Sayyiduna Dakin bin Sa’id Muzani (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I, along with some horsemen from my tribe, presented ourselves before the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him),“Go and arrange provisions for them.”He replied,“O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! There are only a few sa’ of dates.”Then he went, took out the key from his box, and opened the door, and there was a large heap of dates. We took from it according to our need. The narrator says: When I turned back towards that room, I was the last person to leave from there, but it seemed as if we had not taken a single date from it.

Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: A bowl of tharid was presented to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). It was placed before the people, and people kept coming to it one after another from morning till noon. When some people would get up, others would come and sit. A person asked Sayyiduna Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him): Was it increasing? Sayyiduna Samurah (may Allah be pleased with him) replied: What are you amazed at? It was only increasing from that side. He pointed towards the sky with his hand and said this.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) — (the narrator named A'mash is in doubt, perhaps) Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: During the expedition of Tabuk, people were afflicted with hunger, so they submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! If you permit us, we will slaughter our camels and eat them. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to them: You may do so. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came to the service of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He submitted: O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)! If people do this, their riding animals will become few. Tell them to bring whatever extra provisions they have, and then you pray for blessing upon those provisions. Perhaps Allah, the Exalted, will create some way of goodness in it. The narrator says: So the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked for a dining cloth, and it was spread out.

(The narrator says:) Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) told the people to bring their leftover (food and drink) provisions. The narrator says: So one person brought a handful of barley, another brought a handful of dates, someone else brought a piece of bread, until a small amount of provisions was gathered on the dining cloth. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) prayed for blessing upon it. Then he said: Start putting it into your vessels. The people began to fill their vessels, until they had filled every vessel in the army. They ate, and ate to their fill, and still some was left over. The narrator says: Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: I bear witness that there is no deity except Allah, and indeed I am the Messenger of Allah. Whoever meets Allah with these two statements, without doubting them, will enter Paradise.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: When the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) made a peace treaty with the Quraysh (and set out towards Makkah to perform Umrah), when he reached the place of Marr az-Zahran, the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) received the news that the Quraysh were saying that such companions of Muhammad (peace be upon him) have pledged allegiance to him who are weak. So the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: O Messenger of Allah, if we slaughter our riding animals and eat their meat and fat, and drink their broth, then tomorrow when we appear before them, we will feel strong. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: No, bring to me whatever leftover (food and drink) you have. They spread out their dining cloths and put their leftover (food and drink) on it. The Prophet (peace be upon him) prayed for blessings for them. They ate from it until they were full, and the leftover food and drink they put into their bags. Then the next day they appeared before (the disbelievers of Quraysh), so the Prophet (peace be upon him) said to them, Let them not see any weakness in you. Then the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his companions wrapped the Ihram sheet as in Idtiba‘, and in three circuits they performed Raml (brisk walking), and in four circuits they walked at a normal pace. The polytheists were present at that time in Hatim and near Dar an-Nadwah. When the companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) came between the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone, on the other side from them, they would walk at a normal pace, and when they came before them (the Quraysh), they would start running. So the Quraysh said: By Allah! They are like deer.
(Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, says:) Thus, this method became Sunnah.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I brought some dates to the service of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). I was holding them in both my hands. I said: O Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him)! Please supplicate for blessing in them for me. So the Prophet (peace be upon him) supplicated for blessing in them for me. He said: When you want to take something from them, put your hand inside them, do not finish them completely. Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I gave away so many wasqs of those dates in charity in the way of Allah, we ourselves used to eat from them and we used to feed others as well. They remained in my container, until during the days of (the rebellion against) Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him), they fell from me.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Three such days came upon me in which I ate nothing. I was about to go to the platform of Suffah, but I fell down. The children started shouting loudly, "Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) has gone mad." So I began to answer them loudly. I said: "Rather, you people are mad," until we reached Suffah in that state. At that time, a bowl of tharid was presented to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) had called the people of Suffah to eat it, and they were eating it. I tried to straighten myself so that they might invite me too (but nothing happened) until they (finished eating and) got up. In that bowl, only that which remains on the edges of the bowl was left. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) gathered it, and it became a morsel. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) placed it between his fingers and then said to me, "Eat it, taking the name of Allah." (Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) says: By Him in Whose hand is my soul, I kept eating that one morsel for so long that I became full.)

Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) said to (his wife) Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her): I have noticed a weakness in the voice of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) from which I have realized that he is hungry. Do you have anything (that we can present to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) to eat)? The woman replied: Yes. The woman took out a few pieces of barley bread, then she took her scarf and wrapped some of the bread in it and placed it under my arm. She covered me with part of it and then sent me to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I took it and went. I found the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sitting in the mosque. Some people were with him. I came and stood among those people. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: Has Abu Talhah sent you? I replied: Yes. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked: For food? I replied: Yes. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to those present with him: Get up. The narrator says: All these gentlemen set out. I walked ahead of them and came to Sayyiduna Abu Talhah and informed him about it. So Sayyiduna Abu Talhah said: O Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her)! The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) is coming with people. We do not have enough to feed them. So Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) replied: Allah and His Messenger know best. The narrator states: Then Sayyiduna Abu Talhah went and met the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) came with him until both of them entered the house. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: O Umm Sulaym! Present whatever you have. So Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) brought the bread. At the command of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), it was broken into pieces. Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) squeezed the container in which there was ghee over it, and it became a curry. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) recited over it whatever Allah willed, then he said: Allow ten men to enter. Sayyiduna Abu Talhah permitted them to enter. Those people ate the food until they were full, then they left. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Allow ten men to enter. Sayyiduna Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) permitted them. They also ate the food until they were full, then they left. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Tell ten men to enter. Sayyiduna Abu Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) permitted them as well. They also ate the food until they were full, then they left. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: Tell ten men to enter, until all the people had eaten and eaten to their fill. The number of those people was seventy or perhaps eighty.

Mujahid narrates: I heard Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) saying, "By the One besides whom there is no deity! (Sometimes) my condition was such that due to the severity of hunger, I would press my liver against the ground. One day, I sat in the path where people used to pass by. Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by me. I asked him about a verse from Allah’s Book. I only asked him so that he might feed me, but he left without doing anything. Then Sayyiduna Umar bin Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) passed by me. I asked him too about a verse from Allah’s Book. I only asked him so that he might feed me, but he also left without doing so. Then Sayyiduna Abu al-Qasim (the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him) passed by me. When he saw my face and noticed what was in my heart, he said, 'O Abu Hurairah!' I replied, 'O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon you)! I am here.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Come with me.' I walked with him. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) went to his house. He permitted me to enter, so I entered. There was a bowl of milk there. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked his wife, 'Where did this come from?' She replied, 'So-and-so sent it as a gift.' (The narrator is unsure, perhaps these are the words:) 'So-and-so sent it.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'O Abu Hurairah! Go to the people of Suffah and call them.' (Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, narrates:) The people of Suffah were the guests of Islam. They had no home or wealth. Whenever any charity was brought to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he would send it to them. He would not partake in that charity, but when a gift was brought to him, he would send it to them and also share in it with them. He would use from it himself.

(Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him, says:) By Allah! This matter was very hard on me. I thought, 'What will such a small amount of milk do for the people of Suffah, for me, and for the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?' But I went and called them. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted them to enter, and they came in. Everyone sat in their place. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'O Abu Hurairah!' I replied, 'O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon you)! I am here.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Take (the bowl of milk) and serve it to them.' Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) says, 'I began to present it to each person. Each person would take it, and when he was satisfied, I would take it back from him and give it to the next person, until all of them were satisfied. Then I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) raised his blessed head and smiled. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'O Abu Hurairah! Now only I and you remain.' I replied, 'O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon you)! You have spoken the truth.' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Take it and drink.' After that, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) kept saying, 'And drink,' until I said, 'By the One who sent you with the truth, I can find no way (to drink more).' The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, 'Then show me the vessel.' I presented it to him, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) drank the remaining (milk) and praised his Lord."

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: My father passed away. He was in debt. I offered the creditors that they could take the dates in exchange for the debt my father owed, but they did not accept this. In their opinion, this would not fulfill the payment in full. I went to the service of the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). I mentioned this matter before him. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) said: When you harvest the dates and store them in the warehouse, inform me. (The narrator says:) When I harvested them and stored them in the warehouse (or the place for drying), I went to the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and informed him about it. So the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) came. With him were Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Then the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) sat by the pile (of dates). He prayed for blessing, then he said: Call your creditors and pay them in full. Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I paid all the debts owed by my father, and still thirteen loads (of dates) remained. Seven wasqs were of Ajwa dates and six wasqs were of Lawn dates. I performed the Maghrib prayer with the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and mentioned this matter before him, so the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) smiled. He said: Go to Abu Bakr and Umar and inform them about this. I went to Sayyiduna Abu Bakr and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and informed them about this, so both of them said: When the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) performed that action, we already realized that this would happen.

Sayyiduna Mu’adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: On the occasion of the Battle of Tabuk, those people set out with the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would combine the Zuhr and Asr prayers, and also combine the Maghrib and Isha prayers. The narrator says: One day, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) delayed the prayer, then he came out (from his place of stay). He performed the Zuhr and Asr prayers together, then he (went back inside his place of stay and then came out again), then he performed the Maghrib and Isha prayers together. Then he said: If Allah wills, tomorrow you will reach the spring of Tabuk. You will reach it when the day has risen. Whoever arrives there should not take anything from its water until I arrive. The narrator says: When we reached there, two men had already arrived before us. The spring was like a strap (thin), from which a little water was flowing. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked both of them: Did you use its water? Both replied: Yes. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) expressed displeasure with both of them and said to them whatever Allah willed. Then the people, with their hands, collected a little water from the spring until the water gathered in a container. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) washed his face and both hands in that vessel. Then he poured that water back into the spring, and a lot of water began to flow from it, and the people drank from that water. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Mu’adh, soon your life will be long and you will see (that because of this water) there will be many gardens here.