Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar).* Excellent Biography of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Episode 108

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*Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar).*

Excellent Biography of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Episode 108

*BURIAL OF THE MARTYRS*

The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) supervised the martyrs’ burial and said: “I bear witness that anyone who is wounded in the way of Allâh, Allâh will resurrect him with his wound bleeding a liquid which is blood-like in colour but musk-like in scent.” 

Some of the Companions carried their men killed in the war to Madinah, but the Messenger of Allâh 

(Peace be upon him) ordered that they should be sent back in order to be buried where they were killed. He ordered that they should not be washed but buried as they were after stripping them off 

their armours and leather clothes. He u sed to bury every two or three martyrs together in one grave 

and even join two men in one garment while saying: “Who is the more learned of the Qur’ân?” and 

he would commit him to earth first. He would say: “I bear witness to those on the Day of 

Resurrection.” He buried both ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr bin Haram and ‘Amr bin Al-Jamuh in one grave due 

to the affection they used to possess to each other. 

They missed the coffin of Hanzalah, they sought it and found that it was on a spot nearby with 

water dripping off it. The Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) told his Companions that the 

angels were washing him and said: “Ask his wife”. They asked her and she confirmed that he had 

been in a state of ceremonial impurity. That was why Hanzalah was called ‘Ghaseel Al-Malâ’ikah’ 

(i.e. the one washed by the angels). 

When the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) saw how his uncle and foster brother, Hamzah, 

was mutilated, he was extremely grieved. When his aunt Safiyah came to see her brother Hamzah, 

the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) ordered her son Az-Zubair to dismiss her in order not to 

see what happened to her brother. She refused and said, “But why should I go away. I have been 

informed that they have mutilated him. But so long as it is in the way of Allâh, whatever happens to 

him satisfies us. I say: Allâh is Sufficient and I will be patient if Allâh wills.” She approached, looked 

at him and supplicated Allâh for him and said: “To Allâh we all belong and to Him we will verily 

return.” and she implored Allâh to forgive him. Then the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) 

ordered that he should be buried with ‘Abdullah bin Jahsh — who was his nephew as well as his 

foster brother. 

Ibn Mas‘ud said: We have never seen the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) weeping so much 

as he was for Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib. He directed him towards Al-Qiblah, then he stood at his 

funeral and sobbed his heart out. 

The sight of the martyrs was extremely horrible and heart-breaking. Describing Hamzah’s funeral, 

Khabbab said: “No shroud long enough was available for Hamzah except a white-darkish garment. 

When they covered his head with it, it was too short to cover his feet. Similarly if they covered his 

feet his head would be revealed. Finally they covered his head with it and put some plant called ‘Al-

Idhkhir’ to cover his feet.” 

Al-Imam Ahmad reported that when it was Uhud Day and the time that the idolaters returned, the 

Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) said: 

• “Istawoo (i.e. form rows as for prayer) so that I offer thanks and praise to my Lord, the 

Great and the All-Mighty.” 

So they stood in rows behind him. Then he said: 

• “O Allâh, no one can withhold what You permit or permit what You withhold. No one can 

guide whom You decree to go astray or make go astray the one whom You guide. No one 

can grant provisions you have withheld and no one can withhold what you grant. No one can 

near what You ordained to be distant, or detach what You decree to be close. O Allâh, 

spread onto all of us Your Mercy, Your Grace, and Provisions.” 

“O Allâh, I implore You to grant me permanent bliss that neither changes nor vanishes. O 

Allâh, You Alone we seek for Help at hardships. You Alone we resort to for security on a day 

of terror. O Allâh, to You Alone I resort to protect us frthe evils of Your grants (i.e. the evils 

they may lead us to) and from the evils of Your deprivation. O Allâh, make us love Faith and 

make it pleasant and beloved wholeheartedly by us! Make disbelief, ungodliness and 

disobedience detestable to us. Let us be among those who are rightly guided. O Allâh, make 

us live as Muslims and cause us to die as Muslims; and make us join with the righteous but 

not with the disgraced and misled ones. O Allâh, make Your enmity befall the disbelievers, 

who belie Your Messenger and divert from Your righteous way. O Allâh, let Your wrath, Your 

chastisement and Your enmity befall the disbelievers, and those on whom You sent down 

the Book. Let them be afflicted with war decreed by You. O Allâh, the Author of Truth.” 

