He repeated that several times, and al-Bukhārī recorded the report.

Hammād ibn Salamah narrated through Thābit, from Anas, from Abū Ṭalḥah, who said: “I lifted my head on the Day of Uḥud and began to look around; there was no one among us but that he was swaying beneath his shield from drowsiness. Concerning this Allah says: ‘Then, after the distress, He sent down upon you a sense of security—drowsiness’ (Q 3:154).”

Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr related from his father, from his grandfather, from al-Zubayr, who said: “By Allah, it is as though I can still hear Muʿtab ibn Qushayr’s words—while slumber was overcoming me so that they reached me only like a dream—when he said: ‘If we had had any say in the matter, we would not have been killed here’ (Q 3:154).”

Al-Zuhrī transmitted through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Maswar ibn Makhramah, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: “Sleep descended upon us on the Day of Uḥud.”

Ibn Isḥāq reported—on the authority of ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar, al-Zuhrī, and others—who said: “The Day of Uḥud was a day of trial and purification: Allah tested the believers through it and eliminated the hypocrites who professed Islam only with their tongues. On that day Allah honored more than one person with martyrdom, and about the events of Uḥud sixty verses of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān were revealed.”

Al-Madāʾinī related, on the authority of Salām ibn Miskīn, from Qatādah, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, who said: “The banner of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the Day of Uḥud was a black cloak that …”