Ummu Malik’s Ghee
Imam Muslim relates that, Jabir said that Umm Malik used to always give the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) ghee as a present.
Her sons used to come and ask her for something to eat bread with, she never used to find anything other than the ghee she usually presents to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) (which never got finished).
So that day she checked and estimated how much of ghee was left; from then on, it decreased
as she used it. Later she went to the Prophet and informed him what happened.
He (P.B.U.H.) said to her,
“If you had left it without checking its quantity, you would have always been having ghee”.
In another version, Imam Muslim relates that Jabir said: A man came to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) asking for food, so he gave him a certain quantity of barley.
They continued eating from the barley, him, his wife and their guests till the day he weighed what was remaining. He then went and told the Prophet (P.B.U.H.).
The Prophet said to him,
“If you had not weighed it, you would have still been eating from it
The Prophet’s (P.B.U.H.) miracle of increasing food
Imam Al-Bukhari relates that Anas Ibn Malik said Abu Talha said to Ummu Sulaim, that
he heard the voice of the Prophet coming as a guest and knew he was hungry. He then asked his
wife if there was something to eat.
She replied: Yes, There is some barley.
She put bread on my hands then sent me to go and call the Prophet. I went and found him sitting in
the mosque with some people. The Prophet asked me whether Abu Talha had sent me.
I said: Yes.
He said, “with food?”
I said:Yes.
He then said to the people that were seating with him, “Stand up and let us go”
I went along with them until we reached Abu Talha’s house. I informed Abu Talha what happened. Then Abu Talha said to Ummu Sulaim:
The Prophet has come but with people and we do not have enough food for all of them.
Umm Sulaim said: Allah and His Messenger know best.
So Abu Talha went and welcomed the Prophet (P.B.U.H.).
The Prophet said, “Bring what you have O Umm Sulaim”.
Umm Sulaim then brought bread and stew prepared from ghee. He (P.B.U.H.) prayed for the food, then called a group of ten from the people he came with to eat from it, they ate to their fill.
He then called another group of ten from them and they also ate till they were satisfied, he continued similarly until they all ate and were satisfied.
These people were seventy to eighty men in number.
In another version, Imam Ahmad relates that Yunus Ibn Muhammad relates that Anas Ibn
Malik said that Umm Salim sent me to the Prophet (P.B.U.H.), inviting him for lunch. I went
and told him and he said:
“I am coming together with the people with me”.
I said: Yes.
He said to the people he was with, “Proceed with me .
I went back to Umm Sulaim surprised by the number of people coming with the Prophet
and she asked:
What have you done O Anas?
The Prophet entered Umm Sulaim’s house and asked if there was ghee.
She said: Yes, there is some. And she brought him a leather bag containing ghee.
He then opened the bag and said:
“In the name of Allah, O Allah glorify your blessings in it”.
The Prophet took a portion of the ghee and from it ate eighty-something men, and still some ghee was remaining.
He gave it back to Umm Sulaim and told her to feed her family and neighbours.
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