Syed Omair – Portrait of the Prophet #4
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Alright. This is where we left off on
the bread that Rasulullah used to eat.
We are on
session 4
in our
journey through the
of the prophet
the descriptions and characteristics
of Rasool Allah
And last time,
we had left off on the
type of bread that Rasulullah
used to eat,
which we showed an image here of, obviously,
a modern recreation
of, barley bread in his time. So
they only ate barley.
Many other things weren't available. And so we
have
some pictures here of obviously, you can see
the denseness of the bread and also the
way in which,
sometimes they germ the husk.
The barley was actually felt it was completely
intact.
They didn't grind it. They didn't make it
softer. They ate a very rough and tough
kind
of bread.
So
going right from that section, we'll start today
with chapter 26
in which we'll look at the condiments,
the elam, the separate things that that, Rasool
used to eat along with,
his,
bread, his daily bread. So when you have
any in general, the way that we divide
foods and we think about food production is
you have staple foods.
Right? And then we have basically condiments, things
that you eat along with your staple. And
staple foods
differ around the world. They're usually a grain
of some sort. And they're usually barley or
it may be wheat and maybe corn and
maybe rice and maybe something like that. That's
just what Allah has designed as our staples.
That's the main thing that we eat, our
main source of energy, and then separate things
around it.
We also have the foods that we eat
for enjoyment,
k,
which the term in Arabic is a.
Right?
Or
are things that you eat just because you
enjoy the taste of them.
The reason why I'm bringing this up is,
just to show the precision of the Quran
is is amazing.
In the Quran, all the foods of Jannah
are called.
Right? Even though they we know not all
the foods of Jannah are we usually translate
as fruit.
Right? Because
in Jannah, we know that we have meat.
For example, there's the meat of birds that
we have to eat. There's different types of
fruits, obviously, that we remember from the past.
But all of the food of Jannah is
considered
The reason is because in Jannah, we don't
need to eat to survive.
Right? You're eating simply out of joy, out
of the the pleasure that food used to
give you. And the the we'll go into
some of the,
some of the things for enjoyment also that
Rasulullah
and the Sahaba used to eat. But here,
last chapter, we're specifically talking about the staple
food, which was the barley bread. Now we'll
talk about the some of the surrounding foods
that were eaten with the bread, the condiments
or the that Rasulullah
enjoyed.
So starting with hadith number
151 from say the Aisha,
he says, the messenger of Allah
said, what an excellent condiment or elam
vinegar is.
So that was used to be the main
thing that used to drip they used to
dip the bread in to make it softer.
If you remember, barley bread, especially in that
type of environment that they lived in, it
had a tendency to get very tough and
very hard to chew, very hard to eat.
So to soften it up a little bit,
they used to dip it in various things.
One of the things that we see here
is actually vinegar. They would put it straight
into vinegar.
And, you know, nowadays, obviously, with more more
modern medical
and,
gastrointestinal, I don't know what the term is,
but the science is. We know how the
bell the health benefits of vinegar. Right? So
it's a very healthy food for you. They
used to dip it in vinegar to soften
up the the tough and the the coarse
bread so that they could it'd be easier
to eat and easier to
consume.
Hadith number 152 from.
He says, I heard say,
do you not all I said, do you
all not indulge in food and drink as
much as you like? This is in the
later period in the period of the Khalifa.
I saw your prophet
at times unable to find even the lowest
quality of dates
with which to fill his stomach.
That was also a common thing they they
used to eat alongside
other foods would be dates. It's a common
you know, abundantly found in the desert, obviously.
And here he mentioned specifically the lowest quality
of dates. So dates have
various qualities, of course. We're used to, marshmallow,
very nice and and large and very juicy
dates as we consider luxurious dates actually.
In the the days of the prophet, I
mean, probably getting something like that
at that level of freshness would be a
rarity.
Right?
They used to eat so those dates are
called dates that are
literally moist moist dates. Right? They have they
have moistness to them. And those I mean,
within a few hours of taking them out
of the the date husks, they're they're probably
starting to lose some of that already.
Right? Because, obviously, the desert is extremely dry
environment.
So most of the dates they used to
eat would have a little bit of dryness
to them until the point where they got
really dry, and they used to call them
at that point. It becomes.
And then there's a a grade below that
and then there's grade below that and when
it loses all of its moisture.
But most of the time, they probably would
have had dates. Unless it was the the
season in which they had just harvested,
it has some dryness to it. Right? And
so that's what the Sahaba
and
used to eat a lot of the time.
And having the fresh dates was considered almost
like a luxury.
We enjoy that almost on a daily basis.
Right? That the Sahabi is saying that in
the time of the.
