They said, “Messenger of Allah, is there no water left for ablution?”
He replied, “The ablution is already complete.”

Muslim also transmitted this ḥadīth through Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Sulamī, from al-Naḍr ibn Muḥammad, from ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, from Iyās, from his father Salamah, who added: “We ate until we were satisfied, and then we filled our saddle-bags.”

Earlier we cited Ibn Isḥāq’s account of the digging of the trench, in which he said: Sāʿīd ibn Minā informed me that he had been told that a daughter of Bashīr ibn Saʿd—she was the sister of al-Nuʿmān ibn Bashīr—related: “My mother, ʿAmrah bint Rawāḥah, called me and gave me a wooden bowl of dates wrapped in my cloak. She said, ‘My dear girl, take this to your father and your uncle ʿAbd Allāh for their lunch.’ I took it and set off. While looking for my father and my uncle, I passed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. He asked, ‘Come here, little girl! What is that you have with you?’ I replied, ‘Messenger of Allah, these are some dates my mother sent to my father Bashīr ibn Saʿd and my uncle ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah for their meal.’ He said, ‘Bring them here.’ I poured them into the palms of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and they did not even fill his hands. He then asked for a cloak to be spread out, placed the dates upon it, and said to a man beside him, ‘Call out to the people digging the trench: Come to lunch!’ The diggers gathered, eating from the pile while it continued to increase, until everyone departed and dates were still spilling over the edges of the cloth.

The story of Jābir, his father’s debt, and the Prophet’s ﷺ multiplication of the dates

Al-Bukhārī records in “Signs of Prophethood”: Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us, Zakariyyā narrated to us, ʿĀmir narrated to me, from Jābir, who said: “My father died leaving a debt. I went to the Prophet ﷺ and said, ‘My father left a debt, and all I have to pay it with is the yield of his date-palms; their produce will not cover the debt for several years. Please come with me so that the creditors will not treat me harshly.’ He walked around one heap of dates and prayed, then around another, and finally sat upon it. He said, ‘Now distribute it.’ The creditors were paid in full, and an amount equal to what they had received still remained.”

This is how al-Bukhārī relates the account in summary form. He also transmits it through several chains from ʿĀmir ibn Sharāḥīl al-Shaʿbī, from Jābir.

The ḥadīth has been reported through numerous routes from Jābir with varied wording, but they all concur that, by the blessing of