(And how many an animal there is that beareth not its own provision!) [29:60]. Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tamimi informed us> Abu Muhammad ibn Hayyan> Ahmad ibn Ja‘far al-Jamal> ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad al-Bajali> Yazid ibn Harun> Hajjaj ibn Minhal> al-Zuhri (who is ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn ‘Ata’)> ‘Ata’> Ibn ‘Umar who said: “We went out with the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, and walked with him until he entered one of the fields of the Helpers and started picking dates and eating them. He said: ‘O Ibn ‘Umar, why do you not eat?’ I said: ‘I do not feel like it, O Messenger of Allah!’ He said: ‘As for me, I do feel like it; this is the fourth morning in which I did not taste any food. And if I wish, I can pray to my Lord to grant me the like of the kingdoms of Chosroes and the Caesar. What will you do then, O Ibn ‘Umar, when you live among people who store their provision for a year and when certainty is weakened?’ By Allah, we did not leave [our place] until this verse was revealed (And how many an animal there is that beareth not its own provision! Allah provideth for it and for you. He is the Hearer, the Knower)”.
Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi , trans. Mokrane Guezzou
