The shaykh, Ibn ʿUmar added, was one of those who had fought at Badr alongside the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Ibn ʿUmar continued: “I was standing beside the Messenger of Allah, and this shaykh was with me, when a man with well-kept hair, wrapped in a turban—whom we assumed was a Bedouin—entered. He threaded his way through the people, stepping over their shoulders, until he stood directly before the Messenger of Allah and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, what is imān?’ He answered, ‘It is to testify that there is no god but Allah…’