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[7222] 76 - (2873) It was narrated that Anas bin Mâlik said: "We were with 'Umar between Makkah and Al-Madinah, and we looked for the crescent of the new moon. I was a man with keen eyesight, and I saw it, but no one else said that he had seen it. I said to 'Umar: 'Don't you see it?' But he did not see it. 'Umar said: 'I will see it when I am lying on my bed.'" "Then he started to tell us about the people of Badr. And he said: 'The Messenger of Allâh ﷺ showed us, one day before, where the people of Badr (the Mushrikûn) would fall. He said: 'This is the place where so-and-so will fall tomorrow, if Allâh wills.'" 'Umar said: 'By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, they did not miss the places that the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ had pointed out. They were put in a well on top of one another, then the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ went to them and said: "O so-and-so son of so-and-so, and O so-and-so son of so-and-so, have you found what Allâh and His Messenger promised to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true." "Umar said: 'O Messenger of Allâh, how can you speak to bodies in which there are no souls?' He said: 'You do not hear what I am saying more clearly than they do, but they cannot give me any reply.'"