You're you're enjoying all the foods you have
now and back then, we don't we only
had dry dates to eat along with our
our bread.
Well, actually, no. This Hadith is saying not
even with the bread. Sometimes if there wasn't
any bread baked, all they had was dates.
Right? Maybe a dozen dates or so, and
that was their entire meal.
The next hadith
from,
he says, we were once in the company
of Abu Musa Al Ashari, who goes to
An, who's a his Sahabi,
When some chicken meat was brought out,
a man distanced himself from the group upon
which he said, meaning Abu Musa said, what's
the matter? What's wrong?
The man replied,
I saw the chicken,
not
probably wasn't that specific chicken. He just means
chickens in general. I saw chickens eat something,
so I swore I wouldn't eat it or
I could not eat it. He basically saw
some chickens eating, you know, insects or something
like that. He thought, oh, this is kind
of nasty.
I saw chickens eating some things, so I
swore I could not eat it.
Abu Musa says, come, he said, for I
saw the messenger of Allah
eat chicken meat.
This is actually something you have to think
about. Logistically, what types of animals would have
been available in the time of the prophet
Right? The prophet
probably never in his life had beef ever.
That wasn't something that was there that time.
Right? The meat that they probably had would
have come from camel,
goat,
lamb, chicken.
Right? Or some of the various desert animals
that are there, which we'll look at some
of them. Right?
So
chicken was something that would have been available
in that time, and it's much, much easier
to cook, much easier to slaughter. Because remember,
it's not like you're going to a store
and buying prepackaged meat. If you wanna eat
meat,
the animal is there. You gotta do all
the work. Right? The chicken would have been
something that would have eaten on a more
of a regular basis probably. Still not as
much as we do nowadays,
but more of a regular basis than they
would have eaten something like goat or something
like,
camel or something like that.
And we see that the prophet did eat,
you know, birds, at least chicken, and we'll
see another bird that's mentioned in a short
while.
And we know one of the foods of
Jannah is birds.
So it's actually mentioned
And you'll enjoy bird meat.
Right.
And another type of bird from Safina,
he says,
I ate the meat of the with
the messenger of Allah
And this is a type of wild bird
that lives in the desert. I have a
picture of it in a in
a second. I don't actually know the English
word for it, but it's a it's a
type of desert,
game bird, basically.
But the messenger
of also used to eat this type of
bird.
Then from Abu Usaid,
he says, the messenger
of said, eat olive oil
and apply its oil onto you, for it
comes from a blessed tree.
So that was something that was also common
in that time. A lot of the oils
that we have nowadays, you know, are
actually modern inventions, vegetable oils and these canola
oils and stuff like that. It wasn't around
back in the day. Back in the day,
even the word oil that you use now,
oil is linguistically connected to the word olive.
Right? Oil and olive were almost synonymous. In
those days, olive oil was a staple oil.
You almost didn't eat any other types of
oil besides that.
And
Rasulullah
not only used to eat it as a
condiment with his bread, so he would dip
the bread in the oil. And we'll see
later on sometimes they mix things in this
olive oil as well. But he also used
to apply it we mentioned, you know, several,
chapters ago that Rasulullah used to have his
hair oiled
frequently. Right? So a lot of that may
have been through olive oil specifically.
We know, obviously, the Quran calls
it a. Right? It's a blessed,
tree that Allah
has created. And so Rasulullah salaam is
echoing that statement. This is a a good
thing not only to eat the olive itself,
but the oil of the olive and then
to use it actually in,
for your your hair care routine. Right?
And then hadith number 160 from Anas bin
Malik, he
says, the prophet
liked
dumbat, which is gourd.
This is, we call pumpkin. It's not actually
pumpkin. It's slightly different from pumpkin, but it's
gourd. It's a type of plant we'll talk
about.
In a Desi culture, you might call it,
type of
plant that we cook. One day, some food
was presented to him or he was invited
to partake in it.
So this is Anna speaking. I began to
look for pieces of it, of the gourd
in the dish,
and placed them in front of him
to eat knowing that he liked it.
The reason they did this is because once
they actually saw
actively going through
the dish to pick out the so that
he could eat it. He loved to eat
it so much. So they would actually
give him more, right, because they know how
much he liked it.
And and we'll see that
some of the Sahaba actually started to notice
this and so they started to eat it
as well. Beautiful way of mimicking the actions
of the prophet
trying to be as much as they could
like him even down to silly things.
Not silly things, but we would consider silly
things like, oh, you like to eat the
same food. Right? This is why, you know,
it hurts my heart somehow. I just tangent.
It hurts my heart when people say something
like, oh, you don't have to do that.
