Q: Can you explain this hadith ?
Answer:
1- "By someone else" is understood by a translator not in the original arabic.
The same hadith translated from Sahih Muslim translation:
حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ إِذَا أَكَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلاَ يَمْسَحْ يَدَهُ حَتَّى يَلْعَقَهَا أَوْ يُلْعِقَهَا" "Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said,
'When you eat, do not wipe your hands till you have licked it, or had it licked by somebody else."Sahih al-Bukhari 5456
Answer:
1- "By someone else" is understood by a translator not in the original arabic.
The same hadith translated from Sahih Muslim translation:
" إِذَا أَكَلَ أَحَدُكُمْ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ فَلاَ يَمْسَحْ يَدَهُ حَتَّى يَلْعَقَهَا
أَوْ يُلْعِقَهَا "
Ibn 'Abbas reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
"When any one of you eats food he should not wipe
his hand until he has licked it or got it licked by (someone else)." Muslim 2031 b
2- One of the translator couldn't remember the exact words whether it
يَلْعَقَهَا
أَوْ يُلْعِقَهَا
So, he reported his doubt. "he has licked it or got it licked"
Look the 2 words translated in english are nearly the same in Arabic (with slight difference in vowels/taskeel ). It's most likely "Ataa'" who doubted the exact word according to Farid.
" had it licked" refers to the finger..it can be licked by the same person..
3- Food is a great blessing from Allah which we shouldn't waste. When we are done eating, the plate should be wiped clean with one's fingers (so that we don't waste any food remaining on our plate) and fingers should be licked because there is some food remaining and there is a great barakah (blessing) in it. When you begin eating by saying Bismillaah, the food that Allaah had brought in front of you contains a blessing, but you would never know which part exactly carried that blessing.
Anas ibn Maalik narrated that when the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ate, he would lick his three fingers. Anas said: “And he said, ‘If any one of you drops a piece of food, let him remove any dirt from it and eat it, and not leave it for the Shaytaan.’ And he commanded us to clean the plate, and said, ‘For you do not know where in your food the blessing is.’”
Allah knows best.
The etiquette of eating
3- Food is a great blessing from Allah which we shouldn't waste. When we are done eating, the plate should be wiped clean with one's fingers (so that we don't waste any food remaining on our plate) and fingers should be licked because there is some food remaining and there is a great barakah (blessing) in it. When you begin eating by saying Bismillaah, the food that Allaah had brought in front of you contains a blessing, but you would never know which part exactly carried that blessing.
Anas ibn Maalik narrated that when the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ate, he would lick his three fingers. Anas said: “And he said, ‘If any one of you drops a piece of food, let him remove any dirt from it and eat it, and not leave it for the Shaytaan.’ And he commanded us to clean the plate, and said, ‘For you do not know where in your food the blessing is.’”
Allah knows best.
The etiquette of eating
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