Ibn 'Abbas reported: The Apostle of Allah (ﷺ) came out of the privy, and he was presented with some food, and the people reminded him about ablution, but he said: Am I to say prayer that I should perform ablution?
Shaykh Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi
Hadith Commentary:Benefits and Issues: By consensus, eating, drinking, engaging in remembrance (dhikr), and reciting (the Qur'an) verbally are permissible without ablution (wudu). This very hadith is evidence for this.
Source: Tuhfat al-Muslim: Commentary on Sahih Muslim, Page: 827