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Narrated Jabir:The Prophet (ﷺ) sent us as an army unit of three hundred warriors under the command of Abu 'Ubaida to ambush a caravan of the Quraish. But we were struck with such severe hunger that we ate the Khabat (desert bushes), so our army was called the Army of the Khabat. Then the sea threw a huge fish called Al-`Anbar and we ate of it for half a month and rubbed our bodies with its fat till our bodies became healthy. Then Abu Ubaida took one of its ribs and fixed it over the ground and a rider passed underneath it. There was a man amongst us who slaughtered three camels when hunger became severe, and he slaughtered three more, but after that Abu 'Ubaida forbade him to do so

حدثنا عبد الله بن محمد، اخبرنا سفيان، عن عمرو، قال سمعت جابرا، يقول بعثنا النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ثلاثماية راكب واميرنا ابو عبيدة نرصد عيرا لقريش فاصابنا جوع شديد حتى اكلنا الخبط، فسمي جيش الخبط والقى البحر حوتا يقال له العنبر فاكلنا نصف شهر وادهنا بودكه حتى صلحت اجسامنا قال فاخذ ابو عبيدة ضلعا من اضلاعه فنصبه فمر الراكب تحته، وكان فينا رجل فلما اشتد الجوع نحر ثلاث جزاير، ثم ثلاث جزاير، ثم نهاه ابو عبيدة