Hammād ibn Salamah narrated—through Thābit—from Anas, who used to say: “At the Battle of Uḥud, at Biʾr Maʿūnah, at Muʿtah, and at al-Yamāmah the number of those killed was close to seventy on each occasion.”

Mālik (d. 179 AH) transmitted—from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī—on the authority of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib: “Seventy of the Anṣār were slain at Uḥud, seventy at al-Yamāmah, and seventy at the Battle of the Bridge of Abū ʿUbayd.” The same figure is reported by ʿIkrimah, ʿUrwah, al-Zuhrī, and Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq regarding the martyrs of Uḥud.

This is corroborated by the Almighty’s words: “And when a calamity befell you, although you had inflicted twice as much (on them)…” (Āl ʿImrān 3:165), meaning that at Badr they had killed seventy and taken seventy prisoners.

Ibn Isḥāq (d. 151 AH) states: “Sixty-five of the Anṣār were killed at Uḥud, along with four of the Muhājirūn—Hamzah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jahsh, Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr, and Shammās ibn ʿUthmān; the remainder were from the Anṣār.” He then listed their names tribe by tribe. Ibn Hishām later added five more names, bringing the total to seventy according to his reckoning. Ibn Isḥāq also recorded the names of the idolaters killed that day—twenty-two men.

According to ʿUrwah, “The martyrs of Uḥud numbered forty— or he said: forty-seven.”

Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah said: “Forty-nine.” He added: “Sixteen idolaters were killed that day.” ʿUrwah put the number at nineteen, while Ibn Isḥāq maintained it was twenty-two.

Al-Rabīʿ related—from al-Shāfiʿī: “No prisoners were taken from the idolaters except Abū ʿUzzah al-Jumaḥī. He had been among the captives at Badr, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had released him without ransom on the condition that he would not fight him again. When he was captured at Uḥud he pleaded, ‘O Muḥammad, show me clemency for the sake of my daughters, and I pledge that I will not fight you.’ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, ‘I will not let you wipe your beard in Mecca and boast, “I deceived Muḥammad twice.”’ He then ordered that Abū ʿUzzah be put to death.” Some report that on that occasion the Prophet ﷺ also said, “A believer is not stung from the same hole twice.”

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Ibn Isḥāq recounts: “Thereafter the Messenger of Allah ﷺ returned to Madinah. Ḥamnah bint Jahsh came out to meet him, as I have been informed. When she met the people they told her that her brother ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jahsh had been killed; she uttered, ‘Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return,’ and prayed for his forgiveness. Then they informed her that her maternal uncle, Hamzah ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, had fallen; again she said, ‘Indeed we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return,’ and prayed for his forgiveness. Finally they told her that her husband, Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr, had been slain—whereupon she cried out in grief.