Volume 7 Book 65 Hadith 315

Volume 7, Book 65, Number 315:
Narrated Sahl bin Sad:
We used to be happy on Fridays, for there was an old lady who used to pull out the roots of Silq
and put it in a cooking pot with some barley. When we had finished the prayer, we would visit her
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and she would present that dish before us. So we used to be happy on Fridays because of that, and we
never used to take our meals or have a mid-day nap except after the Friday prayer. By Allah, that
meal contained no fat.