298 – Ibn Abī Maryam narrated to me, from Qabīṣah, who said: A companion of ours related that a woman from the household of Dāwūd al-Taʾī once prepared for him a bowl of tharid—a bread-and-broth dish—seasoned with ghee. She sent it to him at the time of his breaking the fast, accompanied by one of her maid-servants, for there was a foster-milk relationship between her and his family.

The maid-servant said: I brought the dish and placed it before him in his room. He was just about to eat when a beggar came and stood at the door. He rose, handed the dish to the man, and remained seated with him at the doorway until he had finished it. Then he went back inside, washed the bowl, took some dates that were in front of him—​the maid-servant said, “I thought he had set them aside for his supper”​—put them in the bowl, passed it to me, and said, “Give her my greetings.”

The maid-servant continued: The beggar returned to me what we had brought, while he (Dāwūd) gave us what he himself had intended to break his fast with. I believe he spent the night with an empty stomach. Qabīṣah added: I used to see that he had become extremely thin.