did not flee. The Hawāzin were accomplished archers; when we met them and charged, they broke and ran. The people then hurried toward the spoils, but the enemy faced us with their arrows and the people scattered. I saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while Abū Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith was holding the bridle of his mule, and the Prophet ﷺ was proclaiming:

“I am the Prophet—no lie! I am the son of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.”

(Agreed upon.)

Al-Bukhārī and Muslim also transmitted this ḥadīth through Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah, from Abū Isḥāq. That version adds: “Only the younger, lighter members of his Companions went out, bare-headed and with little armor, and they met a people who were archers whose arrows scarcely ever missed.” Muslim further relates—through Zakariyyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah, from Abū Isḥāq—that the Prophet ﷺ said, “O Allah, send down Your help,” and the narrator remarked, “Whenever the battle intensified we shielded ourselves behind him ﷺ.”

Hushaym narrated from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said that Sayyābah ibn ʿĀṣim informed him that on the day of Ḥunayn the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared, “I am the son of the ʿAwātik.”

Abū ʿAwānah transmitted—through Qatādah—that on one of his expeditions the Messenger of Allah ﷺ likewise proclaimed, “I am the son of the ʿAwātik.”

Yūnus related from Ibn Shihāb that Kathīr ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib told him that al-ʿAbbās said: “I was with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the day of Ḥunayn. Abū Sufyān ibn al-Ḥārith and I stayed close to him while the Messenger of Allah ﷺ rode his white mule, a gift from Farwah ibn Nufāthah al-Judhāmī. When the Muslims and the polytheists confronted one another, they turned…”