THE GREAT BATTLE OF BADR
The Killing of Abul-Bakhtari Ibn Hisham
Ibn Ishaq related that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had forbidden that Abul-Bakhtari be killed because he was the most abstentious of people from (harming) Allah’s Messenger while he was in Makkah. He neither participated in hurting him nor did anything distasteful that would reach the Prophet. He was one of those who executed the repudiation of the boycott. AlMujadhdhar Ibn Dhiyad Al-Balawi, an ally of the Ansar met him one day and said: “Allah’s Messenger has forbidden us from killing you.” Meanwhile, Abul-Bakhatari was with a friend who had traveled with him from Makkah, his name was Junadah Ibn Mulaihah. So he asked: “What about my friend?” Al-Mujadhdhar replied: “I shall not let your friend go for the Messenger of Allah commanded us regarding you only.” Abul-Bakhtari said: “No, by Allah, then I and he shall both die together. I do not like that the women of the Quraish talk about me that I abandon my friend in my covetousness of life. Then Abul-Bakhatari said:
I shall not surrender a free-born friend
Until he dies or he is let off
So they fought and Al-Mujadhdhar Ibn Dhiyad killed him.
The Killing of Umayyah Ibn Khalaf
Narrated ‘Abdur-Rahman Ibn ‘Awf: I got an agreement written between me and Umayyah Ibn Khalaf that Umayyah would look after my property (or family) in Makkah and I would look after him in Madinah. When I mentioned the word ‘Ar-Rahman’ in the document, Umayyah said, ‘I do not know ‘Ar-Rahman.’ Write down to me your name, (with which you called yourself) in the pre-lslamic period of Ignorance.” So, I wrote my name ‘ ‘Abd ‘Amr’. On the day (of the Battle) of Badr, when all the people went to sleep, I went up the hill to protect him. Bilal saw him (i.e. Umayyah) and went to a gathering of Ansar and said, “(Here is) Umayyah Ibn Khalaf! Woe to me if he escapes!” So, a group of Ansar went out with Bilal to follow us (‘Abdur-Rahman and Umayyah). Being afraid that they would catch us, I left Umayyah’s son for them to keep them busy but the Ansar killed the son and insisted on following us. Umayyah was a fat man, and when they approached us, I told him to kneel down, and he knelt, and I laid myself on him to protect him, but the Ansar killed him by passing their swords underneath me, and one of them injured my foot with his sword. (The sub-narrator added, “ ‘Abdur-Rahman used to show us the trace of the wound on the back of his foot.”)
By: Ibn Katheer
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