Volume 9, Book 92, Number 425:
Narrated Muhammad:
We were with Abu Huraira while he was wearing two linen garments dyed with red clay. He
cleaned his nose with his garment, saying, “Bravo! Bravo! Abu Huraira is cleaning his nose with lin –
en! There came a time when I would fall senseless between the pulpit of Allah’s Apostle and ‘Aisha’s
dwelling whereupon a passerby would come and put his foot on my neck, considering me a mad
man, but in fact, I had no madness, I suffered nothing but hunger.”