Our Beloved Master - His Early Life — Page 141
•oUR BELoVED MASTER• 141 display at every given opportunity. Serious issues and conflicts were created due to their capricious nature, but they would not stop their senseless behaviour. There was a person by the name of Hat ib bin Qais. A person from the tribe of Ban u Tha‘labah came to him as a guest. Hat ib took his guest to a bazaar, called S u q Ban u Qainuq a‘. At that time there was a big troublemaker by the name of Yaz i d bin Ha rith. Upon seeing the guest, Yaz i d realised that he was from another town. He wanted to do something disruptive and said to a Jew, “If you go and kick that outsider really hard in the back I will give you my shawl right here on the spot!” The Jew was ready to do so, but he said that he would do it only if he got the shawl before he did it. Yaz i d took off his shawl and handed it over saying, “Here, now let the show begin!” The Jew slowly crept up behind the outsider, and upon seeing a chance, kicked him in the back so hard that the poor guest narrowly escaped falling flat on his face. When people saw this, they began to laugh and joke about it. They got great entertainment from this. The guest called Hat ib to help him. When Hat ib heard what had happened he became enraged and lost control. He