It's just a sunnah. Right?
And
if prayer if the prayer of sunnah is
is, you know, if we treat it like
that, then how are we gonna treat everything
else in our religion? Right? In reality, all
of Islam is sunnah.
Everything that you do is sunnah because your
father is the sunnah of the prophet as
well.
Right?
We're fasting Ramadan because it's the way of
the prophet as well. It's his sunnah as
well. Our 5 prayers are his sunnah as
well. Our Hajj is his sunnah as well.
Our entire deen is sunnah, actually.
So disparaging the sunnah is, you know, something
it's a disease we have to fix in
our hearts. And the Sahaba used to take
its even to the the bare bones level
of let's eat gourd because
Rasulullah like to eat gourd. Simple things like
that.
Hadith number 161 from Jabir ibn Tariq
where the he says, I went to see
the prophet
and saw a gourd being sliced.
And I asked, what is that for? He
said,
we increase
actually, it should be increased, not increased.
We increase our food with it.
Meaning that when they would make a dish,
they wouldn't make huge portions.
Kinda like we do now. We we make
something and make it for, like, 30 people.
Right? They would make a small amount of,
let's say, it was meat or if it
was some sort of stew or something,
and they would add to it
gourd specifically
to make it so that everyone could eat
some more. Right?
So they had basically, like, a filler ingredient,
you could say. Right? Not something small, not
something simple, like,
not bread. Sometimes they'd use bread, but maybe,
you know, some type of plant, something like
this. So use it to increase the amount
that they actually came ended up with. And
this actually echoes another hadith of the prophet
in which he said,
if you're cooking stew,
add more
broth to it
so that you can be conscious of your
neighbors. And if you're cooking stew, make a
bit more than you normally would and then
give it to your neighbors. Right? Be mindful
of them. The hadith is,
be mindful of your neighbors.
So they used to do things like this
to increase the amount that they could share
it with others and, you know, this is
a very close society.
The Sahaba actually used to go and they'd
go to the other people's houses. And even
if their neighbors weren't at home, they would
just go in and eat their food.
It wasn't a strange thing. That's actually part
of the culture. That that's how close they
were to each other.
I mean, the
had made them literally brothers. This man is
your brother. They used to treat each other
like brothers. They would go, and if they
were hungry, they would see inside the kitchen.
Oh, there's some food. I'm gonna eat it.
And it wasn't strange to them. And, obviously,
that's separate from the other part of the
house. So it's not like they were intruding
on anyone. But this is the culture that
they had. Food sharing was a very, very
common thing
among the Sahaba.
Alright. So this is the picture of this
is the.
Again, I forget the the modern word for
it, but this is
a bird that's indigenous to,
East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. So this
is something that they would have hunted, you
know, bow and arrow or something like that,
and they would have eaten this regularly. Right?
So this it's not like it's you can
see it's a bit taller than a chicken.
Right? Not quite as domesticated as a chicken
is, but
probably has a bit slightly tougher meat and
stuff. But it's been a very similar probably
in taste to how chicken is.
This actually is a culture amongst many places,
not just, you know, in in Arabia. But
for us, we think
poultry is chicken.
For many people, there's things like quail. You
know, we still turkey is still a big
part of the culture here in America. There's
many types of birds that people hunted and
and ate. So this is another type that
they used to eat in the desert,
This is a very long chapter, by the
way. So
most of today is probably just gonna be
on the the condiments.
Hadith number 162 from Anas
He said,
a tailor once invited the messenger of Allah
for a meal he had prepared.
Anas, the narrator, he said,
I went with the messenger of Allah
to partake of that food. The man presented
to the messenger of Allah some barley bread
and a I should say broth. That's a
correction. A broth that had pieces of gourd
said, I saw the messenger of Allah seek
out the pieces of gourd from the sides
of the bowl. So from that day forward,
I have not ceased to loving gourd.
So the hadith I was mentioning.
So when I saw him doing that and
notice how the beautiful thing I I was
mentioned that
before even eating the meat, he was eating
the vegetables.
They have a hard time sometimes with their
kids or things like that. And before even
the meat, he would go and he would
literally seek out wherever the the bigger pieces
of
the gourd are so that he could eat
that first. And it's a teaching thing. Right?
You realize everything that Rasulullah does is to
teach.
And so Anas saw this, and so he
started doing it too.
Right? It's a teaching moment.
And that's even before the meat is being
taken in. Right? So this is something we
can start teaching our kids as well, right,
before we start serving out the the meat
and the beef.
Show them how to eat the vegetables. Show
them how to eat the salad. They'll learn
from you. Right?
