Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

It is narrated from Hazrat Abdullah bin Ubaidah that on the day of the Battle of Hunain, Abu Sufyan, Hakim bin Hizam, and Safwan bin Umayyah set out (with the intention) to see who would be defeated. (During this time) a Bedouin passed by them, so they asked him, "O Abdullah! What happened to the people?" He replied, "Muhammad can never go beyond Hunain." The narrator says: This was the impression at the time when the companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had dispersed from him... So some of them said to others, "It is more beloved to us that someone from the Quraysh becomes a chief than that someone from among the Bedouins becomes a chief." Then one of them said to another, "O so-and-so! Go and bring us some news." The narrator says: That man set out until, when he reached among the people, he heard them saying, "O Aws, O Khazraj!" They rose above the people. That was the slogan of them and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).