Ibn Ishaq محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار‎ · Chapters on Food

“I do not know of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) ever seeing a roasted sheep* until he met Allah.”

“My mother was trying to fatten me up when she wanted to send me to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (when she got married), but nothing worked until I ate cucumbers with dates; then I grew plump like the best kind of plump.”