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1884. Anas bin Mālik narrated that the Prophet ﷺ would breathe three times in the vessel and say: "It is more wholesome and thirst quenching." (Ṣaḥīḥ)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan [Gharīb]. Hishām Ad-Dastawā'i reported it from Abū 'Iṣām, from Anas. And 'Azrah bin Thābit reported it from Thumāmah, from Anas that: "The Prophet ﷺ would breathe three times in the vessel."
(Another chain) from Anas bin Mālik: "The Prophet ﷺ would
breathe three times in the vessel.”
[He said:] This Hadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ.
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Commentary
“Breathe three times in the vessel” means that, while drinking from the vessel, he ﷺ used to draw the mouth away from the vessel three times and breathe outside. It is because there is a unanimous Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ has prohibited from breathing in the vessel. The reason being that, by doing so, the foul smell of the mouth penetrates into the water or else, more often than not, the saliva finds its way into the water, which even the drinker himself would detest. Breathing outside the vessel, on the contrary, is more satisfying and healthy and pleasant for the stomach. It, moreover, as will be seen from the following Hadīth, makes man distinct from the animal.
