Sayyiduna Sa’d (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I am the very first man among the Arabs who shot an arrow in the path of Allah. We witnessed a time when we used to fight in jihad alongside the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and at that time we had nothing to eat except the branches of grapevines and the leaves of acacia trees. Each one of us would pass stool like a goat does, with nothing else mixed in it. And today, the people of Banu Asad reproach me for my Islam—if that is the case, then I have suffered a great loss and all my efforts have been wasted.