It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) and Urwah bin al-Zubayr (may Allah have mercy on him) that Sayyidah Atikah bint Abd al-Muttalib saw a dream three nights before Damdam bin Amr al-Ghifari arrived in Makkah, which greatly alarmed her. She called her brother Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib and said: "O my brother! Last night I saw a dream from which I fear that some evil and calamity is about to befall your people." He asked: "What is it?" She said: "I saw a man come riding on a camel, and he stopped in the valley of al-Abtah and began to call out: 'O treacherous people! Set out within three days to the places of your deaths.' I saw that people gathered around him. Then his camel took him into the Sacred Mosque, and the people gathered there too. Then the camel appeared on the top of the Ka'bah, and he made the same call. Then he reached the summit of Mount Abu Qubays and called out the same again. Then he rolled a rock down from the summit of the mountain, which broke into pieces as it fell, and not a single house of Quraysh remained into which some piece of it did not enter." Sayyiduna al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By Allah! This is indeed a significant dream; keep it hidden." Atikah said: "You too keep it secret, for if Quraysh come to know of it, they will harm us." Al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) left from there and met his friend al-Walid bin Utbah, told him the dream and asked him to keep it secret, but al-Walid told his father, and thus the matter spread in Makkah. Al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I went to the Ka'bah for tawaf and saw Abu Jahl talking about Atikah's dream with a few people of Quraysh. Seeing me, Abu Jahl said mockingly: "O Abu al-Fadl! When did this new prophetess appear in your family?" I asked: "What is the matter?" He said: "The dream that Atikah bint Abd al-Muttalib has seen. O Banu Abd al-Muttalib! Were you not content that your men should claim prophethood, that now your women too have become prophets? We will wait for these three days that Atikah mentioned; if it is true, well and good, otherwise we will write a document against you that you are the most lying household among the Arabs." Al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Out of expediency I denied it and said that she had seen nothing. When evening came, the women of Banu Abd al-Muttalib came to me and said: "Did you tolerate the audacity of this wicked, vile man to speak such things about your men and women while you kept listening? Did your sense of honor not stir?" I said: "By Allah! You speak the truth; I made a mistake. Now if he says such a thing again, I will teach him a lesson." On the third day I went out with the intention of quarreling with Abu Jahl. I was just advancing towards him when suddenly he began running towards the door of the mosque. I said in my heart: "May Allah curse you, are you running away out of fear of me?" But the reality was that he had heard the voice of Damdam bin Amr, who was standing on his camel in al-Abtah calling out. He had turned his camel's saddle upside down, torn his shirt, and cut his camel's nose and ears, and he was screaming: "O people of Quraysh! The caravan is plundered! The caravan is plundered! Your wealth which was with Abu Sufyan has been attacked by Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his companions; come to the rescue!" This incident made him forget me. Then soon we set out for battle, and Quraysh had to face the very humiliation that had been foretold, in the form of the killing of their chiefs and the capture of their nobles. Upon this, Atikah bint Abd al-Muttalib composed these verses: "Did my dream not prove true? While a fugitive of the people, by confirming it, brings disgrace upon you. You said - and I was not lying - 'You lie,' whereas none denies the truth except one who is himself a liar." And the narrator mentioned a long story.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "On the day of the Battle of Badr we had only two horses: one belonged to Sayyiduna al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) and one to Sayyiduna al-Miqdad bin al-Aswad (may Allah be pleased with him)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), because Abu Thabit is Muhammad bin Ubaydullah al-Madini, Abu Sakhr is Humayd bin Ziyad, and Abu Mu'awiyah al-Bajali is Ammar al-Duhni, and all of these narrators are agreed upon, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "On the day of the Battle of Badr, every three of us would ride one camel by turns. Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Abu Lubabah (may Allah be pleased with them both) were the riding companions of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). The narrator says: When it was his (peace and blessings be upon him) turn to walk, they both would say: You remain riding and we will walk. Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) would say: 'You two are not stronger than me, nor am I less in need of the reward than you two.'" This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) concerning Laylat al-Qadr that he said: "Seek it on the night when eleven nights (of Ramadan) remain, the morning of which was the day of the Battle of Badr." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "Seek Laylat al-Qadr on the nineteenth (night of Ramadan), the morning of which was the day of the Battle of Badr, namely 'the Day of Criterion (between truth and falsehood), the day when the two armies met.' [Surah al-Anfal: 41] " This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna al-Bara' bin Azib (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: "On the day of the Battle of Badr the Muhajirun numbered somewhat more than eighty (80), while the Ansar numbered somewhat more than two hundred and forty (240)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Usayd (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the day of the Battle of Badr, when we had formed ranks to fight Quraysh and they had also formed ranks facing us, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When they come very close to you (akthabukum), then shoot them with arrows." