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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

ذِكْرُ الْخَبَرِ الدَّالِّ عَلَى أَنَّ هَذِهِ الْحَالَةَ لِلْمُصْطَفَى ﷺ كَانَتْ حَالَةَ اخْتِيَارٍ لَا اضْطِرَارٍ

ibnhibban:6359 – Abū Yaʿlá > Abū Khaythamah > ʿAffān > Abān b. Yazīd > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] "That the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would not gather both food and dinner of bread and meat except on the outskirts."  

ابن حبّان:٦٣٥٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو يَعْلَى حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

«أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَمْ يُجْمَعْ لَهُ غِذَاءٌ وَلَا عِشَاءٌ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَلَحْمٍ إِلَّا عَلَى ضَفَفٍ»  

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ahmad:13859 – ʿAffān > Abān b. Yazīd > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] "Indeed, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ never had a lunch or a dinner consisting of bread and meat except on a raised platform."  

أحمد:١٣٨٥٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا أَبَانُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ لَمْ يَجْتَمِعْ لَهُ غَدَاءٌ وَلَاعَشَاءٌ مِنْ خُبْزٍ وَلَحْمٍ إِلَّا عَلَى ضَفَفٍ