The Prophet ﷺ then came forward and called out, “O so-and-so son of so-and-so, and O so-and-so son of so-and-so! Have you found what your Lord promised you to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true.” I said, “Messenger of Allah, are you speaking to bodies that no longer possess souls?” He replied, “By Him in whose hand is my soul, you can no more hear what I say than they can; the only difference is that they are unable to reply.”

Shuʿbah narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Ḥārithah, from ʿAlī who said: “Not one of us was mounted on the Day of Badr except al-Miqdād, who rode a piebald horse. I remember us—all asleep save the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who was beneath a samurah tree, praying and weeping until dawn.”

Abū ʿAlī ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Majīd al-Ḥanafī reported: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muhib related to us; he said: Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAwn ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Abī Rāfiʿ informed me, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, from his father, from his grandfather, from ʿAlī, who said: “On the Day of Badr I fought for a time, then went to see what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was doing. I found him in prostration saying, ‘O Living, O Self-Sustaining One, O Living, O Self-Sustaining One,’ adding nothing else. I returned to the battle, came back again, and found him still in prostration repeating the same words.” Singular.

Al-Aʿmash narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from ʿAbd Allāh who said: “I never heard anyone implore for a right more earnestly than Muhammad ﷺ did on the Day of Badr. He kept saying, ‘O Allah, I beseech You by Your covenant and Your promise. O Allah, if this small band is destroyed, You will never be worshipped.’ Then he turned, and the side of his face gleamed like the moon, and he said, ‘It is as though I am looking at where each of them will lie slain this evening.’”

Khālid narrated from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, that the Prophet ﷺ said while he was in—