After committing all the martyrs to earth, and after offering praise and supplication to Allâh, the 

Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) went back to Madinah. 

On his way back, matchless examples of love and devotion were revealed by the truthful women 

believers; in no way less great than the men’s heroic deeds in the fight. 

Hamnah bint Jahsh met the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) on the way back, and he 

announced the death of her brother — ‘Abdullah bin Jahsh — to her. She said: “To Allâh we belong 

and to Him we will verily return. I ask Allâh’s forgiveness.” Then he announced the death of her 

maternal uncle Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib. She said: “To Allâh we belong and to Him we will verily 

return. I ask Allâh’s forgiveness.” But when he announced the death of her husband Mus‘ab bin 

‘Umair to her, she shouted and woed. Seeing her doing so, the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon 

him) said: “The woman’s husband is extremely dear to her.” 

He passed by a woman of Bani Dinar whose husband, father and brother were all killed at Uhud. 

When their death announced, she said: “How is the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him)?” They 

said: “Well indeed. O mother of so... Thanks for Allâh; he is well and as good as you desire.” She said: “Let me see him.” They pointed at him. Seeing him she said: “All misfortunes are nothing so 

long as you are safe.” 

Umm Sa‘d bin Mu‘adh came running to see the Prophet (Peace be upon him). At that time her son 

was holding the rein of his mare. Seeing his mother, he said to the Prophet (Peace be upon him): “O 

Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him). This is my mother.” The Prophet (Peace be upon him) 

said: “She is welcome”; and he stopped and waited for her. When she drew near, he consoled her, 

for her killed son ‘Amr bin Mu‘adh. But she said: “So long as I see you are safe, my misfortune will 

certainly go into oblivion.” Then the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) supplicated Allâh for 

the relatives of those who were killed at Uhud and said: “Cheer up! Umm Sa‘d and bear good tidings 

to their kindred that all their people killed in the battle are comrades in Paradise and they are 

intercessors for all their kinsfolk.” She replied, “O Messenger of Allâh, we are satisfied. Who would 

cry on them after this cheerful news?” Then she resumed saying: “O Messenger of Allâh, invoke 

Allâh (for those who stayed behind)” He said: “O Allâh keep sorrow off their hearts! And console 

them with their misfortunes. Compensate those who stayed behind with goodness and welfare.” 

In the evening of that day — i.e. Saturday, the seventh of Shawwal, 3rd year A.H. — the Messenger 

arrived in Madinah. As soon as he reached his house, he handed his sword to his daughter Fatimah 

and said: “O daughter, wash the blood off this sword. By Allâh it has been helpful to me today.” ‘Ali 

bin Abi Talib handed her his sword and said: “And wash the blood of this sword too. By Allâh, it has 

been helpful to me today.” So the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) said: “Sahl bin Haneef 

and Abu Dujana have been as courageous as you are in the fight.” 

Most of the narrations confirmed that seventy Muslims were killed and most of them, sixty-five, 

Helpers; forty-one of whom were from Khazraj and twenty-four from Aws. This, besides one Jew 

and four Emigrants. 

As for the polytheists, twenty-two of them were killed, but some versions speak of thirty-seven; 

after all, Allâh knows best. 

On Saturday night, the eighth of Shawwal, and after their return from Uhud, the Muslims spent that 

night in an emergency case — though they were dead-beat, extremely exhausted. They stayed on 

the alert, and spent that night guarding the outlets and inlets of Madinah. They were specially busy 

guarding their general leader, the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) for fear that some 

suspects could commit an unexpected folly.