Mujāhid said: “He sent rain down upon them; it settled the dust, packed the ground, lifted their spirits, and steadied their feet.”
I say: The night of Badr was Friday night, the seventeenth of Ramaḍān in the second year after the Hijrah. That night the Messenger of Allah ﷺ spent the whole time praying beside the stump of a tree, and in his prostration he repeatedly implored, “O Ever-Living, O Sustainer,” invoking it over and over with fervor.
Ibn Isḥāq said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ hurried ahead of the enemy to reach the water, and when he arrived at the nearest well of Badr he encamped there.
Ibn Isḥāq also related: I was told by men of the Banū Salamah that al-Ḥubāb ibn al-Munḏir ibn al-Jamūḥ said, “Messenger of Allah, this spot where we have stopped—did Allah command you to camp here so that we may neither advance nor fall back, or is it merely strategy, warfare, and planning?” He replied, “It is strategy, warfare, and planning.” Al-Ḥubāb said, “Messenger of Allah, then this is not the place. Lead the people on until we reach the well closest to the enemy; we will camp there, stop up the wells behind it, build a cistern over the well we occupy, fill it with water, and then fight the people so that we drink and they do not.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “You have given sound counsel.”
Al-Umawī reported: My father narrated to us. He said that al-Kalbī, on the authority of Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, claimed: While the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was arranging the ranks and Gabriel stood at his right, an angel came to him and said, “O Muḥammad, Allah conveys to you the greeting of peace.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, “He is Peace, from Him comes peace, and to Him peace returns.” The angel then said, “Allah says to you: the plan is exactly what al-Ḥubāb ibn al-Munḏir advised.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, “O Gabriel, do you know this angel?” He answered, “Not every inhabitant of heaven do I know, but he is truthful and he is no devil.”