{
 "id": "concept/qillat-al-taam",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "qillat-al-taam",
 "label": {
  "ar": "تقليل الطعام",
  "en": "Eating little"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تقليل الطعام في الحديث السابع والأربعين من زيادات ابن رجب قاعدة نبوية في التغذية والزهد: «ما ملأ آدمي وعاء شراً من بطن، بحسب ابن آدم أكلات يقمن صلبه، فإن كان لا محالة فثلث لطعامه وثلث لشرابه وثلث لنفسه» — فالكفاية أن تقوم الأكلات الصلب لا الشبع، فإن دعت الحاجة قسم البطن أثلاثاً ولم يملأ كله بالطعام، ومن سبب الرواية أن أهل خيبر أصابتهم الحمى بإسرافهم في الفاكهة — فجعل الإسراف في المباح سبباً للداء (جامع العلوم والحكم ص 891).",
  "en": "Eating little in the forty-seventh hadith of Ibn Rajab's additions is the prophetic rule of food and austerity: 'no human has filled a vessel worse than the belly; enough for the son of Adam are morsels that keep his back upright, and if he must, a third for food, a third for drink and a third for breath' — sufficiency is what keeps the spine straight, not satiety, and when more is needed the belly is divided into thirds rather than filled with food; the narration's occasion shows the people of Khaybar struck by fever for excess in lawful fruit — so excess even in the permissible breeds harm (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam p. 891)."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "spirituality-and-sufism"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "ethical",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "جامع العلوم والحكم، الحديث السابع والأربعون ص 891 (ط دار ابن كثير 1429هـ/2008م)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-jami-ulum-hikam-batch-17"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); the thirds rule and the Khaybar occasion verified against OCR of printed p. 891"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تقليل الطعام موضوع الحديث السابع والأربعين من زيادات ابن رجب: «ما ملأ آدمي وعاء شراً من بطن، بحسب ابن آدم أكلات يقمن صلبه، فإن كان لا محالة فثلث لطعامه وثلث لشرابه وثلث لنفسه». {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.891}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "معناه في الشرح",
     "markdown": "الكفاية أن تقيم الأكلات الصلب لا الشبع. فإن دعت الحاجة قُسم البطن أثلاثاً ولم يُملأ كله بالطعام. ومن سبب الرواية أن أهل خيبر أصابتهم الحمى بإسرافهم في الفاكهة، فجُعل الإسراف في المباح سبباً للداء. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.891}\n\nوهو في هذا الشرح جزء من [[concept/zuhd|الزهد]]. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.891}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/qillat-al-taam",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Reducing food is the subject of the forty-seventh hadith of Ibn Rajab's additions: \"No human being has filled a vessel worse than his belly. It suffices the son of Adam to have morsels that keep his back upright; if he must do more, then a third for his food, a third for his drink, and a third for his breath.\" {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.891}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its meaning in the commentary",
     "markdown": "Sufficiency is that the morsels keep the back upright, not that one be full. If the need arises, the belly is divided into thirds, and it is not filled entirely with food. The reason for the report was that the people of Khaybar were struck with fever through their excess of fruit, so excess in what is permitted was made a cause of illness. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.891}\n\nIn this commentary it is part of [[concept/zuhd|asceticism]]. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.891}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/qillat-al-taam",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/arbaun-47",
   "type": "based_on",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/zuhd",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/qisar-al-amal",
  "concept/wara",
  "concept/zuhd",
  "passage/arbaun-31",
  "passage/arbaun-40",
  "passage/muslim-1048",
  "passage/muslim-2742",
  "passage/muslim-2820"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}