It was transmitted by Ibn al-Madīnī (1), from Sufyān, from Ismāʿīl—who had once loaned him a sum from the public treasury.

Among Saʿd’s distinctions is that the conquest of Iraq took place at his hands; he was the commander of the forces on the day of the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah (2), and Allah granted victory to His religion.

Later Saʿd encamped in al-Madāʾin and was the commander of the people on the day of Jalūlāʾ (3); the victory was achieved through him, and Allah uprooted the Chosroes.

Ziyād al-Bakkāʾī narrated, through ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Qabīṣah ibn Jābir, who said:

A cousin of ours recited on the day of al-Qādisiyyah:

“Do you not see that Allah sent down His help,
While Saʿd, like a stout wrist-guard, stood at Qādisiyyah’s gate?
We returned, though many women were left widowed,
Yet among Saʿd’s women not one became a widow.”

When this reached Saʿd he prayed, “O Allah, sever his tongue and his hand.” An arrow struck the man in the mouth, rendering him mute; later his hand was cut off in the fighting.

Saʿd himself was afflicted with sores over his body, and he informed the people of this as his excuse for not personally joining the battle (4).

A similar version is reported by Sayf ibn ʿUmar from ʿAbd al-Malik.

Hushaym transmitted, from Abū Muslim, from Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd, that a man once spoke disparagingly of ʿAlī,