Yeah. This this this is that hadith I
always love because it shows how the Sahaba
even had concern with I wanna I just
wanna eat even the same foods that Rasulullah
used to eat.
Right? Number 163
comes to us from Aisha.
The prophet
loved sweet foods and honey.
It's actually a beautiful thing. It's a a
mercy for us.
So sweets were something, obviously, not extremely common
back then either. So whenever sweets were made,
it was a joyous thing. It was it
was a beautiful thing. Right? Especially when someone
was able to get honey. You know, honey
now, we we buy, you know, on the
shelves, and it's
hundreds of gallons of honey every single store.
It wasn't like that back in the day.
It was hard to get honey. Right? So
they used to when they got honey or
when they got these sweets, they would share
it with one another. And the sweets that
they ate were very simple types of sweets.
So it'd be maybe a paste made of
some
some some fruit or some some bread or
with some honey and then some fat some
yogurt or something thrown in. They used to
eat it,
you know, right on the spot.
But the prophet especially love these things. He
used to love he used to thank Allah
specifically when eating sweet foods because of how
much of a blessing it is.
Again, most of the foods that they're eating
are what? They're very tough, very bitter,
very hard foods like the barley bread. So
sweets were a luxury, not sure, even in
that time.
Now we eat too much, so we need
to to cut back.
This number 164 from Mohammed bin Youssef
He says,
related to me
that
informed him
that she presented the messenger of Allah
with the roasted side portion of meat
of which he ate. And afterwards, he stood
up to offer prayer, and he did not
perform
ritual purification.
This hadith actually,
hints at something
that was made Mansukh later. It was a
it was originally a hokum of Allah
to the ummah,
but Allah
later abrogated it. So he removed it, which
was basically anything that used to be cooked
over an open fire.
When they ate anything cooked over an open
fire, they used to have to make wudu
afterwards.
That was something they used to break wudu.
And it lasted even into the Madani period.
So here, they're mentioning this because they're mentioning
how the rule changed. Right? Originally, this was
the rule. If you ate anything over an
open fire, you'd have to make wudu after
eating it. And it was usually this is
not always, but usually this is the case
with, you know, all the meats that they
ate. They're basically
camel meat or or, you know,
goat or whatever. They used to make wudu
after eating. But, this was. This is something
that was taken away, and so now we
no longer have to do it. And, actually,
there's a hadith that will hint at that
later as well.
But we see here that what what was
he eating? He was eating the side portion
of
meat. This is probably referring to a goat
or something like that. And so we see
that he actually preferred different cuts of meat
specifically too, and we'll talk about that in
a second.
Oh, so this is the gourd I was
mentioning. Right.
So it comes like this. It gets a
bit harder and changes color slightly as well.
I think this picture specifically, I chose this
picture because it's taken in, I think, Saudi
Arabia. They wanted the one that's probably local
to that area. They used to eat something
like this. So, you know, you chop it
up and you you make it smaller bite
sized cubes.
You put it in a broth, put it
in a soup or something like that or
even with meat. It's actually delicious.
Okay. At least number 167
from Abu He
said, prophet
was brought some meat and presented with the
foreleg
of it, which he liked, and he bit
into it taking some of it.
The foreleg is obviously the
the legs of the animal.
Number 168
from ibn Masood,
He said, the mess the prophet
liked the foreleg.
He said that ibn
Masood said it was a foreleg that was
actually poisoned,
and it was suspected that the Jews had
poisoned him through it. This is a hadith
near the end of the life of the
prophet
in the Madani period. Actually, a few years
before that, that he was actually served a
bowl, you know, a tray of of meat
and that one of the legs was actually
poisoned.
And, Rasulullah
actually
we'll see what happens, but he actually ate
it.
And he knew that it was poisoned. Right?
But that's in some way or another Allah
had informed him of it.
And some of the hadith mentioned that the
meat itself actually spoke to Rasulullah
and told him I am poisoned
and beware. And Rasulullah
made a dua or something, and he allowed
the companions to eat from it. But
the
story goes that the reason why that that
specific thing was poison was because the Jews
knew that he liked to eat that.
He has to eat the forelegs, so they
specifically gave him from that and put some
some,
liquid poison or something on it. It's part
of the tactics of to kill
the prophet.
Some of the sahaba actually say because of
this, he actually died of murder.
It's actually hadith,
some of the discussion among the Sahaba that
the prophet died as shahid
because of this poisoning.
It actually it stayed with him until
his final days, and Allah protected him from
the effects of that poison until his final
days, and he finally succumbed to it as
a as a discussion among the Sahaba that
the prophet died as a shahid because of
this event.
