Hazrat Aslam, the servant of Hazrat Umar, narrates that when we came to Syria with Hazrat Umar, he made his camel sit down and went away to relieve himself. I spread a sheepskin in the saddle. When he returned, he mounted the sheepskin. Then we met the people of Syria; they would ask me about Hazrat Umar, so I would point towards him. Seeing their condition, Hazrat Umar used to say that their eyes are more inclined towards those mounts which are devoid of simplicity, meaning towards the mounts of the non-Arabs.