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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

from returning to the fight, yet I kept on battling for most of the day, dragging it behind me. When it began to torment me, I set my foot on it, leaned hard, and tore it off (1).

By Allah, this is true courage—unlike another who, from no more than a scratch by an arrow, loses heart and his strength fails him.

Ibn Isḥāq transmitted this story and said: he lived on after that until the time of ʿUthmān.

He also said: Muʿawwidh ibn ʿAfrāʾ passed by Abū Jahl, struck him until he felled him, and left him while a spark of life still remained in him.

Muʿawwidh then fought on until he was killed, and his brother ʿAwf had been killed before him; the two were sons of al-Ḥārith ibn Rifāʿah al-Zurāqī.

Afterwards Ibn Masʿūd came upon Abū Jahl, rebuked him while life still flickered in him, and then severed his head.

Aḥmad ibn Salamah informed us, from Ibn Masʿūd al-Jammāl; Abū ʿAlī informed us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Aḥmad al-Abbār narrated to us; al-Haytham ibn Khārijah narrated to us; Rishdīn ibn Saʿd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd al-Tujībī, from Abū Manṣūr, the client of the Anṣār, who said that he heard ʿAmr ibn al-Jamūḥ say:

He heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “Allah—Majestic and Exalted is He—said: ‘My allies among My servants, and My beloved ones among My creation, are those who are remembered through My remembrance, and I am remembered through their remembrance’” (2).

(1) Reported by Ibn Hisham, 1/634–635, through the chain: Ibn Ishaq – “Thawr ibn Yazid told me, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbas and Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr, who both said: Muadh…”. All the transmitters in this isnad are reliable. (2) Reported by Ahmad, 3/430. The chain is weak because Rushdin is weak, his shaykh Abd Allah ibn al-Walid is soft in hadith criticism, and Abu Mansur, the freedman of the Ansar, is unknown. In addition, as the author (following al-Bukhari in his Tarikh) has noted, Abu Mansur never met Amr ibn al-Jamuh.

عَنْهَا القِتَالُ، فَقَاتَلْتُ عَامَّةَ يَوْمِي، وَإِنِّي لأَسْحَبُهَا خَلْفِي. فَلَمَّا آذَتْنِي، وَضَعْتُ قَدَمِي عَلَيْهَا، ثُمَّ تَمَطَّأْتُ عَلَيْهَا حَتَّى طَرَحْتُهَا (١) . هَذِهِ -وَاللهِ- الشَّجَاعَةُ، لاَ كَآخَرُ مِنْ خُدْشٍ بِسَهْمٍ يَنْقَطِعُ قَلْبُهُ، وَتَخُوْرُ قِوَاهُ. نَقَلَ هَذِهِ القِصَّةَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ، وَقَالَ: ثُمَّ عَاشَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى زَمَنِ عُثْمَانَ. قَالَ: وَمرَّ بِأَبِي جَهْلٍ مُعَوِّذُ بنُ عَفْرَاءَ، فَضَرَبَهُ حَتَّى أَثْبَتَهُ، وَتَرَكَهُ وَبِهِ رَمَقٌ. ثُمَّ قَاتَلَ مُعَوِّذُ حَتَّى قُتِلَ، وَقُتِلَ أَخُوْهُ عَوْفٌ قَبْلَهُ، وَهُمَا ابْنَا الحَارِثِ بنِ رِفَاعَةَ الزُّرَقِيِّ. ثُمَّ مَرَّ ابْنُ مَسْعُوْدٍ بِأَبِي جَهْلٍ، فَوَبَّخَهُ وَبِهِ رَمَقٌ، ثُمَّ احْتَزَّ رَأْسَهُ. أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بنُ سَلاَمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُوْدٍ الجَمَّالِ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو عَلِيٍّ، أَنَا أَبُو نُعَيْمٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بنُ أَحْمَدَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ الأَبَّارُ، حَدَّثَنَا الهَيْثَمُ بنُ خَارِجَةَ، حَدَّثَنَا رِشْدِيْنُ بنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بنِ الوَلِيْدِ التُّجِيْبِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي مَنْصُوْرٍ مَوْلَى الأَنْصَارِ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عَمْرَو بنَ الجَمُوْحِ يَقُوْلُ: إِنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُوْلَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُوْلُ: (قَالَ اللهُ ﷿: إِنَّ أَوْلِيَائِي مِنْ عِبَادِي، وَأَحِبَّائِي مِنْ خَلْقِي الَّذِيْنَ يُذْكَرُوْنَ بِذِكْرِي، وَأُذْكَرُ بِذِكْرِهِم) (٢) .

(١) أخرجه ابن هشام ١ / ٦٣٤ - ٦٣٥ من طريق: ابن إسحاق حدثني ثور بن يزيد، عن عكرمة، عن ابن عباس وعبد الله بن أبي بكر قالا: قال معاذ ... ورجاله ثقات. (٢) أخرجه أحمد ٣ / ٤٣٠ وإسناده ضعيف لضعف رشدين. وشيخه عبد الله بن الوليد لين الحديث. وأبو منصور مولى الانصار مجهول، ثم إنه لم يلق عمرو بن الجموح فيما قاله المؤلف وسبقه إلى ذلك البخاري في " التاريخ ".