Food & Drink – Hadith Answers

Ensuring that one eats with the helper/servant that cooked the food

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Is this Hadith authentic and could you please provide the Arabic text?

“When the servant of one of you has endured heat and smoke preparing his food for him, then let him take him by the hand and make him sit him down with him. If he refuses, then let him take a morsel and feed him with it.”

A narration on the benefit of quince

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Is this Hadith authentic?

كلوا السفرجل فإنه يجم الفؤاد ويشجع القلب يحسن الولد

Eat quince [a type of fruit] for it expands the heart/brings comfort to the heart, it strengthens the heart and will be a means of betterment for one’s children

A query regarding blowing on food removing barakah

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Is there Hadith which says that by blowing on ones food the barakah vanishes?

Vinegar is regarded to be a gravy

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What is the explanation of the following Hadith?

عن أم هانئ بنت أبي طالب قالت: دخل علي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال: هل عندكم شيء؟ فقلت: لا، إلا كسر يابسة وخل، فقال النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم: قربيه، فما أقفر بيت من أدم فيه خل

The home which has no dates is like a house that has no food

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Is this Hadith suitable to quote?

بيت لا تمر فيه كالبيت لا طعام فيه

A house which has dates will never suffer hunger

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Kindly provide the explanation of the following Hadith:

عن عائشة، قالت: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: يا عائشة، بيت لا تمر فيه جياع أهله، يا عائشة، بيت لا تمر فيه جياع أهله

The reward for giving someone milk or lending an animal to use the milk

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Where is this virtue from?

“Want the reward of setting a slave free? Give milk!”

Nabi’s (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) du’a for the person who gave him milk to drink

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What is the status of this narration?

عن عمرو بن الحمق الخزاعي أنه سقى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لبنا، فقال: اللهم أمتعه بشبابه فمرت عليه ثمانون سنة لم ير شعرة بيضاء

The Hadith regarding olive oil being a cure for seventy illnesses

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Is the Hadith which states that olive oil is a cure for seventy diseases authentic?

Authenticity of the narration regarding changing the name of wine to make it permissible

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Please verify the authenticity of this Hadith:

The nights and days will not perish until a group from among my Ummah will drink wine; referring to/calling it by other than its name

Another version of the narration regarding ensuring one’s neighbour does not spend the night hungry

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What is the source of this Hadith?

ليس المؤمن الذي يبيت شبعان وجاره طاو

Wiping the hands after washing them before eating

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Is it established from any Hadith that it is Sunnah not dry the hands after washing them before eating?

Eat, drink, give and take with the right hand for Shaytan uses his left hand

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Can this narration be quoted?

Let one of you eat with his right hand and drink with his right hand, and take with his right hand and give with his right hand, for Satan eats with his left hand, drinks with his left hand, gives with his left hand and takes with his left hand