English Translation

Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ata told us: Sa'id informed us, from Qatada, from Anas ibn Malik, from Abu Talha, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, whenever he fought a people and defeated them, would remain at the site for three days. When it was the day of Badr, he ordered that the chieftains of Quraysh be thrown into a well among the wells of Badr, foul and stinking. He said: Then he went to them in the evening, and we went with him. Then he said: "O Abu Jahl ibn Hisham, O Utba ibn Rabi'a, O Shayba ibn Rabi'a, O Walid ibn Utba, have you found what your Lord promised you to be true? For I have found what my Lord promised me to be true." Umar said: "O Messenger of Allah, are you speaking to bodies that have no souls in them?" He said: "By the One who sent me with the truth, you are no more able to hear what I say than they are." Qatada said: Allah, Mighty and Majestic, resurrected them so that they would hear his words as a rebuke, humiliation, and degradation. He said, at the beginning of the hadith: When he finished with the people of Badr, he remained at the site for three days.