Chapters on Drinks
كتاب الأشربة
Chapter 16: Covering vessels
“Cover your vessels, tie your water skins, extinguish yourlamps and lock your doors, for Satan does not untie a water skin,opena door or uncover a vessel. If a person cannot find anything butastick with which to cover his vessel and mention the Name of Allah,then let him do so. And the mouse could set fire to the house withitspeople inside.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)commanded us to cover our vessels, tie up our water skins and turnover our vessels.”
“I used to prepare three coveredvessels for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at night: A vessel for hiswater for purification, a vessel for his tooth stick and a vessel forhis drink.”
Chapter 17: Drinking from a silver vessel
“The one who drinks from a silver vessel is swallowing Hell-fireinto his belly.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbadedrinking from vessels of gold and silver. He said: “They areforthem in this world and for you in the Hereafter.’”
“Whoeverdrinks from a silver vessel, it is as if he is swallowing Hell-fireinto his belly.”
Chapter 18: Drinking in three draughts
It wasnarrated from Anas that he used to drink from a vessel inthreedraughts, and Anas said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) usedtodrink from a vessel in three draughts.
It wasnarrated from Ibn ‘Abbas that the Prophet (ﷺ) drank, andtook twobreaths while doing so.
Chapter 19: Tipping up water skins
“The Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) forbade tipping up water skins in order to drink fromtheirmouths.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade tipping up water skins. After the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)hadforbidden that, a man got up at night and tipped up a water skin,anda snake fell out of it onto him.”
Chapter 20: Drinking from the mouth of a water skin
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade drinking (directly) from the mouth of a water skin.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade drinking (directly) from the mouth of a water skin.”
Chapter 21: Drinking while standing up
“I drew waterfrom Zamzam for the Prophet (ﷺ) and he drank standing up.”
It wasnarrated from ‘Abdur-Rahman bin Abi ‘Amrah, from a grandmotherofhis who was called Kabshah Al-Ansariyyah, that the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) entered upon her, and there was a water skin hangingthere. Hedrank from it while standing, and she cut off the mouth ofthe waterskin, seeking the blessing of the place where the mouth oftheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) had been.
It wasnarrated from Anas that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbadedrinkingwhile standing up.
Chapter 22: When drinking, the (vessel) should be passed around to the right
“Pass it around to the right.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)wasbrought some milk. On his right was Ibn ‘Abbas and on his left wasKhalid bin Walid. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to Ibn ‘Abbas:‘Will you permit me to give Khalid to drink?’ Ibn ‘Abbas said:‘Iwould not like to give preference to anyone over myself when itcomesto the leftover drink of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). So Ibn‘Abbastook it and drank some, then Khalid drank some.”
Chapter 23: Breathing into the vessel
“When anyone of you drinks, let him not breathe into the vessel.Ifhe wants to continue drinking, let him move the vessel away (inorderto breathe) then bring it back, if he wants.”
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade breathing into the vessel.”
Chapter 24: Blowing into the drink
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade blowing into the vessel.”