Hadith #357
Arabic Text
حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ سَمِعَ عَمْرٌو جَابِرًا يَقُولُ بَعَثَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي ثَلَاثِ مِائَةِ رَاكِبٍ أَمِيرُنَا أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ بْنُ الْجَرَّا
حِ فَأَقَمْنَا عَلَى السَّاحِلِ حَتَّى فَنِيَ زَادُنَا حَتَّى أَكَلْنَا الْخَبَطَ ثُمَّ إِنَّ الْبَحْرَ أَلْقَى دَابَّةً يُقَالُ لَهَا الْعَنْبَرُ فَأَكَلْنَا مِنْهُ نِصْفَ شَهْرٍ حَتَّى صَلَحَتْ أَجْسَامُنَا فَأَخَذَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ ضِلَعًا مِنْ أَضْلَاعِهِ فَنَصَبَهُ وَنَظَرَ إِلَى أَطْوَلِ بَعِيرٍ فَجَازَ تَحْتَهُ وَكَانَ رَجُلٌ يَجْزُرُ ثَلَاثَةَ جُزُرٍ ثُمَّ ثَلَاثَةَ جُزُرٍ ثُمَّ ثَلَاثَةَ جُزُرٍ فَنَهَاهُ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ
Isnad Chain
سفيان
عمرو جابرا يقول بعثنا رسول الله
English Translation
Sufyan narrated to us, 'Amr heard Jabir (رضي الله عنهما) say: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent us, three hundred riders, with Abu 'Ubaydah ibn al-Jarrah as our commander. We stayed on the coast until our provisions ran out, until we ate the khabat [leaves of a desert tree]. So the army was called the Army of al-Khabat. Then the sea cast for us a whale, and we ate from it for half a month and rubbed our bodies with its fat until our bodies recovered. Abu 'Ubaydah took one of its ribs and set it up, and a rider on a camel passed beneath it.
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Quran References
Reference: Musnad Ahmad, Book 28, Hadith 357
Sunnah.com ref: Musnad Ahmad 13795
Islam.wiki ID: IWH-50185