It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: I sought permission to enter upon the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) (in his room), and I entered upon him in an upper chamber where he (peace and blessings be upon him) was lying on a mat woven of palm leaves, with part of his blessed body on the dust. Under his head was a leather pillow stuffed with palm fibre, near his head hung a tanned hide, and in one corner of the room lay acacia leaves (used for tanning leather). I greeted him (peace and blessings be upon him) with salam and then sat down, and said: O Messenger of Allah, you are the Prophet of Allah, His chosen one and the best of His creation, while Chosroes and Caesar are (living in luxury) on thrones of gold and beds of silk and brocade?! He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Umar, those people have been given their good things in advance in this world, and they will soon come to an end, whereas we are a people whose good things have been kept back for us in our Hereafter." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever eats what is pure and lawful, acts according to the Sunnah, and people are safe from his evil and harm, has entered Paradise." The Companions said: O Messenger of Allah, today there are many such people in your Ummah. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And there will be such people in the generations after me as well." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to visit one of his wives who had a container of honey, from which he (peace and blessings be upon him) would take some honey, and he would stay sitting with her. This made the other wives uneasy, so Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) (consulted) Sayyidah Hafsah (may Allah be pleased with her) and some of the other wives of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Then they all said to him (peace and blessings be upon him): We notice the smell of maghafir on you. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "(It is not so;) rather, it was honey that I had at so-and-so's (house), and I will not do it again."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) had a cup, and there was no drink that I did not give the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to drink from that cup, including honey, milk, nabidh and water. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

Mu'awiyah bin Qurrah narrates from his father that he said: We spent a period of time with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and we had nothing to eat except "the two black things" (al-aswadan). He asked: Do you know what is meant by "the two black things"? He replied: No. He said: Dates and water. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that a month and half a month (a month and a half) would pass over the family of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) in such a state that no fire was lit in their houses, neither for a lamp nor for any other purpose (such as cooking). (The narrator says:) I asked her: What did you live on? She said: "On dates and water." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) never ate two full meals in one day unless one of those two meals was dates. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Shaqiq that he said: I was a neighbour of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) for two years. He said: O Ibn Shaqiq, do you see these rooms of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)? By Allah, I have seen the time when we would be near these rooms and none of us had enough food to fill his stomach, to the point that, from the severity of hunger, one of us would take a stone and tie it over the hollow of his (empty) stomach with a rope or some cord. By the One in whose Hand is my soul, I have also seen the time when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) distributed dates among us, and each one of us received seven dates. Among my seven there was a hashafah (an extremely dry, poor-quality date), yet I would not have been pleased to get a fine date in its place. (The narrator says:) I asked: Why is that, O Abu Hurayrah? He said: "Because it was tougher for my jaws (that is, it stayed longer in the mouth), so I kept chewing it." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from the Mother of the Believers, Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that forty nights in a row would pass over us and neither a lamp nor any other fire was lit in the house of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). (The narrator says:) We asked: O Mother of the Believers, then how did you live? She said: "On the two black things, namely dates and water." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.