What they said on the food and fruits of the Magians

The father of Qabus (may Allah have mercy on him) said: A woman asked Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): We have wet nurses from among the Magians. They have a festival, and they give us food items as gifts. She (may Allah be pleased with her) said: As for what is slaughtered for that day, do not eat it, but eat from their trees.

Sayyiduna Abu Barzah al-Aslami (may Allah be pleased with him) said that some Magians lived with him, and they would send him gifts on the days of Nayruz and Mihrajan. He (may Allah be pleased with him) would say to his household: Whatever is fruit, accept it, and whatever is other than that, return it.

Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Abu Barzah (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: We were taking part in a military expedition. We met some people from among the polytheists, and we stopped them from eating bread baked on hot ashes. Then we too fell upon it and began to eat it. In the Time of Ignorance we used to hear that whoever eats bread grows fat. So when we ate this bread, each of us would look at himself to see whether he had grown fat.

Mughirah (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu Wa'il (may Allah have mercy on him) and Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) both stated: When the Muslims came, they found the food of the Magians, their cheese, their bread and the like. They ate these things and did not ask about them.

Hisham (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked eating what the Magians had cooked in their pots, and he saw no harm in eating their other food besides that: ghee, bread, kamikh (a pickled relish), shiraz (thickened yogurt) or milk.

Hisham (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: There is no harm in the vinegar of the Magians, their kamikh (a pickled relish) and their milk.

Layth (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Mujahid (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: Do not eat anything of a Magian's food except fruit.

Hisham (may Allah have mercy on him) said that al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) and Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) (may Allah have mercy on him) both stated: The polytheists would bring ghee in their containers, and the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Muslims would buy it. Then they would eat it, and we too would eat it.

Asim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Abu Uthman (may Allah have mercy on him) stated: We used to eat ghee, but we did not eat rendered fat and grease, nor did we ask about the containers.

Mansur (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I asked Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) about mountain ghee. He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Arab ghee is dearer to me, though I do eat mountain ghee.