The Meaning of the Bite and the Meal in the Hadith of the Servant
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The questioner:
The bite or the meal; the meaning is the same.
The Shaykh:
If it is in the bite.
The questioner:
Imam al-Nawawi.
The Shaykh:
The narrator was uncertain, meaning, did he say "meal" or did he say "bite"? The meal is according to Ibn Adam, who establishes what is conveyed from him as sound, and in another wording it is "eat" if he conveys it thus,
The questioner:
This is how al-Nawawi interpreted it, joining the hamzah, which is the act of biting.
The Shaykh:
Yes, the meaning is the beloved ones.
The bite or the meal; the meaning is the same.
The Shaykh:
If it is in the bite.
The questioner:
Imam al-Nawawi.
The Shaykh:
The narrator was uncertain, meaning, did he say "meal" or did he say "bite"? The meal is according to Ibn Adam, who establishes what is conveyed from him as sound, and in another wording it is "eat" if he conveys it thus,
The questioner:
This is how al-Nawawi interpreted it, joining the hamzah, which is the act of biting.
The Shaykh:
Yes, the meaning is the beloved ones.
Source
التعليق على رياض الصالحين، باب فضل الإحسان إِلى المملوك : الأحاديث : [ 1363 - 1364 ] — islamhouse.com (8:47)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.