Sahih al-Bukhari 3581

Translation

The companions of Suffa were poor people. The Prophet ﷺ once said, "Whoever has food enough for two persons, should take a third one (from among them), and whoever has food enough for four persons, should take a fifth or a sixth (or said something similar)." Abu Bakr brought three persons while the Prophet ﷺ took ten. And Abu Bakr with his three family member (who were I, my father and my mother) (the sub-narrator is in doubt whether ʿAbdur-Rahman said, "My wife and my servant who was common for both my house and Abu Bakr's house.") Abu Bakr took his supper with the Prophet ﷺ and stayed there till he offered the ʿIsha' prayers. He returned and stayed till Messenger of Allah ﷺ took his supper. After a part of the night had passed, he returned to his house. His wife said to him, "What has detained you from your guests?" He said, "Have you served supper to them?" She said, "They refused to take supper until you come. They (i.e. some members of the household) presented the meal to them but they refused (to eat)" I went to hide myself and he said, "O Ghunthar!" He invoked Allah to cause my ears to be cut and he rebuked me. He then said (to them): Please eat!" and added, I will never eat the meal." By Allah, whenever we took a handful of the meal, the meal grew from underneath more than that handful till everybody ate to his satisfaction; yet the remaining food was more than the original meal. Abu Bakr saw that the food was as much or more than the original amount. He called his wife, "O sister of Bani Firas!" She said, "O pleasure of my eyes. The food has been tripled in quantity." Abu Bakr then started eating thereof and said, "It (i.e. my oath not to eat) was because of Sa all." He took a handful from it, and carried the rest to the Prophet. So that food was with the Prophet ﷺ. There was a treaty between us and some people, and when the period of that treaty had elapsed, he divided US into twelve groups, each being headed by a man. Allah knows how many men were under the command of each leader. Anyhow, the Prophet ﷺ surely sent a leader with each group. Then all of them ate of that meal.

Notes

• وَغَيْرُهُ يَقُولُ فَعَرَفْنَا مِنْ الْعِرَافَةِ

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Misykatul Mashabih 5946وَعَن عبد الرَّحْمَن بن أبي بكر إِنَّ أَصْحَابَ الصُّفَّةِ كَانُوا أُنَاسًا فَقُرَاءَ وَإِنَّ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «مَنْ كَانَ عِنْده طَعَام اثْنَيْنِ فليذهب بثالث وَإِن كَانَ عِنْدَهُ طَعَامُ أَرْبَعَةٍ فَلْي

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   embraced Islam late, shortly before the Conquest; took part in al-Yamāmah and the conquestsd. 53 AH, or: 54 AH, or: 55 AH, or: 56 AH, or: 58 AH
   عَبْد الرَّحْمَن بْن أَبِي بَكْر الصِّدِّيقتأخر إسلامه إلى قبيل الفتح ، وشهد اليمامة والفتوح
   حدثه
2. 2
   Abū ʿUthmān al-Nahdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), firmly reliable (thabt), devout (ʿābid)d. 75 AH, or 81 AH, or 95 AH, or 100 AH, or shortly after it, also said: after the year 95 AH
   أَبُو عُثْمَانَثقة ثبت عابد
   حدثنا
3. 3
   Sulaymān b. Ṭarkhān

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid)d. 143 AH, or 144 AH
   أَبِيهِثقة عابد
   عن
4. 4
   Muʿtamir

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 186 AH, or: 187 AH, or: 188 AH
   مُعْتَمِرٌثقة
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Mūsā b. Ismāʿīl

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 223 AH, or 226 AH
   مُوسَى بْنُ إِسْمَاعِيلَثقة ثبت
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Bukhārī

   a mountain of memorization and the leader of the world in the comprehension of hadith (jabal al-ḥifẓ wa-imām al-dunyā fī fiqh al-ḥadīth)d. 256 AH
   الْبُخَارِيُّجبل الحفظ وإمام الدنيا في فقه الحديث

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Mishkat al-Masabih 5946