so a wide-mouthed cup¹ containing a little water was set before him. He placed his fingers in it. Anas said, “I kept watching the water springing from between his fingers, and I estimated that between seventy and eighty people performed ablution from it.”

779 – ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Prophet ﷺ came to us, so we brought out for him water in a tawr made of sufr, and he performed ablution.” Narrated by al-Bukhārī.
Sufr (with ḍammah on the sād, though kasrah is also permissible) is copper, and a tawr is a bowl similar to a cup; the word begins with a tā’.

780 – Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) related that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ visited a man from the Anṣār, accompanied by one of his Companions. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “If you have water that spent the night in a shanna, give it to us; otherwise we shall drink directly.”² Narrated by al-Bukhārī.
A shanna is a leather waterskin.

781 – Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Prophet ﷺ forbade us from (wearing) silk and dibāj³ and from drinking out of vessels of gold and silver, and he said: ‘They are for them in this world, and for you in the Hereafter.’” Agreed upon.

782 – Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Whoever drinks from a silver vessel is merely gulping down the fire of Hell into his belly.” Agreed upon.

Muslim also records: “Indeed, whoever eats or drinks from vessels of silver or gold….”

And in another version he narrates: “Whoever drinks from a vessel of gold or silver is only swilling into his belly fire from Hell.”