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388 The Life of Muhammad
forbade mutilation. I;lumayd aI-Tawil from al-I;lasan from Samura b.
Jundub told me: 'The apostle never stopped in a place and left it without
enjoining on us almsgiving and forbidding mutilation.'
One whom I do not suspect from Miqsam, a client of 'Abdullah b. al­
I;larith from Ibn 'Abbas, told me that the apostle ordered that I;lamza
should be wrapped in a mantle; then he prayed over him and said 'Allah
Akbar' seven times. Then the dead were brought and placed beside
I:Iarnza and he prayed over them all until he had prayed seventy-two
prayers.
According to what I have been told i?afIya d. 'Abdu'I-Mullalib came
forward to look at him. He was her full-brother and the apostle said to her
son, al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam, 'Go to meet her and take her back so that
she does not see what has happened to her brother.' He said to her,
'Mother, the apostle orders you to go back.' She said, 'Why? I have heard
that my brother has been mutilated and that for God's sake fT. is a small
thing]. He has fully reconciled us to what has happened. I will be calm
and patient if God will.' When Zubayr returned to the prophet and
reported this to him he told him to leave her alone; so she came and looked
at I:lamza and prayed over him and said, '\Ve belong to God and to God do
we return,' and she asked God's forgiveness for him. Thenthe apostle
ordered that he should be buried. The family of 'Abdullah b. Jal,!sh, who
was the son of Umayma d. 'Abdu'I-Mullalib, I;lamza being his maternal
uncle, and he having been mutilated in the same way as J:Iarnza except that
his liver had not been taken out, asserted that the apostle buried him in
the same grave with I;lamza; but I heard that story onry from his family.
Now some Muslims had carried their dead to Medina and buried them
586 there. The apostle forbade this and told them to bury them where they
lay. Muhammad b. Muslim al-Zuhri from 'Abdullah b. Tha'laba b. i?u'ayr
al-'Udhri, an ally of the B. Zuhra, told me that the apostle said when he
looked down on the slain at Ul,!ud: 'I testify concerning these that there is
none wounded for God's sake but God will raise him on the resurrection
day with his wounds bleeding, the colour that of blood, the smell like
musk; look for the one who has collectedI most of the Quran and put him
in front of his companions in the grave.' They were burying two and three
in one grave.
My uncle Musa b. Yasar told me that he heard Abu Hurayra say: Abu'l­
Qasim 2 said, 'There is none wounded for God's sake but Gqd ,viII raise
him on the resurrection day with his wounds bleeding, the colour that of
blooe!, tbe smell like musk.'
My father 1sl:>aq b. Yasar told me on the authority of shaykhs of the B.
Salama that when the apostle ordered the dead to be buried he said, 'Look
out for 'Amr b. aI-Jamul,! and 'Abdullah b. 'Amr b. I;laram; they were
close friends in this world, so put them in one grave.' (T. ~rhen Mu'awiya
dug the canal and they were exhumed they were as free from rigor mortis
I i.e. learned. Z i.e. Muhammad.
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as though buried but yesterday.) Then the apostle went back on his way
to Medina and there met him I;lamna d. Jal,!sh, so I have been told. As she
met the army she was told of the death of her brother 'Abdullah and she
exclaime~, 'We belong to God and to God we return,' and asked forgiveness
for hIm. Then she was told of the death of her maternal uncle Hamza
and uttered the same words. Then she \vas told of the death of h~r hus~
band MUe'ab b. 'Umayr and she shrieked and wailed. The apostle said:
'The woman's husband holds a special place with her, as you can see from
her self-control at the death of her brother and uncle and her shrieking
over her husband.'
The apostle passed by one of the settlements of the Ansar of the B.
'Abdu'l-Ashhal and ~afar and he heard the sound of weeping and wailing
over the dead. The apostle's eyes filled with tears and he wept and said
'But there are no weeping women for I:famza.' \\Then Sa