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It was narrated that 'Amr said:"I heard Jabir say: 'The Messenger of Allah sent us, three hundred riders led by Abu 'Ubaidah bin al-Jarrah, to lie in wait for the caravan of the Quraish. We stayed on the coast and became very hungry, so much so that we ate Khabat. Then the sea cast ashore a beast called (Al-'Anbar), and we ate from it for half a month, and daubed our bodies with its fat, and our health was restored. Abu 'Ubaidah took one it its ribs and looked for the tallest camel and the tallest man in the army, and he passed beneath it. Then they got hungry again and a man slaughtered three camels, then they got hungry and a man slaughtered three camels, then they got hungry and a man slaughtered three camels, then they got hungry and a man slaughtered three camels. Then Abu 'Ubaidah told him not to do that." (One of the narrators) Sufyan said: "Abu Az-Zubair said, narrating from Jabir: "We asked the Prophet and he said: 'Do you have anything left of it?"' he said; "We took out, such-and -such an amount of a fat from its (the whale's) eyes, and four men could fit into its eye socket. Abu 'Ubaidah had a sack of dates and he used to give them out by the handful, then he started to give one date at a time, and when we ran out of dates it became very difficult for us

اخبرنا محمد بن منصور، عن سفيان، عن عمرو، قال سمعت جابرا، يقول بعثنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ثلاثماية راكب اميرنا ابو عبيدة بن الجراح نرصد عير قريش فاقمنا بالساحل فاصابنا جوع شديد حتى اكلنا الخبط - قال - فالقى البحر دابة يقال لها العنبر فاكلنا منه نصف شهر وادهنا من ودكه فثابت اجسامنا واخذ ابو عبيدة ضلعا من اضلاعه فنظر الى اطول جمل واطول رجل في الجيش فمر تحته ثم جاعوا فنحر رجل ثلاث جزاير ثم جاعوا فنحر رجل ثلاث جزاير ثم جاعوا فنحر رجل ثلاث جزاير ثم نهاه ابو عبيدة . قال سفيان قال ابو الزبير عن جابر فسالنا النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقال " هل معكم منه شىء " . قال فاخرجنا من عينيه كذا وكذا قلة من ودك ونزل في حجاج عينه اربعة نفر وكان مع ابي عبيدة جراب فيه تمر فكان يعطينا القبضة ثم صار الى التمرة فلما فقدناها وجدنا فقدها