Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 39438 — The great Battle of Badr, how it came

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him): On the day of Badr I was standing in the rank. I looked to my right and my left and saw two boys of young age. I disliked their standing there. One of the boys said to me, secretly from his companion: "O uncle! Show me Abu Jahl." Abd al-Rahman bin Awf said: I asked: "What do you want with him?" The boy replied: "I have vowed in the name of Allah that if I see him, I will kill him." Abd al-Rahman bin Awf said: The other boy also said, secretly from his companion: "O uncle! Show me Abu Jahl." Abd al-Rahman said: I asked: "What do you want with him?" This boy replied: "I have vowed in the name of Allah that if I see him, I will kill him." Abd al-Rahman said: (Hearing this,) I would not have been pleased to have anyone else in their place. He said: I said: "That is Abu Jahl." He said: I pointed Abu Jahl out to the two of them. They both swooped upon him as if they were falcons, and these two were the sons of Afra, until they struck him down.