Sa'd ibn Ubadah
Sometime before Muhammad's migration from Mecca, al-Samit and other Banu Aws and Khazraj tribe chieftains, such as Abdullah ibn Rawahah, ʿAbdullah ibn Haram, Sa'd ibn Ubadah, and Abu Talha al-Ansari met Muhammad on Mount Aqaba during their journey from Medina to perform Hajj in Mecca. In historical literature, these clan leaders are said to have done Hajj to achieve enlightenment after they grew weary due to the conflicts that were happening between their tribes, particularly the civil war of Yathrib which Muslim historians called the Battle of Bu'adh, Muhammad praised Islam to any Hajj pilgrims he met. They listened to his preaching until considered him to be the solution to unite their conflicting tribes in Medina. They immediately pledged their allegiance to him, marking this event as the first pledge of al-Aqabah. Al-Samit was around forty years old.