“The first we heard ofFaludhaj*was when Jibril (as) came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said:‘The worldwill be opened for your nation and they will conquer theworld, untilthey eat Faludhaj.’ The Prophet (ﷺ) said: ‘What isFaludhaj?’He said: ‘They mix ghee and honey together.’ At that, theProphet(ﷺ) sobbed.”

“One day, the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) said: ‘I wish that we had some white bread made of brownwheat,softened with ghee, that we could eat.’ A man from among theAnsarheard that, so he took some (of that food) and brought it tohim. TheMessenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Where was this ghee kept?’He said:‘In a container made of mastigure skin.’ And he refusedto eat it.”

“Umm Sulaim made some breadforthe Prophet (ﷺ), and she put a little ghee on it. Then she said:‘Go to the Prophet (ﷺ) and invite him (to come and eat).’ So Iwentand told him: ‘My mother is inviting you (to come and eat).’So hestood up, and said to the people who were with him: ‘Get up.’I wentahead of him and told her. Then the Prophet (ﷺ) came andsaid:‘Bring what you have made.’ She said: ‘I only made it foryou alone.’He said: ‘Bring it.’ Then he said: ‘O Anas, bring(them) in to me tenby ten.’ So I kept bringing them in ten by ten,and they ate theirfill, and there were eighty of them.”

“When the Prophet (ﷺ) passedaway,there was nothing in my house that any living soul could eat,excepta little bit of barley on a shelf of mine. I ate it for a longtime,then I weighed it and soon it was all gone.”

“I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say:‘Ahuman being fills no worse vessel than his stomach. It issufficientfor a human being to eat a few mouthfuls to keep his spinestraight.But if he must (fill it), then one third of food, one thirdfor drinkand one third for air.’”

“Goodness comes more quickly to a house where food is eaten thanaknife to a camel’s hump.”

“When youmakebroth, add more water and give some to your neighbor.”

“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.”

“Whata blessed condiment vinegar is.”

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

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

It wasnarrated from Sa’d, the freed slave of Abu Bakr – and Sa’dusedto serve the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he liked this Hadith –that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade eating two dates at once.

“A man burped in the presence ofthe Prophet (ﷺ) and he said: ‘Withhold your burps from us! Forthemost hungry of you on the Day of Resurrection will be those whomostate their fill in this world.’”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)enteredthe house and saw a piece of bread that had been thrown (onthefloor). He picked it up, wiped it and ate it, and said: ‘O‘Aishah,show honor to the precious (i.e., food), for is the blessingof fooddeparts from people, it never comes back.’”

“Do not leave dinner, even if it is only a handful ofdates,because abandoning it makes one weak.”

“It is the Sunnah for a man to go out with his guest to the doorofthe house.’”

“Why don’t weinvite the Prophet (ﷺ) to eat with us?” So they invited him andhecame. He put his hand on the doorpost of the house and saw a thincurtain in the corner of the house, so he went back. Fatimah said to‘Ali: “Go and catch up with him, and ask him: ‘What made you goback,O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “I do not enter awell-decoratedhouse.”

“I made some food for theProphet(ﷺ) in which there were some vegetables. He did not eat it,and hesaid: ‘I do not like to annoy my companion.’”

“Did Inot forbid you to eat these vegetables? For the angels areoffendedby that which offends people.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saidtohis Companions: ‘Do not eat onions,’ then he said in a low voice:‘Raw.’”