Hudhaifa reported: When we attended a dinner along with the Messenger of Allah ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) we did not lay our hands on the food until Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had laid his hand and commenced eating (the food). Once we went with him to a dinner when a girl came rushingly as if someone had been pursuing her. She was about to lay her hand on the food, when Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) caught her hand. Then a desert Arab came there (rushingly) as if someone had been pursuing him. He (the Holy Prophet) caught his hand; and then Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: Satan considers that food lawful on which Allah's name is not mentioned. He had brought this girl so that the food might be made lawful for him and I caught her hand. And he had brought a desert Arab so that (the food) might be lawful for him. So I caught his hand. By Him, in Whose hand is my life, it was (Satan's) hand that was in my hand along with her hand.

Hudhaifa bin al-Yaman reported: When we were invited to a dinner with Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) ; the rest of hadith is the same but there is a slight variation of wording (and the variation is) that in that hadith the desert Arab precedes the arrival of that girl, and at the conclusion there is an addition (to this effect): "He (the Holy Prophet) then mentioned the name of Allah and ate."

This hadith is reported on the authority of A'mash with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: When a person enters his house and mentions the name of Allah at the time of entering it and while eating the food, Satan says (addressing himself: You have no place to spend the night and no evening meal; but when he enters without mentioning the name of Allah, the Satan says: You have found a place to spend the night, and when he does not mention the name of Allah while eating food, he (the Satan) says: You have found a place to spend the night and evening meal.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jabir bin'Abdullah (RA) through the same chain of transmitters but with a slight variation of wording.

Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) having said: Do not eat with your left hand, for the Satan eats with his left hand.

Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: When any one of you intends to eat (meal), he should eat with his right hand, and when he (intends) to drink he should drink with his right hand, for the Satan eats with his left hand and drinks with his left hand.

This hadith is reported by Zuhri on the authority of Sufyan with a different chain of transmitters.

Salim, on the authority of his father, reported Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: None of you should eat with his left hand and drink with that (left hand), for the Satan eats with the left hand and drinks with that (hand). Nafi' has made this addition in that: "Do not take up anything with that (left hand) and do not give anything with that" ; and in the narration transmitted on the authority of Abu Tahir there is a slight variation of wording.

Salama bin Akwa' reported on the authority of his father that a person ate in the presence of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) with his left hand, whereupon he said: Eat with your right hand. He said: I cannot do that, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: May you not be able to do that. It was vanity that prevented him from doing it, and he could not raise it (the right hand) up to his mouth.