THE DU‘A OF THE PROPHET AFTER THE BATTLE OF UHUD
Imam Ahmad related that Ibn Rifa‘ah Az-Zuraqi narrated from his father who said: On the day of Uhud when the polytheists were repelled, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: “Arrange yourselves in rows so that I may praise my Lord, to Whom is Glory.” They arranged themselves behind him in rows and he supplicated:
“O Allah to You belongs all Praise. O Allah, no one can withhold what You have let loose and no one can let loose what you have withheld. No one can guide the one Whom You leave astray and no one can misguide the one Whom You have guided. No one can prevent what You choose to give and no one can give what You prevent. No one can bring close the one Who You have distanced and no one can distance the one whom You have brought close. O Allah, bestow upon us Your blessings, mercy, bounty and provision.
“O Allah, verily I ask of You the everlasting bliss, which never grows stale nor vanishes. O Allah, I seek Your aid on the day of poverty, and Your security on the day of fear. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evil of what You have bestowed on us and what You have not bestowed. O Allah, make faith beloved to us and make it beautiful in our hearts, and make disbelief hateful to us, as well as sin and disobedience, and count us among the upright ones. O Allah, make us die as Muslims and resurrect us as Muslims and admit us among the righteous, neither disgraced nor beguiled. O Allah, fight the disbelievers who deceive Your messengers and deter others from Your Way, and send upon them punishment and chastisement. O Allah, fight the disbelievers who have been given the Scripture, O God of Truth.”
Ibn Ishaq related that Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Abdur-Rahman Ibn Abi Sa‘sa‘ah Al-Mazini, the brother of Banu Najjar, narrated to me that when the people finished recounting their dead, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said (i.e. after the conclusion of the Battle of Uhud): “Who will check for me what happened to Sa‘d Ibn Ar-Rabee‘, is he among the dead or the living?” A man from the Ansar said: “I will do that.” So he went round all the martyrs of the battle until he found Sa‘d mortally wounded and in the throes of death. So he said to him: “O Sa‘d! Allah’s Messenger ordered me to check whether you are among the dead or among the living?” Then he said, “Certainly I am among the dead. When you get to the Messenger of Allah, say to him: ‘Sa‘d is saying may Allah reward you for me greater than any Prophet is ever rewarded on behalf of his community. Convey my salam to your people and say to them: ‘Sa‘d is saying to you: verily there is no excuse for you in the presence of Allah if they find access to your Prophet while you have eyes…” He did not recover till he died, then I came to Allah’s Messenger to inform him of his fate.
Ibn Ishaq related that according to what reached me, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, searched for the corpse of Hamzah Ibn ‘Abdul-Muttalib and found him in the middle of the valley with his stomach ripped and his liver taken out. His corpse had been mutilated. His nose and ears were cut off. Muhammad Ibn Ja‘afar Ibn Az-Zubair narrated to me that Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said when he saw the spectacle: “Were it not that it would grieve Safiyyah and I fear that it would become a practice after me, I would have left his corpse to be eaten by wild animals and birds of prey and if Allah makes us confront the Quraish in another battle I shall severely deal with thirty of their men.” When the Muslims saw the grief and anger of Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, over what had been done to his uncle, they said: “If Allah grants us victory over them at another time, we shall severely punish them in a manner that is unprecedented among the Arabs.”
Ibn Ishaq related: Buraidah Ibn Sufyan Ibn Farwah Al-Aslami narrated to me from Muhammad Ibn Ka‘b that Ibn ‘Abbas said concerning the statement of Allah: And if you punish (your enemy, O you Believers in the Oneness of Allah), then punish them with the like of that with which you were afflicted. But if you endure patiently, verily, it is better for As-Sabireen (the patient ones, etc.) And endure you patiently (O Muhammad), your patience is not but from Allah. (Soorah An-Nahl 16:126,127)
Then Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, refrained and chose to be patient and forbade torturing.
I say: This Verse is Makkan and the event of Uhud occurred three years after the Hijrah, so how could it be connected with this? And Allah (SWT) knows best.
Imam Ahmad related that ‘Urwah said: My father, Az-Zubair narrated to me that on the day of Uhud, a woman approached swiftly till she almost got close to the corpses. The Prophet detested that she should see them, so he said: “The woman! The woman!!” Az-Zubair said: “I checked and found out that she was my aunt, Safiyyah. So I ran toward her and caught her before she got to the corpses. She hit me on the chest and she was a resilient woman.” She said: “Go away from me (otherwise) I shall not be pleased with you.” So I said to her: “Allah’s Messenger has forbidden you.” Then she stopped and brought out two clothes with her and said: “I have brought these two clothes for my brother, Hamzah. I have been informed of his death, so bury him in them.” Then we brought the two clothes to shroud Hamzah. However, by his side was an Ansari who had met a similar fate as Hamzah. We found it a detraction and shameful to shroud Hamzah in two clothes while the Ansari is buried without a shroud. So we said: give one shroud to Hamzah and the other to the Ansari. So we shared it. One was bigger than the other. We measured both of them and gave to each the cloth that is commensurate.
By: Ibn Katheer
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