A report states:
“When Alī instructed Fātima to wash his sword on the day of Uhud, he said, ‘Wash it; it deserves no blame.’ The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—then said, ‘If you have acquitted yourself well, so too have so-and-so and so-and-so.’” He named several of the Companions (1).
[Section: The Rāfidī’s statement concerning the Battle of Badr and its rebuttal]
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The Rāfidī (2) said: “The Battle of Badr—the first of the military campaigns—took place eighteen months after his arrival in Medina (3), when he was twenty-seven years old. He single-handedly killed thirty-six of them. They (4) constituted more than half of those killed, and he had a share in killing the rest.”
The answer is that, by the consensus of scholars versed in Prophetic biography and military campaigns, this is a manifest fabrication. No reliable transmitter has ever mentioned it; it is nothing but an invention of ignorant liars. Rather, authentic reports establish that several men were killed without Alī having any part in killing any of them, such as Abū Jahl and Uqba ibn Abī Muayt, as well as one of Rabīa’s two sons—either Utba ibn Rabīa or Shayba ibn Rabīa—and Ubayy ibn Khalaf, among others.
This was because, when three of the polytheists—Utba, Shayba, and al-Walīd—came forward, there stepped forward