Abu Hudhayfah
When Sharhabil woke up from his sleep, he recited the shahada, asked God’s forgiveness, performed ablutions, and stood to perform the night prayer, qiyam al-layl.iii
When he was finished, I informed him of what the two watchmen had relayed to us about a potential raid by the NATO forces. I asked him to go to our commander, Abu al-Zubayr, in the trench next to ours to apprise him of our orders in the event of an attack.
It soon became clear to me that Sharhabil was different from others who had been sent to us from other hideouts. He didn’t ask a lot of questions and didn’t make anyone feel he needed them. He was a man of few words and shied away from the kinds of exaggerations many mujahideen engaged in when describing their raids. Similarly, the way he sat and walked and
