Sahih Bukhari
Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad)
Volume: 004 / Book Number: 052 / Hadith Number: 226
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."