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293 – Muhammad ibn ʿAbbad told me, saying: Zayd ibn al-Hubab narrated to us, from Abu Bakr al-Basri, who reported: Yunus ibn ʿUbayd told us: “We were with al-Hasan when a basket of sugar was presented to him. He opened it, and we had never seen sugar finer than that. He then nudged the basket away with his foot and said, ‘ihḍimū’—that is, ‘eat.’”
٢٩٣ - وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبَّادٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا زَيْدُ بْنُ الْحُبَابِ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرٍ الْبَصْرِيِّ، قَالَ: أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ، قَالَ: كُنَّا عِنْدَ الْحَسَنِ، فَأُهْدِيَتْ إِلَيْهِ سَلَّةٌ مِنْ سُكَّرٍ، فَفَتَحَ السَّلَّةَ، فَلَمْ يَرَ سُكُّرًا كَانَ أَحْسَنَ مِنْهُ، فَدَفَعَهَا بِرِجْلِهِ: ثُمَّ قَالَ: «اهْضِمُوا» ، يَعْنِي كُلُوا