٣٩٤٦١ - حدثنا عبيد اللَّه قال: أخبرنا إسرائيل عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي عبيدة عن أبيه قال: لقد قللوا في أعيننا يوم بدر، حتى قلت لصاحب لي إلى جنبي: كم تراهم تراهم سبعين؟ قال: أراهم مائة، حتى أخذنا منهم رجلا فسألناه فقال: كنا ألفا (١).
Hazrat Abu Ubaidah narrates from his father that indeed, on the day of Badr, (the disbelievers) were shown to our eyes in small numbers, to the extent that I asked a companion beside me: "In your opinion, how many are they? Do you think they are seventy?" He replied, "In my opinion, they are a hundred in number." Until we captured one of them and asked him, and he informed us that, "We are a thousand in number."