ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; my father narrated to me; al-Walīd narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us; Rabīʿah ibn Zayd narrated that Abū al-Dardāʾ used to say: “Perform a righteous deed before setting out on campaign, for you fight people only by virtue of your own deeds.”