When the troops pulled back, I withdrew with them. I stayed in Mecca until Islam had become widespread, after which I left for al-Ṭāʾif. They later dispatched envoys to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and it was said that envoys were not to be harmed, so I went out in their company. When he saw me, he asked, “Are you Wahshī?” I replied, “Yes.” He said, “The man who killed Ḥamzah?” I answered, “Yes; the matter is exactly as you have heard.” He then said, “Could you keep your face out of my sight?” So I turned back.

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ passed away and Musaylimah appeared, I said, “I shall go out against him—perhaps I can kill him and thereby requite Ḥamzah.” I marched with the Muslims, and events unfolded as they did. I suddenly saw a man standing in a gap in a wall, looking like a grey-mottled camel with his hair bristling. I hurled my spear at him, driving it between his chest until it came out between his shoulders, and an Anṣārī man leapt upon him and struck the crown of his head with his sword.

Sulaymān ibn Yasār said: I heard Ibn ʿUmar relate that a young girl standing on the roof of a house cried out, “Alas for the Commander of the Believers— the black slave has killed him!” Reported by al-Bukhārī.

Ibn Isḥāq said, citing al-Zuhrī: The first person to recognize the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after the rout, when people were saying, “The Messenger of Allah has been killed,” was Kaʿb ibn Mālik. He said, “I recognized the gleam in his eyes beneath the helmet, so I shouted, ‘People of Islam, rejoice—here is the Messenger of Allah!’ He signalled to me to be silent. A group was with him; when he had climbed the ravine, Ubayy ibn Khalaf caught up with him, crying, ‘O Muḥammad, may I not survive if you survive…’—and the report continues.”

Hāshim ibn Hāshim al-Zuhrī said: I heard Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, who heard Saʿd [ibn Abī Waqqāṣ], say: “On the Day of Uḥud the Messenger of Allah ﷺ handed me his quiver and said, ‘Shoot—may my father and mother be ransomed for you.’” Reported by al-Bukhārī.