Al-Bukhārī likewise records: Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd narrated from his father, from his grandfather, who said:

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (ibn ʿAwf) said, “While I was standing in the ranks on the Day of Badr I glanced to my right and left and saw two boys, hardly more than youths. I felt uneasy about their being beside me when one of them, without the other hearing, whispered, ‘Uncle, point out Abū Jahl to me.’ I replied, ‘Nephew, what do you want with him?’ He said, ‘I have pledged to Allah that if I see him I will kill him or die in the attempt.’ The other whispered the same. Nothing would have pleased me more than to stand between two men such as them. I pointed Abū Jahl out to them, and they rushed at him like two falcons and struck him down; they were the sons of ʿAfrāʾ.

Both Ṣaḥīḥs also transmit—through Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Anas ibn Mālik—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘Who will see what has become of Abū Jahl?’ Ibn Masʿūd answered, ‘I will, O Messenger of Allah,’ and went off until he found that the sons of ʿAfrāʾ had struck him until he lay cold. Ibn Masʿūd took hold of his beard and asked, ‘Are you Abū Jahl?’ He replied, ‘Is there anything noteworthy about a man you have killed?’—or he said, ‘…about a man his own people have killed.’

Al-Bukhārī also relates, through Abū Usāmah, from Ismāʿīl, from Qays, from Ibn Masʿūd, that he came upon Abū Jahl and said, ‘Has Allah not humiliated you?’ He answered, ‘Is there anything remarkable about a man you have killed?’

Al-Aʿmash reports, from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from ʿAbd Allāh (Ibn Masʿūd): ‘I reached Abū Jahl while he was lying on the ground. He was wearing a helmet, holding a fine sword, whereas mine was poor. I began hacking at his head with my sword, remembering the blows he used to rain on my head in Mecca, until his hand weakened; then I took his sword. He lifted his head and asked, “To whom has the day turned—ours or yours? Are you not the little shepherd we had in Mecca?” I killed him, then went to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “I have killed Abū Jahl.” He said, “By Allah, besides whom there is no deity?” He made me swear three times, then rose, went with me to the slain, and invoked Allah’s curse upon them.’

Imām Aḥmad likewise narrates: Wakīʿ told us; Isrāʾīl narrated from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū ʿUbaydah, who said that ʿAbd Allāh (Ibn Masʿūd) recounted: ‘I came upon Abū Jahl on the Day of Badr; his leg had been struck and he was lying prostrate, yet still fending people off with his sword. I said, “Praise be to Allah, Who has disgraced you, enemy of Allah!” He retorted, “It is only a man whom his own people have killed.” Then I began…’