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[4669] 124 - (...) Salamah bin Al-Akwa' said: "On the day of (the battle of) Khaibar, my brother fought fiercely alongside the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ, but his sword recoiled on him and killed him. The Companions of the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said concerning that - doubting (that it was martyrdom): 'A man died by his own weapon.' And they were uncertain about him." Salamah said: "The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ came back from Khaibar and I said: 'O Messenger of Allâh, give me permission to recite some lines of poetry to you.'" The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ gave him permission, but 'Umar bin Al-Khaṭṭâb said: "I know what you are going to say." "I said: 'O Allâh, were it not for You, we would not have been guided,Or given charity or offered prayers.' The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'You are right.' 'Bestow tranquillity upon usAnd make us steadfast whenwe meet (the enemy), For the idolaters have wronged us.' When I had finished reciting these lines, the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'Who said this?' I said: 'My brother said it.' The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'May Allâh have mercy on him.' I said: 'By Allâh, O Messenger of Allâh, people are reluctant to offer the funeral prayer for him, and they are saying that he is a man who died by his own weapon.' The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: 'He died having striven hard in worship and engaged in Jihâd in the cause of Allâh.” Ibn Shihâb said: “Then I asked a son of Salamah bin Al-Akwa’, and he told me something similar, except that he said - ‘When I said that people were reluctant to offer the funeral prayer for him - that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: “They are lying. He died having striven hard in worship and engaged in Jihâd in the cause of Allâh, and he will have a two fold reward,” and he gestured with two fingers.”