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the occasion of the Battle of Badr, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the Companions: "What do you say about these prisoners?" Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Rawahah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! Go to a valley with plenty of firewood, then kindle a fire there and throw them all into it." At this Sayyiduna al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "May Allah cut off your ties of kinship (that is, you have said such a harsh thing about your own relatives)." Then Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! These are the leaders of disbelief and their chiefs, who fought you and denied you, so strike their necks so that we may gain dominance." Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah! These are your clan and your own people (so show leniency)." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) went out for some need of his, and a group of the Companions said: "The right opinion is what Umar said." The narrator says: Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came out and said: "What do you say about them? In fact, their example is like that of their brothers who passed before them. Nuh (peace be upon him) said (regarding the disbelievers): 'My Lord! Do not leave upon the earth a single inhabitant from among the disbelievers.' [Surah Nuh: 26] And Musa (peace be upon him) said: 'Our Lord! Obliterate their wealth and harden their hearts.' [Surah Yunus: 88] Whereas Ibrahim (peace be upon him) said: 'So whoever follows me is of me, and whoever disobeys me, then indeed You are Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.' [Surah Ibrahim: 36] And Isa (peace be upon him) said: 'If You punish them, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them, then indeed You alone are the Almighty, the All-Wise.' [Surah al-Ma'idah: 118] (Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) announced the final decision, saying:) Since you are in poverty ('aylah) at this time, none of these prisoners should be released except for a ransom or by striking his neck." Ibn Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I said: "O Messenger of Allah! Except Suhayl bin Bayda', for he should not be killed; I have heard him speaking in favor of Islam." At that he (peace and blessings be upon him) remained silent. Ibn Mas'ud says: I have never felt as much fear as I felt at that moment; I was afraid that (for giving my opinion during his (peace and blessings be upon him) decision) stones might rain down upon me from the sky, until the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Except Suhayl bin Bayda'." This hadith has an authentic (sahih) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Sawdah bint Zam'ah (may Allah be pleased with her) that when the prisoners (of Badr) were brought to Madinah, I was at that time with the family of Afra', offering condolences on the death of their sons Awf and Mu'awwidh, and this was before the commandments of hijab were revealed. Sayyidah Sawdah says: By Allah! I was there when news reached us that the prisoners had been brought. So I came to my house, where the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was present, and I saw that Abu Yazid Suhayl bin Amr was in a corner of the room, with his hands tied to his neck with a rope. By Allah! When I saw him in that state, I could not control my emotions and said: "O Abu Yazid! Did you people accept captivity so easily? Why did you not die an honorable death!" Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) called out from inside the house: "O Sawdah! Are you inciting against Allah and His Messenger?" I said: "O Messenger of Allah! By the One who sent you with the truth, when I saw him in that state, I said this involuntarily." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it. And the two Shaykhs have agreed upon the narration that Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Some men of the Ansar sought permission from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Messenger of Allah! Permit us to waive the ransom of our nephew al-Abbas. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'By Allah! You shall not leave (even) a single dirham.'"

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she said: When the people of Makkah sent wealth for the ransom of their prisoners, Sayyidah Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her), the daughter of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), sent some wealth for the ransom of (her husband) Abu al-As, among which was the necklace that Sayyidah Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) had given Zaynab at the time of her marriage. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) saw that necklace, it deeply affected his heart and intense tenderness overcame him (peace and blessings be upon him). Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If you think it best, release Zaynab's prisoner and return her wealth to her." And the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had taken a pledge from Abu al-As, and he had promised that he would send Sayyidah Zaynab to him (peace and blessings be upon him) (in Madinah). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, but he did not record it.