while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was in the mosque.

She continued, “By Him in whose hand is Muhammad’s soul, I can distinguish Abu Bakr’s weeping from ʿUmar’s even while I am in my chamber. They were exactly as Allah says: ‘compassionate with one another.’

ʿAlqamah said, ‘I asked, “Mother, how did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ act?”’

She replied, ‘His eyes would not shed tears for anyone, but when sorrow overcame him he would simply take hold of his beard.’ (1)

Yazīd ibn Hārūn related to us: Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, from a man of the Anṣār, reported:

When Saʿd had finished his judgment against Banū Qurayẓah and then returned, his wound burst open. News of this reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so he came to him, placed his head in his lap, and he was wrapped in a white cloth. Saʿd was a large, fair-skinned man.

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed, ‘O Allah, Saʿd has striven in Your cause, affirmed Your Messenger, and fulfilled that which was upon him, so receive his soul in the best manner with which You have ever received a soul.’ (2)

When Saʿd heard the Prophet’s words he opened his eyes and said, ‘Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah! I bear witness that you are the Messenger of Allah.’

The Prophet ﷺ then said to the people of the house, ‘Allah has sought permission from as many of His angels as you are in this house to witness the death of Saʿd.’

His mother was weeping and saying:

Woe to your mother, Saʿd—
Hazāmah and deepest grief!

Someone said to her, ‘Are you reciting poetry over Saʿd?’

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Leave her; other poets are more untruthful than she.’

This report is mursal. (3)

Al-Wāqidī said: Muʿādh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Muslim, from ʿIkrimah, from—