“While (he) was
eating lunch, a morsel of food fell on the floor. He picked it up,
removed whatever dirt had gotten onto it, and ate it. The villagers
and farmers winked at one another (finding it odd) and it was said:
‘May Allah help the chief! These villagers and farmers are winking
at
one another because you picked up a morsel (from the ground) when
you
have this food in front of you.’ He said: ‘I am not going to
give up
something I heard from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for these
non-
Arabs. We were told, if one of us dropped a morsel of food, to
pick it
up, remove whatever dirt was on it, and eat it, and not to
leave it
for Satan.’”
Sunan Ibn Majah Book 29, Hadith 28