Sayyiduna Bara’ (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I met my maternal uncle, Sayyiduna Abu Burdah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he had a flag with him. I asked: Where are you going? He replied: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has sent me to a man who has married his father’s wife, (and he has ordered) that I kill him (the narrator is in doubt, perhaps these are the words:) that I strike his neck.