 he came to his estate to take a walk and with him were five of his confidants and they had brought him food for five hundred. it was too much for him to eat with them and his hunger was intense. so he sat on a vegetable bench and began to pick out a radish and folded its stalk in its skin then ate it without washing it out of the brunt of hunger. and he said to one of them who was the closest of the five to him in sitting if these heavy ones were gone we would eat.
وأتى ضيعة له يتنزه اليها، ومعه خمسة رجال من خاصته، وقد حملوا معه طعام خمسمائة. وثقل عليه أن يأكلوا معه؛ واشتد جوعه؛ فجلس على مشارة ٣ بقل، فأقبل ينتزع الفجلة، فيطوي جزرتها بعرقها، ثم يأكلها من غير أن تغسل، من كلب ٤ الجوع، ويقول لواحد منهم كان أقرب الخمسة إليه مجلسا لو قد ذهب هؤلاء الثقلاء لقد أكلنا .