It is narrated from Sayyiduna Dakin bin Sa’id Khath’ami (may Allah be pleased with him), he says: We, four hundred and forty men, came to the service of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). We requested food from you. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him): Get up and provide them with food. He submitted: O Messenger of Allah! I have only as much food as is sufficient for me and my children for just four months. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Get up and give them food. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! Heard and obeyed (i.e., your command is upon my eyes and head). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) stood up and we also stood up with him, he took us with him towards the upper chamber. He took out the key from his waist and opened the door. Sayyiduna Dakin (may Allah be pleased with him) says that there were some weak quality dates lying in his room. He said: Take as much as you want from here, each of us took dates from there according to our need, I was the last among them. I observed and felt as if we had not decreased even a single date from his dates.

Sayyiduna Nu’man bin Muqarrin (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Four hundred men from the tribe of Banu Muzaynah presented themselves before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered people on our behalf. Some people said: O Messenger of Allah! We do not have food available to give them. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him): Provide them with food. He said: I have only some inferior dates, and I think they will not suffice for them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Go and give it to them. He took us with him to an upper room, where there were dates of a dusty color. He said: Take from here. People took dates according to their needs, and I was the last among them. I observed and realized that we had not even emptied a space equal to one date, even though four hundred people had taken dates from there.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyida Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) said to him: Say to the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that if possible, please come and eat food at our place. I went and conveyed this message to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: And what about those who are with me? I said: Yes, them too. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: People! Get up. I went and told Sayyida Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) the whole matter. I was afraid of those people who were coming along with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), that how would the food suffice for so many people. Sayyida Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Anas! What have you done? In the meantime, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) arrived. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Do you have any ghee? She replied: Yes! I had a leather container, in which there was some ghee. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Bring that container. Sayyida Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) says: I presented that container to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) opened its lid and said: Bismillah, O Allah! Bless it abundantly. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Now turn this container over. She turned it over. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) squeezed it well while taking the name of Allah, and she put all that ghee into the pot. More than eighty people ate from it and plenty of food was left over. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) handed that pot to Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) and said: Here, you eat as well and feed your neighbors too.

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.

Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We reached the place of Hudaybiyyah along with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him); our number was fourteen hundred. There was so little water there that it could not even suffice for fifty goats. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sat at the edge of the well, supplicated, or put his saliva into it, and then the water of that well began to gush forth. Thus, we drank and gave others to drink.