Food and Restraint: The Sunnas of Eating and Drinking
Guidance of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) from Imam Nawawi’s Riyad al-Salihin:
Book on the Adab related to Food
- 100. On saying the basmala when starting to eat and praising Allah afterwards
- 101. On not criticising food and the recommendation to praise it
- 102. On what someone says when food is brought when he is fasting and he does not break his fast
- 103. On what someone says when invited to eat and is followed by someone
- 104. On eating from in front of one and instructing someone who eats badly
- 105. On the prohibition against joining two dates or the like together when a group eat without his companions’ permission
- 106. What one says and does when he eats without becoming full
- 107. On the command to eat from the side of the dish and the prohibition against eating from the middle
- 108. On it being disliked to eat reclining
- 109: On the Recommendation to eat with three fingers and the recommendation to lick the fingers
- 110. On a lot of hands for the food
- 111. On the proper manner of drinking and the recommendation to take three breaths outside the vessel
- 112. On
it being disliked to drink from the mouth of the vessel, and the
clarification that the dislike is not a prohibition - 113. On it being disliked to blow on drinks
- 114. On the permission to drink while standing and clarification that it is better and more perfect to drink sitting
- 115. On The recommendation for the one providing the drink to be the last to drink
- 116. On the permission to drink from all pure vessels except those made of gold and silver
