Riyad as-Salihin
Riyad as-Salihin 513
Excellence of Simple Living and being Content with Little
Arabic hadith text
وعن ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما قال : كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يبيت الليالي المتتابعه طاويا، وأهله لايجدون عشاء ، وكان أكثر خبزهم خبز الشعير . ((رواه الترمذي وقال : حديث حسن صحيح)).
Translation
Ibn 'Abbas (May Allah be pleased with them) reported
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went to bed hungry for several successive nights, nor did his family have a thing for supper for many consecutive nights; and their bread was mostly of barley.[At- Tirmidhi, who classified it as Hadith Hasan Sahih].