أَوْ إِطْعَٰمٌۭ فِى يَوْمٍۢ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍۢ
Aw it'aamun fee yawmin zee masghabah
Or feeding on a day of severe hunger
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or to give food on a day of hunger
Related Hadiths
“I heard ‘Umar bin
Khattab say: ‘I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) writhing with
hunger
during the day, and he could not even find the worst of dates
with
which to fill his stomach.’”
Never could the family of Muhammad (ﷺ) (afford to eat) the bread of wheat for two days successively. Even (out of these two days) one (was such wherein he could get) only a date.
" We could not afford to eat to the fill even dates and water."
A family which has no dates will be hungry.
A family which has dates will not be hungry.
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