Usāmah ibn Zayd—through Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar—narrated:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned on the day of Uḥud and heard the women of Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal weeping for their dead. He said, “But Hamzah has no women to weep for him.” So the women of the Anṣār came and wept for Hamzah in his presence. He lay down, and when he awoke while they were still weeping, he said, “Alas for them! Are they still here even now? Tell them to go back, and let no one mourn any dead person after today.” (1)

Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rabīʿah related to me, from Sulaymān ibn Yasār, from Jaʿfar ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayyah al-Ḍamrī, who said:

I went out with ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAdī ibn al-Khiyār during the time of Muʿāwiyah on campaign. When we passed through Ḥimṣ, we found that Wahshī was living there. Ibn ʿAdī said, “Shall we ask Wahshī how he killed Hamzah?” We set out to find him, and when we enquired we were told, “You will find him in the courtyard of his house, reclining on a rug. Drink has gained the upper hand over him; if you find him sober, you will meet a true Arab.”

We reached him and found an aged, dark-skinned man—black like a buzzard (2)—reclining on a rug, and he was sober. We greeted him with salām. He lifted his head toward ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAdī and said, “The son of ʿAdī? By Allah, you are indeed al-Khiyār’s son.” He replied, “Yes.” Wahshī said, “By Allah, I have not seen you since I handed you over to your Saʿdiyyah mother who nursed you at Dhī Tuwa, while she was on her camel and your little feet were shining before me.”

We said, “We have come so that you may tell us how you killed Hamzah.” He replied, “I shall relate to you exactly what I told the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: I was the slave of Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, whose uncle Tuʿaymah ibn ʿAdī was killed on the day of Badr. Jubayr said to me, ‘If you kill Hamzah…’