and He, Most High, also says: “Whoever desires the immediate (1)—We hasten for him therein whatever We will for whomever We please; then We consign him to Hell, where he will burn, condemned and rejected.” (2) [Al-Isrāʾ 18] The verses on this subject are many and well-known.

496 – ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) reported: “The household of Muhammad ﷺ never ate their fill of barley bread on two consecutive days until he passed away (3).” Agreed upon.

In another narration: “From the day we arrived in Medina, the family of Muhammad ﷺ never ate their fill of wheat bread for three nights in a row until he passed away.”

497 – ʿUrwah relates from ʿĀʾishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she used to say, “By Allah, O son of my sister, we would watch the new moon, then another new moon—two, even three crescents in two months—and no fire would be lit in the houses of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. I asked, ‘O aunt, what sustained you all that time?’ She answered, ‘The two black things: dates and water. Yet the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had neighbours from among the Anṣār who owned dairy animals (4); they would send some of their milk to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and he would give it to us to drink.’” Agreed upon.

498 – Abū Saʿīd al-Maqburī narrates from Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he once passed by some people who had a roasted sheep before them. They invited him to join them, but he refused and said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ left this world without ever having eaten his fill of barley bread.” Recorded by al-Bukhārī. (The word maṣliyyah—with a fatḥah on the mīm—means “roasted.”)

499 – Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “The Prophet ﷺ never ate from a khiwān (5) until…"