Is the Hadith about dipping a fly into your drink authentic?

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the Name of Allah Most Merciful Most Kind

Short Answer

The Hadith about dipping a fly into your drink is classified as Sahih (authentic).

Explanation

This Hadith is in Bukhari, and as all Musnad Hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim are sahih (authentic), then this hadith is also authentic. The exact wording of this hadith can be found below:

أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، يَقُولُ: قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «إِذَا وَقَعَ الذُّبَابُ فِي شَرَابِ أَحَدِكُمْ فَلْيَغْمِسْهُ ثُمَّ لِيَنْزِعْهُ، فَإِنَّ فِي إِحْدَى جَنَاحَيْهِ دَاءً وَالأُخْرَى شِفَاءً»

(Sayidina) Abu Huraira said that the Prophet ﷺ said, ‘If a fly falls in the drink of one of you, then he should fully submerge  it and then throw it away, because there is disease in one of its wings and cure in the other.’ (Sahih al-Bukhari, 3320).

And Allah Most High knows best.

-Answered by Shaykh Noorud-deen Rashid (04.01.2021)