Date number 169
from Abu Abeda,
he said, I cooked a pot of food
for the prophet
He liked the 4 leg, so I gave
him a 4 leg from it.
Then he said,
pass me another 4 leg.
So I passed it to him. This was
not for himself. It was to give to
other people. Right?
Then he said, pass me another 4 leg.
I asked him, oh, messenger of Allah,
how many 4 legs does the sheep have?
Now what now gets amazing? He replied,
by him in whose hand is my soul.
If only you had been silent, you would
have given me as many 4 legs as
I asked for.
You would have kept giving them to me
until I asked.
And we know that actually there are occasions
where this happened where Rasulullah
actually did this. He would have one pot
of food with which he would feed a
100 people.
It's karamat is we we know these karamats
from from other prophets. We hear about the
the feeding of the multitudes
of the fish and and the the bread
of
attributed to The prophet did this actually on
several occasions.
Not only did he do it with food,
but he also did it with water. He
did it with many things. We feed multiple
hoards of people. Right?
The battle of Tabuk, they mentioned that they
brought a bowl of water to the prophet
with all the water that they had.
And so he put his hands in it,
and the bowl started to overflow with water.
And 3, 400 Sahaba,
all made will do, all drink as much
water as they wanted and all fill their
bowl their their camel skins with water, and
then he took his hands out. So so
from one bowl. Right?
It's a beautiful hadith. It shows, you know,
obviously, the prophets are on operating on a
different level
from us. Right? This is a miracle. This
happened actually on another occasion. It happened where
the Sahaba thought later.
Wait. How how much food did I give
him? There's only 1 bull. He fed, you
know, a 100 people with the salah Islam.
Okay. Now this is a now is an
interesting Hadith.
We get an insight
from the family of the prophet.
Remember, so the Sahaba
are with the prophet a lot, but no
one knows him better than his family does.
Right? So watch this. So Aisha
she says the fore log wasn't the fore
leg was not the most beloved portion of
meat to the messenger of Allah
He's actually disputing the the previous claim.
Why did she say that?
That he would not find meat except occasionally.
They didn't eat meat that often.
And he would take it, meaning the foreleg,
quickly because it was the quickest portion to
cook.
Right? It cooked the fastest, which is why
from the outside, the Sahaba looking at this,
they thought, oh, he loves the 4 leg
because he eats it right away.
But Aisha is clarifying. No. It's because it
cooked quickly.
That's why they used to eat it.
Right? And the choices we'll see in the
next hadith, they actually preferred a different type
of meat, but it cooked longer. So when
he had meat available and it's a rarity
at that not rarity, but it's a it's
a luxurious commodity at that time, He would
just take it because it cooked quickly. Those
insights. Right?
Especially has so many insights
into the practice of the prophet that no
one else has.
So that leads to number 172 from Abdullah
bin Jaffa, that's how he said. I heard
the messenger
of
Allah
say the choicest cut of meat is the
back meat of the animal. That's the the
type of meat that he actually
would have been his favorite type of meat,
the hind meat or the back meat. And
the foreleg was only because it cooked quickly
so they had something to eat at that
time.
The the choicest meat was that meat from
the back.
From Umhani
she said, the prophet
came to see me and he asked, do
you have anything to eat?
She replied, no.
So look at the mentalities.
Right? I,
she replied, no,
except for some dry bread and vinegar.
He
said, bring it.
For no home in which there is vinegar
is bereft of a condiment, meaning bereft of
food.
Even if you have bread and vinegar, you
have a meal.
But in her mind, it was, I don't
really have any food. Right?
This shows you also the, you know, the
life the quality of life of the prophet.
So he was content with much less
than many of the other Sahaba may have
been. Right? To just eat
bread and vinegar was considered a meal for
him. So so that was fine.
As long as you have that, you have
food.
But her response is no.
I don't have food.
It's number 174 from Abu Musa Al Hashari.
He said,
the prophet
said, the virtue
of over other women
is like the virtue of
over other foods.
So this is from what we can tell.
Anytime the prophet mentions
Aisha, he means mentioning his favorite thing, you
gotta remember. That's his favorite person on the
planet.
Who another hadith asked, who is your favorite
person?
He said Aisha.
How about from the men? He says, Aisha's
father,
Abubakar. Right? The connection he had to Aisha
and Abubakar was immense. So when he's comparing
someone to Aisha, he's
in a indirect way telling you what his
favorite thing is. So we see that the
virtue of Aisha is like the virtue of
tareed. I have a picture of that. Tareed
was probably the most beloved dish of the
prophet,
the the thing that he loved to eat
the most, and we'll see a picture of
it shortly.
