He walked to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ carrying barley bread and rancid fat. He had pawned his armor with a Jewish man and taken some barley for his family. One day I heard him say, and Abdul-Samad said he repeated this several times, "Not a single saa of wheat nor a saa of grain has remained with the family of Muhammad by nightfall," and at that time he had nine wives.
حدثنا روح وعبد الصمد قالا حدثنا هشام بن أبي عبد الله عن قتادة
أنه مشى إلى رسول الله ﷺ بخبز شعير وإهالة سنخة ولقد رهن درعا له عند يهودي فأخذ شعيرا لأهله ولقد سمعته ذات يوم يقول قال عبد الصمد يقول ذلك مرارا ما أمسى عند آل محمد صاع بر ولا صاع حب وإن عنده تسع نسوة حينئذ