Zuhd

“OAllah, make the provision of the family of Muhammadsufficient forthem.”

“Thereis no rich man or poor man but he will wish on the Day ofResurrection that he had been given the bare minimum of provision.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘Whoeveramongyou wakes up physically healthy, feeling safe and secure withinhimself, with food for the day, it is as if he acquired the wholeworld.’”

“Lookatthose who are beneath you and do not look at those who are aboveyou,for it is more suitable that you should not consider as less theblessing of Allah.”

“Allah does not look at your forms or your wealth, ratherHelooks at your deeds and your hearts.”

“We, the family of Muhammad (ﷺ),would stay for a month during which no fire would be lit (forcooking)and we had only dates and water.”

“There would come amonth when no smoke was seen in any of the households of the familyof Muhammad (ﷺ).I said: "What did you eat?" She said: "The two black ones - dates and water." But we had neighbors among the Ansar, sincere neighbors, who had domestic sheep, and they used to send some of their milk to us. (One of the narrators) Muhammad said: "And they were nine households."

“I heard ‘Umar binKhattab say: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) writhing withhungerduring the day, and he could not even find the worst of dateswithwhich to fill his stomach.’”

“I heard the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) say several times: ‘By the One in Whose Hand is the soulofMuhammad, the family of Muhammad does not have a Sa’ of food grainsor a Sa’ of dates.’ And at that time he had nine wives.”

“The Messengerof Allah (ﷺ) said: ‘The family of Muhammad has only a Mudd offood,’or ‘The family of Muhammad does not have even a Mud offood.’”

“The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) came to us and we stayed for three nights without havinganything to eat.”

“One day some hot food wasbroughtto the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and he ate. Then when he hadfinished he said: ‘Praise is to Allah, no hot food has entered mystomach since such and such a time.’”

“The bed of the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) was made of leather, stuffed with fibers of date-palm trees.”

It wasnarrated from ‘Ata’ bin Sa’ib from his father, from ‘Ali thatthe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to ‘Ali and Fatimah, when theywerecovered with a Khamil belonging to them. And a Khamil is a whitevelvet made of wool. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) had given this tothem as a wedding gift, along with a pillow stuffed with Idhkhir* anda water skin.

“I entered upon the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)whenhe was (sitting) on a reed mat. I sat down and (saw that) he waswearing a waist wrap, and there was no other barrier between him andthe mat but his waist wrap, and the reed mat had made marks on hisside. And I saw a handful of barley, nearly a Sa’, and some acacialeaves, in a corner of the room, and a skin hanging up. My eyesflowedwith tears, and he said: ‘Why are you weeping, O son ofKhattab?’ Isaid: ‘O Prophet of Allah, why should I not weep?This mat has mademarks on your side, and this is all you haveaccumulated, I cannot seeanything other than what I see (here),while Chosroes and Caesar liveamong fruits and rivers. You are theProphet of Allah and His ChosenOne, and this is what you haveaccumulated.’ He said: ‘O son ofKhattab, does it not please you(to know) that (these things) are forus in the Hereafter and forthem in this world?’ He said: ‘Yes.’”

“The daughter of the Messenger ofAllah(ﷺ) was permitted to me as a bride, and our bed on the nightwhenshe was presented to me, was no more than the hide of a ram.”

“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) usedto enjoin charity, then one of us would go out and carry goods forothers until he earned a Mudd, but one of them nowadays has onehundred thousand (Dinar or Dirham).”Shaqiq said: "It was as if he was hinting that this was he himself."

“Utbah bin Ghazwan delivered asermon on the pulpit and said: ‘I saw myself the seventh of sevenwiththe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ), and we did not have any food toeatexcept the leaves of trees, until our gums hurt.’”

“Then the Prophet (ﷺ) gave me seven dates,one date for each man.”

“When the following was reveled: “Then on that Day youshall beasked about the delights (you indulged in, in this world)![102:8]Zubair said: ‘What delights shall we be asked about? It isonly thetwo black ones, dates and water.’ He said: ‘It is goingto happen.’”