«وَوَرَدْتُ هَذِهِ الْبَلْدَةَ أَمْسِ مَعَ أَخْوَالِي مِنْ بَنِي عَبْسٍ»
I arrived in this town yesterday with my maternal uncles from Banū ʿAbs.
Fayd is a known stopping place on old Arabian routes. Akhwāl means maternal uncles or relatives on the mother’s side, while ams means yesterday.
The young man gives three kinds of information: identity, origin and kinship. These details will later become clues in Abū Zayd’s reasoning, but at this point they are only what the youth reports about himself.