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ahmad:12360Abū ʿĀmir > Hishām > Qatādah > Anas

[Machine] "He went to the Prophet ﷺ with barley bread and a container of fat. He said, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had pawned his armor with a Jew in Medina, so he took some barley from him for his family. I heard him say one day, 'What a family of Muhammad has in the evening is not even a handful of grains or a handful of dates, and they have only nine neighbors.'''  

أحمد:١٢٣٦٠حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَامِرٍ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّهُ مَشَى إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ قَالَ وَقَدْ رَهَنَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ دِرْعًا لَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَأَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَعِيرًا لِأَهْلِهِ قَالَ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ يَقُولُ مَا أَمْسَى عِنْدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَاعُ حَبٍّ وَلَا صَاعُ بُرٍّ وَإِنَّ عِنْدَهُ تِسْعَنِسْوَةٍ يَوْمَئِذٍ  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Nasāʾī, Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī
bukhari:2069[Chain 1] Muslim > Hishām > Qatādah > Anas [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥawshab > Asbāṭ Abū al-Yasaʿ al-Baṣrī > Hishām al-Dastawāʾī > Qatādah > Anas

Anas went to the Prophet ﷺ with barley bread having some dissolved fat on it. The Prophet ﷺ had mortgaged his armor to a Jew in Medina and took from him some barley for his family. Anas heard him saying, "The household of Muhammad did not possess even a single Sa of wheat or food grains for the evening meal, although he has nine wives to look after." (See Hadith No. 685)  

البخاري:٢٠٦٩حَدَّثَنَا مُسْلِمٌ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ح حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَوْشَبٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَسْبَاطٌ أَبُو الْيَسَعِ الْبَصْرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ الدَّسْتَوَائِيُّ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ؓ

أَنَّهُ مَشَى إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ وَلَقَدْ رَهَنَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ دِرْعًا لَهُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ وَأَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَعِيرًا لأَهْلِهِ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ مَا أَمْسَى عِنْدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ صَاعُ بُرٍّ وَلاَ صَاعُ حَبٍّ وَإِنَّ عِنْدَهُ لَتِسْعَ نِسْوَةٍ  

nasai:4610Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd > Khālid > Hishām > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

"He put his armor in pledge for that with a Jew in Al-Madinah, and he took some barley from him for his family.  

النسائي:٤٦١٠أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قَتَادَةُ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّهُ مَشَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ قَالَ وَلَقَدْ رَهَنَ دِرْعًا لَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ وَأَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَعِيرًا لأَهْلِهِ  

tirmidhi:1215[Chain 1] Muḥammad b. Bashhār > Ibn Abū ʿAdī > Hishām al-Dastawāʾī > Qatādah > Anas [Chain 2] Muḥammad > Muʿādh b. Hishām from my father > Qatādah > Anas > Mashayt

I walked to the Prophet ﷺ with some barley bread that has some rancid oil poured over it. The Prophet ﷺ had pawned his armour with a Jew for twenty Sa' of food that he got for his family. That day (he pawned it), I heard him saying: 'Not for one evening has the household of Muhammad had a Sa' of dates or a Sa' of grain.' And on that day he had nine wives."  

[Abu 'Eisa said:] This Hadith is Hasan Sahih.
الترمذي:١٢١٥حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ عَنْ هِشَامٍ الدَّسْتَوَائِيِّ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ ح قَالَ مُحَمَّدٌ وَحَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

مَشَيْتُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ وَلَقَدْ رُهِنَ لَهُ دِرْعٌ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِعِشْرِينَ صَاعًا مِنْ طَعَامٍ أَخَذَهُ لأَهْلِهِ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ يَقُولُ مَا أَمْسَى فِي آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ صَاعُ تَمْرٍ وَلاَ صَاعُ حَبٍّ وَإِنَّ عِنْدَهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَتِسْعُ نِسْوَةٍ  

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ
ahmad:13497Ḥasan > Shaybān > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] The Prophet of Allah ﷺ was once invited to eat barley bread and some coarse meal. He said, "One day, I heard him say, 'By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, the family of Muhammad has not had a measure full of wheat or dates in the morning for some time now. Indeed, on that day, he pledged a coat of armor with a Jew in Medina in exchange for food, but he could not find anything to pawn it for."  

أحمد:١٣٤٩٧حَدَّثَنَا حَسَنٌ حَدَّثَنَا شَيْبَانُ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ

لَقَدْ دُعِيَ نَبِيُّ اللهِ ﷺ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ عَلَى خُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ قَالَ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ ذَاتَ يَوْمِ الْمِرَارِ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ وَالَّذِي نَفْسُمُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ مَا أَصْبَحَ عِنْدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَاعُ حَبٍّ وَلَا صَاعُ تَمْرٍ وَإِنَّ لَهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ لَتِسْعَ نِسْوَةٍ وَلَقَدْ رَهَنَ دِرْعًا لَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ طَعَامًا فَمَا وَجَدَ لَهَا مَا يَفْتَكُّهَا بِهِ  

ahmad:13169Rawḥ And ʿAbd al-Ṣamad > Hishām b. Abū ʿAbdullāh > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

[Machine] He walked to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with barley bread and a bunch of dates. He had pledged his shield with a Jew, so he took some barley for his family. I heard him saying one day that Abdul Samad said, "This is repeated every evening: There is no suhur with the family of Muhammad a sa'a of wheat or barley, and he had nine wives at that time."  

