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When a man is brought a drink while in company, he should drink and then pass it to the person on his right. This accords with the recommendation to give precedence to the right in one’s affairs, and with the report that “the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was brought milk mixed with water, with a Bedouin on his right and Abū Bakr on his left. He drank, then gave it to the Bedouin, saying, ‘The person on the right, then the next on the right.’”

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It is not permissible to eat or drink from gold and silver vessels, or to use them, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

“Whoever drinks from gold and silver vessels is only gulping the fire of Hell into his belly.”

There is no distinction here between eating and drinking, because the underlying reason is the same: imitating arrogant, tyrannical non-Arabs and Persian kings. As for a gold or silver ring fitted to a cup, or fittings of such metal along its rim, these are analogous to a silk band in a garment. Mālik disapproved of this, while a number of the early generations permitted it.

It is reported that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattāb permitted it to the width of two, three, or four fingers. This is mentioned in the Abridgment of What Is Not in the Abridgment.

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Anyone who eats raw garlic must keep away from mosques, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

“Whoever eats this plant must not approach our mosques, offending us with the smell of garlic.”

The same applies to leeks and onions, by analogy with garlic, if their smell is offensive. The underlying reason explicitly identified by the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the case of garlic is the offence caused by its smell. Marketplaces differ from mosques in this respect, because mosques possess a sanctity that is peculiar