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their armours and leather clothes. He u sed to bury every two or three martyrs together in one grave
and even join two men in one garment while saying: “Who is the more learned of the Qur’ân?” and
he would commit him to earth first. He would say: “I bear witness to those on the Day of
Resurrection.” He buried both ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Haram and ‘Amr bin Al-Jamuh in one grave due
to the affection they used to possess to each other.
They missed the coffin of Hanzalah, they sought it and found that it was on a spot nearby with
water dripping off it. The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) told his Companions that the
angels were washing him and said: “Ask his wife”. They asked her and she confirmed that he had
been in a state of ceremonial impurity. That was why Hanzalah was called ‘
Ghaseel Al-Malâ’ikah
’
(i.e. the one washed by the angels).
When the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) saw how his uncle and foster brother, Hamzah,
was mutilated, he was extremely grieved. When his aunt Safiyah came to see her brother Hamzah,
the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) ordered her son Az-Zubair to dismiss her in order not to
see what happened to her brother. She refused and said, “But why should I go away. I have been
informed that they have mutilated him. But so long as it is in the way of Allâh, whatever happens to
him satisfies us. I say: Allâh is Sufficient and I will be patient if Allâh wills.” She approached, looked
at him and supplicated Allâh for him and said: “To Allâh we all belong and to Him we will verily
return.” and she implored Allâh to forgive him. Then the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him)
ordered that he should be buried with ‘Abdullah bin Jahsh — who was his nephew as well as his
foster brother.
Ibn Mas‘ud said: We have never seen the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) weeping so much
as he was for Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib. He directed him towards
Al-Qiblah
, then he stood at his
funeral and sobbed his heart out.
The sight of the martyrs was extremely horrible and heart-breaking. Describing Hamzah’s funeral,
Khabbab said: “No shroud long enough was available for Hamzah except a white-darkish garment.
When they covered his head with it, it was too short to cover his feet. Similarly if they covered his
feet his head would be revealed. Finally they covered his head with it and put some plant called ‘
Al-
Idhkhir
’ to cover his feet.”
Al-Imam Ahmad reported that when it was Uhud Day and the time that the idolaters returned, the
Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) said:
·
“
Istawoo (i.e. form rows as for prayer) so that I offer thanks and praise to my Lord, the
Great and the All-Mighty.
”
So they stood in rows behind him. Then he said:
·
“O Allâh, no one can withhold what You permit or permit what You withhold. No one can
guide whom You decree to go astray or make go astray the one whom You guide. No one
can grant provisions you have withheld and no one can withhold what you grant. No one can
near what You ordained to be distant, or detach what You decree to be close. O Allâh,
spread onto all of us Your Mercy, Your Grace, and Provisions.”
“O Allâh, I implore You to grant me permanent bliss that neither changes nor vanishes. O
Allâh, You Alone we seek for Help at hardships. You Alone we resort to for security on a day
of terror. O Allâh, to You Alone I resort to protect us frthe evils of Your grants (i.e. the evils
they may lead us to) and from the evils of Your deprivation. O Allâh, make us love Faith and
make it pleasant and beloved wholeheartedly by us! Make disbelief, ungodliness and
disobedience detestable to us. Let us be among those who are rightly guided. O Allâh, make
us live as Muslims and cause us to die as Muslims; and make us join with the righteous but
not with the disgraced and misled ones. O Allâh, make Your enmity befall the disbelievers,
who belie Your Messenger and divert from Your righteous way. O Allâh, let Your wrath, Your
chastisement and Your enmity befall the disbelievers, and those on whom You sent down
the Book. Let them be afflicted with war decreed by You. O Allâh, the Author of Truth.”
After committing all the martyrs to earth, and after offering praise and supplication to Allâh, the
Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) went back to Madinah.
On his way back, matchless examples of love and devotion were revealed by the truthful women
believers; in no way less great than the men’s heroic deeds in the fight.
Hamnah bint Jahsh met the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) on the way back, and he
announced the death of her brother — ‘Abdullah bin Jahsh— to her. She said: “To Allâh we belong
and to Him we will verily return. I ask Allâh’s forgiveness.” Then he announced the death of her
maternal uncle Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib. She said: “To Allâh we belong and to Him we will verily
return. I ask Allâh’s forgiveness.” But when he announced the death of her husband Mus‘ab bin
‘Umair to her, she shouted and woed. Seeing her doing so, the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon
him) said: “The woman’s husband is extremely dear to her.”
He passed by a woman of Bani Dinar whose husband, father and brother were all killed at Uhud.
When their death announced, she said: “How is the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him)?” They
said: “Well indeed. O mother of so... Thanks for Allâh; he is well and as good as you desire.” She
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