Narrated Wahb bin Kaisan: Jabir bin `Abdullah said, We set out, and we were three-hundred men carrying our journey-food on our shoulders. Then we began to eat a single date each per day. A man asked (Jabir), O Abu `Abdullah! How could a person be satisfied with a single date? Jabir replied, We realized the value of that one date when we could not even have that much till we reached the sea-shore, when all of a sudden we saw a huge fish cast by the sea. So, we ate of it as much as we wished for eighteen days.