Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 5290
✧ Second section on condemning excessive eating
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، ثَنَا أَبُو الْحَسَنِ الطَّرَائِفِيُّ، ثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، ثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ، فِيمَا قَرَأَ عَلَى مَالِكٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ
أَنَّهُ قَالَ: بَلَغَنِي أَنَّ عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ كَانَ يَأْكُلُ خُبْزًا بِسَمْنٍ، فَدَعَا رَجُلًا أمِنْ أَهْلِ الْبَادِيَةِ، فَجَعَلَ يَأْكُلُ مَعَهُ، وَيَتْبَعُ بِاللُّقْمَةِ، وَضَرَّ الصَّفْحَةَ، فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ: " كَأَنَّكَ مُقْفِرٌ " فَقَالَ: وَاللهِ مَا ذُقْتُ سَمْنًا، وَلَا رَأَيْتُ أَكْلًا بِهِ مُنْذُ كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَقَالَ عُمَرُ: " لَا آكُلُ سَمْنًا حَتَّى يَحْيَى النَّاسُ مِنْ أَوَّلِ مَا يَحْيَوْنَ "
Translation
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machine translationAbū Zakariyyā b. Abī Isḥāq informed us: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭarāʾifī narrated to us: ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd narrated to us: al-Qaʿnabī narrated to us, in what he recited to Mālik, from Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd
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That he said: It reached me that ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb was eating bread with clarified butter, so he called a man from the people of the desert, and he began eating with him, following up each morsel with another, and scooping around the dish. ʿUmar said to him: "It is as if you have been without fat." He said: By God, I have not tasted clarified butter, nor seen anyone eating it, for such and such a time. ʿUmar said: "I will not eat clarified butter until the people are revived from the first of what they are revived."
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