Note 250 — Chapter XVI · YEZDEGIRD SUCCEEDS TO THE THRONE OF PERSIA.—BATTLE OF CADESIYA. A.H. XIV. A.D. 635.
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A play upon the name Sàd, or ‘lion.’ His ordinary patronymic was ibn Abu Wackkâs. (For his early history, see Life of Mahomet, pp. 63, 68.)
When Mahomet got excited in battle, he used a form of adjuration to Sád, which he is said never to have addressed to any other;—‘By the life of my father and mother, shoot, O Sád.’ Sád died A.D. 655, worth 250,000 dirhems.