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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
ahmad:14926 – ʿAffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Ḥumayd > Abū al-Mutawakkil

[Machine] "From Jabir ibn Abdullah, they used to not put their hands in the food until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would start."  

أحمد:١٤٩٢٦ – حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُتَوَكِّلِ

عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا لَا يَضَعُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ فِي الطَّعَامِ حَتَّى يَكُونَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ هُوَ يَبْدَأُ  

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nasai-kubra:6720 – Ibrāhīm b. Yaʿqūb > ʿAffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Ḥumayd > Abū al-Mutawakkil

[Machine] Narrated by Jabir ibn Abdullah, "They (the companions) never used to put their hands in the food until the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would start."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٧٢٠ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ عَنْ حُمَيْدٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْمُتَوَكِّلِ

عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ «أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا لَا يَضَعُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ فِي الطَّعَامِ حَتَّى يَكُونَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يَبْدَأُ»