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Narrated to us Ahmad ibn Yunus, narrated to us Zuhayr, narrated to us Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir. And narrated to us Yahya ibn Yahya, informed us Abu Khaythamah, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent us and appointed Abu Ubaydah as our leader to intercept a caravan of Quraysh, and he provided us with a bag of dates—he found nothing else for us. So Abu Ubaydah would give us one date each. He said: I asked, "What did you do with it?" He said: We would suck it as a child sucks, then drink water over it, and it would suffice us for the day until night. And we would beat the leaves with our sticks, then moisten them with water and eat them. He said: We set out along the seashore, and there appeared to us on the seashore something like a huge sand hill. We approached it, and it was a creature called al-‘Anbar (a kind of whale). Abu Ubaydah said: "It is dead meat." Then he said: "No, rather we are the messengers of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and in the path of Allah, and you have been compelled by necessity, so eat." He said: So we stayed by it for a month, and we were three hundred men, until we became fat. He said: I saw us scooping fat from the socket of its eye with buckets, and we would cut from it pieces like the size of a bull or as much as a bull. Abu Ubaydah took thirteen men from us, sat them in the socket of its eye, and took one of its ribs, set it upright, then saddled the largest camel we had and it passed underneath it. We took from its meat and dried strips. When we came to al-Madinah, we went to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and mentioned that to him. He said: "It is provision that Allah has brought out for you. Do you have any of its meat with you, so you can feed us?" He said: So we sent some of it to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he ate from it.

Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) sent us (on an expedition). We were three hundred riders and our chief (leader) was 'Ubaida bin al-Jarrah. We were on the look out for a caravan of the Quraish. So we stayed on the coast for half a month, and were so much afflicted by extreme hunger that we (were obliged) to eat leaves. That is why it was called the Detachment of the Leaves. The ocean cast out for us an animal which was called al-'Anbar (whale). We ate of that for half of the month and rubbed its fat on our (bodies) until our bodies became stout. Abu 'Ubaida caught hold of one of its ribs and fixed that up. He then cast a glance at the tallest man of the army and the highest of the camels and then made him ride over that, and that then passed beneath it (the rib), and many a man could sit in its eye-socket, and we extracted many pitchers of fat from the cavity of its eye. We had small bags containing dates with us (before finding the whale). 'Ubaida gave every person amongst us a handful of dates (and when the provision ran short), he then gave each one of us one date. And when that (stock) was exhausted, we felt its loss.

'Amr reported on the authority of Jabir that in the expedition of Khabat (leaves) a person slaughtered three camels, then three, then three, then Abu 'Ubaida forbade him (to do so fearing that the rides may become short).

Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported: Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) sent us (on an expedition), and we were three hundred in number, and we were carrying our bags of provisions around our necks.

Jabir bin 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent on in expedition a detachment consisting of three hundred (persons) and appointed Abu 'Ubaida bin Jarrah as their chief. Their provisions ran short: 'Abu 'Ubaida collected their provisions in the provision bag and he fed us (for some time). Later on when the provisions ran short he gave us one date every day.

Jabir bin'Abdullah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent an expedition to the sea coast and I was one among them. The rest of the hadith is the same with a slight variation of wording that in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Wahb bin Kaisan (the words are): "The army ate out of that (the whale) for eighteen days."

Jabir bin'Abdullah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) sent an expedition to the land of the tribe of Juhaina, and appointed a person as a chief over them.