Note 133 — Chapter VII · Kutayba’s Last Campaigns

Tabari relates that one day several Soghdians mounted the rampart and called out: “Oh ye Arabs, why do ye exert yourselves thus vainly? Know that we have found written in a book that our town shall not be taken except by one whose name is “Camel-Saddle,” whereupon Kutayba called out—“God is great! for verily that is my name.” (In Arabic, Kutayba means literally “camel-saddle.”)