I'll describe it then. But that's his favorite
food.
Number 176,
He said that Abu Hurayrah
reported that he saw the messenger of
Allah perform ritual purification
after eating a peat a piece of
cheese. I remember the Arabic spelling.
Then he saw him eat from a shoulder
of lamb and pray afterwards
without performing ritual purification.
So this is the same, issue we talked
about before.
This cheese, I believe it's, apit, if I'm
not mistaken. You have you have the Arabic.
I believe it's apit.
It's actually a type of cheese that they
use
to cook it over fire
to make it, more solid and and make
it harder.
So it's a type of cheese that they
would cook over a flame.
And then, obviously, we see that he ate
the shoulder of lamb,
and that has to be cooked over a
flame as well. Right? And for a huge
part of the life of the prophet
whenever you cooked anything over an open flame,
you have to make.
And so this is mentioning how
he ate both of these things. This is
a double,
kind of occurrence
where he ate 2 dishes that have to
be cooked over flame,
but that
he did not perform
after that. So this is showing us
solidly that this is. This is a rule
which has been
abrogated. It's taken away. Right?
I don't have a picture of the cheese.
Actually, I don't have a picture of the
3. I should try to find a picture
of what that was. It's basically it's a
type of cheese that's cooked over over fire.
Probably similar to how nowadays you actually can
cook halloumi cheese over fire. It's a very
also type of dense
food you find in Arabia as well. It's
called halloumi.
Hadith number 177 from Anas bin Malik,
he said,
the messenger of Allah
held a wedding banquet for with
the dry dates and.
And so this is a type of sweet
that they used to eat. They used to
take it's almost like a a sweet porridge.
They would take,
some type of grains and and put it
with milk and other things and
grind it up and put dates and and
fresh, you know, like, whatever they had inside
it, and they would serve it almost like
a halwa, like we how we eat halwa
nowadays.
But that was a food that they used
to eat at their walima.
Right? The wedding banquet here is referring to
the walima.
And so they would serve this type of
sweet sweet dish to to the people.
Okay. Here's a picture of tred.
So I tried to find
a picture closer to how he, Salsam, liked
to eat it because
tred basically has 2 main ingredients. It has
bread at the bottom of the bowl.
And then onto the bread, they pour this,
type of stew that has meat in it.
And so the meat they cook
and they
create a stew with it, and then they
put it over bread.
And the bread the the reason why they
put it over the bread is because it
absorbs
the liquid. It absorbs the broth, and it
becomes very soft and nice to eat. So
here you can see that there's bread at
the bottom,
and they have the meat at the top.
I don't know if they would have added
beans in the time of the prophet but
you could imagine. The reason I chose this
picture is imagine a place of the beans
that he would have put gourd. Right? Because
we know he used
to increase his food with with the gourd.
And so this actually is a modern this
is a modern descendant of tari. This dish
that we have here,
obviously not from back then, this is a
dish they make in Iraq nowadays. This is
called tashrib.
If you, have an Iraqi friend, you can
bother them. Make you some tashrib. Right? This
is called tashrib. It's probably a descendant, allahu
alam, of
the that
used to eat in the time of the
prophet.
And those two main ingredients are important though.
The bread at the bottom
and then the stew with the with the
chunks of meat on top.
You could maybe try with nahari. Some bread
at the bottom,
nahari on top. Maybe it's closer.
Right.
Next, Hadith
from,
Faid
He said
that narrated to me on the authority of
his grandmother, Selma
That should be Anha. Sorry.
Who reported that Hassan bin Ali, ibn Abbas,
and ibn Jafar
These are all the youth
that grew up in the family of the
prophet These are all the direct relatives of
the prophet
Hassan, his grandson, obviously, ibn Abbas,
who was his,
would be his nephew. No. His cousin, his
uncle's, son. And then Jafar. Jafar is also
the cousin of the prophet So these are
all the youth that are there around the
prophet
time.
These 3, they came
to Selma,
and they said to her,
prepare some food for us, which the messenger
of Allah
liked,
and enjoyed eating. Liked.
Typo.
She said
so this is after the death of the
prophet, She said, dear sons,
you will not enjoy it today.
So even in the 1st generation after the
death of the prophet,
the people have already changed.
The habits have already changed.
And I mentioned, I think, last week, that
the first thing that changed was that they
used to make their bread softer.
After the death of the prophet, they used
to they got sieves to make nicer and
softer bread. That's the first thing that happened.
Right? So she said you're not gonna like
it.
He said he is referring to one of
them. Perhaps you don't know exactly who. Of
course, we will. So prepare some for us.
