“O people, you eat two plants which
I
do not regard as anything but offensive: This garlic and these
onions.
At the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), I would see a
man, if the
smell (of these vegetables) was found on him, being taken
by the hand
and led out to Baqi’ (graveyard). Whoever must eat
them, let him cook
them to death.”
Narrated by It was
narrated from Ma’dan bin Abu Talhah Al-Ya’muri that ‘Umar bin
Khattab stood up one Friday delivering a sermon. He praised and
glorified Allah, then he said:
Context
In this hadith, Umar ibn Khattab addresses the congregation during a Friday sermon, warning them about the offensive smell of garlic and onions. He recalls how, during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), individuals were taken out of the gathering if they had consumed these plants. This highlights the importance of maintaining a pleasant environment in communal worship.
Modern Application
Today, many people are mindful of their food choices, especially in social settings. Being considerate of others, such as avoiding strong-smelling foods before gatherings, reflects a commitment to maintaining a pleasant atmosphere for everyone involved.
Topics
This hadith is tagged with Eating Etiquette because it emphasizes the significance of being considerate about food choices in communal settings.
And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we can never endure one [kind of] food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the earth its green herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions." [Moses] said, "Would you exchange what is better for what is less? Go into [any] settlement and indeed, you will have what you have asked." And they were covered with humiliation and poverty and returned with anger from Allah [upon them]. That was because they [repeatedly] disbelieved in the signs of Allah and killed the prophets without right. That was because they disobeyed and were [habitually] transgressing.
And do not pray [the funeral prayer, O Muhammad], over any of them who has died - ever - or stand at his grave. Indeed, they disbelieved in Allah and His Messenger and died while they were defiantly disobedient.
Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah, and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] slaughter [before its death], and those which are sacrificed on stone altars, and [prohibited is] that you seek decision through divining arrows. That is grave disobedience. This day those who disbelieve have despaired of [defeating] your religion; so fear them not, but fear Me. This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion. But whoever is forced by severe hunger with no inclination to sin - then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
سُورَةُ الغَاشِيَةِ
Al-Ghaashiya (The Overwhelming)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
1 ayah
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
And they say, "These animals and crops are forbidden; no one may eat from them except whom we will," by their claim. And there are those [camels] whose backs are forbidden [by them] and those upon which the name of Allah is not mentioned - [all of this] an invention of untruth about Him. He will punish them for what they were inventing.
This hadith is #3099 from Sunan Ibn Majah, in the Book of Chapters on Food. It is graded Sahih and narrated by It was
narrated from Ma’dan bin Abu Talhah Al-Ya’muri that ‘Umar bin
Khattab stood up one Friday delivering a sermon. He praised and
glorified Allah, then he said:.