Volume 5, Book 59, Number 288:
Narrated Ibn Masud:
I witnessed Al-Miqdad bin Al-Aswad in a scene which would have been dearer to me than any –
thing had I been the hero of that scene. He (i.e. Al-Miqdad) came to the Prophet while the Prophet
was urging the Muslims to fight with the pagans. Al-Miqdad said, “We will not say as the People of
Moses said: Go you and your Lord and fight you two. (5.27). But we shall fight on your right and on
your left and in front of you and behind you.” I saw the face of the Prophet getting bright with hap –
piness, for that saying delighted him.