The Messenger of Allah ﷺ loved sweets and honey.
كان رسول الله ﷺ يحب الحلواء والعسل.
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Bukhari related it in the Book of Foods (5431), and Muslim in the Book of Divorce (1474:21), both through Abu Usama, from Hisham, who said, my father told me, from Ayesha, and he mentioned it. The wording is Bukhari's, and in Muslim's version it comes within a long hadith.On this subject there is also a report from Abdullah bin Salam, who said, "I was with the Prophet ﷺ among a number of his companions, when Uthman bin Affan approached with a mount carrying two sacks, while he held the halter rope of his camel. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked him, 'What is in the two sacks?' He said, 'Flour, ghee, and honey.' The Prophet ﷺ said to him, 'Make it kneel.' So he made it kneel. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ called for a cooking pot, and put into it some of that flour, ghee, and honey, then mixed it together, then ate. Then he said to his companions, 'Eat this, the thing the Persians call khabis.'"This was related by Tabarani in al-Kabir (14/315), in al-Awsat (7688), and by Hakim (4/109–110), all through Walid bin Muslim, who said, Muhammad bin Hamza bin Yusuf bin Abdullah bin Salam told me, from his father, from his grandfather, and he mentioned it.Tabarani said, "This hadith is not related from Abdullah bin Salam except through this chain, Walid bin Muslim related it alone." Hakim said, "Its chain is sahih." Haythami said in al-Majmu (5/37–38), "Tabarani related it in all three of his works, and the men of al-Saghir and al-Awsat are trustworthy."I say, however its chain contains Hamza bin Yusuf, also said to be Hamza bin Muhammad bin Yusuf, from whom no one related except his son Muhammad, and no one deemed him trustworthy except Ibn Hibban. Dhahabi said, "He is not known," and the Hafiz said, "Acceptable," meaning when corroborated, and I have not found any corroboration for him.Musaddad related, as found in Matalib Aliyah (2400), with a sahih chain from Anas bin Malik, "that he was brought khabis in a vessel of silver or gold, so he ordered it be put on a loaf of bread, then he ate from it."Khabis is a type of sweet made from dates, ghee, and honey.