He then proclaimed, “Allāhu akbar! Praise be to Allah who fulfilled His promise, supported His servant, and single-handedly routed the confederates. Now go and show him to me.” I went and showed him, whereupon he said, “This is the Pharaoh of this community.”

It is related from Abū Isḥāq that when news of his death reached the Prophet ﷺ, he fell down in prostration.

Al-Wāqidī reports that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood over the place where the two sons of ʿAfrāʾ had fallen and said, “May Allah have mercy on the sons of ʿAfrāʾ, for they shared in killing the Pharaoh of this ummah and the chief of the leaders of disbelief.” He was asked, “Messenger of Allah, who else killed him along with them?” He replied, “The angels—and Ibn Masʿūd also had a share in slaying him.”

Abū Nuʿaym narrates: Sālimah ibn Rajāʾ told us, from al-Shaʿthāʾ, a woman of the Banū Asad, who said: I entered upon ʿAbdullāh ibn Abī Awfā and saw him perform two units of the Duḥā prayer. His wife remarked, “You have prayed two rakʿas.” He answered, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ prayed two rakʿas of Duḥā when he was given the good news of victory and when Abu Jahl’s head was brought.”

Mujālid narrated from al-Shaʿbī that a man said to the Prophet ﷺ, “I passed by Badr and saw a man emerge from the ground; another man would strike him with a mace until he sank back into the earth, then he would emerge again, and the same would be done to him repeatedly.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “That is Abu Jahl ibn Hishām, being tormented until the Day of Resurrection.”

Al-Bukhārī and Muslim record—via Ibn Abī ʿArūbah, from Qatādah—that Anas related, from Abū Ṭalḥah, that on the Day of Badr the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that twenty-four of the Quraysh chieftains be cast into one of the foul pits of Badr. Whenever he prevailed over a people, he would stay on their battlefield for three nights. When it was the third day at Badr, he had his mount readied, mounted it, and set out while his Companions followed him, whereupon they said: