadith, from the people of the Sunnah (ahl al-sunnah)d. 199 AHأَبِيثقة ، صاحب حديث من أهل السنةحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 234 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍثقة حافظ فاضلحدثنا
- 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
Sharḥ Riyad al-Salihin (Ibn al-ʿUthaymin)
Dalīl al-Fāliḥīn (Ibn ʿAllān)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
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