Chapters on Food

“No leftovers of roastmeat*were ever cleared from in front of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ),andno carpet was ever carried with him.”

“Weate food with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) in the mosque, meatthathad been roasted. Then we wiped our hands on the pebbles and gotupto perform prayer without performing ablution.”

“A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and his voice trembled out of awe as he spoke to him. The Prophet said to him, “Be calm, for I am not a king. Verily, I am only the son of a woman who ate dried meat.”

“We used to store trotters and theMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) would eat them fifteen days after thesacrifice.”

“Two kinds of dead meat and two kinds of blood havebeenpermitted to us. The two kinds of dead meat are fish andlocusts, andthe two kinds of blood are the liver and spleen.”

‘The best of your seasonings is salt.”

“Whata blessed condiment vinegar is.”

“What a blessed condiment vinegar is.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) entered upon ‘Aishah,when Iwas with her, and said: ‘Is there any food?’ She said: ‘We havebread, dates and vinegar.’ The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Whatablessed condiment vinegar is. O Allah, bless vinegar, for it wasthecondiment of the Prophets before me, and no house will ever bepoor inwhich there is vinegar.’”

‘Season(your food) with olive oil and anoint yourselves with it, foritcomes from a blessed tree.”

“Iheard AbuHurairah say: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Eat(olive) oil andanoint yourselves with it, for it is blessed.’”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would say, whenmilkwas brought to him: ‘A blessing,’ or ‘Two blessings.’”

“Whoever is given food by Allah, let him say: Allahumma bariklanafihi wa arzuqna khairan minhu (O Allah, bless it for us andprovideus with something better than it). And whoever is given milkto drinkby Allah, let him say: Allahumma barik lana fihi wa zidnaminhu (OAllah, bless it for us and give us more of it). For I do notknow ofany food or drink that suffices, apart from milk.”

“The Messenger of Allah 9saw) usedtolike sweets and honey.”

“My mother was trying to fatten meupwhen she wanted to send me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (whenshegot married), but nothing worked until I ate cucumbers with dates;then I grew plump like the best kind of plump.”

“I saw the Messenger ofAllah (ﷺ) eating cucumbers with dates.”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ)used to eat dates with melon.”

“Ahouse in which there are no dates, its people will go hungry.”

“A house in which there are nodates is like a house in which there is no food.”

“OAllah,bless us in our city and in our fruits, in our Mudd and in ourSa’,*blessing upon blessing.” Then he would give it to the smallestofthe children present.