and then another crescent, and yet another, and no fire would be lit in our house to cook food. We subsisted on nothing but dates and water. Our neighbors from among the Ansar, however, owned sheep and would send the Prophet ﷺ a ewe that gave abundant milk, and from its milk he ﷺ would drink.” Agreed upon.

Hammām said: Qatādah related to us, “We used to visit Anas ibn Mālik while his baker was standing there. He would say, ‘Eat,’ for I do not know that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ever saw a thin, refined loaf until he met Allah, nor did he ever set eyes on a whole roasted sheep.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it.

Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī narrated from Yūnus, from Qatādah, from Anas who said, “The Prophet ﷺ never ate on a raised dining table (khawān), nor out of a fine serving dish (sukrujah), nor was thin bread baked for him.” I asked Anas, “So what did they eat from?” He replied, “From a dining spread (sufrah).” Al-Bukhārī recorded it.

Shuʿbah narrated from Abū Isḥāq: I heard ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd narrate, from al-Aswad, from ʿĀʾishah, who said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never satisfied his hunger with barley bread for two consecutive days until he passed away.” Muslim recorded it.

Hishām ibn Abī ʿAbd Allāh narrated from Qatādah, from Anas that he once brought the Prophet ﷺ barley bread and rancid fat. The Prophet had mortgaged his coat of mail with a Jew and obtained some barley for his family in exchange. I heard him say one day, “No evening has ever come upon the household of Muhammad with a single ṣāʿ of dates or a single ṣāʿ of grain left over, even though on that day they comprised nine households.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it.

Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated from his father, from ʿĀʾishah: “The bedding of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was a leather mat stuffed with palm fibers.” Agreed upon.