Abu Hurairah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) went out (of his house) one day or one night, and there he found Abu Bakr (RA) and 'Umar also. He said: What has brought you out of your houses at this hour? They said: Allah's Messenger, it is hunger. Thereupon he said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, what has brought you out has brought me out too; get up. They got up along with him, and (all of them) came to the house of an Ansari, but he was not at home. When his wife saw him she said: Most welcome, and Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to her: Where is so and so? She said: He has gone to get some fresh water for us. When the Ansari came and he saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and his two Companions, he said: Praise be to Allah, no one has more honourable guests today than I (have). He then went out and brought them a bunch of ripe dates, dry dates and fresh dates, and said: Eat some of them. He then took hold of his long knife (for slaughtering a goat or a sheep). Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to him: Beware of killing a milch animal. He slaughtered a sheep for them and after they had eaten of it and of the bunch and drank, and when they had taken their fill and had been fully satisfied with the drink, Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to Abu Bakr (RA) and Umar (RA) : By Him in Whose Hand is my life, you will certainly be questioned about this bounty on the Day of Judgment. Hunger brought you out of your house, then you did not return until this bounty came to you.
Abu Hurairah (RA) reported: One day while Abu Bakr (RA) was sitting and there was with him Umar also there came to them Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and he said: What makes you stay here? They said: It is hunger that has brought us out from our houses. By Him Who has sent you with Truth; the rest of the hadith is the same.
´Abu Hurairah said:` “When this Ayah was revealed: ‘Then on that Day, you shall be asked about the delights!’ the people said: ‘O Messenger of Allah! About which delights shall we be asked? For they are only the two black things, while the enemy is present and our swords are (at the ready) upon our shoulders?” He said: ‘But it is what shall come.’”
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation: 1: Where do we have the leisure to fight and die, when we possess various kinds of blessings and indulge in luxury and pleasure with those blessings, for which we will be questioned?
Note: (In the chain of narration, Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash’s memory became weak in old age, but based on the previous hadith, this hadith is hasan.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3357
´It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to a man from among the Ansar who had picked up a knife to slaughter an animal for the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to him:` “Avoid those that are lactating.” (i.e. those from which milk is received).
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues: ➊ Serving the guest appropriately is a virtue of a Muslim.
➋ If a cow, buffalo, goat, or similar animal gives milk, slaughtering it causes the loss of this benefit, whereas meat can be obtained from another animal as well. Therefore, it is better to slaughter an animal that does not give milk.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 3180