Remembrance 1 from Chapter 200

WE RELATE FROM the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim that ‘Umar ibn Abī Salamah reported: “I was a young boy in the care of the Messenger of Allah . My hand used to stray in the plate. The Messenger of Allah said to me: ‘Boy, mention the name of Allah, eat with your right hand, and eat from what is in front of you.’” ^[1].According to a report in the Ṣaḥīḥ he said: “One day I ate with the Messenger of Allah and I started to eat from the sides of the plate, so the Messenger of Allah told me: ‘Eat from what is in front of you.’” I say that taṭīshu, with a kasrah on the ṭā’ and then after that a yā’ with a sukūn, means to move about and to stretch over to the sides of the plate instead of confining oneself to one place.

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