It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: Sayyiduna Abu Talha (may Allah be pleased with him) brought two handfuls of barley and ordered that food be prepared from it, then said to me: Anas! Go and call the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and you know that the food is very little. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I reached the service of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and the noble Companions were also with him. I submitted that Abu Talha (may Allah be pleased with him) invites you to eat. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up and ordered the people to stand up as well. They also stood up. I walked ahead of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and reached Sayyiduna Abu Talha (may Allah be pleased with him) and informed him of the situation (that all the people are coming). He said: Today you have put us to shame. I said that I could not refuse the word of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). When the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) reached the door, he ordered the Companions to sit there and he himself entered with nine Companions. When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) entered and the food was presented, he and those with him ate to their fill, then he said to them: You get up and let another ten people come in your place. This continued until all the people came and ate the food. Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila says: I asked Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) what was the number of the Companions that day? He replied that they were more than eighty individuals. Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) says that even then so much food was left that it satisfied the household.

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We were working in the trench along with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I had a small, healthy goat of young age. I thought that we should cook this goat for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to eat. I instructed my wife, so she ground some barley and prepared flour, and baked bread for us. The goat was slaughtered and we roasted it for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). When evening came and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) intended to return from the trench, Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We used to work during the day and return to our families in the evening. I said: O Messenger of Allah! We had a small goat, which I have prepared for you, and there are some barley loaves as well. I wish that you would come with me to my house. Sayyiduna Jabir says: I wanted the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to come with me alone, but when I made this request to him, he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: All right. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a caller to announce, so he announced: Go to Jabir’s house with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: When I heard the announcement of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I recited:“Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.”Nevertheless, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and others with him came. He (peace and blessings be upon him) sat down, and we presented the prepared food before him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) made a supplication for blessing and, taking the name of Allah, ate the food. After him, people came one after another; when one group finished and got up, another group came, until all the people of the trench had eaten.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that his father was martyred on the day of Uhud. He left behind two orchards in his inheritance, and he owed a debt to a Jew in the form of dates. The Jew’s debt was even more than the yield of both orchards. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the Jew:“Can you grant such a concession that you take some of the debt this year and the rest next year?”He refused. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him):“When the dates ripen, inform me.”Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I informed you (peace and blessings be upon him). The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came, and along with him came Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). We began to harvest the fruit and the dates were weighed for the Jew beneath the date palm. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) kept supplicating for blessing. We paid off the entire debt to the Jew from the fruit of the smaller orchard. After that, we presented fresh dates and water to you (peace and blessings be upon him). You (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Companions ate the dates and drank the water. Then you (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“This too is among the blessings about which you will be questioned.”

(Second chain) It is also narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that his father was martyred while in debt. I went to the service of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and submitted: My father has passed away and he is in debt, while I have nothing for repayment except the dates’ fruit, and even the fruit of the dates will not cover even one-sixth of the debt. So please come with me so that the creditors do not speak harshly to me. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) began to walk around one of the piles of dates. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) prayed and sat down. He (peace and blessings be upon him) inquired: Where are his creditors? He (peace and blessings be upon him) paid their dues in full. The amount he (peace and blessings be upon him) gave them, that much fruit still remained.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the service of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and requested food from him. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him a wasq (i.e., sixty sa’) of barley. For a long time, that man, his wife, and their son kept eating from it. Eventually, they measured it, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If you had not measured it, you would have continued eating from it and it would have remained with you.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyida Umm Malik Bahziyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) used to send clarified butter (ghee) as a gift to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in a leather container. Once, her sons asked her for curry, but she had nothing to give them as curry. In the container in which she used to send ghee to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), she found a little ghee. For a long time, that same ghee sufficed as curry for her sons, until one day she squeezed it out completely. Then she came and mentioned it to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (that the ghee in the container had finished). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Did you squeeze it out? She replied: Yes. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If you had continued to use it as it was, it would never have finished for you.