159 – ʿAbd Allāh related to us; my father related to us; ʿAbd al-Ṣamad and Abū Saʿīd also related to us. They said: Thābit—meaning Ibn Yazīd—informed us; Hilāl narrated to us, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās:

“The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would pass successive nights hungry, and his family could find neither a morning meal nor an evening one. The bread they ate for the most part was barley.”

Abū Saʿīd added, “Indeed, the bulk of their food in general was barley.”