Hadith on Food, Meals: It Is Not Essential, And Added, we Never Used To Get Such Kind Of Food During The Lifetime Of The Prophet Except Rarely; And If At All We Got Such A Dish, We Did Not Have Any Handkerchiefs To Wipe Our Hands With Except The Palms Of Our Hands, Our Forearms And Our Feet

Sahih al-Bukhari 5457 (Book 70, Hadith 86) #5232

Ablution After Eating Cooked Meals

SUMMARY: This hadith explains that it is not necessary to perform ablution after eating a cooked meal, as the Prophet and his companions did not have access to handkerchiefs or other materials for wiping their hands.

Narrated Sa'id bin Al-Harith: that he asked Jabir bin 'Abdullah about performing ablution after taking a cooked meal. He replied, "It is not essential," and added, "We never used to get such kind of food during the lifetime of the Prophet except rarely; and if at all we got such a dish, we did not have any handkerchiefs to wipe our hands with except the palms of our hands, our forearms and our feet. We would perform the prayer thereafter with-out performing new ablution".

حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْمُنْذِرِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُلَيْحٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّهُ سَأَلَهُ عَنِ الْوُضُوءِ مِمَّا مَسَّتِ النَّارُ، فَقَالَ لاَ قَدْ كُنَّا زَمَانَ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ لاَ نَجِدُ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ إِلاَّ قَلِيلاً، فَإِذَا نَحْنُ وَجَدْنَاهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَنَا مَنَادِيلُ، إِلاَّ أَكُفَّنَا وَسَوَاعِدَنَا وَأَقْدَامَنَا، ثُمَّ نُصَلِّي وَلاَ نَتَوَضَّأُ‏.‏

TOPICS
ablution * meal * prayer

QUICK LESSONS:

Be content with what you have; Make do with whatever resources are available; Fulfill your religious obligations; Pray regularly even when there are no resources available for performing abulstions.

EXPLANATIONS:

This hadith explains that it is not necessary to perform ablution after eating a cooked meal. During the lifetime of the Prophet, they rarely ate such meals and if they did, they did not have any handkerchiefs or other materials for wiping their hands. Therefore, they would pray without performing new ablutions. This teaches us that we should be content with what we have and make do with whatever resources are available to us in order to fulfill our religious obligations. It also shows us how important prayer is in Islam as even when there were no resources available for performing ablutions, the Prophet still encouraged his companions to pray without them.

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