Hazrat Uqbah bin Aamir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) offered the funeral prayer for the martyrs of the Battle of Uhud eight years later, that is, in the eighth year, as if he was bidding farewell to both the living and the dead. After that, he ascended the pulpit and said, "I am preceding you, and I will be a witness over you, and you will meet me at the Hawd (the Pond of Kawthar) on the Day of Resurrection. Even now, I am looking at my Hawd from this place. I have no fear regarding you that you will commit shirk (associate partners with Allah), but I do fear that you will compete with one another for the world."