Foods (Kitab Al-At'imah)
كتاب الأطعمة
Chapter 52: Regarding handkerchiefs
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to eat with three fingers and not wipe his before licking it.
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Chapter 1: What has been reported about accepting invitations
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who does not accept an invitation which he receives has disobeyed Allah and His Apostle, and he who enters without invitation enters as a thief and goes out as a raider.
Abu Dawud said: Aban bin Tariq is unknown.
The worst kind of food is that at a wedding feast to which the rich are invited and from which the poor are left out. If anyone does not attend the feast to which he was invited, he has disobeyed Allah and His Apostle (may peace upon him).
Chapter 5: What has been reported about hospitality
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: It is a duty of every Muslim (to provide hospitality) to a guest for a night. If anyone comes in the morning to his house, it is a debt due to him. If he wishes, he may fulfil it, and if he wishes he may leave it.
Chapter 9: If two invitations come at the same time, which should be given precedence?
A companion of the Prophet (ﷺ) reported him as saying: When two people come together to issue an invitation, accept that of the one whose door is nearer in neighbourhood, but if one of them comes before the other accept the invitation of the one who comes first.
Chapter 10: If the time of Salat comes when supper is ready
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Prayer should not be postponed for taking meals nor for any other thing.
Chapter 11: Washing the hands when wanting to eat
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out from the privy and was presented to him. They (the people) asked: Should we bring you water for ablution? He replied: I have been commanded to perform ablution when I get up for prayer.
Chapter 14: Regarding it being disliked to criticize food
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) never expressed disapproval of food; if he desired it, he ate it, and if he disliked it, he left it alone.
Chapter 16: Saying Bismillah over food
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: When one of you eats, he should mention Allah's name; if he forgets to mention Allah's name at the beginning, he should say: "In the name of Allah at the beginning and at the end of it."
Chapter 17: Regarding eating while reclining
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was never seen reclining while eating, nor walking with two men at his heels.
The Prophet(ﷺ) sent me(for some work), and when I returned to him found him eating dates and squatting.
Chapter 20: Eating with the right hand
When any of you eats, he should eat with his right hand, and when he drinks, he should drink with his right hand, for the devil eats with his left hand and drinks with his left hand.
Chapter 21: Regarding eating meat
The bone dearer to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was the bone of sheep.
The tradition mentioned above (No. 3771) has also been narrated by Ibn Mas'ud with a different chain of narrators.
This version has: The Prophet (ﷺ) liked the foreleg (of a sheep). Once the foreleg was poisoned, and he thought that the Jews had poisoned it.
Chapter 23: Regarding eating Tharid
The food the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) liked best was tharid made from bread and tharid made from Hays.
Abu Dawud said: It is a weak (tradition).
Chapter 24: Is it disliked to have an aversion for food
A man asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ): Is there any food from which I should keep myself away? I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Anything which creates doubt should not occur in your mind by which you resemble Christianity.
Chapter 25: The prohibition of eating al Jallalah and its milk
The Prophet (ﷺ) prohibited to drink the milk of the animal which feeds on filth.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade riding the camel which feeds on filth and drinking its milk.
Chapter 27: Regarding eating rabbit
I was an adolescent boy. I hunted a hare and roasted it. Abu Talha sent its hunch through me to the Prophet (ﷺ), so I brought it to him and he accepted it.