and His Messenger.

When the truce had been concluded and the two sides had begun to mingle, I walked over to a tree, cleared away its thorns, and lay down in its shade. Four men from Mecca came up to me and started vilifying the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so I grew to detest them and moved to another tree. There they hung up their weapons and lay down. While they were in that state, a voice called out from the lower part of the valley: “Help, O Emigrants! Ibn Zanīm has been killed!” I immediately drew my sword, rushed at those four while they were asleep, seized their weapons, and tied them together in a bundle in my hand. I then said, “By Him who has honored the face of Muhammad ﷺ, if any one of you so much as raises his head, I will strike the very eyes in his face.” I then drove them before me until I brought them to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

My uncle ʿĀmir also arrived, leading a man from the ʿAblāt clan named Makriz, and when we had them all stand before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ there were seventy idolaters in total. He looked at them and said, “Leave them; the first act of wickedness and its blame will be on them.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ thereupon pardoned them, and Allah revealed: “He it is who restrained their hands from you and your hands from them” (Qur’an 48:24). Muslim recorded this report.

Hammād ibn Salamah also narrated—from Thābit, from Anas—that some men from Mecca descended upon the Prophet ﷺ from the direction of Mount Tanʿīm intending to fight him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ captured them and then set them free, whereupon Allah revealed: “He it is who restrained their hands from you and your hands from them …” (the verse). Muslim recorded this as well.

Al-Walīd ibn Muslim said: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-ʿUmari related to us, saying: Nāfiʿ informed me from Ibn ʿUmar that the people were with the Prophet ﷺ on the Day of Ḥudaybiyyah, having—