Chief of the Prophets — Page 137
Chapter Seven 137 (Al-Baqarah 2:155) And say not of those who are killed in the cause of Allah that they are dead; nay they are living; only you perceive not. This meant that the people who achieve martyrdom in the path of Allah should not be considered dead. Rather they are alive, and are living happily with their Lord. 1 Islamic Law of Inheritence About 70 Companions were martyred in the Battle of Uḥud. According to the ancient tradition of Arabs, if a deceased person did not have any male children his property was appropriated by his paternal relatives. At this time the verses of the Chapter Al-Nisā’ with injunctions about inheritance were revealed. Ghazwah of Ḥamrā’ul-Asad As mentioned before, Abū Sufyān and his companions, satisfied with the events of Uḥud started traveling towards Makkah. They had gone only a few miles when they started thinking about what they would present on reaching Makkah as the proof of their victory. They realized that they were neither able to kill Muḥammad sa , nor enslave any Muslim women, nor bring any captives with them, nor capture any of the Muslim’s bounties and possessions. This thought troubled them, and they turned back. When Muḥammad sa found out about it, he asked the Muslims to make preparations and instructed that only those who had participated in the Uḥud battle would go. The next day, after traveling a distance of eight miles, Muslims arrived at Ḥamrā’ul-Asad. When Abū Sufyān and his companions 1 Tirmidhī and Ibni Mājah, cited by Az-Zarqānī.