So he replied: “Perform minor ablution.” And regarding sheep meat, he replied: “If you wish.”

Muslim and others narrated it. It is cited in al-Irwāʾ (1/152/118).

2323 — “Whoever eats dates with a group and wishes to eat two at a time should seek their permission.”

Ibn Bishrān narrated it in al-Fawāʾid al-Muntakhabah (63/2), and al-Khaṭīb in al-Tārīkh (7/180), through ʿĀmir ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn, who said: Raḥmah ibn Muṣʿab narrated to me, from al-Shaybānī, from Jablah ibn Suḥaym, from Ibn ʿUmar, tracing it back to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I say: This is a good chain of transmission, were it not that al-ʿUqaylī included this ʿĀmir in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ and said: “No one corroborates him in his hadith.” Yet he was corroborated: Ibn Fuḍayl narrated it from Abū Isḥāq—namely, al-Shaybānī—with the wording: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade eating two dates at a time unless you seek your companions’ permission.” Abū Dāwūd narrated it (2/148). I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.

Sufyān also corroborated him: he narrated to us from Jablah ibn Suḥaym with it, in the same wording as Ibn Fuḍayl. Al-Bukhārī (5/99—Fatḥ), Muslim (6/123), al-Tirmidhī (1815), Ibn Mājah (2/317), and Aḥmad (2/60) narrated it. Al-Tirmidhī said: “A good, authentic hadith.”

Shuʿbah also corroborated him from Jablah. He said: “We were in Medina when a famine afflicted us. Ibn al-Zubayr would provide us with dates, and Ibn ʿUmar would pass by us and say: ‘Do not eat two at a time, for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade it ...’” The hadith was narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, al-Dārimī (2/103), al-Ṭayālisī (1/131), and al-Bayhaqī (7