—both of them had tucked up their garments so high that I could see the anklets on their shins—carrying waterskins on their backs, after which they would pour the water into the fighters’ mouths.

The sword even slipped from Abū Ṭalḥa’s hand out of drowsiness two or three times. Agreed upon.

Ibn Isḥāq relates: Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr fought in front of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ until he was killed. He was struck down by Ibn Qamīʾah al-Laythī, who mistook him for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Ibn Qamīʾah then returned to Quraysh saying, “I have killed Muhammad.”

When Muṣʿab was killed, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ handed the banner to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and to other men from among the Muslims.

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah reports: Quraysh summoned whomever they pleased from the Arab polytheists, and Abū Sufyān marched at the head of the Quraysh host. He then narrates events similar to those mentioned earlier, adding: they struck the Prophet’s face, broke his incisor, and split his lip. They claim the one who struck him was ʿUtbah ibn Abī Waqqāṣ.

Ibn ʿUqbah also records the dream in which the Prophet ﷺ said: “I interpreted the well-fortified coat of mail as Medina. So remain there, and place the women and children in the ʾāṭām (strongholds). If they enter upon us in the alleyways, we shall fight them and they can throw (stones) from the rooftops.” They had already walled up Medina’s alleyways with buildings until it resembled a fortress. Yet many insisted on going out—most of them had not been present at Badr. He further notes that the Muslims possessed no horse on that day.

The bearer of the idolaters’ banner was Ṭalḥa ibn ʿUthmān, the brother of Shaybah al-ʿAbdarī.