—people who reddened the very face of their Prophet while he was calling them to their Lord?”

When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ heard the sound of weeping he asked, “What is this?” They informed him, whereupon he prayed for their forgiveness, spoke well of them, and said, “This is not what I intended; I do not approve of wailing.” Then he prohibited it.

Yūnus relates from Ibn Isḥāq: al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāfiʿ al-Anṣārī told me that Anas ibn al-Naḍr came upon ʿUmar, Ṭalḥah, and a group of men who had cast their weapons aside. He asked, “What is keeping you here?” They replied, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has been killed.” He said, “Then what good is life after him? Rise up and die upon what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died for.” He then advanced toward the enemy, fought, and was killed.

Ibn Isḥāq adds: Ḥanẓalah ibn Abī ʿĀmir met Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb in combat. When Ḥanẓalah gained the upper hand, Shaddād ibn al-Aswad saw him, struck him with his sword, and killed him. ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Your companion is being washed by the angels,” meaning Ḥanẓalah. They asked his family about the matter; his wife replied, “He left the house in a state of major ritual impurity when he heard the alarm.” The Prophet ﷺ said, “That is why the angels are washing him.”

Al-Bakkāʾī narrates from Ibn Isḥāq: The enemy pressed through to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and pelted him with stones until he fell on his side; one of his upper incisors was broken, his face gashed, and his lip cut. The one who struck him was ʿUtbah ibn Abī Waqqāṣ. Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl related to me from Anas that the Prophet’s incisor tooth was broken on the Day of Uḥud and his face wounded; blood flowed over his face as he wiped it, saying, “How can a people ever prosper who…"