Hassān ibn Thābit composed in reply:
You vaunted the banner—yet what a paltry boast:
a banner that in the end was passed to Ṣuʾāb.
Your pride you hung upon a slave—
the meanest wretch who ever trod the dusty earth.
You fancied—fools are full of fancies,
but fancy is far from sound resolve—
that when our blades flashed the day we met in Mecca
we were but selling scarlet wares.
How pleasing to the eye to see his hands in bonds—
and they were bound for no perfumed henna.
He also said, chiding them when ʿAmrah bint ʿAlqamah raised their banner:
When helpless women were driven toward us,
like snared fawns, brows delicately traced,
we met them with stabbing—deadly, chastening—
and hemmed them in with blows from every side.
Had it not been for the banner of that Hārithī woman,
they would have been sold in the markets like common captives.
Ibn Isḥāq said:
The Muslims broke in disorder and the enemy struck them; it was a day of testing and purification. God honored with martyrdom whomever He willed, until the enemy reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. They pelted him with stones so that he fell on his side; one of his incisors was broken, his face gashed, and his lip split. The one who hit him was ʿUtbah ibn Abī Waqqāṣ.
Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl related to me on the authority of Anas ibn Mālik:
The Prophet’s incisor was broken on the Day of Uḥud, his face was wounded, and blood streamed down it. He kept wiping the blood away, saying,
“How can a people prosper who have stained their Prophet’s face with blood while he calls them to Allah?”
Then Allah revealed:
“You have no part in the matter: He may turn to them in mercy or punish them, for they are indeed wrongdoers.” (Āl ʿImrān 3:128)
Ibn Jarīr records in his History: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn told us, Aḥmad ibn al-Mufaḍḍal told us, Asbāṭ told us, on the authority of al-Suddi:
Ibn Qumayʾah al-Hārithī hurled a stone at the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, breaking his nose and incisor and gashing his face grievously. His Companions scattered—some fled into Madinah, others climbed the mountain to the rock. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept calling, “Come to me, servants of Allah! Come to me, servants of Allah!” Thirty men rallied to him and walked ahead of him, yet none held his ground save Ṭalḥah and Sahl ibn Ḥanīf. Ṭalḥah shielded him and was struck by an arrow in the hand, which left it useless. Then Ubayy ibn Khalaf al-Jumahī advanced—he had sworn he would kill the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet replied, “No, it is I who will kill you.”