At a glance
The story
Malik relates from Ibn Shihab from Abu Bakr ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abdullah ibn Umar from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of God said: when one of you eats let him eat with his right hand, and let him drink with his right hand, for the shaytan eats with his left and drinks with his left 1 Muwatta 2671.
The meaning
In this hadith the right hand is the etiquette of eating and drinking, and the shaytan differs from the believer in it, eating and drinking with the left 1.
Notes
Among the table-etiquette texts in the Muwatta; this browser shows it in the devils section 1.
Connections
- Related to
- Muhammad· Abdullah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab· Muwatta 2671
- Mentioned in
- Muwatta 2671
People and things also explored
The fitna rises where the shaytan horn rises· Ibn Umar's silk thread in the dream and the Prophet's praise· The Prophet's vision of the Messiah and the Dajjal at the Kaaba· The Battle of the Trench (al-Ahzab)· Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf's detachment to Dumat al-Jandal· Muslim 16 — Islam is built on five· Muslim 22 — I was commanded to fight the people until they testify· Muslim 98 — Whoever bears arms against us is not of us
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The shaytan eats and drinks with his left”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/shaytan-eats-and-drinks-with-the-left-hand/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-11.
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