Table Manners
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1. Mention Allah's name, eat with your right hand and eat from what is
next to you.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
2. When any of you eats, he should eat with his right hand and when he
drinks he should drink with his right hand.
(Muslim).
3. I do not eat reclining.
(Bukhari).
4. The Prophet (p) never expressed disapproval of food; if he desired
it he ate it and if he disliked it he left it alone.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
5. Allah's Messenger (p) used to breathe three times in the course of a
drink.
(Bukhari, Muslim).
6. The Prophet (p) forbade that a man should drink standing.
(Muslim).
7. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade
breathing or blowing into a vessel.
(Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah).
8. Do not leave a fire burning in your houses while you are asleep.
(Bukhari, Muslim).