Explanation of the Book of Foods-04a
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The reciter: Muhammad ibn al-Sabah narrated to us, and Isma'il ibn Zakariyya narrated to us from Asim from Abu Usman from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: Sahih al-Bukhari 5441b
The Shaykh : Now, this hadith contradicts the two previous hadiths which state that there were seven dates. It is the custom of some scholars in such cases to attribute this to multiple incidents. However, if we look at the context, we do not attribute it to that, but rather we say that one opinion is stronger. We prefer the narration of seven dates over the narration of six dates, because error is likely here, and it is more likely than the occurrence of multiple incidents. The context of this distribution, and the fact that one of them was a stalk, indicates that it is a single story. Therefore, the ruling is based on the previous two narrations that the dates were seven, one of which was a stalk. Did the commentator point to this?
The Prophet (ﷺ) distributed dates among us, and my share was five dates, four of which were good, and one was a ,Hashafa, and I found the Hashafa the hardest for my teeth.
قسم النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم بيننا تمرًا فأصابني منه خمس أربع تمرات وحشفة ثم رأيت الحشفة هي أشدهن لضرسيThe Shaykh : Now, this hadith contradicts the two previous hadiths which state that there were seven dates. It is the custom of some scholars in such cases to attribute this to multiple incidents. However, if we look at the context, we do not attribute it to that, but rather we say that one opinion is stronger. We prefer the narration of seven dates over the narration of six dates, because error is likely here, and it is more likely than the occurrence of multiple incidents. The context of this distribution, and the fact that one of them was a stalk, indicates that it is a single story. Therefore, the ruling is based on the previous two narrations that the dates were seven, one of which was a stalk. Did the commentator point to this?