It is narrated from Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Sayyiduna Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him) was fighting in front of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) like a shield on the day of the Battle of Uhud, and saying: "I am the lion of Allah." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

Muhammad bin Umar narrates from his shaykhs that they said: When Sayyiduna Hamzah (may Allah be pleased with him) was martyred, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) began to say in grief: "I will never be afflicted with a loss like yours." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyidah Fatimah and to his paternal aunt Sayyidah Safiyyah (may Allah be pleased with them both): "Rejoice, for Jibril (peace be upon him) came to me and informed me that it has been written among the inhabitants of the heavens that Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib is the lion of Allah and the lion of His Messenger."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to me: "Call Hamzah (and he was the closest of them to the polytheists): see who the man with the red camel is, and what he is saying to them." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If there is anyone among those people who enjoins good, perhaps it is the man with the red camel." Then Hamzah told me that it was Utbah bin Rabi'ah, and that he was forbidding fighting, saying: "O my people, I see people whom you will not be able to reach (that is, you will not overcome them) while there is still good in you. O my people, put the blame for this on me today and say: 'Utbah bin Rabi'ah has become a coward,' though you know that I am not the most cowardly among you." Abu Jahl heard this and said: "You are saying this?! If anyone other than you had said it (it would have been one thing); you are filled with fear." Utbah replied: "O you of the yellowed backside (a deeply insulting phrase), is it me you mean?" The narrator says: Then Utbah, his brother Shaybah and his son al-Walid came forward and said: "Who will come out for single combat?" A few young men of the Ansar came out, but Utbah said: "We do not want these; rather, send out our cousins, Banu Abd al-Muttalib, against us." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stand up, O Hamzah; stand up, O Ubaydah; stand up, O Ali." So Hamzah faced Utbah, Ubaydah faced Shaybah, and Ali faced al-Walid. Hamzah killed Utbah, Ali killed al-Walid, and Ubaydah killed Shaybah, but Shaybah had struck Ubaydah's leg and severed it. Then Hamzah and Ali rescued him and brought him away, until he died at al-Safra'. 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 Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned on the day of the Battle of Uhud and heard the sound of the women of Banu Abd al-Ashhal weeping over their slain. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "But Hamzah has no women to weep for him." So the women of the Ansar came and began weeping over Hamzah in his presence. He (peace and blessings be upon him) fell asleep, and when he woke up they were still weeping. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Woe to them! Are they still here until now?! Tell them to go back, and not to weep (in this manner) over anyone who dies after today." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The chief of the martyrs is Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib, and a man who stood up before a tyrannical ruler and enjoined him to do good and forbade him from evil, and then that ruler killed him (in retribution for speaking the truth)." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him), the paternal uncle of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), was martyred (at the Battle of Uhud) while he was in a state of janabah (major ritual impurity). Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The angels have washed him." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Usamah bin Zayd (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) set out intending to go to the house of Sayyiduna Hamzah, and I followed him until he stopped at the door and said: "Peace be upon you. Is Abu Umarah at home?" The narrator says: His wife said: "No, by Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you! He went out towards you; I think he missed you in one of the lanes of Banu al-Najjar. O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, will you not come in?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Do you have anything (to eat)?" She said: "Yes." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) went in, and she placed before him a qa'b (wooden bowl) containing hays (a sweet made of dates, ghee and dried curd). She said: "O Messenger of Allah, may my father and mother be sacrificed for you, eat it; may it be pleasant and wholesome for you. You have come when I myself wanted to come to you and congratulate you, for Abu Umarah told me that you have been given a river in Paradise called al-Kawthar." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "And its vessels (for drinking) are more numerous than the stars of the sky, and the most beloved to me of those who come to me there are your people." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed by Sayyiduna Hamzah on the day of the Battle of Uhud, when his nose and ears had been cut off and his body had been mutilated. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Were it not for fear of the grief of Safiyyah (the sister of Sayyiduna Hamzah), I would have left him (on this very field) until Allah Almighty gathers him from the bellies of the birds and the beasts." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) shrouded him in a namirah (a striped cloak). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: A son was born to a man among us, and the people asked: "What shall we name him?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Name him with the name that is the most beloved of all names to me: Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib." This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain of narration, but the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim) did not record it.

It is narrated from a man of Madinah that he said: My grandfather brought my father to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "This is my son; what shall I name him?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Name him after the person who is the most beloved of all people to me: Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib." This unknown narrator fell short in narrating the hadith from Ibn Uyaynah, and the correct report in this matter is that of Ya'qub bin Humayd. Abu Ahmad al-Hafiz used to debate with me, holding that Bukhari narrated from him in his al-Jami' al-Sahih, while I used to deny it.