We came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, four hundred and forty of us, asking him for food. The Prophet ﷺ said to Umar, "Get up and give them something."Umar said, "Messenger of Allah, I have nothing except what will sustain me and the children through the summer." Waki explained that "qayz" in the speech of the Arabs refers to four months.The Prophet ﷺ said, "Get up and give them."Umar replied, "Messenger of Allah, I hear and obey."So Umar got up and we got up with him. He took us up to a chamber of his, drew the key from his waistband, and opened the door. Dukayn said, there in the chamber was a heap of dates resembling a young camel crouching down.Umar said, "Help yourselves."Each man among us took as much as he needed. Then I turned around, and I was among the last of them, and it was as though we had not taken a single date from it.
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أتينا رسول الله ﷺ ونحن أربعون وأربع مائة نسأله الطعام فقال النبي ﷺ لعمر قم فأعطهم قال يا رسول الله ما عندي إلا ما يقيظني والصبية قال وكيع القيظ في كلام العرب أربعة أشهر قال قم فأعطهم قال عمر يا رسول الله سمعا وطاعة قال فقام عمر وقمنا معه فصعد بنا إلى غرفة له فأخرج المفتاح من حجزته ففتح الباب قال دكين فإذا في الغرفة من التمر شبيه بالفصيل الرابض قال شأنكم قال فأخذ كل رجل منا حاجته ما شاء قال ثم التفت وإني لمن آخرهم وكأنا لم نرزأ منه تمرة
Its isnad is sahih. Qays is Ibn Abu Hazim, the trustworthy, well-known Tabii. The hadith was narrated by Abu Shaykh in Akhlaq al-Nabi ﷺ p. 78, and by Bayhaqi in Dalail 5/367. Haythami said in 8/304, "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it, and their narrators are the narrators of the Sahih."(2) Al-Hujzah is the middle of a person's body, the place where his waistband is tied, that is, the belt.