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298 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD asked, and he replied, 'Wkkzsha b. Mih~an.' Dira b. al-Azwar commented, 'He's one of our men, Messenger of God.' He replied, 'He's not one of yours. He's one of ours by alliance.'" Al-Bayhaqi related, from al-H&m, through Muhammad b. Wmar al-Wzqidi, "Wmar b. Wthman al-Khashni related to me, from his father, from his maternal aunt, who said, 'Wkhsha b. Mih~an stated, "My sword broke at Badr, so the Messenger of God (SAAS) gave me a stick and suddenly it became a long, white sword. I fought with it until God defeated the polytheists." He kept it with him until he died."' Al-Wnqidi stated, "Usm b. Zayd related to me, from Dz'iid b. al-Husayn, from some men of the Banii al-Ashhal, several of whom said, 'The sword of Salama b. Huraysh broke during the battle of Badr. Without a sword, he was unable to fight, so the Messenger of God (SAAS) gave hi a staff he carried made of a green palm hree frond. He told him, "fight with this!" And it turned into a fine sword. He kept it with hi until he was killed at the battle of Jisr Aba Wbayda."' HOW THE PROPHET ($US) REPLACED QATADA'S EYE. Al-Bayhaqi stated, in the Dalz'il (The Signs), "Abii Sa'd al-Mdini informed us, quoting Abii Ahmad b. 'Adi, quoting Abii Ya'la, quoting Y&yn al-Himm~ni, quoting 'Abd alLCAziz b. SulaymPn h. al-Gbasil, from 'A~im h. Wmar h. Qatnda, from his father, from his grandfather Qamda b. al-NuCm2n, that his eye was wounded at Badr and that its pupil came down on to his cheekbone. They were about to slice it off, but asked the Messenger of God (SAAS) who said that they should not do this. He then said a prayer for him, covering his cheek with his palm. And later you could not tell which of his eyes had been struck!" According to one account, this became his better eye. An account came down to us from the Commander of the Believers, Wmar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz that when he was told this account by 'Asi b. Wmar b. Qatnda, he also recited, "I am the son of him on whose cheek his eye descended, which was replaced so well by the hand of the Chosen-One." Upon hearing this, Wmar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz, God bless him, quoted very appropriately the verse of Umayya h. Aha al-Salt about the sword of Ibn Dho Yazin, "These fine qualities are not like two bowls with milk merely whitening the water that soon becomes urine." ANOTHER SIMILAR ACCOUNT. Al-Bayhaqi stated, "The hzjiz Aba 'Abd Allah informed us, quoting Muhammad b. Sdih, quoting al-Fad1 b. Muhammad al-Sha'rzni, quoting
IMAM ABU AL-FIDA' 1SM.K'IL IBN KATH~R 299 Ihr~him h. al-Mundhir, quoting 'Abd al-'Aziz h. 'Imriln, quoting Rifz'a h. Y&yz, quoting Musdh h. Rifz'a h. mfi', from his father M' h. Maik, who said, 'At the battle of Badr, the enemy was gathered around Ubayy b. Khalaf and when I drew near him, I saw that his chain-mail had been damaged beneath his arm pit. So I stabbed him there with my sword. At Badr I was also hit by an arrow and my eye was gouged out. The Messenger of God (SAAS) spat on it and said a prayer for me. And no harm had been done to me.'" This account is unique from this line; its chain of transmission is excellent, hut the (major) scholars did not quote it. Al-Tihrani, however, related it from a hadith of Ibrahim h. al-Mundhir. Ibn Hishk stated, "And Abii Bakr called for his son 'Ahd al-Rahmm who was at that time on the side of the polytheists, not yet having accepted Islam. Abii Bakr asked him, 'Well, where's my property now, evil one?' 'Abd al-Rahmw replied, in verse, "All that remains are weapons and the horse Ya'bah, and a sword with which to kill silly old men." By this he meant that all that was left was equipment for warfare and a horse, named Ya'bnb, on which misguided old men could he fought. This is what he said in his state of disbelief. We have been informed in al-Umawi's work on the military campaigns that the Messenger of God (SAAS) and Abii Bakr went out and walked among the dead, the former commenting, "We're splimng the chieftains apart," the latter reciting the verse, "Of powerful men who were against us; they were very haughty and evil!" An Account of how the heads of the unbelievers were thrown into the well at the battle of Badr. Ihn Ishaq stated, "Yazid h. RiimZn related to me, from Wrwa, from 'A'isha, who said, 'When the Messenger of God (SAAS) ordered that those killed should he thrown into the burial pit, it was done. Umayya b. Khalaf, however, was not thrown in because he had swollen up in his armour and quite filled it. When they went to take him out of it, his body fell apart so they left him in it and threw on him the earth and the stones they had removed. "'Having thrown them into the pit, he stood over them and said, "0 denizens of the pit, have you found what your Lord promised you to he true, for I have found what my Lord promised me?"' "She went on, 'His Companions asked him, "0 Messenger of God, are you talking to people who are dead?"
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CONTENTS Foreword About this Series
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CONTENTS vii Chapter: On the birth
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