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Rabiʾ al awwal Day 23 | “How he ﷺ ate…”

The Apostle of Allāh ﷺ ate whatever was available. His most beloved food was that which was ‘ala dafafin, which is defined as the multiplicity of hands upon the food (i.e., partaking of food with other people). When the table was set he ﷺ said, “In the name of Allāh, render the food favorable and praiseworthy and cause it to have the favor of Paradise.”

While he sat eating, he frequently joined his knees and feet just as he who prays, except that one knee was over the other knee and one foot over the other foot, and said, “I’m only a servant; I eat and sit as he does.”

He ﷺ did not eat very hot food, in regard to which he ﷺ said, “It is without blessing; verily Allāh did not feed us fire, therefore cool it.”  He ate whatever was within his reach, eating with his three fingers.  Sometimes he used a fourth finger but he did not eat with two fingers for he said, “That is the way ʾIblīs eats.”

He ate bread made of unsifted barley and cucumbers with dates and with salt. His favorite fresh fruit were the melon and the grape. He ate the melon with bread and sugar; he often ate it with dates, using his two hands.

His favorite food was meat, of which he ﷺ said, “It is beyond fame; it is the lord of food in this world and in the next; and if I were to ask Allāh to feed it to me every day, he would do so.” He ﷺ used to eat soup with meat and pumpkins. In regard to pumpkins, which he loved, he said, “It is the tree of my brother Yūnus.”

Muḥammad ﷺ never found fault with food. If he was pleased with it, he ate of it; if he disliked it, he neglected it; if he discarded it, he did not render it hateful to another person. He disliked the lizard and the spleen but did not declare them forbidden.

He ﷺ used to wipe clean the dish with his fingers saying, “The last portion of food is very much blessed.” Moreover he licked his fingers until they became red. He did not wipe his hand with a towel until he licked his fingers one by one, saying that he did not know in which morsel of food was the blessing.  When he finished he said, “Praise be to Allāh! Allāh, Thou art worthy to be praised.  Thou hast fed, sated, given drink, and quenched thirst; praise belongs to Thee, who cannot be denied, who is eternally present, and who is indispensable.”  When he ate bread and especially meat, he washed his hands vigorously and wiped his face with the excess water.

He used to drink in three portions, invoking Allāh thrice. When he finished he praised Allāh thrice. He sucked the water and did not gulp it.

Muḥammad ﷺ gave the excess of his food to him who was on his right side.

In his house he was more modest than his freed servants. He did not ask them for food, nor did he importune them with requests for food. If they fed him, he ate. He ate whatever they fed him, and drank whatever they gave him to drink. He often rose and took that which he ate and drank (i.e., he served himself).

Source:

Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn of Imām al-Ghazālī

Book XX: Etiquette of Living and the Prophetic Mannerism. Trans by Leon Zolondek.

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