He used to come to me and ask, “Do you have anything for lunch?” If I replied, “No,” he would say, “Then I am fasting.”

She added: “One day he came to me and I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, a gift has been sent to us.’ He asked, ‘What is it?’ I answered, ‘Hayis.’ He said, ‘Well, I started this morning fasting,’ and then he ate.”