this very death of yours, O Dubays! By Allah, you were a man who kept the bonds of kinship and treated your father well.

They found Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib with his abdomen ripped open and his liver removed. Wahshī—the man who had killed him—had taken it away and carried it to Hind bint ʿUtbah in fulfilment of a vow she had made after her father was killed at Badr. He was buried in the cloak he had been wearing; when they pulled it over his head, his feet became exposed, so they covered his feet with some branches.

Al-Zuhrī relates that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Shroud them in their own blood, for no one who is wounded in the cause of Allah will come on the Day of Resurrection except with his wound still bleeding—its color that of blood and its fragrance that of musk.”

He also declared, “The idolaters will never inflict upon us the like of this again.” Earlier, as the polytheists were withdrawing, Abū Sufyān had called out, “Your rendezvous with us is at the fair—the fair of Badr.” This was a marketplace that convened at Badr each year. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Tell him: Very well.”

When the Prophet ﷺ entered Medina he heard wailing in the houses and asked, “What is this?” They answered, “The women of the Anṣār are weeping for their slain.”

A woman approached leading a camel on which she had placed her son and her husband, tying them to the saddle and sitting between them. Some of the martyrs were being brought back to be buried in the Medina cemeteries, but he forbade this and said, “Bury them where they fell.”

On hearing the weeping he added, “But Ḥamzah has no one to weep for him.” Then he prayed for Ḥamzah’s forgiveness. When Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, Ibn Rawāḥah and others heard this, they gathered every mourner in Medina and proclaimed, “By Allah, you shall not weep for the dead of the Anṣār until you have wept for the uncle of the Messenger of Allah…”