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The grunts of the camels and all the commotion woke Salamah up and when he
saw what was going on, Salamah urgently cried out to Rabah telling him to take
Talha’s horse and ride as quickly as he could back to Medina and tell the
Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, about the attack. The loss of the camels
was a serious threat to the march on Khaybar.

Salamah was left alone, all he had was his bow and some arrows. He had
neither a camel nor horse to ride so that he could chase after the bandits, but, he
had been blessed with an amazing skill – he could run as fast as any horse, in

fact he could run faster than many – he was the superman of Medina!

Salamah chased after the bandits, running as fast as the wind in a desert storm,
shooting his arrows so fast at them that they were forced to take shelter in a
narrow gorge between the mountains – the bandits were tired, trapped!

Salamah’s was blessed with such strength that he was not tired and climbed
quickly up the rocky slopes of the mountain and settled himself on one of its