They said, "O Musa, how are we to obtain its water here? Where is the food?" So Allah the Almighty sent down the Manna upon them, and it would fall upon the tree like ginger.

The Fifth Aspect:

8395 - Abu Zur'ah told us, Safwan told us, al-Walid told us, Sa'id ibn Bashir informed me, from Qatadah regarding Allah's saying: "And We sent down upon them the Manna"—he said: It would fall upon them in their camping grounds like the falling of snow, whiter than milk and sweeter than honey. It would fall upon them from the break of dawn until the rising of the sun.

8396 - Abu 'Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Hammad al-Tahrani informed us in what he wrote to me, Isma'il ibn 'Abd al-Karim told us, 'Abd al-Samad ibn Ma'qil told me that he heard Wahb ibn Munabbih, and he was asked what the Manna was, and he said: It is thin bread like millet or like refined flour.

[The Sixth Aspect:]

8397 - My father told us, Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Dashtaki told us, 'Abd Allah ibn Abi Ja'far told us, from his father, from al-Rabi' ibn Anas who said: The Manna was a drink that would descend upon them like honey, and they would mix it with water then drink it.

His saying, the Almighty: "And the Salwa (quail)"

[The First Aspect]

8398 - al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sabah told us, 'Abd al-Samad ibn 'Abd al-Warith told us, Qurrah ibn Khalid told us, from Jahdam, from Ibn 'Abbas who said: The Salwa is the quail (al-summani).

8399 - Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn Yazid al-Muqri' told us, Sufyan told us, from 'Amr ibn Dinar, from Ibn Munabbih who said: The Children of Israel asked Musa for meat, so Allah the Almighty said: "I shall surely feed them from the least meat known on earth." So He sent a wind upon them, and it drove the Salwa—which is the quail—to their dwellings, a mile by a mile, the height of a spear in the sky. So they stored it for the morrow, and the meat became putrid.

It was narrated from Mujahid, al-Sha'bi, al-Dahhak, and al-Rabi' ibn Anas similar to what Jahdam narrated from Ibn 'Abbas.