Beginning and ending the meal with salt

Assalam Alaikum

Is this a sunnah to begin and end a meal with something salty?

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

الجواب حامدا ومصليا ومسلما

Starting or finishing the meal with salt or something salty is an etiquette of eating mentioned by the fuqaha. However, such a practice would not be deemed sunnah since there is no established hadith proving it.

والله اعلم

Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala knows best.

Samir Wahid

Approved by Mufti Husain Ahmad Madani