and, thanks to these and other outstanding qualities, he came to be known as al-Kāmil (“the Complete One”).

Saʿd—and several of his forefathers before him—would have a crier announce from the roof of their fortress, “Whoever desires fat and meat, let him come to the fortress of Dulaym ibn Ḥāritha!” (1)

56 – Saʿd ibn Muʿādh ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Imruʾ al-Qays al-Anṣārī,
son of Zayd ibn ʿAbd al-Ashhal.

The illustrious chieftain, the martyr, Abū ʿAmr al-Anṣārī, of the Aws, of the clan of al-Ashhal, a participant in Badr, the man for whose death the Throne shook.

His virtues are well attested in the canonical collections, in the Sīra, and elsewhere. I have reproduced a selection of them in my History of Islam under the year of his death.

Ibn al-Kalbī reported, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Abī ʿĪsā ibn Jabr, from his father, that Quraysh once heard a voice atop Abū Qubays proclaiming:

If the two Saʿds embrace Islam, Muhammad will awake
In Mecca, fearing no adversary. (2)

Abū Sufyān said, “Who are the two Saʿds—Saʿd of Bakr, Saʿd of Tamīm?”

That night they again heard the unseen herald say:

O Saʿd, Saʿd of the Aws, be you a helper,
And O Saʿd, Saʿd of the Khazraj, noble chieftains!”}