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Abū ʿUthmān said that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abū Bakr (r.a) narrated: ‘The Aṣhāb al-Ṣuffah were poor people and the Prophet (sa) said: “Whoever has food for two should take [with him] a third. And if he has food for four, he should take [with him] a fifth or he said a sixth.” Abū Bakr (r.a) brought three people and the Prophet (sa) set forth with ten. It was my father, my mother and I.’ He [Abū ʿUthmān] mentions that he did not know whether he [ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (r.a)] had said: “And my wife and a servant who served in our house and the house of Abū Bakr.” ‘Abū Bakr (r.a) had supper with the Prophet (sa) and then remained there until the ʿIshāʾ Prayer was offered. Then he went back and stayed there until the Prophet (sa) had taken his supper. When Abū Bakr (r.a) came home, after as much of the night had passed as Allāh willed, his wife asked him: “What held you back from your guests?” Or she said: “Your guest”. He responded: “Have you not served them their supper?” She said: “They refused to eat until you came. They were offered it but they declined”.’ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (r.a) further relates: ‘I went away and hid myself and Abū Bakr (r.a) said: “O foolish one!” And he reprimanded me in similar fashion. He said: “Eat it and let it not prove agreeable to you”, and he swore by God that he would not eat it at all. By Allāh, whenever we took a morsel, more than its equal increased from underneath, until everyone was satiated, and yet the food had increased in quantity to more than what it was before. Abū Bakr (r.a) looked at it and it was the same or more than it had been beforehand. So he said to his wife: “O sister of Banū Firās, what is this?” She replied: “By the delight of my eyes! It is now three times more than it was before.” Abū Bakr (r.a) ate from it and said referring to his oath: “It was only from satan”, then he ate a morsel of it and carried it to the Prophet (sa) where it remained with him until the morning. There was a treaty between us and some people, and its term had expired, so we separated 12 people. Each one of those men had some people with him. Allāh alone knows how many were with each man.’ ‘They all ate of it’, or as ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (r.a) reported.