Rare expressions in the hadith:

His saying, “wadakan”: it is the fat and grease of meat that is extracted from it.

“Safsafahā”: al-Qāmūs states: “Safsāf is the inferior part of anything.” Perhaps what is meant is that it was mixed with something inferior, whether wheat or flour.

“Labaqahā”: al-Nihāyah states: “That is, he mixed it thoroughly.” It is also said that he gathered it together with a ladle.

“Ṣaʿnabahā”: that is, he raised its top, made it into a heap, and drew its sides together.

2031 — “Eat and drink, and do not let the bright, rising light deter you. Rather, eat and drink until the red light spreads horizontally before you.”

It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (1/369–370), al-Tirmidhī (705), Ibn Khuzaymah (1930), and al-Dāraquṭnī (p. 231), through the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Nuʿmān al-Suḥaymī, who said:

“Qays ibn Ṭalq came to me during Ramadan, late at night, after I had withdrawn my hand from the pre-dawn meal for fear that dawn had arrived. He asked me for some food accompaniment, so I said to him: ‘My uncle, had there still been any of the night left for you, I would have invited you in to the food and drink I have.’ He said, ‘Do you have some?’ So he entered, and I brought him a dish of tharīd, meat, and a fruit infusion. He ate and drank, and urged me until I too ate and drank, though I was apprehensive about dawn. Then he said: ‘Ṭalq ibn ʿAlī narrated to me that the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said,’” and he then cited it.

The wording is that of al-Dāraquṭnī, who said: “Qays ibn Ṭalq is not strong.” This is what he said, although Ibn Maʿīn, al-ʿIjlī, and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy. Abū Ḥātim deemed him weak, while al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Truthful.”

I say: Thus, the hadith of one such as him is good, Allah willing, provided that he does not contradict others.