2689 — “It was forbidden to drink from the broken part of a cup.”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ (no. 6976 in my photographic copy) through Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak informed us, from Maʿmar, from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, from Yazīd ibn al-Aṣamm, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: He then cited it in the passive form, without mentioning the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: “No one narrated it from Jaʿfar ibn Burqān, nor from Maʿmar, except Ibn al-Mubārak; Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl alone narrated it.”

I say: Not so; rather, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Mahdī also narrated it from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak through the same chain. Abū Nuʿaym recorded it in al-Ḥilyah (9/38). This is an authentic hadith: its chain of transmission is authentic, and its narrators are reliable narrators of Muslim. Al-Haythamī said (5/78): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ, and its narrators are reliable narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

He then said: “It is reported from Ibn ʿAbbās and Ibn ʿUmar that they said: It is disliked to drink from the chipped part of a cup or from its handle. Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ.”

I say: Its chain (11/64/11055) contains Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād, who is weak. Al-Bukhārī only narrated from him alongside another narrator. A supporting report from the hadith of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī has preceded under no. 388, attributed directly to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the wording: “the chipped part of the cup.” This hadith explains it. Ibn al-Athīr said: “That is, the place where it is broken. Drinking from it was forbidden because the drinker’s mouth cannot rest securely upon it, and the water may spill onto his garment and hands. It has also been said: because that spot cannot be completely cleaned when