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Kindly refer a Hadith about :Is drinking water before breakfast is good or bad

Q:

Kindly refer a Hadith about :If drinking water before breakfast is good or bad

A:

Salamun Alaykum

Thank you for your query.

I haven’t seen any hadith particularly drinking water before breakfast but there is a hadith regarding not to drink water in between food.

Etiquettes of drinking

Ruling 2655. A number of things are considered to be etiquettes of drinking:

1. to drink water by sipping it;

2. to drink water during the day while standing;

3. to say ‘bismillāh’ before drinking water and to say ‘alhamdu lillāh’ after drinking it;

4. to drink water in three gulps;

5. to drink water when one desires it;

6. after drinking water, to remember His Eminence Abā ʿAbdillāh [Imam al-Husayn] (ʿA) and his household and to curse his killers.

https://www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2362/


Things that are discouraged (madhm
ūm) when drinking
Ruling 2656.
It is discouraged to drink a lot of water, to drink water after eating fatty food, and to drink water at night while standing. It is also discouraged to drink water with the left hand and to drink from a broken side of the vessel or from the place of its handle.

https://www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2363/

May Allah(swt) grant you success

Wassalam,

Syed Haider