Chapter: Chapter "Giving the fruit to the youngest of the children present" Explanation of the hadith of Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him

The Shaykh : All praise is due to Allah; we praise Him, seek His help, and seek His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our own selves and from the evil of our deeds. Whom Allah guides, none can mislead, and whom He leaves to mislead, none can guide. And I bear witness that there is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger.
As for what follows:
For the best of speech is the speech of Allah, and the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and the worst of matters are their innovations, and every innovation is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.
We are now studying the eighty-eighth chapter after the hundred, which is:
"Chapter: Giving the fruit to the youngest of the children present"
We note the precision of the Imam al-Bukhari, the Hafiz, in his chapter headings and titles. We previously covered the sixty-third chapter after the hundred: "The virtue of the elder", followed by: "Honoring the elder", followed by: "The elder begins the speech and the question", followed by: "If the elder does not speak, may the younger speak?", and the last chapter of the previous lesson: "Chapter: Giving the elders the black (best) seats". This long series of chapters explains the practical etiquette with the distinguished and the elders.
Now, conversely, he lists chapters clarifying how one should treat the young, and be polite and gentle with them. So the first chapter he establishes in this regard is:
He says: "Chapter: Giving the fruit", meaning the new fruit when it is brought, "to the youngest of the children present".
And he cites a hadith with its authentic chain of narration:
From Abu Hurayrah, who said: .
This is one of the Prophetic etiquettes that few know, and even fewer practice. When the new fruit first arrives, it is offered to the small child. This is the Sunnah; this is what the Messenger (peace be upon him) used to do. When this fruit came to him, he would first pray for the city for good. He would say: The city, one of whose names is Taybah. On this occasion, I remind you that many Islamic writers call it Yathrib. This is a pre-Islamic name that a Muslim should not follow; rather, he should oppose the pre-Islamic people in this. He should either call it by its famous name, al-Madinah, or preferably call it Taybah, because Allah named it so on the tongue of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). So either we say Taybah or we say al-Madinah, but Yathrib is one of the pre-Islamic names.
And it is regrettable that Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali, in his book *Fiqh al-Sirah*, frequently uses this name for the city, Yathrib. When I checked his hadiths, I pointed this issue out to him.
Here the hadith comes with the famous name: . The zahw is the busr of the dates, and busr is the first beginning of the ripening of the dates. Usually, the date is like the unripe grape, green, then it begins to turn yellow or red according to the color of its variety. The beginning of its yellowing and reddening means the beginning of sweetness seeping into it, but the hard, fibrous substance remains very hard, so it is not eaten until it begins to redden strongly from its stem, from the bottom. We see in al-Madinah, in many periods, that the busr is hard all over the date, and the top either turns yellow or red, while the bottom is redder with an addition. This is the busr. All of this is an indication that this date is at the first beginning of its ripening. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when this zahw, whose name is busr and whose name is zahw, came to him, where they used, and still use, the mudd and the sa' for measuring, and rarely use the scale for grains like wheat and barley.
And he says in this hadith: , in some hadiths . And Ibrahim (peace be upon him) prayed for Makkah, and the Messenger (peace be upon him) mentioned it and said: .
Then he would hand this new fruit to the youngest of the boys sitting closest to him.