It is narrated from a man who was from Banu Asad that I and my family settled in Baqi' al-Gharqad (the name of a cemetery in Madinah Munawwarah). My wife said: Go to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and ask him for something to eat and tell him about your neediness. So I went to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and saw that a man was asking him for something, and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was saying: "I do not have anything to give you." That man turned away angrily and as he was leaving, he was saying: By my life! You give only to whom you wish. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Look, he gets angry because I do not have anything to give him. Whoever among you asks while he has forty dirhams, or wealth equal to that, then he has clung to begging." I said: One camel is better for us than forty dirhams. Then I returned and did not ask the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for anything. After that, barley and dried dates came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he gave us a share from it, until Allah made us self-sufficient.