Sahih al-Bukhari
Sahih al-Bukhari 2983
حَدَّثَنَا صَدَقَةُ بْنُ الْفَضْلِ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدَةُ، عَنْ هِشَامٍ، عَنْ وَهْبِ بْنِ كَيْسَانَ، عَنْ جَابِرٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ خَرَجْنَا وَنَحْنُ ثَلاَثُمِائَةٍ نَحْمِلُ زَادَنَا عَلَى رِقَابِنَا، فَفَنِيَ زَادُنَا، حَتَّى كَانَ الرَّجُلُ مِنَّا يَأْكُلُ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ تَمْرَةً. قَالَ رَجُلٌ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، وَأَيْنَ كَانَتِ التَّمْرَةُ تَقَعُ مِنَ الرَّجُلِ قَالَ لَقَدْ وَجَدْنَا فَقْدَهَا حِينَ فَقَدْنَاهَا، حَتَّى أَتَيْنَا الْبَحْرَ فَإِذَا حُوتٌ قَدْ قَذَفَهُ الْبَحْرُ، فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهَا ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ يَوْمًا مَا أَحْبَبْنَا.
Sadaqa ibn al-Fadl informed us; 'Abda informed us from Hisham, from Wahb ibn Kaysan, from Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: We set out, three hundred of us, carrying our provisions on our backs. Our provisions ran out, until each man among us was eating one date a day. A man said, ‘Abu 'Abdullah, what did one date amount to for a man?’ He replied, ‘We felt the loss of even that when we had none, until we reached the sea. There was a fish that the sea had cast ashore, and we ate from it for eighteen days, as much as we wished.’