Hadith 160

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ali Bin Ismail, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Jahm Bin Abu Jahma, from Mo’tab who said, ‘Abu Abdullah-asws said to me, and the prices had increased in Al-Medina: ‘How much food is there with us-asws? ’ I said, ‘With us is what would suffice you-asws for a month or more’. He-asws said: ‘Take it out and sell it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him-asws, ‘And there is no food in Al-Medina’. He-asws said: ‘Sell it’. When I had sold it, he-asws said: ‘Buy (food) along with the people day after day’. And he-asws said: ‘O Mo’tab! Make the daily provision for my-asws dependents to be half barley and half wheat, for Allah-azwj Knows that I-asws can feed them the wheat upon its own aspect, but I-asws love it that Allah-azwj should See me-asws that I-asws have managed the living in a good way’’. [188]