صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim — Hadith 3838
Compiled by Imam Muslim
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ وَعُثْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ أَبِي سُفْيَانَ عَنْ جَابِرٍعَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ طَعَامُ الرَّجُلِ يَكْفِي رَجُلَيْنِ وَطَعَامُ رَجُلَيْنِ يَكْفِي أَرْبَعَةً وَطَعَامُ أَرْبَعَةٍ يَكْفِي ثَمَانِيَةً
English Translation
Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Qutaibah bin Sa'id] dan [Utsman bin Abu Syaibah] keduanya berkata; Telah menceritakan kepada kami [Jarir] dari [Al A'masy] dari [Abu Sufyan] dari [Jabir] dari Nabi Shallallah 'Alaihi Wa Sallam: "Makanan untuk satu orang cukup untuk dimakan dua orang, dan makanan dua orang cukup dimakan untuk empat orang, dan makanan untuk empat orang cukup dimakan untuk delapan orang."
About Sahih Muslim
Born
204 AH / 820 CE — Nishapur, Iran
Died
261 AH / 875 CE
Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj was a student of Imam al-Bukhari. He compiled Sahih Muslim selecting from approximately 300,000 hadiths, arranging his collection thematically and grouping all chains of each hadith together — making it uniquely easy to study the complete transmission history of a single narration.
Sahih Muslim took 15 years to complete. Its unique arrangement — all isnads for one hadith in one place — remains unmatched in the hadith literature.
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