Allah’s
Messenger ﷺ said:
“The one who is eating
and thankful is like (and in one
wording: has a reward like) the one who is fasting and patient.”
[Reported by al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Mājah & Ahmad. See Al-Silsilah #655]
Translation By Sheikh Umar Quinn
(hafidhahullah)
Taken from: Imam Bukhari Centre
Liverpool
MarkazBukhari.com
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Added
for the benefit of New Muslim:
When
anyone of you begins eating, say:
بِسْمِ
اللهِ
Bismillaah
With
the Name of Allāh.
And if you forgot
then, when you remember, say:
بِسْمِ اللهِ فِي أَوَّلِهِ وَآخِرِهِ
Bismillaahi fee
‘awwalihi wa ‘aakhirihi.
With the Name of Allāh,
in the beginning and in the end.
[Abu Dawud 3/347,
At-Tirmithi 4/288. See Al-Albāni’s Sahih At- Tirmithi 2/167.]
Whomever Allāh has
given food, should say:
اللَّهُمَّ بَارِك لَنَا فِيهِ
وَأَطْعِمْنَا خَيْرًا مِنْهُ
Allahumma baarik
lanaa feehi wa ‘at’imnaa khayran minhu.
O Allāh, bless us in
it and provide us with better than it.
Invocations after
eating
الحَمْدُ للهِ الَّذِي أَطْعَمَنِي هَذَا،
وَرَزَقَنِيهِ، مِنْ غَيْرِ حَوْلٍ مِنِّي وَلَا قُوَّةٍ
Alhamdu lillaahil-lathee
‘at’amanee haathaa, wa razaqaneehi, min ghayri hawlin minnee wa laa
quwwatin.
Praise is to Allāh
Who has given me this food and sustained me with it though I was unable to do
it and powerless.
[At-Tirmithi, Abu
Dawud, and Ibn Mājah. See also Al-Albāni, Sahih At-Tirmithi 3/159.]
الْحَمْدُ للهِ حَمْدًا كَثِيرًا طَيِبًا
مُبَارَكًا فِيهِ، غَيْرَ – مَكْفِيٍّ وَلَا – مُوَدَّعٍ، وَلَا مُسْتَغْنًى
عَنْهُ رَبَّنَا
Alhamdu lillaahi
hamdan katheeran tayyiban mubaarakan feehi, ghayra [makfiyyin wa laa] muwadda’in,
wa laa mustaghnan ‘anhu Rabbanaa.
All praise is to Allāh,
praise in abudance, good and blessed. It cannot [be compensated for, nor can
it] be left, nor can it be done without, our Lord.
[Al-Bukhāri 6/214,
At-Tirmithi 5/507.]
Source: Fortress of the Muslim, Darussalam
