English translation
4100. Narrated Anas رضي الله عنه: Al-Muhājirūn (i.e., the emigrants) and the Anṣār were digging the trench around Al-Madīna and were carrying the earth on their backs while saying, "We are those who have given the Bai'a (pledge) to Muḥammad ﷺ for Islām as long as we live." The Prophet ﷺ said in reply to their saying, "O Allāh! There is no goodness except the goodness of the Hereafter; so please grant Your Blessing to the Anṣār and the emigrants." The people used to bring a handful of barley, and a meal used to be prepared thereof by cooking it with a cooking material (i.e., oil, fat and butter having a change in colour and smell) and it used to be presented to the people (i.e., workers) who were hungry, and it used to stick to their throats and had a nasty smell.
