(193) It is narrated about Ayesha that she said to Urwah: “My nephew ! We [the members of the Prophet's family] [spent our days thus that] sometimes we saw three successive moons [i.e., full two months elapsed] and oven was not lighted in our houses.” [Urwah relates that, upon it, he asked her], “How did you remain alive, then?” Ayesha replied, “[We lived] on dates and water. Indeed, there were a few Christian neighbours of the Prophet who had some milch cattle. They [occasionally] sent him milk as a gift and he used to give some of it to us also.”
-Bukhari and Muslim