stones over him.

This report was related by Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq through the route of Yūnus ibn Bukayr, conveying the same meaning. He said: “Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās told me, from ʿIkrima, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: Abū Rāfiʿ, the freedman of the Prophet ﷺ, narrated it to me.”

ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr likewise transmitted—from his father—that Quraysh began to wail over their dead, but then said, “Stop, or the news will reach Muḥammad and his Companions and they will gloat over you.”

Al-Aswad ibn al-Muṭṭalib had lost three sons—Zamʿa, ʿAqīl, and al-Ḥārith—and yearned to weep for them.

Ibn Isḥāq continues: Quraysh next sent delegations to ransom the prisoners. Makraz ibn Ḥafṣ arrived to ransom Suhayl ibn ʿAmr. ʿUmar said, “Messenger of Allah, allow me to knock out Suhayl’s two front teeth so that his tongue will loll and he will never stand to address you as an orator again.” The Prophet replied, “I will not mutilate him, lest Allah mutilate me; besides, he may yet stand in a position for which you will not reproach him.” Indeed, after the Prophet’s death Suhayl addressed the people of Mecca with a speech very like that of Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq, and he embraced Islam excellently.

Al-Muṭṭalib ibn Abī Wadāʿah slipped away, ransomed his father for four thousand dirhams, and departed with him.

Zaynab, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, sent a sum of money to ransom her husband, Abū al-ʿĀṣ ibn al-Rabīʿ ibn ʿAbd Shams, and included with it a necklace that Khadījah