A'isha reported: Never could the family of Muhammad ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) (afford to eat) the bread of wheat for two days successively. Even (out of these two days) one (was such wherein he could get) only a date.
Read More..A'isha reported: We the family of Muhammad ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) used to spend (the whole) month in which we (did not need to) kindle the fire as (we had nothing to cook) ; we had only dates and water (to fill our bellies).
Read More..This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Urwa with the same chain of transmitters (and the words are): We used to spend- And he did not make a mention of the family of Muhammad ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), and Abu Kuraib made this addition to his hadith which was transmitted on the authority of Ibn Numair (and the words are): But this that there was brought to us some meat.
Read More..`A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died (in such a state) that there had been nothing in my wooden tub which a living being could afford to eat but a handful of barley. I had been eating out of that for a fairly long duration when I thought of measuring it and it was almost finished.
Read More..A'isha used to say to 'Urwa: Son of my sister, by Allah, I used to see the new moon, then the new moon, then the new moon, i. e. three moons in two months, and fire was not kindled in the house of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ). I ('Urwa) said: Auntie, then what were your means of sustenance? She said: Dates and water. But it (so happened) that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) had some Ansar as his neighbours and they had milch animals and they used to send to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) some milk of their (animals) and he served that to us.
Read More..Urwa b. Zubair reported on the authority of 'A'isha, the wife of Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), that she said: Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) died (in a state) that it never happened that he could eat to his fill the bread with olive oil twice during a day.
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