water and dates. May Allah reward the women of the Ansar, who would sometimes send us a gift of milk. (1)
Abu Muhammad Abdullah ibn Abd al-Samad al-Jawzajani informed us; Abu al-Qasim al-Khuza‘i informed us; al-Haytham ibn Kulayb informed us; Abu ‘Isa al-Tirmidhi narrated to us; Abdullah ibn Mu‘awiyah al-Jumahi narrated to us; Thabit ibn Yazid narrated to us, from Hilal ibn Khabbab, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, would spend successive nights hungry, while his household could find no supper. Most of their bread was barley bread. (2)
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Samad al-Jawzajani informed us; Abu al-Qasim al-Khuza‘i informed us; al-Haytham ibn Kulayb informed us; Abu ‘Isa narrated to us; Abdullah ibn Abd al-Rahman narrated to us; Rawh ibn Aslam narrated to us; Abu Hatim al-Basri narrated to us; Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us; Thabit informed us, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “I was threatened for the sake of Allah as no one has been threatened, and I was harmed for the sake of Allah as no one has been harmed. Thirty days and nights passed during which neither Bilal nor I had any food that a living creature could eat, except something that Bilal could conceal beneath his armpit.” (3)
Abd al-Wahid al-Mulayhi informed us; Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-Nu‘aymi informed us; Muhammad ibn Yusuf informed us; [Muhammad ibn Isma‘il narrated to us] (4); Yusuf ibn ‘Isa narrated to us; Ibn Fudayl narrated to us, from his father, from Abu Hazim, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: I saw seventy of the Companions of the Suffah (the sheltered platform). Not one of them had an upper garment; each had either a waist-wrapper or a cloak, which they tied around their necks. Some of these reached halfway down the shins, while others reached the ankles; one would gather his garment in his hand lest his private parts be exposed. (5)
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Tawbah al-Kushmihani informed us; Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn al-Harith narrated to us; Abu al-Hasan Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub al-Kisa’i narrated to us; Abdullah ibn Mahmud informed us; Ibrahim ibn Abdullah al-Khallal informed us; Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak narrated to us, from Shu‘bah ibn al-Hajjaj, from Sa‘d ibn Ibrahim, [from his father Ibrahim] (6), that Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf was brought food while he was fasting. He said, “Mus‘ab ibn Umayr was killed, and he was better than I, and he was shrouded”