al-Hasan al-Basri الحسن البصري · The Chapters on Jihad

“Going out in the morning in the cause of Allah, or in the evening, is more virtuous than the world and what is in it.”

“What you (O Muslims) cut down of the palm trees (of the enemy), or you left them standing...”

“This is Abu Dharr,” so he (the slave) started to move back. But Abu Dharr said: “My close friend (i.e., the Prophet (ﷺ)) told me to listen and obey, even if (the leader was) an Ethiopian slave with amputated limbs.”