I was with Marwan bin Hakam when Abu Saeed Khudri came in to see him.Marwan bin Hakam asked him, "Did you hear from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ that he forbade blowing into a drink?"Abu Saeed replied, "Yes."A man said, "Messenger of Allah, I cannot quench my thirst with a single breath."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to him, "Then take the cup away from your mouth and breathe."The man said, "But I see something floating in it."He said, "Then pour it out."
كنت عند مروان بن الحكم، فدخل عليه أبو سعيد الخدري، فقال له مروان بن الحكم: أسمعت من رسول الله ﷺ أنه نهى عن النفخ في الشراب؟ فقال له أبو سعيد: نعم، فقال له رجل: يا رسول الله، إني لا أروى من نفس واحد، فقال له رسول الله ﷺ: فأبن القدح عن فيك، ثم تنفس، قال: فإني أرى القذاة فيه، قال: فأهرقها.
Malik narrated it in Sifat al-Nabi ﷺ (12), from Ayub bin Habib, the freedman of Saad bin Abu Waqqas, from Abu Muthanna Juhani, who said, and then he mentioned it. Tirmidhi (1887), Ibn Hibban (5327), and Hakim (4/139) narrated it through his route. Tirmidhi said, "This is a hasan sahih hadith." Hakim said, "This is a hadith sahih in its isnad."I say, its isnad is hasan because of Abu Muthanna Juhani, from whom two narrators reported, and Ibn Hibban deemed him trustworthy.His statement, "Move the cup away from your mouth," means keep the cup away from your mouth and then breathe. Ibn Abdul-Barr said in al-Istidhkar (26/273), "In this hadith is permission to drink in a single breath, and Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, said the same. Isa bin Dinar reported from Ibn Qasim, from Malik, that he considered the Prophet's ﷺ words to the man who said to him, 'I cannot quench my thirst in a single breath,' whereupon the Prophet ﷺ said to him, 'Then move the cup away from your mouth.' Malik said, 'It seems to me that this indicates permission to drink in a single breath. I see no harm in drinking in a single breath, and I see in it permission granted because of the statement, "I cannot quench my thirst in a single breath."'Abu Umar said, Malik, may Allah have mercy on him, means that since the Prophet ﷺ did not forbid the man who told him, 'I cannot quench my thirst in a single breath,' from drinking in a single breath, but rather said to him words meaning, 'If you cannot quench your thirst in a single breath, then move the cup away from your mouth,' this constitutes permission from him to drink in a single breath, or something close to permission. Among those who permitted this were Saeed bin Musayab, Ata bin Abu Rabah, Umar bin Abdul-Aziz, and others, who said there is no harm in drinking in a single breath." End of quote.