Sahih Bukhari 5404 — Eating Meat and Praying Without New Wudu

Summary of Sahih Bukhari Hadith 5404

This Hadith about wudu after eating meat is short and clear. Ibn ʿAbbas says the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ate from the meat of a shoulder, cutting it with his teeth, then stood and prayed without performing ablution anew. The narration focuses on one action: eating meat, then offering prayer without a new wudu. It should not be stretched into unrelated rulings outside the text, but it does show practical ease in this specific report. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did not treat this eating as something that required him to renew ablution before prayer. It also gives a simple view of how food was eaten, as the meat was taken by biting from the shoulder. For readers searching for hadith about wudu after eating meat, eating before prayer, or Prophet eating shoulder meat, this Hadith gives a direct and easy-to-understand example.