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LEAVES OF THE HUBLAH AND SAMOR TREES

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“I (Sa'ad, son of Abi Wakkas) am the first Arab to shoot an arrow in the cause of Allah. We fought along with the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, and our food was only the leaves of the Hublah and Samor trees. The stools of some of us were like the droppings of goats.”

Bukhari and Muslim with a chain up to Sa'ad, the son of Abi Wakkas who related this.