Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah (RA) narrated that a man came and exclaimed, “0 Messenger of Allah (SAW) I am done for (and a failure)”. He asked, “What has caused that?” The man said, ‘1 have had intercourse with my wife during (the fast of) Ramadan”. He asked, “Can you set a slave free?” The man said, “No”. He asked, “Then can you keep fast for two months running?” He said, “No!”. The Prophet (SAW) asked, “Then, can you feed sixty poor people?” He said, No!” The Prophet Sit down”. So, he sat down. Shortly an araq full of dates was brought to the Prophet An araq is a miktal of large size (said to contain between 15 and 30 sa of dates). The Prophet (SAW) said to him, “Give this away in sadaqah”. The man said, ‘There is none between the two mountains of Madinh poorer than we”. The Prophet laughed till his molars were visible, and said, “Take it and feed it to your family”.
[Ahmed7294, Nisai 1936,Abu Dawud 2390, Ibn e Majah 1671]