The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stayed as a guest in the home of Abu Ayub. Whenever the Prophet ate a meal, he would send what remained of it to Abu Ayub. One day Abu Ayub sent him some food, but the Prophet ﷺ did not eat any of it. When Abu Ayub came to the Prophet ﷺ, he mentioned this to him.The Prophet ﷺ said, "It contains garlic."Abu Ayub asked, "Messenger of Allah, is it forbidden?"He replied, "No, but I dislike it because of its smell."
نزل رسول الله ﷺ على أبي أيوب، وكان إذا أكل طعاما بعث إليه بفضله، فبعث إليه يوما بطعام ولم يأكل منه النبي ﷺ، فلما أتى أبو أيوب النبي ﷺ فذكر ذلك له، فقال: فيه ثوم فقال: يا رسول الله، أحرام هو؟ قال: لا، ولكني أكرهه من أجل ريحه.
Tirmidhi (1807), Abdullah bin Imam Ahmad (20897), and Ibn Hibban (5110) narrated it through various routes from Shuba, from Simak bin Harb, who heard Jabir bin Samura narrate it. Tirmidhi said, hasan sahih.Imam Ahmad (20990) (21023), his son Abdullah (20898), and Ibn Hibban (2094) narrated it through various routes from Hammad bin Salama, from Simak bin Harb, with similar wording, adding at the end, "Indeed the angel comes to me."Hakim (3/460) narrated it through the route of Abu Dawud (that is, Tayalisi) from Shuba and Hammad bin Salama, both of them, from Simak, with the same wording. Hakim said, sahih according to the standard of Muslim.I say, its chain of transmission is hasan because of Simak bin Harb, for he is truthful and hasan in his hadith, and he is not harmed by the variation reported from him through Shuba from Simak, sometimes attributing it to Jabir bin Samura from Abu Ayub, as in the earlier narration of Muslim, and sometimes attributing it directly to Jabir alone, for all of that is preserved and reliable. This is because Jabir bin Samura took it from Abu Ayub Ansari, who was the one who witnessed the event himself, so Jabir would sometimes trace it back to him with a full chain, and sometimes relate it without a chain, omitting mention of Abu Ayub.