Not finding fault with food

We relate in the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī and Ibn Mājah from Ḥulb , a Companion, who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah being asked by a man [who said] ‘there are foods that I refrain from’”. [The Prophet ] said: “Do not let something become agitated in your breast by which you will resemble Christianity.”

I say that the [name] Ḥulb is written with a ḍammah on the letter ḥā’ and no vowel on the letter lām and with a bā’.

The word yataḥallajanna is written with ḥā’ before the lām, followed by the letter jīm. This is how it is spelt by al-Harawī, al-Khaṭṭābī and the majority of the imams, and that is how we spell it in our sources of listening to the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd and others with a ḥā’. Abū as-Sa‘ādāt Ibn al-Athīr also reports the same with a ḥā’. He adds that it is also narrated with the letter khā’, but they both have the same meaning.

According to al-Khaṭṭābī, it means ‘do not let him fall into doubt about it’. He said that its origin is from the word al-ḥalj, which means ‘movement and confusion’, and from which comes [the expression] ‘carding cotton’. He also says that the phrase ‘you will resemble Christianity’ means ‘you will come close to resembling it’. Muḍāra‘ah means to come close in resemblance.