Sahih al-Bukhari 5494

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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us: Sufyān informed us, from ʿAmr, who said: I heard Jābir say: “The Prophet ﷺ sent us—three hundred riders—and Abū ʿUbaydah was our commander, to watch for a Quraysh caravan. Severe hunger struck us, until we ate the leaves of al-khabt. For this reason, the expedition was called the Army of al-Khabt. Then the sea cast up a fish called al-ʿAnbar. We ate from it for half a month and rubbed ourselves with its fat until our bodies recovered. Abū ʿUbaydah took one of its ribs and stood it upright, and a rider passed beneath it. There was a man among us who, when the hunger became severe, slaughtered three camels, then another three, until Abū ʿUbaydah stopped him.”