it will be easier for you and for me.’ So he left her as a concubine. At first she had hesitated to accept Islam, but later she embraced it, which gladdened the Prophet ﷺ. Allah knows best.
In the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, in the fifth year AH, Saʿd ibn Muʿādh passed away.
Hishām ibn ʿUrwah relates—through his father—from ʿĀʾishah who said: Saʿd was wounded on the Day of the Trench when a man of Quraysh called Ḥibbān ibn al-ʿArqa shot him in the median vein of his arm. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ pitched a tent for him inside the mosque so that he could visit him at close hand. When the Prophet returned from the trench (she recounted the rest of the report), ʿĀʾishah said: Saʿd’s wound began to harden instead of healing, whereupon he supplicated, ‘O Allah, You know there are no people I love to strive against for Your sake more than those who belied Your Messenger and expelled him. O Allah, I believe You have now put an end to the war between us and them. If any fighting with Quraysh still remains, keep me alive until I can struggle against them for Your sake; but if You have indeed ended the war between us and them, then cause this wound to burst open and let my death be in it.’ The narrator continues: his wound suddenly split open at the base of his neck, and—while some members of the Banū Ghifār were in their tent inside the mosque—blood gushed toward them. They cried out, ‘People of the tent, is this blood coming from your side?’ They found that Saʿd’s injury had reopened; the blood flowed relentlessly, and he died of it. The report is agreed upon.
Al-Layth narrated: Abū al-Zubayr told me, from Jābir, that Saʿd was shot on the Day of the Confederates; the arrow severed his median vein. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ cauterized it with fire, causing his hand to swell, so he left it alone. The bleeding resumed, so he cauterized it a second time; the hand swelled again. When Saʿd saw this he prayed, ‘O Allah, do not take my soul until my eyes are cooled by what happens to the Banū Qurayẓah.’ The vein then constricted and