only a few measures of dates; I do not think they will see me through the summer.”
He said, “Then feed them.”
Umar replied, “I hear and obey.”
Umar took the key from the strap at his waist, opened the door, and there before us lay a mound of dates like a reclining camel-calf. He said to us, “Take.” Each man of us helped himself to whatever he wished. I was among the last to leave, and when I looked back it was as though we had not removed so much as a single date.
Abu Dawud likewise transmitted the report through ʿAbd al-Rahim ibn Mutarrif, from