2.6.5.3 - Qayyumiyya

After he and the rest of those present had eaten their fill, Abu Muhammad said, If you like, I will eat the food for him here and he will feel sated wherever he is. When they heard this they expressed doubts as to the possibility of such a thing, so Abu Marwan urged him to go ahead and perform what he had promised. After invoking God’s Name, he began to eat as if he had had nothing at all. When he had finished he said, Our absent friend is now so sated that, were he to eat any more, he would die. The people were amazed at this and resolved not to leave the house until the man for whom he had eaten should return. In the late evening he returned and, after the people had made him welcome, they remarked on the fact that he still had with him the provisions he had taken with him that morning. Then the man explained: My brothers, a strange thing happened to me today. When I arrived at the village and sat down, I suddenly had the sensation of curdled milk and honey being poured down my throat and settling in my stomach until I was so full I would have died had I had any more of it. I am still full and belching even now. The people were amazed and rejoiced that they had seen such a man.

He himself told me how it had happened. I was also told about it by the person who had been sated in this way, while I was at the house of Abdullah al-Shakkaz al-Baghi with my companion Abdullah Badr al-Habashi and a group of people. Al-Habashi said regretfully, For myself, I have not met one like this Abdullah al-Mawriiri.