Yahya ibn Habib al-Harithi narrated to us: al-Mu‘tamir narrated to us, he said: I heard Isma‘il, from Qays, from Sa‘d. And Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Numayr narrated to us: my father and Ibn Bishr narrated to us, they said: Isma‘il narrated to us, from Qays, who said: I heard Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas saying: By Allah, I am the first man among the Arabs to shoot an arrow in the cause of Allah. We used to go on military expeditions with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and we had no food to eat except the leaves of the hubulah tree and this samur tree, until one of us would void excrement as a sheep does. Then the Banu Asad began to reproach me for my religion — then indeed I would have failed and my deeds would have been in vain. Ibn Numayr did not say “then indeed.”