It is narrated from Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) regarding the people of Badr that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was showing us, a day before the Battle of Badr, the places where the chiefs of Quraysh would fall and be left behind, and he was saying: "Tomorrow, insha’Allah, such-and-such disbeliever will be killed and fall here, and such-and-such person will be killed and fall here, insha’Allah." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that indeed those people fell exactly at those places. I (Umar) (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By the One Who sent you with the truth! They did not fall anywhere except those very spots." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered regarding their corpses, so they were dragged and thrown into a well. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went towards the corpses of those disbelievers and said: "O so-and-so! O so-and-so! Did you find true what your Lord had promised you? As for me, I have found true what Allah the Exalted had promised me." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! Are you speaking to people who have died?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "You do not hear what I am saying to them any better than they do, but they cannot respond to these words."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the noble companions heard the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) speaking at the well of Badr in this manner, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: O Abu Jahl bin Hisham! O Utbah bin Rabi’ah! O Shaybah bin Rabi’ah! O Umayyah bin Khalaf! Did you find true what your Lord had promised you? So they said: O Messenger of Allah! Are you speaking to people who have died? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: You are not hearing what I am saying to them any more than they are, but they do not have the ability to respond.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), he says that on the day of Badr, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood by the well (in which the slain disbelievers were thrown) and said: O so-and-so! O so-and-so! Did you find true what your Lord had promised you? Beware! By Allah, these people are hearing my words at this moment. But Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: May Allah have mercy on Abu Abdur Rahman, he has forgotten, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had actually said that now they know that what I used to say to them was the truth. Because Allah the Exalted has said: Surely, you cannot make the dead hear . And He also said: Nor can you make those hear who are in the graves .

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that it was reported to him that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) ordered regarding more than twenty chiefs of the Quraysh, and they were thrown into one of the wells of Badr. That well was very filthy and dirty. It was the practice of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) that whenever he gained victory over a people, he would stay there for three nights. Similarly, when he was victorious at Badr, he also stayed there for three nights. When the third day came, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) ordered his mount to be prepared. Thus, he set out, and the Companions followed him. The Companions say that all of us thought that he was going for some necessary need of his. As he walked, he stopped at the edge of that well and called out to those slain disbelievers of Quraysh, mentioning them by their names and the names of their fathers, and said: O so-and-so, son of so-and-so! Do you now find it pleasing that you had obeyed Allah and His Messenger? Did you find true what your Lord had promised you? Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Messenger of Allah! Are you speaking to bodies in which there are no souls? Qatadah narrates that Allah Almighty brought those disbelievers to life for the sake of rebuke, disgrace, and the manifestation of anger.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) that at Badr, when the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by the slain chiefs of Quraysh—Utbah, Abu Jahl, and their companions—who had been thrown into a well, he (peace and blessings be upon him) stopped there and said: "You are a people who were extremely opposed to a Prophet and greatly denied him. Allah has given you a very evil recompense. Whatever I am saying to them, you are not hearing my words more than they are." Or the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They are understanding my words more than you are."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered that the slain of Badr be thrown into a well, so they were thrown into it. However, Umayyah bin Khalaf had become so swollen inside his armor and was stuck in it, that when the noble Companions pulled him, his limbs separated, so they left him as he was and covered him with stones and earth, thus concealing him. When those slain had been thrown into the well, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood over them and said: "O people of the well! Have you found the promise of your Lord to be true? I have certainly found the promise my Lord made to me to be true." The Companions submitted: "O Messenger of Allah! Do you speak to the dead?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "These people know that what I promised them, that is, what I said to them, was the truth." Sayyidah Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) also said that people, while narrating this incident, say that those slain heard your words; I did not say any such thing. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had said that these people know this matter.