Takhrij Hadith 896: "A poor man asked her…"

A poor man asked her for food while she was fasting, and there was nothing in her house except a single loaf of bread. She said to one of her maidservants: “Give it to him”. The maidservant said: “Then you will have nothing with which to break your fast”. She replied: “Give it to him”. So she did. When evening came, a household—or a person who had never given us a gift —sent us a slaughtered sheep wrapped in its bread coating. Then ‘Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, called me and said: “Eat from this. This is better than your loaf of bread”.