Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah also recorded the report—through Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib—in his Maghāzī with wording to the same effect.

Ibn Isḥāq (1) said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ climbed up the mountain pass, Ubayy ibn Khalaf caught up with him, shouting, “May I not live if you survive!” The people said, “Messenger of Allah, shall one of us turn back and deal with him?” He replied, “Leave him.”

When Ubayy drew near, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took a spear from al-Ḥārith ibn al-Ṣimmah. Some of the men related to me that, once the Prophet grasped it, he gave it such a shake that those around him scattered like hairs flying off a camel’s back when it shakes itself. He then faced Ubayy and struck him in the neck with a thrust that made him topple repeatedly from his horse.

Al-Wāqidī (3) narrated a similar account through Yūnus ibn Muḥammad, ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik, and Kaʿb himself.

Al-Wāqidī also said (4): Ibn ʿUmar used to relate, “Ubayy ibn Khalaf died in the valley of Rābigh. I happened to be travelling through that valley late one night when I saw a blazing fire. Fear seized me, and suddenly a man emerged from it, dragging a chain and driven mad by thirst. Then a voice called out, ‘Do not give him water; he was slain by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. This is Ubayy ibn Khalaf.’”

It is firmly established in the two Ṣaḥīḥs (5)—as already cited—via the chain ʿAbd al-Razzāq, Maʿmar, Hammām, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Allah’s wrath is most severe against the man whom the Messenger of Allah kills in the path of Allah.” Al-Bukhārī also transmitted it through Ibn Jurayj, ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās with the wording: “Allah’s wrath is severe against the one killed by the Messenger of Allah in Allah’s cause.”

Al-Bukhārī further said (6): Abū al-Walīd related to us, from Shuʿbah, from Ibn al-Munkadir, who said: I heard Jābir state, “When my father was killed, I began to weep and uncover his face. The Companions of the Prophet ﷺ were telling me not to, yet the Prophet ﷺ did not forbid me. He said, ‘Do not weep for him—or, why do you weep for him?—the angels continued to shade him with their wings until he was lifted up.’” Bukhārī cites this narration here in suspended form, but connects its chain in the Book of Funerals through Bundār, Ghundar, and Shuʿbah. Muslim and al-Nasāʾī (7) likewise report it through several routes from Shuʿbah.

Al-Bukhārī also said (8): ʿAbdān narrated to us—ʿAbdullāh [ibn al-Mubārak] informed us—from Shuʿbah, from Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, from