overturn it.’

Abū Hurayrah said, ‘So I would take out of it more than I had first brought.

Then Abū Hurayrah went on: ‘Shall I tell you how long I ate from that satchel? I ate from it—and fed others—during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace; during the lifetime of Abū Bakr, and I fed others; during the lifetime of ʿUmar, and I fed others; and during the lifetime of ʿUthmān, and I fed others. When ʿUthmān was killed, however, my house was plundered and the satchel was lost.’

Imam Aḥmad related in his Musnad: Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd told us, Ismāʿīl told us, from Qays, from Dukayn ibn Saʿīd al-Muzanī, who said:

‘We came to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, four hundred and forty men in all, asking him for food. He said to ʿUmar, “Go and feed them.” ʿUmar replied, “Messenger of Allah, nothing is left except—”’