Ibn Isḥāq said (1): “Abū Dujānah made his own body a shield before the Messenger of Allah ﷺ. Arrows kept striking his back as he hunched over him, until they were thickly embedded in him.”

Ibn Isḥāq said (1): “ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah told me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ continued shooting with his bow until its tip snapped (2). Qatādah ibn al-Nuʿmān picked it up, and it remained in his possession.”

Ibn Isḥāq said (3): “Al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān [ibn Rāfiʿ] of Banū ʿAdiyy ibn al-Najjār related: Anas ibn al-Naḍr, the uncle of Anas ibn Mālik, came upon ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb and Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh together with a group of Emigrants and Helpers who had laid down their arms. He asked, ‘What keeps you sitting here?’ They replied, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has been killed.’ He said, ‘Then what will you do with life after him? Rise and die upon what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ died upon!’ He thereupon advanced against the enemy, fought until he was slain, and it is after him that Anas ibn Mālik was named.”

Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl narrated to me (4) from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: “That day we counted seventy wounds on Anas ibn al-Naḍr; no one recognized him save his sister, who identified him by his fingertips (5).”

Ibn Hishām said (6): “Some scholars informed me that ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf had his mouth struck that day, breaking his teeth; he received twenty wounds or more, one of them in his leg, so that he walked with a limp.”

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Ibn Isḥāq said (7): “According to what al-Zuhrī told me, the first person to recognize the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after the rout—while people were saying, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has been killed’—was Kaʿb ibn Mālik. He said, ‘I saw his eyes gleaming beneath his helmet, so I shouted at the top of my voice, “O Muslims, rejoice! Here is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ!” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ motioned to me (8) to be silent.’”

Ibn Isḥāq said (9): “When the Muslims realized that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was alive, they rose with him and made their way toward the mountain pass, with him …”