He thereupon pulled a few dates from his quiver and began to eat them. Then he said, “If I stay alive long enough to finish these dates, that would be a very long life indeed!” He threw them aside, advanced, and fought until he was killed. Related by Muslim.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ghaseel narrated—through Ḥamzah ibn Abī Usayd, from his father—that when we had formed our ranks on the Day of Badr the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When they press upon you in numbers—meaning when they swarm over you—let fly your arrows at them, but keep some arrows in reserve.” Reported by al-Bukhārī.

ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUrwah transmitted from ʿUrwah ibn al-Zubayr that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ assigned the battle cries on the Day of Badr as follows: for the Emigrants, “O sons of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān!”; for the Khazraj, “O sons of ʿAbd Allāh!”; and for the Aws, “O sons of ʿUbayd Allāh!” He also named his cavalry “the Cavalry of Allah.”

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Khāliq ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, his cousin Sitt al-Ahl bint ʿAlwān—in the year 93 AH—and others told us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Faqīh reported to us, saying: Shahdah bint Aḥmad informed us, saying: al-Ḥusayn ibn Ṭalḥah informed us, saying: Abū ʿUmar ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Mahdī told us, saying: al-Ḥusayn ibn Ismāʿīl told us, saying: Maḥmūd ibn Khudāsh told us, saying: Hishīm narrated to us, from Abū Hāshim, from Abū Majliz, from Qays ibn ʿAbbād, who said: I heard Abū Dharr—may Allah be pleased with him—swear an oath that the verse, “These two adversaries have disputed concerning their Lord” (Sūrat al-Ḥajj, 19) was revealed about the champions who confronted one another on the Day of Badr: Ḥamzah, ʿAlī, and ʿUbaydah ibn al-Ḥārith on the one side, and ʿUtbah and Shaybah the sons of Rabīʿah, together with al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah, on the other.