The family of Muhammad (ﷺ) never ate two meals in a day except that one of them was dates
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Hadith text: The family of Muhammad (ﷺ) never ate two meals in a day…
عَنْ عَائِشَةَ أُمِّ المُؤْمِنينَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا قَالَتْ: مَا أَكَلَ آلُ مُحَمَّدٍ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَكْلَتَيْنِ فِي يَوْمٍ إِلَّا إِحْدَاهُمَا تَمْرٌ.
‘Ā’ishah, the Mother of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with her), reported: The family of Muhammad (ﷺ) never ate two meals in a day except that one of them was dates.
Explanation of the hadith: The family of Muhammad (ﷺ) never ate two meals in a day…
The Mother of the Believers, ‘Ā’ishah (may Allah be pleased with her), reported that the members of the Prophet's (ﷺ) household never ate two full meals in a single day unless one of those two meals was dates.
Lessons: The family of Muhammad (ﷺ) never ate two meals in a day…
- The humility of the Prophet (ﷺ) and his household, for sometimes they would not find more than one meal in a day.
- Dates were more readily available to them than other foods.
- The virtue of asceticism and contentment with little sustenance, and that it is among the morals of the prophets and the way of the Master of the Messengers.
- Eating twice in a single day is among the permissible and allowed matters, and it was a known custom of the Arabs. They used to eat two meals a day: a lunch meal and a dinner meal.
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