—Ziyād ibn al-Sakan—together with five men from the Anṣār (Helpers). Some people say it was actually ʿAmāra ibn Ziyād ibn al-Sakan. They stood and fought in front of the Messenger of Allah, each man being killed one after the other while shielding him, until the last of them—whether Ziyād or ʿAmāra—who kept on fighting until his wounds left him unable to move. A contingent of Muslims then returned and drove the enemy away. The Messenger of Allah said, “Bring him closer to me.” They brought him; he laid the man’s head upon his foot, and the man died with his cheek resting on the foot of the Messenger of Allah.

Abū Dujāna placed himself as a shield before the Messenger of Allah; arrows struck his back while he bent over the Prophet until his back was bristling with arrows.

Ḥammād ibn Salama narrated from Thābit—and others—from Anas: On the Day of Uḥud the Messenger of Allah was left with only seven men from the Anṣār and two from Quraysh. When the enemy pressed them hard he said, “Who will drive them away from us, and Paradise shall be his—or he will be my companion in Paradise?” A man from the Anṣār stepped forward and fought until he was killed; then another advanced and fought until he was killed. They continued like that until all seven were slain. He then said to his two companions, “Our comrades have not been fair to us.” Muslim recorded this.

Sulaymān at-Taymī narrated from Abū ʿUthmān who said, “On one of the days in which the Messenger of Allah fought, no one remained with him except Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUbayd Allāh and Saʿd,” according to their report. Agreed upon.

Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim said, “I saw Ṭalḥa’s hand paralyzed; he had used it to shield the Prophet on the Day of Uḥud.” Al-Bukhārī collected it.

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ reported that Yaḥyā ibn Ayyūb told him, from ʿUmāra ibn Ghaziyya, from Abū’z-Zubayr, the client of Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, from Jābir who said: “The people fled from the Messenger of Allah on the Day of Uḥud, and only eleven men from the Anṣār remained with him.”