Thereupon Allah revealed:
“Yours is not the decision at all—whether He turns to them in mercy or punishes them, for they are indeed wrongdoers.”
(Qur’an 3:128)

Muslim also transmits the report (1) through al-Qaʿnabī from Ḥammād ibn Salamah.

Imām Aḥmad relates it as well (2) through Hushaym and Yazīd ibn Hārūn, from Ḥumayd, from Anas, who said: On the Day of Uḥud the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had one of his incisors broken and a wound opened in his forehead until blood flowed down his face. He exclaimed, “How can a people ever prosper who have done this to their Prophet while he is calling them to their Lord?!” So Allah, exalted is He, sent down: “Yours is not the decision…”—the rest of the verse.

Al-Bukhārī says (3): Qutaybah narrated to us; Yaʿqūb narrated to us, from Abū Ḥāzim, who heard Sahl ibn Saʿd asked about the wound of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. [He replied, “By Allah, I know who washed the wound of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who poured the water, and with what it was treated.”] He said: It was Fāṭimah, the daughter of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who washed it, and ʿAlī poured water over it with a shield. When Fāṭimah saw that the water only made the blood flow more, she took a piece of matting, burned it [and pressed the ash against the wound]; the bleeding stopped. On that day his incisor was broken, his face cut, and the helmet’s visor fractured upon his head.

Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī records in his Musnad (4): Ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, from Isḥāq ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh, who informed me from ʿĪsā ibn Ṭalḥah, from the Mother of the Believers ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—who said:

Whenever Abū Bakr recalled the Day of Uḥud he would weep and say, “That day was completely in favor of Ṭalḥah.” She then related: I was the first to return to the battlefield on the Day of Uḥud and I saw a man fighting before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, shielding him—I think she said, “protecting him.” I said, “Let it be Ṭalḥah,” for I had missed what I had missed. Then I added, “If only he were a man of my own clan, that would please me more.” Between me and the east stood a man I did not recognize, though I was nearer to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ than he was; yet he was striding faster than I could. It turned out to be Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ.

We reached the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his incisor had been broken, his face gashed, and two links of the chain-mail helmet had sunk into his cheeks. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “See to your companion”—meaning Ṭalḥah, who was bleeding heavily—but we paid no heed.

I moved to pull the links from his face, but Abū ʿUbaydah said, “I adjure you by the right I have over you—leave them to me.” So I left him. He was reluctant to grasp them with his hand lest he hurt the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; instead he clenched them with his teeth, pulled out one link, and one of his incisors fell out with it. I started to do as he had done, but he said, “I adjure you by the right I have over you—leave them to me.” He repeated what he had done the first time, and his other incisor fell out with the second link. From that day Abū ʿUbaydah—may Allah be pleased with him—was counted among the most handsome of people despite his missing teeth.

After tending to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, we went to Ṭalḥah, who lay in one of the ravines. He bore some seventy-odd wounds of stabs, arrows, and sword-blows, and one of his fingers had been severed. We attended to his injuries as well.