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REFRAINING FROM EATING WHAT IS UNLAWFUL

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“Abu Bakr had a servant who used to give him something from what he earned each day, and Abu Bakr used it to support him.

One day the servant brought something and Abu Bakr ate it. The servant asked him: ‘Do you know what that was?’ Abu Bakr asked, ‘What was it?’ He said: ‘In the Days of Ignorance I used to act as a soothsayer for a person, but actually it was not sooth-saying; it was all deception. I met him again and because of this he gave me that which you have just eaten.’ Upon hearing this Abu Bakr put his fingers in his mouth and vomited the contents of his stomach.”

Bukhari with a chain up to the Mother of Believers, Lady Ayesha, may Allah be pleased with her, who related this.