—who is Ibn Abī Ziyād—narrated from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿĀṣim, from his father, from his grandfather ʿUmar:
“We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on a campaign. We said, ‘Messenger of Allah, the enemy is upon us; they have eaten their fill while the people are hungry.’
The Anṣār suggested, ‘Shall we not slaughter our riding camels and feed the people?’
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Whoever has extra food, let him bring it.’
A man would bring a mudd, another a sāʿ, some less and some more, until everything in the army totaled a little over twenty sāʿs. The Prophet ﷺ sat beside it and invoked blessing, then said, ‘Take, but do not snatch.’
Each man filled his saddlebag and coarse sack, and they filled their other containers—one of them even tied up the cuff of his shirt and filled it—yet when they finished, the food was exactly as it had been.
The Prophet ﷺ then proclaimed, ‘I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah. No servant who utters these words sincerely will be touched by the heat of the Fire.’
Abū Yaʿlā also reported it through Isḥāq ibn Ismāʿīl al-Ṭāliqānī, from Jarīr, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, to the same effect. What precedes corroborates its soundness and supports the earlier narration. Allah knows best.
Another ḥadīth from Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ on this matter
Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Yaʿlā said: Muḥammad ibn Bashār narrated to us; Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī al-Qārī narrated to us; ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us; from Iyās ibn Salamah, from his father, who said:
“We were with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the campaign of Khaybar. He ordered us to gather what was in our saddle-pouches—meaning dates. He spread out a leather cloth and we emptied our provisions onto it.
I craned my neck and stood on tiptoe to look, and I judged it to be no bigger than the resting place of a sheep, while we were fourteen hundred men. We ate, then I stretched again to look, and it was still about the size of a sheep’s resting place.
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then asked, ‘Is there any water for ablution?’
A man brought a small amount of water in a skin, and he poured it into a bowl. We all performed ablution, each of us sprinkling from it once, and we were fourteen hundred men.
Then some people came—