كُنَّا عِنْدَ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَعَلَيْهِ ثَوْبَانِ مُمَشَّقَانِ مِنْ كَتَّانٍ فَتَمَخَّطَ فَقَالَ بَخْ بَخْ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ يَتَمَخَّطُ فِي الْكَتَّانِ، لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي وَإِنِّي لأَخِرُّ فِيمَا بَيْنَ مِنْبَرِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِلَى حُجْرَةِ عَائِشَةَ مَغْشِيًّا عَلَىَّ، فَيَجِيءُ الْجَائِي فَيَضَعُ رِجْلَهُ عَلَى عُنُقِي، وَيُرَى أَنِّي مَجْنُونٌ، وَمَا بِي مِنْ جُنُونٍ، مَا بِي إِلاَّ الْجُوعُ.
We were with Abu Huraira while he was wearing two linen garments dyed with red clay. He cleanedhis nose with his garment, saying, "Bravo! Bravo! Abu Huraira is cleaning his nose with linen! Therecame a time when I would fall senseless between the pulpit of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and `Aisha's dwellingwhereupon a passerby would come and put his foot on my neck, considering me a mad man, but infact, I had no madness, I suffered nothing but hunger."