whose mother was ʿUmaymah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. He had been mutilated, though his liver had not been slit open—may Allah be pleased with him.

Al-Suhaylī (1) remarks that he was known as “al-Mujdhaʿ fi ’llāh” (the one disfigured for the sake of Allah).

He also relates that Saʿd said he and ʿAbd Allah ibn Jahsh each offered a supplication which was granted. Saʿd prayed that he might meet a horseman from among the polytheists, kill him, and take his spoils—and so it happened. ʿAbd Allah ibn Jahsh prayed that he might encounter a horseman who would kill him and cut off his nose for the sake of Allah—and so it came to pass.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār reports that Ibn Jahsh’s sword broke that day, so the Messenger of Allah ﷺ handed him a dried palm stalk (ʿurjūn )(2); in his hand it became a sword with which he fought. Later it was sold, in the estate of one of his descendants, for two hundred dinars. A similar event had occurred earlier for ʿUkkāshah on the day of Badr.

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī further relates that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ placed two or three men in a single grave—and even in a single shroud—granting that concession because the Muslims were so badly wounded that digging a separate grave for each martyr was difficult. In the burial niche he would set foremost the one who had memorized more of the Qur’an, and he would lay two close companions together, as he did with ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥarām, Jābir’s father, and ʿAmr ibn al-Jamūḥ, for they were inseparable friends. The martyrs were not washed (3); they were left with their wounds and their blood, as Ibn Isḥāq (4) narrates from al-Zuhrī, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Ṣuʿayr, that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ looked upon the slain on the day of Uḥud he said:

“I testify on behalf of these men. No one who is wounded in the cause of Allah will be raised on the Day of Resurrection except with his wound still bleeding: its color is the color of blood, but its fragrance is the fragrance of musk.”

He added: My uncle Mūsā ibn Yasār told me that he heard Abū Hurayrah say that Abū’l-Qāsim ﷺ said:

“No one who is wounded in the cause of Allah will be raised on the Day of Resurrection except with his wound still bleeding; its color is the color of blood and its scent is the scent of musk.”

This ḥadīth is authentically recorded in the two Ṣaḥīḥs (5) through other chains.

Imām Aḥmad (6) narrates: ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim related to us, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās who said: On the day of Uḥud the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ordered that the martyrs’ iron and leather be removed and declared, “Bury them with their blood and their clothes.”

Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Mājah (7) also transmit this through the narration of ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim.