Gardens of the Righteous — Page 111
RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 111 reflection added: We have been sent by the Messenger of Allah and are employed in the cause of Allah. You are driven by necessity and it is lawful for you to eat of it. We subsisted on it for a month and put on weight, and we were three hundred in number. We used to take out skinfuls of grease through its eyes and would carve out pieces of meat as large as an ox. On one occasion. Abu Ubaidah selected thirteen of us and seated them in the socket of its eye. . He took one of its ribs and stood it up and made our tallest camel pass under it fully accoutered and all. When we left we took with us large pieces of its boiled meat as provision. When we returned to Medina we presented ourselves before the Holy Prophet and mentioned all this to him. He said: This was provision made for you by Allah. Have you any of its meat with you so that you would give it to us to eat? Thus we sent some of it to the Holy Prophet and he ate of it (Muslim). 522. Asma' bint Yazid relates that the sleeves of the shirt of the Holy. Prophet reached down to his wrist (Abu Daud and Tirmidhi). 523. Jabir relates: On the day of the Moat we were digging when a very hard piece of rock was encountered. The Holy Prophet was told of it and said:. I shall descend into the moat. He stood up and it was noticed that he had tied a piece of rock over his stomach. We had not tasted anything for three days. . He took up a spade and struck the hard piece of rock with it and it became like sand. I asked the Holy Prophet's permission to go home and said to my wife: I have seen the Holy Prophet in a condition that I am unable to endure. . Have you anything in the house? She said: I have some barley and a lamb. I slaughtered the lamb and ground down the barley and we put the meat in the cooking pot. Then I went to the Holy Prophet. In the meantime the flour had been kneaded and the meat in the pot was nearly cooked. I said to the Holy. Prophet: I have some food, Messenger of Allah, will you come with one or two? He asked: How many should there be? I told him. He said: Many would be good. Tell your wife not to take the pot off the fire nor the bread from the oven till I arrive. Then he said to the Emigrants and the Helpers: Let us go. . They all stood up. . I went to my wife and said: Bless you, the Holy Prophet, the Emigrants, the. Helpers and the whole company are coming over. She said: Did he ask you? I said: Yes. The Holy Prophet said to his companions: Enter, but do not crowd in. Then he started breaking up the bread and putting meat on it. He would take from the pot and the oven, then cover them up and approach his companions and hand it over to them. He would then go back and uncover the pot and oven. He continued to break up the bread and putting meat on it till all had eaten their fill and some was left over. Then he said to my wife: Eat of it, and send it as a present, for people have been afflicted with hunger (Bokhari and Muslim). Another version is: When the moat was being dug I perceived the signs of hunger on the Holy Prophet: so I returned to my wife and said to her: Have you anything in the house? I have perceived the signs of severe hunger on the Holy Prophet. She brought out a leather bag in which