It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Last night I entered Paradise, and there I saw Ja'far (al-Tayyar) flying with the angels, and Hamzah reclining on a couch." 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 Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) returned from the Battle of Uhud, he (peace and blessings be upon him) 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."

It is narrated from Urwah that among those who took part in the Battle of Badr were the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and Hamzah bin Abd al-Muttalib, and Hamzah was martyred at the Battle of Uhud when he was fifty-four years old.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) removed the cloth from the blessed body of Sayyiduna Hamzah, he (peace and blessings be upon him) wept, and when he (peace and blessings be upon him) saw this state of his body (mutilated), he (peace and blessings be upon him) sobbed aloud.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the day of the Battle of Uhud, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw Sayyiduna Hamzah when he had been martyred and his body mutilated. He (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a sight so painful that never before had his heart been so grieved and shaken. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "May the mercy of Allah be upon you. You used to maintain the ties of kinship and do a great deal of good. Were it not for fear of the grief of those after you, it would have pleased me to leave you like this until you were raised from the bellies of the birds and the beasts." Then, standing in that very place, he (peace and blessings be upon him) swore: "By Allah, I will mutilate seventy of them in the same way in return for you." And while he (peace and blessings be upon him) was still standing there, this verse of the Qur'an was revealed: "And if you punish, then punish with the like of that with which you were harmed; but if you are patient, it is indeed better for those who are patient" [Surah al-Nahl: 126] , until the end of the surah. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) expiated his oath and refrained from what he had intended.

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.)