Volume 8, Book 76, Number 460:
Narrated Sa’d:
I was the first man among the Arabs to throw an arrow for Allah’s Cause. We used to fight in Al –
lah’s Cause while we had nothing to eat except the leaves of the Hubla and the Sumur trees (desert
trees) so that we discharged excrement like that of sheep (i.e. unmixed droppings). Today the (people
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of the) tribe of Bani Asad teach me the laws of Islam. If so, then I am lost, and all my efforts of that
hard time had gone in vain.