مسند أحمد
Musnad Ahmad Hadith 14338
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Original Arabic
حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ، وَحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ: بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَأَمَّرَ عَلَيْنَا أَبَا عُبَيْدَةَ نَتَلَقَّى عِيرًا لِقُرَيْشٍ، وَزَوَّدَنَا جِرَابًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ لَمْ يَجِدْ لَنَا غَيْرَهُ، قَالَ: فَكَانَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ يُعْطِينَا تَمْرَةً تَمْرَةً، قَالَ: قُلْتُ: كَيْفَ كُنْتُمْ تَصْنَعُونَ بِهَا؟، قَالَ: نَمَصُّهَا كَمَا يَمَصُّ الصَّبِيُّ، ثُمَّ نَشْرَبُ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الْمَاءِ فَيَكْفِينَا يَوْمَنَا إِلَى اللَّيْلِ، قَالَ: وَكُنَّا نَضْرِبُ بِعِصِيِّنَا الْخَبَطَ، ثُمَّ نَبُلُّهُ بِالْمَاءِ (١) فَنَأْكُلُهُ، قَالَ: وَانْطَلَقْنَا عَلَى سَاحِلِ الْبَحْرِ، فَرُفِعَ لَنَا عَلَى سَاحِلِ الْبَحْرِ كَهَيْئَةِ الْكَثِيبِ الضَّخْمِ، فَأَتَيْنَاهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ دَابَّةٌ تُدْعَى الْعَنْبَرُ، قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: مَيْتَةٌ - قَالَ حَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى: ثُمَّ قَالَ: لَا، بَلْ نَحْنُ رُسُلُ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَقَالَ هَاشِمٌ فِي حَدِيثِهِ: قَالَ: لَا (٢) بَلْ نَحْنُ رُسُلُ رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَفِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ - وَقَدِ اضْطُرِرْتُمْ فَكُلُوا، وَأَقَمْنَا عَلَيْهِ شَهْرًا، وَنَحْنُ ثَلَاثُ مِائَةٍ حَتَّى سَمِنَّا، وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنَا نَغْتَرِفُ مِنْ وَقْبِ عَيْنَيْهِ (٣) بِالْقِلَالِ الدُّهْنَ، وَنَقْتَطِعُ (٤) مِنْهُ الْفِدَرَ كَالثَّوْرِ - أَوْ، ، كَقَدْرِ (١) الثَّوْرِ - قَالَ: وَلَقَدْ أَخَذَ مِنَّا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ رَجُلًا فَأَقْعَدَهُمْ فِي وَقْبِ عَيْنِهِ، وَأَخَذَ ضِلَعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهِ فَأَقَامَهَا، ثُمَّ رَحَلَ أَعْظَمَ بَعِيرٍ مَعَنَا - قَالَ حَسَنٌ: ثُمَّ رَحَلَ أَعْظَمَ بَعِيرٍ كَانَ (٢) مَعَنَا - فَمَرَّ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا، وَتَزَوَّدْنَا مِنْ لَحْمِهِ وَشَائِقَ، فَلَمَّا قَدِمْنَا الْمَدِينَةَ، أَتَيْنَا رَسُولَ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، فَذَكَرْنَا ذَلِكَ لَهُ، فَقَالَ: " هُوَ رِزْقٌ أَخْرَجَهُ اللهُ لَكُمْ، فَهَلْ مَعَكُمْ مِنْ لَحْمِهِ شَيْءٌ فَتُطْعِمُونَا؟ " قَالَ: فَأَرْسَلْنَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْهُ، فَأَكَلَهُ (٣)،
Translation
English translation
It is also narrated from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (ﷺ) gave us a bag of dates as provisions during a military expedition, and nothing else. Abu Ubaidah (may Allah be pleased with him) at first would give us each a handful of dates, then he started giving just one date each. The narrator asked, "What would you do with a single date?" He replied, "We would chew and suck it like children, then drink water over it, and that would be our food until night." When the dates ran out, we would knock down leaves from the trees with our sticks, soak them in water, and eat them. In this way, we suffered from severe hunger. One day, while we were at the seashore, the sea cast out a dead fish for us. At first, Abu Ubaidah said, "This is carrion." Then he said, "We are warriors and hungry, so eat it." We stayed there for a month; we were three hundred men, and after eating it, we became healthy. We saw that we would extract oil from its eye sockets with pitchers, and we would cut its meat like that of a bull. Abu Ubaidah (may Allah be pleased with him) would stand up one of its ribs, and a man mounted on a camel could pass underneath it, and a group of five men would sit inside its eye socket. We ate it abundantly and applied its oil to our bodies until our bodies became healthy and our cheeks filled out. After returning to Madinah, we mentioned this to the Prophet (ﷺ), and he said, "It was provision from Allah which Allah granted you. If you have any of it left, feed us as well." We had some of it left, which we sent to the Prophet (ﷺ), and he also ate from it.
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Where is this hadith found?
This is Hadith 14338 in Musnad Ahmad. It appears in Book 33, Musnad of Jabir ibn Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him), as in-book entry 227.
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مسند احمد / مسند المكثرين من الصحابة / 14338
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