1. Hazrat Ali (a.s.) has said that he went to the market and bought meat, flour of one Dirham each and brought home to Fatima Zahra (a.s.), the Prophet (a.s)’s Daughter, asking her to prepare the food that the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) was to join them for the meal. Then he went to the Prophet (a.s) who was busy praying for provision against hunger of the people!
Hazrat Ali (a.s.) said, “ O Prophet of Allah! The food is ready. Please do accompany me to have your meal.” He took the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) home. The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) told to his daughter, “ Bring the food to me.” When the food was laid in front of him, he covered it with a sheet of cloth and prayed to Allah.
Then he took out nine bowls of the soup and nine naans and sent to his wives. Then he asked Fatima (a.s.), her husband, Ali (a.s.) and the children to eat out of the food. He then sent portions to the neighbors and sufficient quantity of food was left thereafter to suffice for many days.
2. Jabir bin Abdallah Ansari says that on the day of the Battle of Khandaq (the trench), they were busy digging the trench when the group felt very hungry and the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) was extremely famished as well. Jabir rushed to his house and asked his wife to prepare some food for the Prophet (s.a.w.a.). She got ready some cooked meat and a few naans (pieces of bread ).
Jabir then went to the Prophet (s.a.w.a.) and requested him to come to his house to partake of the food. The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked the entire group of the companions to accompany him to Jabir’s house to have food. Jabir was very worried that he would face embarrassment because of grossly insufficient food available at his place for the group.
He approached his wife and said, “ There are so many guests with us, how can we serve all of them?” His wife asked him, “ Did you invite them or the Prophet (a.s.) has himself asked them to join him?” Jabir said, “ The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) himself has asked the persons to come.” His wife, who was a pious lady, said, “ then why do you worry! The Prophet (a.s) knows better than you!” The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) then asked Jabir about the quantity of food available at the time. Jabir informed that he had some meat and a few naans. The Prophet (s.a.w.a.) asked Jabir to lay the food in a dish and put a sheet of cloth over it. Then take out one naan and some meat and distribute to each individual. Jabir complied. To Jabir’s surprise all the 3,000 troops were served with the food and even some food remained thereafter!
3. During another journey, the Prophet (s.a.w.a.)’s party ran out of food supplies. The companions were restless with hunger. He asked if anyone had any food left, should bring it to him. Everyone put forth whatever was left with him. The total quantity was about 500 grams of dates. He put all that in a container, and offered a prayer. The dates increased so much in quantity that the entire group had sufficient to eat till they arrived at Medina.
(Ainul Hayat of Allamah Mohammad Baqir Majlisi, pg. 53 -54 published by Ansariyan Publications)
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