were a red idol—its stone crimsoned by the blood of the sacrificed animals offered upon it.

He continued: A man then drew me aside (1), as though he took pity on me, and said, “Woe to you! Is there no one in Mecca whose protection you can seek?”

I replied, “No—except that al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil used to visit us in Medina, and we would honor him.”

One of the people exclaimed, “He has mentioned my cousin! By Allah, none of you will touch him.” So they left me alone, and that man turned out to be ʿAdī ibn Qays al-Sahmī. (2)

Hajjāj ibn Arṭāʾah related, through al-Ḥakam, from Miqsam, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: “The banner of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was with ʿAlī, and the banner of the Anṣār was with Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah.” (3)

It was also transmitted by Abū Ghassān al-Nahdī, from Ibrāhīm ibn al-Zibrqān, on his authority.

Maʿmar narrated, from ʿUthmān al-Jazarī, from Miqsam—so far as I know, only on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās—that “the standard of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was with ʿAlī, and the standard of the Anṣār with Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah.” (4)

Ḥammād ibn Salamah reported, through Thābit, from Anas: “When news reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ of Abū Sufyān’s return (5), he said, ‘Advise me.’ Abū Bakr rose, but he said, ‘Sit down.’ Then Saʿd ibn—"