 by being stingy with food. so he spoke one day and he kept inserting one word into another until he included an apology for that in his speech. among the things he used as evidence in his intense feeling of seeing the food being eaten and his aversion to it was that he said khalid the emaciated one in the preislamic era looked one day at people eating and at camels chewing the cud and he said to his companions
بالبخل على الطعام. فتكلم يوما، فما زال يدخل كلاما في كلام، حتى أدخل الإعتذار من ذلك في عرض كلامه. فكان مما احتج به، في شدة رؤية الإكيل عليه، وفي نفوره منه، أن قال نظر خالد المهزول في الجاهلية، يوما، إلى ناس يأكلون، وإلى إبل تجتر، فقال لأصحابه