Hadhrat Amr bin A1 Aas says, "I was the commander of the Muslim army that marched to Alexandria. The king of the city made a request saying, 'Send out one of your men to me so that I can speak to him and he can speak to me.' 'None but I shall go to him,' I said and I left. Both he and I had a translator and two stages were set up for us. 'Who are you people?' he asked. My reply was: 'We are Arabs. We are people accustomed to thorns and acacia trees (not lush gardens).
We are also the custodians of Allaah's House. We had the most inhospitable of lands, led the harshest of lives, ate carrion and looted each other. We led the worst of lives anyone could ever lead until a man emerged from amongst us. He was not the most prominent of us, neither was he the wealthiest. He told us that he was Allaah's Nabi and commanded us to do things that we did not know about. He also forbade us from doing what we had been doing and what our forefathers had been doing. We therefore opposed him, falsified him and refused to accept his words.
Eventually people from outside came out and said to him, 'We believe in you, we believe what you say, are prepared to follow you and to fight whoever fights you. He therefore went to them. We then went after him and fought him, but he prevailed over us and defeated us. He then turned to the other Arabs around him and defeated them as well. If those behind me know what luxurious lives you people lead, every one of them would come here to you and join you in it.'
The king laughed and said, 'Your prophet told you the truth. Our prophets also came to us with the same message your prophet brought and we remained steadfast on their teachings until kings started to preside over us. Their behaviour with us conformed with their whims rather than with the teachings of the prophets. If you people adhere to the teachings of your prophet, you will prevail over everyone you engage in battle and you will defeat anyone who tries to attack you. However, as soon ayyou do what we did by forsaking the teachings of the prophets and by acting on your desires, you will become just like us. You will then neither be more than us in number nor any stronger."'
Hadhrat Amr bin A1 Aas says, "1 have not spoken to anyone afterwards who gave me any better advice than he."
Tabraani. Haythami (Voi.6 Pg.218) has commented on the chain of narrators.
Abu Ya'la has reported a similar narration, but Haytham~ (Vo1.8 Pg.238) has commented on the chain of narrators.
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