251 – Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Madani narrated to us; he said: Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Abū Kaʿb al-Ḥarīrī, who said:

“In the kitchen of David—peace be upon him—seventy kuda of the finest wheat flour were served, while he himself ⦗154⦘ would eat barley bread bought with the proceeds of palm-leaf fibres he had worked with his own hands.”