So
now this is the narrator speaking. He said
she stood up and gathered some barley,
ground it up, and put it inside a
pot,
then poured some oil over it and ground
some pepper and
and added them to the mix. I'll explain
what tawabil is in a second.
Then she presented the dish to them and
said, this is what the prophet
liked and he enjoyed eating.
So what is this dish?
If you look at some of the, the
South Asian editions of the,
this hadith, they'll say this is the
it's gonna find this. So this is the
the curry that the prophet like to eat.
Once said this is the,
what's that?
The yeah. This spicy
they they'll say this is the, I'm forgetting
the word do word now.
Let's say this is the
take out. I don't remember. Yeah. The masala,
basically. They'll say the prophet eat masala. They'll
they'll use this hadith as an example.
So, basically, what it is, it's it's are
are, Indian spices.
Specifically, in those times, it would have been
cumin and cardamom and and black pepper.
Right? So they would grind it up like
we do now
and make a masala out of it.
They would put that
with oil. So it basically make like a,
you know, like a pasty kind of thing,
and they would eat that with bread. So
it's very similar to what the prophet did
before with the vinegar. Right? Except here, we
can actually see
that
spices would have been added to enhance flavor
sometimes.
There's nothing wrong with that in the sunnah.
They used to add these
these ground spices, like the coriander, the cumin,
and that type of thing along with the
peppers. They put that in oil and eat
it all together.
There's a hadith that they see us love.
The the masala of the prophet.
But this is already something you can see
within a generation
that people stop eating it. Right?
The the the nature of people had already
changed within a generation.
Date number 181,
from
she said, the messenger of
once came to see me and Ali
who was accompanying him.
We had some suspended
clusters of dates.
The messenger
began to eat from them. So they're
fresh dates. Right?
As did Ali along with him. The messenger
then said to Ali,
that is enough, Ali. He stopped him. That's
enough.
You've just recovered from illness.
She said, Ali sat down,
and the messenger
continued to eat. This actually goes to the
the because he
dates are, she I believe they're considered a
very hot food.
They they heat up the body.
She said then, I prepared for him some
chard and barley.
And the prophet
said to him, take this. It's more suitable
for you.
So back then, of course, food was equivalent
to medicine. Right? The food that you ate,
right, had an effect on your body, had
an effect on,
you know, you can see here that certain
foods of discouraging
Ali from eating after illness. This may have
an adverse effect after all the illness. And
we know, obviously, modern
study and track these things now. Dates have
an extreme amount of sugar. Right? So in
increasing the glucose levels of the blood by
that much can actually have adverse effects because
it glucose promotes the growth of bacteria in
the blood. Right?
So, I mean, obviously, they're not thinking about
this one. Rasool has divine Hikma. Right? But
certain foods that they're eating, the prophet knows
this is good for you. This is bad
for you in this time. We have an
entire science of this called,
right, the the prophetic
medicine.
It's mostly food based, actually.
So he gave,
Ali an alternative.
128, 182, I'm sorry, from Aisha, she said,
the prophet
would come to me and ask, do you
have anything for breakfast?
I would reply no, to which he would
say, I am fasting then.
If there's no food for breakfast, I'll fast
today.
One day, he came to me and and
I asked him I said to him, oh,
messenger of Allah, we
have received a gift. He asked, what is
it?
He said, it's some,
which is,
I'll explain in a second.
He said, I woke up fasting,
but then he actually ate it. Right? This
is a hadith. Actually, the is used as
a proof
for,
the ability to break a voluntary fast, a
nafil fast.
They take this hadith as a proof that
you can do it. Right? And you don't
have to make it up. Whereas in other
schools, actually, I believe in the Malek and
Hanafi, their opinions are you still have to
make it up later because you intended to
fast that day. But the Shafi'i has used
this to show that
Rasool actually
did this. Some days he would start fasting,
but if there was food available, he would
actually break it. Right?
And if he didn't have food,
he counted it as a day of fast.
And that wasn't a stretch back then that,
you know, you wouldn't have food for a
day. Right? We'll see in some of the
hadith.
Sometimes they went for a day without food.
Right?
That's so outlandish to us now, but that
was a very harsh reality back then.
That yesterday, I ate some dates. Today, I
might not have anything. Maybe I'll just have
some water, and that's it. That's
that's it for the day.
From Yousef bin Abdullah
he said, I saw the prophet
take a piece of barley bread and a
p a place a date on it and
say, this date is the condiment for this
barley bread, and then he ate it.
This is actually inspiration for a dish that
we eat nowadays because I've ever had it.
It's called. You don't know?
