Crossword-Solution: SAAD 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Most noble and affecting, in my eyes, is that answer of Saad’s aged envoy to Yezdegird, king of Persia, when he reproached him with the past savagery and poverty of the Arabs.

While passing through one of the mountain gorges the pilgrims were attacked by a number of predatory Bedouin, led by a ferocious chief named Saad, who fired upon them from the rocks with deadly effect, but, at last, after a journey of 130 miles, they reached Medina, with the great sun-scorched Mount Ohod towering behind it--the holy city where, according to repute, the coffin of Mohammed swung between heaven and earth.

Then came forth El Harith ibn Saad between the two lines and played with his lance and cried out and recited the following verses: Algates ye are our prey become; this many a day and night Right instantly of God we've craved to be vouchsafed your sight.

Saad was of a different opinion; he agreed that riches were necessary to comfort, but maintained that the happiness of a man's life consisted in virtue, without any farther eagerness after worldly goods than what was requisite for decent subsistence, and benevolent purposes.

Saad himself is one of this number, and lives very happily and contentedly in his station: but though Saadi is infinitely more opulent, their friendship is very sincere, and the richest sets no more value on himself than the other.