Riyad as-Salihin: Book 0, Hadith 472
An-Nu’man bin Bashir (May Allah be pleased with them) reported: ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab (May Allah be pleased with him) spoke at length regarding the worldly prosperity that people had achieved and said: “I saw that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would pass his days in hunger and could not get even degraded dates to fill his stomach”..
وعن النعمان بن بشير، رضي الله عنهما، قال: ذكر عمر ابن الخطاب، رضي الله عنه، ما أصاب الناس من الدنيا، فقال: لقد رأيت رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، يظل اليوم يتلوى ما يجد من الدقل ما يملأ به بطنه. ((رواه مسلم)).
الدقل بفتح الدال المهملة والقاف: ردئ التمر.
الدقل بفتح الدال المهملة والقاف: ردئ التمر.
Riyad as-Salihin: Book 0, Hadith 472
The above hadith is from the Riyad as-Salihin collection of hadiths. Riyad as-Salihin, The Gardens of the Righteous is a collection of hadith compiled by Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi in the 12th century. The work was composed over a 44 year period and consists of around 1900 hadith split into 20 books.
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For more Hadith in Book 0: The Book of Miscellany