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2366. Sa'd bin Mālik said: "I was the first man among the Arabs to
shoot an arrow in Allāh's cause. I saw that we battled along with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ and there was no food for us but Al-Hublah, and this Samur,[1] such that one of us would leave droppings like the droppings of a sheep. Then Banū Asad appeared wanting to instruct me in religion. I would be a loser and have wasted my efforts.”
(Sahih)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Sahih.
There is something on this topic from 'Utbah bin Ghazwān.
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Footnotes
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[1] "The fruit of an acacia which resembles a legume." (An-Nihāyah, Tuhfat Al-Ahwadhī).
Commentary
Sa'd ؓ was the governor of Al-Kūfah during the caliphate of 'Umar ؓ. During that period the people of the tribe of Banū Asad raised complaints against him to the Caliph. One of the complaints was that he (Sa'd) did not know how to lead the Salāt. The word Dīn used in the Hadīth by the Companion is a metonym for Salāt. By this he means to say that if, despite being among the earliest converts to Islam, he has not even learned how to perform Salāt (for which he needs instruction from such people), then he is surely a loser. In fact, the complaint against him was a pure fabrication that had no relation with truth.
