حدثنا عمر بن إسماعيل بن مجالد بن سعيد حدثني أبي عن بيان حدثني قيس بن حازم قال سمعت سعد بن أبي وقاص يقول إني لأَوْل رَجل أَهْرَقَ دَمًا فِي سَبِيلِ اللهِ وَإِنْي لأَوْل رَجلٍ رَمَی بِسَهْمٍ فِی سَبِيلِ اللهِ َلقَدْ رَأَيْتُنِي أغزوا فِي الْعِصَابَةَ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ مُحَمْدٍ صلی الله عليه وسلم مَا نَأکُلْ إلاَّ وَرَقَ الشَجَرِ وَالْحُبْلَةَ حَتَّی تَقَرَحَتْ أَشْدَاقُنَا وَإِنْ أَحَدُنَا لَيَضَعُ کَمَا تَضَعُ الشَّاةُ وَالبَعِير وَأَصْبَحَتْ بَنُو أَسَدٍ يَعَزِّرُونَنِی فِي الدِّينِ لَقَدْ خِبْتُ إذَنْ وَخَسِرْت وَضَلَ عَمَلِي
شمائل المحمدية / شمائل ترمزی · Hadith 350
Sa'd bin Abi Waqqias Radiyallahu 'Anhu reports that from the ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu 'Alayhi Wasallam I was the first to take the the blood of a non-believer, and I was the first to shoot an arrow in the path of Allah.We (the group of Sahaabah in the early period of Islaam) went for jihaad in such a state, where we had nothing to eat. We ate the leaves of tree and pods of the acacia tree. As a result our jaw became ulcerous and wounded, and because of the leaves our excreta was like that of sheep and camel. After that too the people of Banu Asad threatend me. If the status of my ignorance in the deen is such as these people claim, then this world and the hereafter is lost. (The days in this world have been spent in poverty and difficulty, and the state of the deen is this that I do not have knowledge of salaah too).
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020