2 of 4 · Shawwal 5 AH · 627 CE · The Trench, Madinah
Jabir ibn 'Abdullah رضي الله عنه
The Feast at the Trench
During the digging of the trench, Jabir saw that the Prophet ﷺ had tied a stone against his stomach from hunger. He went home and told his wife, who had a small amount of barley and a young goat. He slaughtered it and she baked the barley.
He quietly invited the Prophet ﷺ to come with one or two others. But the Prophet ﷺ called out to all those digging, and about a thousand came. Jabir's wife was alarmed, but the Prophet ﷺ told them to leave the pot and the bread as they were. He prayed over them, broke the bread and ladled the meat out, and everyone ate and left, while the pot was still full (Sahih al-Bukhari 4101; Sahih Muslim 2039).
Jabir counted this as one of the miracles that he saw with his own eyes.
Sharing what little one has, with trust in Allah, opens the door to a blessing beyond reckoning.
What small thing could you share today without waiting until you have more?
- Sahih al-Bukhari 4101 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
- Sahih Muslim 2039Sahih · in the two Sahihs
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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