The Sunnah of discarding the date seed

بـسـم الله والحـمـد لله والـصلاة والـسـلام عــلى

رسـول الله، وبـعـد

➡️ After eating a date, the Sunnah of casting aside the date seed from the mouth is to place it at the back of the hand, between the forefinger (index finger) and the middle finger, and not with the underside of the hand, i.e. the palm. So that the fingers do not touch the wet date seed and then the same hand is used to pick another date. 

As has been reported in the Hadeeth:

`Abdullaah Ibn Busr reported: "Allaah's Messenger ﷺ came to my father and we brought to him a meal and he ate out of that. He was then given dates which he ate, casting out the date seeds between his fingers and holding his forefinger and middle finger together"... 

📚 [Saheeh Muslim (2042) and Sunan al-Tirmidhee] 

`Abdullaah Ibn Busr from Banu Sulaim said: The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ came as guest to my father's house. He offered food to him ﷺ and brought hais. He then brought a drink which he ﷺ drank and then he ﷺ passed it to the one on his right. He ﷺ then ate dried dates and began to put the seeds on the back of his forefinger and middle finger. When he ﷺ got up, my father also got up, and held the rein of his ﷺ mount. He said : Pray to Allah for me. He ﷺ said: "O Allaah, bless them in what you have provided them, and have mercy on them." 

📚 [Sunan Abu Dawood (3729) and graded as "Saheeh" by Shaikh al-Albaanee] 

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➡️ It is disliked to put the date seed back in the same dish/plate which contains dates or to hold the dates and date seeds in the same hand after discarding it from the mouth. 

Ibn Muflih reported in al-Aadaab al-Shar`iyyah:

"And on the authority of Anas رضي الله عنه that the Prophet ﷺ disliked to put back the seed in the same plate which contained dates as mentioned by al-Baihaqee." 

And Ibn al-Jawzee said in "Aadaab al-Akal" (Etiquettes of eating): "Do not mix the date seeds and the dates in the same plate or in the same hand after spitting it from the mouth. Rather, one should place it on the back of the hand..."

📚 [al-Aadaab al-Shar`iyyah (3/225)]