No authorization was given concerning them, so the Messenger of God ﷺ returned to Madinah. In Ramadan of the following year their delegation came to him and embraced Islam; the details will be given, God willing, under the events of Ramadan in the ninth year AH.
Below is the roll of the Muslims who were martyred at al-Ṭāʾif, as recorded by Ibn Isḥāq (1):
From Quraysh: Saʿīd ibn Saʿīd ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Umayyah; ʿUrfaṭah ibn Jannāb, an ally of Banū Umayyah from Asad ibn Ghouth; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr al-Ṣiddīq—struck by an arrow and later succumbing to it in Madinah after the death of the Messenger of God ﷺ; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Umayyah ibn al-Mughīrah al-Makhzūmī, wounded by an arrow that same day; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿĀmir ibn Rabīʿah, an ally of Banū ʿAdī; al-Sāʾib ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Qays ibn ʿAdī al-Sahmī and his brother ʿAbd Allāh; and Julayḥah ibn ʿAbd Allāh of Banū Saʿd ibn Layth.
From the Anṣār—of the Khazraj: Thābit ibn al-Jadhaʿ al-Sulamī; al-Ḥārith ibn Sahl ibn Abī Saʿsaʿah al-Māzinī; and al-Mundhir ibn ʿAbd Allāh of Banū Sāʿidah. From the Aws there was only Ruqaym ibn Thābit ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Zayd ibn Lawdhān ibn Muʿāwiyah.
In all, twelve men were martyred that day: seven from Quraysh, four from the Anṣār, and one from Banū Layth—may God be pleased with them all.
Ibn Isḥāq (2) relates that when the Messenger of God ﷺ withdrew from al-Ṭāʾif, Bujayr ibn Zuhayr ibn Abī Sullamā composed the following verses, recalling Ḥunayn and al-Ṭāʾif (in the Kāmil metre) (3):
It was but the surplus left from Batn Ḥunayn,
From the dawn at Awṭās and the day of al-Abruq.
Through misleading counsel Hawāzin mustered its hosts,
Then scattered like a bird whose feathers are torn.
They barred us from no station save their wall
And the trench at its base.
We taunted them to sally forth, yet they sought refuge
Behind a bolted gate.
We drove them back bewildered into whirling dust,
A grey-hued phalanx that flashed with death.
A compact, verdant mass: had they hurled it at Ḥaḍan,
The mountain would have seemed never to have been formed.
We advanced sure-footed on rugged rock,
Like cauldrons that part on their chains then meet again.
Clad in every ample coat of mail; when one closed ranks,
It was like a mountain pass swept by a darting breeze.