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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
tabarani:16293 – ʿUbayd b. Ghannām > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī > Sufyān > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Kaʿb from his father

[Machine] I saw the Prophet ﷺ licking his three fingers after eating.  

الطبراني:١٦٢٩٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ بْنُ غَنَّامٍ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ثنا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ كَعْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ يَلْعَقُ أَصَابِعَهُ الثَّلَاثَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ  

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Collected by Aḥmad, Nasāʾī's Kubrá
ahmad:15764 – Wakīʿ > Hishām b. ʿUrwah > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Saʿd > Ibn Kaʿb b. Mālik al-Anṣārī > Abīh And Ibn Numayr > Hishām > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Saʿd > Ibn Kaʿb b. Mālik from his father

[Machine] That the Prophet ﷺ ate food and licked his fingers.  

أحمد:١٥٧٦٤ – حَدَّثَنَا وَكِيعٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَابْنُ نُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ عَنْ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ

أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ أَكَلَ طَعَامًا فَلَعِقَ أَصَابِعَهُ  

ahmad:15767 – ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Saʿd > Ibn Lkaʿb b. Mālikʿan Abīh

[Machine] "I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ licking his three fingers after eating."  

أحمد:١٥٧٦٧ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ سَعْدِ عَنْ ابْنٍ لكَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍعَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَلْعَقُ أَصَابِعَهُ الثَّلَاثَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ  

nasai-kubra:6719 – Isḥāq b. Manṣūr > ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Sufyān > Saʿd b. Ibrāhīm > Ibn Kaʿb b. Mālik from his father

[Machine] I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ licking his three fingers from the food.  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٧١٩ – أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ سَعْدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنِ ابْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ

«رَأَيْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَلْعَقُ أَصَابِعَهُ الثَّلَاثَ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ»