Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 39547 — What Abu Bakr (Ibn Abi Shaybah)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the day of Uhud there were women behind the Muslims who were finishing off the wounded of the polytheists. Had I sworn an oath that day, I would not have broken it, that not one of us desired this world, until Allah Almighty revealed this verse: "Among you are some who desire this world and among you are some who desire the Hereafter. Then He turned you back from them that He might test you" [Al Imran: 152]. Then when the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) differed and acted against the command, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was left alone among nine men, seven of them from the Ansar and two from Quraysh, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) was the tenth of them. When the polytheists closed in on the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on the man who drives them away from us." The narrator says: A man of the Ansar stood up and fought for a while until he was killed. Then the polytheists closed in on the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) again, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May Allah Almighty have mercy on the man who drives them (the polytheists) away from us." He (peace and blessings be upon him) kept saying this until the seven men had been killed. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to his two companions: "We have not treated our companions fairly." Then Abu Sufyan came and said: "May Hubal be exalted!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Say, (O Companions): Allah Almighty is the Most High and the Most Majestic." Then Abu Sufyan said: "We have al-Uzza, and you have no al-Uzza." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said (to the Companions): "Say: Allah is our Protector, and the disbelievers have no protector." Then Abu Sufyan said: "(This) day is in return for the day of Badr. One day is in our favour and one day is against us. One day we are made to suffer and one day we are made glad. The killing of Hanzalah is in return for Hanzalah, and so-and-so in return for so-and-so, and so-and-so in return for so-and-so." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said (in reply): "This is no equality. As for our slain, they are alive and are given provision, and your slain are being punished in Hell." Then Abu Sufyan said: "Mutilation has (been found) among the people, although it happened without consulting me. I neither ordered it nor forbade it. I neither liked it nor disliked it. It neither displeased me nor pleased me." The narrator says: Then the people looked, and saw that the belly of Sayyiduna Hamzah (may Allah be pleased with him) had been ripped open, and Hind had taken his liver and chewed it, but she could not eat the liver. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Did Hind eat anything of the liver?" The people replied: "No!" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Allah Almighty did not will to enter anything of Hamzah into the Hellfire." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) laid (the body of) Sayyiduna Hamzah down and offered the funeral prayer over him. Then one of the Ansar (a slain Companion) was brought and laid at the side of Sayyiduna Hamzah, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) offered the funeral prayer. Then the body of the Ansari was lifted away and that of Sayyiduna Hamzah was left, and then another body was brought and laid at the side of Sayyiduna Hamzah, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) offered the funeral prayer over that body. Then the second body was lifted away and that of Sayyiduna Hamzah was left, then yet another body was brought and laid at the side of Sayyiduna Hamzah, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) offered the funeral prayer over it. Then this body was lifted away and Sayyiduna Hamzah was left, until on that day the funeral prayer was offered seventy times over Sayyiduna Hamzah.