Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37122 — Reports from our Prophet

It is narrated from al-Qasim that he said: Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "We would stay a full month or half a month in such a state that no fire, whether for a lamp or for anything else, entered our house." I said (to Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her)): "Then by what means did you people live?" She said: "By two things, that is, water and dates. And we had some neighbours from the Ansar, may Allah Almighty reward them with good. They had she-camels, and at times they would send us the milk of those she-camels."