Hadith #525

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English Translation

ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAṭāʾ narrated to us, he said: Saʿīd informed us, from Qatādah, from Anas ibn Mālik, from Abū Ṭalḥah, that the Prophet ﷺ, when he fought a people and defeated them, would stay in their territory for three days. When it was the day of Badr, he ordered the chiefs of Quraysh, and they were thrown into a foul, stinking well among the wells of Badr. Then he went to them and we went with him. Then he said: "O Abū Jahl ibn Hishām, O ʿUtbah ibn Rabīʿah, O Shaybah ibn Rabīʿah, O Walīd ibn ʿUtbah — have you found what your Lord promised you to be true? I have found what my Lord promised me to be true." ʿUmar said: O Messenger of Allāh, are you speaking to bodies that have no souls? He said: "By the One who sent me with the truth, you do not hear what I say any better than they do." Qatādah said: Allāh عز وجل brought them to life so they could hear his words as a rebuke and humiliation. He said at the beginning of the hadith: When he finished with the people of Badr, he stayed in the territory for three days.