Narrated Abdullah bin Umar…I heard the Prophet say, People are just like camels, out of one hundred, one can hardly find a single camel suitable to ride.
-Sahih al-Bukhari, Traditions of the Prophet, Book 76, Hadith 505
There were three hundred camels and eight camelmen in our two Daboukas- KhairAllah and Bilal Bakhīt Muhammad as Khabīrs, and Ahmad Muhammad Hāmid, Muhammad Hāmid Bakhīt, Rābih Muhammad Na’īm, Hāmid Ahmad Humeida, Abdullah Mansour Ali, and Ibrahim Gum’a Sa’at as Drovers. All eight were far more than Munāsib, Suitable. As Riders they each one were Mumtāz, Excellent. As Companions they are Unforgettable thirty five years later.