to them, and when he was about to reach their quarters he turned to his people and said, “The time has come when, for Allah’s sake, I shall not care about the reproach of any reproacher.” Abū Saʿīd went on: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ appeared he said, “Stand up for your leader…”—and so the report continues—then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Pass judgment on them.” Saʿd replied, “My judgment is that their fighting men be put to death, their women and children taken captive, and their property distributed.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “You have judged with the ruling of Allah and the ruling of His Messenger.”

She continued: Saʿd then prayed, “O Allah, if You have kept for Your Prophet ﷺ any remaining fight against Quraysh, then keep me alive for it; but if You have ended the war between him and them, then take me to Yourself.” She said: his wound split open—it had healed so completely that only a mark like the hole of an earring could be seen—and he was taken back to the pavilion the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had set up for him. ʿĀʾishah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ, Abū Bakr, and ʿUmar came to him. She added, “By Him in whose hand is the soul of Muhammad, I could recognize the weeping of ʿUmar from the weeping of Abū Bakr while I was in my chamber, and they were—as Allah says—‘merciful to one another.’” ʿAlqamah said: I asked, “Mother, how did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ comport himself?” She replied, “His eyes would not shed tears for anyone, but when he felt grief he would take hold of his beard.”

I say: This isnād (chain of transmission) is ḥasan. Al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (6 / 128): “It was narrated by Aḥmad; in it is Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, whose hadith are ḥasan, and the remaining narrators are trustworthy.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in Fatḥ (11 / 43): “Its chain is sound (ḥasan).” I also say: It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (4 / 175), Abū Dāwūd (5215), Aḥmad (2 / 22, 71), and Abū Yaʿlā.