تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 13.48.2

13.48.2

His custom was to feed his companions bread and beans in the morning, and the bakers and bean-sellers would race each other to his hospice. He would take from them as much as would suffice the poor, and say to the one he had taken it from, "Sit down," until he received the first thing that God opened to him that day, whether little or much.