Mukhtasar Muslim

Narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and asked him for food. So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave him half a wasq of barley (a wasq is sixty sa’). Then that man, his wife, and his guest kept eating from it, until the man measured it. Then he came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: If you had not measured it, you would have continued to eat from it and it would have remained as it was (because by measuring it, their trust in Allah was lost and impatience was shown, so the blessing was gone).

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him): When the trench was being dug (around Madinah), I found the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) hungry. I returned to my wife and said, "Do you have anything (to eat)? For I have found the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) extremely hungry." She brought out a bag in which there was a sa’ (measure) of barley, and we had a young goat at home. I slaughtered it, and my wife ground the flour. She finished at the same time as I did, and I cut the meat and put it in the pot. Then, as I was about to return to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), my wife said, "Do not disgrace me before the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and those with him (because the food is little, so do not invite too many people)." I went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and quietly said, "O Messenger of Allah! I have slaughtered a young goat and prepared a sa’ of barley flour that we had. Please come with a few people." Upon hearing this, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called out, "O people of the trench! Jabir has prepared a feast for you, so come!" And he said, "Do not take the pot off the fire, and do not bake the bread until I come." Then I went home, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) also arrived. He was in front, and the people were behind him. I went to my wife, and she said, "You will be in trouble, and people will blame you." I said, "I only did what you told me (but the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, announced it and invited everyone)." I brought out the flour, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) put his blessed lips on it and prayed for blessing. Then he went to our pot, spat in it, and prayed for blessing. After that, he said (to my wife), "Call a woman who can bake bread with you, and keep taking out from the pot with a ladle, but do not take it off the fire." Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: There were a thousand men with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). I swear, all of them ate until they were satisfied and left, and the pot was still boiling as it was, and the flour was the same, and bread was still being made from it.

Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We were one hundred and thirty men with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Does anyone have any food?" A man produced a sa’ of grain, or a little less or more. Then all of it was kneaded. Then a polytheist came, his hair disheveled, driving some goats, and he reached the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Are you selling (the goat) or giving it as a gift?" He said, "No, I am selling it." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) bought a goat from him, and its meat was prepared, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered its liver to be roasted. The narrator said: By Allah, there was not a single one among those one hundred and thirty men for whom the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not separate some of that liver; if he was present, he gave it to him, and if he was not present, he set aside his share. And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took out meat in two bowls, then all of us ate from them and were satisfied, and in fact, some was left in the bowls, which I loaded onto a camel, or he said something similar. (In this hadith, there are two miracles of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): one is the blessing in the liver, and the other is the blessing in the goat.)

Narrated from Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman bin Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the people of Suffa were needy, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) once said: "Whoever has food for two people, let him take a third with him. And whoever has food for four, let him take a fifth or a sixth." And Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) brought three people, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) took ten people (and the family of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was also about ten, so it was as if half the food was for the guests). Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "There was no one in our house except my father and my mother." The narrator said: "Perhaps he also mentioned his wife, and a servant who was in the house of mine and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him)." Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) ate the night meal with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), then stayed there until the 'Isha prayer was performed. After finishing the prayer, he returned to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and remained there until the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) slept. After a large part of the night had passed, as much as Allah willed, Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) came home, and his wife said: 'Where have you been, leaving your guests?' Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'Did you not feed them?' She said: 'The guests did not eat until you came.' She had presented the food to the guests, but the guests did not eat before him." Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I hid (out of fear of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr's displeasure), so he called me: 'O lazy, ignorant, or foolish one! May your nose be cut off,' and he spoke harshly to me, and said to the guests: 'Eat, even though this food is not pleasant (because it is untimely).' And Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'By Allah, I will never eat from it.' Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: 'By Allah, every morsel we picked up, the food below increased, until we were all satisfied, and the food became even more than it was before.' Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) saw that the food was as much as before, or even more, so he said to his wife: 'O sister of Bani Firas (her name was Umm Ruman, and Bani Firas was her tribe), what is this?' She replied: 'By the coolness of my eyes (meaning the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), it is even more than before, three times as much.' (This was a miracle of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him. From this hadith, it is known that miracles can appear from the friends of Allah.) Then Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) ate from it and said: 'The oath I took was from Satan (i.e., out of anger).' Then he took a morsel from it, and after that, he took the food to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). I was also there in the morning, and there was a treaty between us and a people (i.e., a pact of peace). When the term of the pact ended, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) appointed twelve men as our leaders, and each had people with him, and Allah knows how many people were with each. Then that food was given to them, and all the people ate from it.