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2301. Narrated 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Aūf رضي الله عنه: I got an agreement written between me and Umaiyya bin Khalaf that Umaiyya would look after my property (or family) in Makkah and I would look after his in Al-Madīna. When I mentioned the word 'Ar-Raḥmān' in the documents Umaiyya said, "I do not know 'Ar-Raḥmān.' Write down to me your name, (with which you
called yourself) in the Pre-Islāmic Period of Ignorance.” So, I wrote my name “Abdu ‘Amr”. On the day (of the battle) of Badr, when all the people went to sleep, I went up the hill to protect him. Bilāl(1) saw him (i.e., Umaiyya) and went to a gathering of Anṣār and said, “(Here is) Umaiyya bin Khalaf! ‘I will not be saved if Umaiyya is saved’. (Woe to me if he escapes!)” So, a group of Anṣār went out with Bilāl to follow us (‘Abdur-Raḥmān and Umaiyya). Being afraid that they would catch us, I left Umaiyya’s son for them to keep them busy but the Anṣār killed the son and insisted on following us. Umaiyya was a fat man, and when they approached us, I told him to kneel down, and he knelt, and I laid myself on him to protect him, but the Anṣār killed him by passing their swords underneath me, and one of them injured my foot with his sword. (The subnarrator said, “Abdur Raḥmān used to show us the trace of the wound on the back of his foot.”)
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