A Section: Another, similar account

Al-Bayhaqī states (1): Abū ʿAbd-Allāh al-Ḥāfiẓ related to us; Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ related to us; al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad al-Shaʿrānī narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Munḏir informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿImrān told me, saying that Rifāʿah ibn Yaḥyā narrated from Muʿādh ibn Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ, from his father Rifāʿah ibn Rāfiʿ ibn Mālik, from his father, who said:

“When the Day of Badr arrived, the people surrounded Umayyah ibn Khalaf. I made my way toward him and noticed that a piece of his coat of mail, just beneath his armpit, had been torn away. I thrust my sword into that opening with a blow that cut him down. That same day I was struck by an arrow that destroyed my eye; the Messenger of Allah ﷺ spat into it and prayed for me, and from then on it never caused me the slightest pain.”

This report comes only through this route; its chain is sound, though it was not recorded in the two Ṣaḥīḥs. Al-Ṭabarānī also transmitted it through Ibrāhīm ibn al-Munḏir.

Ibn Hishām (5) relates that Abū Bakr called out to his son ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—who was still with the idol-worshippers that day and had not yet embraced Islam—saying, “Where is my money, you rogue?” ʿAbd al-Raḥmān replied:

Nothing remains but a spear’s sharp point and a tireless charger,
And a keen blade that brings the misguided greybeards low!

He meant: nothing is left with me except the equipment of war and a horse—the “yaʿbūb,” a stallion—on which I fight the elders of misguidance; he uttered this while still in disbelief.

We have likewise transmitted in “The Campaigns of al-Umawī” that on the Day of Badr the Messenger of Allah ﷺ walked with Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq among the slain, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was chanting:

We shatter heads …

Whereupon al-Ṣiddīq responded:

… of men once mighty toward us—
yet they proved the more treacherous and unjust.