people.” It is a ḥasan hadith, reported by Ibn Mājah and others through sound chains.⦗1⦘
477 – Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (may Allah be pleased with him) remarked upon the share of worldly goods people had obtained and said, “I have seen the Messenger of Allah ﷺ spend the whole day twisting in hunger, unable to find even al-daqal—the poorest quality dates—with which to fill his stomach.” Reported by Muslim.
al-daqal: coarse, inferior dates.
478 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away there was nothing in my house that any living creature could eat except a little barley stored on a shelf of mine. I kept eating from it for a long time; then, when I measured it, it was finished. Agreed upon.
Her phrase “a little barley” means “some barley,” as explained by al-Tirmidhī.
479 – ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, the brother of Juwayriyah bint al-Ḥārith, Mother of the Believers (may Allah be pleased with them both), said: At the death of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ he left no dinar, no dirham, no male slave, no female slave—nothing at all—except his white mule which he used to ride, his weapons, and a plot of land he had set aside as charity for travellers. Reported by al-Bukhārī.
480 – Khabbāb ibn al-Aratt (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We emigrated with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ seeking the approval of Allah, so our reward became due from Allah. Some of us died without having enjoyed any portion of that reward—among them Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr (may Allah be pleased with him). He was killed on the Day of Uḥud and left only a striped woollen cloak; when we covered his head with it his feet showed, and when we covered his feet his head showed, so the Prophet ﷺ instructed us