Usama sent a man on business to Antioch, where he was in contact with Usama's friend Theodoros Sophianos (?). Theodoros took the man to have a meal at the house of an old Frankish knight, who had come with the early expeditions of the Franks, but had now been stricken off the register and was retired. Despite the good-looking food, Usama's man ate very little until the Frank reassured him that he employed only Egyptian cooks and that no pork entered his house. Some time later, the man was walking in a market when he was attacked by a Frankish woman who caused a scene by accusing him of killing her brother Hurso, who had in fact died at the hand of a man from the army of Hama. He could not understand the accusation, and a hostile crowd gathered. He was saved by the Frankish knight, who appeared and explained that he had never been a soldier