It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when Sayyiduna Hamzah was martyred, his sister Sayyidah Safiyyah came looking for him, not knowing what had happened to her brother. On the way she met Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna al-Zubayr. Ali said to al-Zubayr: "Tell your mother." Al-Zubayr said to Ali: "No, you tell your paternal aunt." Sayyidah Safiyyah asked: "What has happened to Hamzah?" The two of them made it appear that they did not know. Then she came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I fear that her mind may be overcome (by the shock)." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) placed his hand on her chest and made du'a, and she said, "Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un (We belong to Allah and to Him we return)," and wept. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) came and stood over Sayyiduna Hamzah, who had been mutilated, and said: "Were it not for fear of the women's grief, I would have left him until he was raised from the bellies of the birds and the beasts." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the funeral prayer for the martyrs. He (peace and blessings be upon him) would place Hamzah with nine martyrs and say seven takbirs over them; then those nine would be lifted away while Hamzah remained there. Then another nine would be brought and seven takbirs would be said over them too, until he (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished with all the martyrs.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw in a dream and said: "I saw as though I had a ram riding behind me, and as though the edge (tip) of my sword had broken. I interpreted it to mean that I would kill the chief of the enemy, and I interpreted the breaking of the edge of the sword to mean that a man from my family (would be martyred)." So Sayyiduna Hamzah was martyred, and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) killed Talhah, the standard-bearer of the polytheists.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), from his father, that Abd al-Muttalib married Halah bint Uhayb bin Abd Manaf, and from her were born Hamzah and Safiyyah.

Yahya bin Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Labibah narrates from his grandfather that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By the One in whose Hand is my soul! It is indeed written with Allah in the seventh heaven: Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib is the lion of Allah and the lion of His Messenger."

It is narrated from Muhammad bin Ka'b al-Qurazi that he said: The kunyah of Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib was Abu Umarah. (Al-Hakim Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Hafiz dictated this hadith in Muharram of the year 403 AH.)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: On the day of the Battle of Uhud, when the people returned from the fighting, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) found Hamzah missing. The narrator says: A man said: "I saw him by that tree, saying: 'I am the lion of Allah and the lion of His Messenger. O Allah, I declare before You my disavowal of what these have brought, meaning Abu Sufyan and his companions, and I apologise to You for what these (Muslims) have done and for their flight.'" So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went towards him, and when he (peace and blessings be upon him) saw his forehead he wept, and when he saw his mutilation (his cut limbs) he (peace and blessings be upon him) sobbed aloud. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Is there no shroud for him?" A man of the Ansar then threw a cloth over him. Jabir says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, the chief of all the martyrs in the sight of Allah Almighty will be Hamzah." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.