So is when you take, like a dough
or a bread and you bake,
you you put a date paste in it
and then you bake it. Right? That's actually
similar to how the prophet
would eat dates
and bread together. So that's a you can
say it's a prophetic inspired dish.
He probably never had anything that soft in
his life. But we have.
So this is something related to that. So
he said these 2 accompany one another. The
date and the bread, they accompany one another.
And then from Anas
he said the messenger of Allah liked.
Abdullah said, what does that mean?
Or he explained what it means. It means
the remaining
portions of a meal. So there's a saying
in the Middle East that the barakah is
in the remaining portions. Right? If you want
the barakah of the food,
eat the leftovers,
basically.
When they used to eat it all together,
they would eat, you know, on a large
plate.
Rasoolullah
would eat the remaining portions.
Right?
Partially, it's also a way of honoring the
guest, you know, who made the food for
you. And don't just give them a ton
of food back and, you know, now you've
kind of ruined their their setup. You used
to eat the remaining portions. And there are
many stories of of scholars in
in
Syria and and Sham and and all over
the world that used to do this as
a regular practice. Right? People actually bring them
leftovers so they could eat it. And they
would do it out of sunnah. Right? This
is the sunnah of the prophet. Let me
finish your leftovers.
I think we're almost done. So now we're
at
number 27. I think we'll just read this
chapter because I think it stops here and
we'll stop here for today.
Chapter 27. So now we're past the actual
foods that the prophet used to eat. We're
at the
the washing, the wudu of the prophet
at mealtime. By wudu here, we don't actually
mean the full wudu. We mean just the
way that he used to wash himself.
So number 185 from ibn Abbas,
He said, the prophet
once returned after having relieved himself, and some
food was presented to him.
Those present asked,
shall we not bring you water with which
to perform ritual purification, meaning the full?
He replied,
I've only been commanded to perform ritual purification
when I rise to offer the prayer.
They're showing us because, again, remember Islam in
their time was still developing. Right? The Sahaba,
a new revelation was still coming down daily.
Right? So
they may have thought, well, if you're gonna
eat something or you're let's say you're gonna
eat this meat that's been cooked over the
flame,
should you be in a state of wudu?
Should you not be in a state of
wudu?
So this is how the prophet would teach
them these things. Right?
So they brought they think, should we bring
you water? Do you want to make wudu
now? And he would say, no. I don't
need to make wudu now. Right?
We only need to make when we pray.
Right? So this is showing the Sahaba that
some things have been changed or this rule
has been abrogated or this thing has been
changed in some way. These are some of
these teaching moments. Right?
Then from Salman,
he narrates
that I read in the Torah that the
blessings of food are gained through purification,
meaning washing the hands,
after eating.
Salman,
this is Salman al Farisi. He's a very
interesting person because he was actually quite old
when he met the prophet.
He may have been actually been older than
the prophet himself when he met him. But
he was a man from Persia who had
actually become
Christian,
and then he became a slave. He was
sold to the Jews of,
of Medina,
and he was a man who was searching
for the truth for a very long time.
He had studied the the Injeel. He had
studied the Torah.
So he knew a lot of things, and
that's how he knew that a prophet was
going to come.
He knew that there was a prophet that's
gonna come in Arabia.
So
from whatever way, he found his way to
Madinah, and as he said, he became a
slave there. And he waited in that city.
He saw actually the signs of the city.
He recognized that this is the city in
which the prophet's going to come. That's how
he met him. Right? So he read in
the Torah that the blessings of food are
through afterwards.
You wash your hands after you eat.
He said, I mentioned that to the prophet
and informed him of what I had read
in the Torah. The messenger
of Allah said, the blessings of food are
gained through purification
performed prior
to
and after eating.
So she corrected it.
That this hook in the Torah is incorrect.
The blessing comes from
before it and after. You should wash your
hands before eating,
and you should wash your hands again after
eating. And this is the sunnah that we
know from the prophet
We'll stop here
at hadith number, chapter number 28, hadith number
188. We'll continue this
on Wednesday.
I believe we will be going into the
we will be going into the final 10
days. I'd originally planned not to,
just because, you know, people are
at the calf or maybe traveling or something.
But we it seems like we probably will
have to in order to complete it. So
we'll do this week and we'll do it
next week as well.
And,
I think we'll be able to finish by
next, next Wednesday.
You on, Wednesday for,
chapter 28.
To forgive us of our sins by our
reading of this book, and allow us to
become closer to the prophet
through our reading of the book.
I really, really
have this earnest do I really want everyone
who attended this class, who's watching online, who's
who's following with us. May I ask Allah
to allow us to see Rasool Allah in
her dreams
by our reading of this book. A beautiful
gift that would be
facilitate it for us.