أحمد:١٣١٦٩حَدَّثَنَا رَوْحٌ وَعَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّهُ مَشَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ وَلَقَدْ رَهَنَ دِرْعَهُ لَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ فَأَخَذَ شَعِيرًا لِأَهْلِهِ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ يَقُولُ قَالَ عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ يَقُولُ ذَلِكَ مِرَارًا مَا أَمْسَى عِنْدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَاعُ بُرٍّ وَلَا صَاعُ حَبٍّ وَإِنَّ عِنْدَهُ تِسْعَ نِسْوَةٍ حِينَئِذٍ  

nasai-kubra:6159Ismāʿīl b. Masʿūd > Khālid > Hishām > Qatādah > Anas b. Mālik

"He put his armor in pledge for that with a Jew in Al-Madinah, and he took some barley from him for his family. (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4610)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦١٥٩أَخْبَرَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَنَسُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ

أَنَّهُ مَشَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ قَالَ وَلَقَدْ رَهَنَ دِرْعَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَأَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَعِيرًا لِأَهْلِهِ  

bayhaqi:11194Abū ʿAmr al-Adīb > Abū Bakr al-Ismāʿīlī > Abū Yaʿlá > Abū Mūsá Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > Abū ʿĀmir al-ʿAqadī > Hishām > Qatādah > Anas

[Machine] He walked to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with a loaf of barley bread and a container filled with dates. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had pledged his armor to a Jew in Medina, so he took some barley to his family. One morning, I heard him say, "The family of Muhammad had nothing to eat today, not even a sa' of dates or a sa' of barley, while I have nine wives." Shaiban bin AbdulRahman narrated this hadith from Qatadah, and mentioned that the incident took place in Medina.  

البيهقي:١١١٩٤أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَمْرٍو الْأَدِيبُ ثنا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الْإِسْمَاعِيلِيُّ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو يَعْلَى ثنا أَبُو مُوسَى مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى ثنا أَبُو عَامِرٍ الْعَقَدِيُّ ثنا هِشَامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ

أَنَّهُ مَشَى إِلَى رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ بِخُبْزِ شَعِيرٍ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ قَالَ وَقَدْ رَهَنَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ دِرْعًا لَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَأَخَذَ بِهِ شَعِيرًا لِأَهْلِهِ وَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ ذَاتَ غَدَاةٍ يَقُولُ مَا أَصْبَحَ عِنْدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَاعُ تَمْرٍ وَلَا صَاعُ شَعِيرٍ وَإِنَّ عِنْدَهُ لَتِسْعَ نِسْوَةٍ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَرَوَاهُ شَيْبَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ وَذَكَرَ فِيهِ قَوْلَهُ بِالْمَدِينَةِ  

bayhaqi:11195Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. ʿUbaydullāh al-Ḥurfī > Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh al-Shāfiʿī > Isḥāq b. al-Ḥasan b. Maymūn al-Ḥarrānī > al-Ḥasan b. Mūsá > Shaybān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > Qatādah > Anas

[Machine] The Prophet ﷺ was invited to have barley bread and fat soup. I heard him one morning saying, "By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, the family of Muhammad did not have a sa' of wheat or dates in the morning. And indeed, on that day, he pledged his armor to a Jew in Medina for a sa' of barley, which was not enough for him or would not suffice him."  

البيهقي:١١١٩٥وَأَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْقَاسِمِ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ الْحُرْفِيُّ بِبَغْدَادَ أنبأ أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ الشَّافِعِيُّ ثنا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مَيْمُونٍ الْحَرَّانِيُّ ثنا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ مُوسَى ثنا شَيْبَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنْ أَنَسٍ قَالَ

دُعِيَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ إِلَى خُبْزِ الشَّعِيرِ وَإِهَالَةٍ سَنِخَةٍ وَلَقَدْ سَمِعْتُهُ ذَاتَ غَدَاةٍ يَقُولُ وَالَّذِي نَفْسُ مُحَمَّدٍ بِيَدِهِ مَا أَصْبَحَ عِنْدَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ صَاعُ حَبٍّ وَلَا صَاعُ تَمْرٍ وَإِنَّ لَهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ تِسْعَ نِسْوَةٍ وَلَقَدْ رَهَنَ يَوْمَئِذٍ دِرْعًا لَهُ عِنْدَ يَهُودِيٍّ بِالْمَدِينَةِ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ صَاعًا مَا وَجَدَ مَا يَكْفِيهِ أَوْ قَالَ مَا يَفْتَكُّهُ