Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ عَنْ يَزِيدَ عَنْ سَلَمَةَ قَالَ كَانَ عَامِرٌ رَجُلًا شَاعِرًا فَنَزَلَ يَحْدُو قَالَ وَيَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ لَوْلَا أَنْتَ مَا اهْتَدَيْنَا وَلَا تَصَدَّقْنَا وَلَا صَلَّيْنَا فَاغْفِرْ فِدًى لَكَ مَا أَتَيْنَا وَثَبِّتْ الْأَقْدَامَ إِنْ لَاقَيْنَا وَأَلْقِيَنْ سَكِينَةً عَلَيْنَا إِنَّا إِذَا صِيحَ بِنَا أَتَيْنَا وَبِالصِّيَاحِ عَوَّلُوا عَلَيْنَا فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَنْ هَذَا الْحَادِي قَالُوا ابْنُ الْأَكْوَعِ قَالَ يَرْحَمُهُ اللَّهُ قَالَ فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ وَجَبَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لَوْلَا أَمْتَعْتَنَا بِهِ قَالَ فَأُصِيبَ ذَهَبَ يَضْرِبُ رَجُلًا يَهُودِيًّا فَأَصَابَ ذُبَابُ السَّيْفِ عَيْنَ رُكْبَتِهِ فَقَالَ النَّاسُ حَبِطَ عَمَلُهُ قَتَلَ نَفْسَهُ قَالَ فَجِئْتُ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بَعْدَ أَنْ قَدِمَ الْمَدِينَةَ وَهُوَ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ فَقُلْتُ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ عَامِرًا حَبِطَ عَمَلُهُ قَالَ وَمَنْ يَقُولُهُ قَالَ قُلْتُ رِجَالٌ مِنْ الْأَنْصَارِ مِنْهُمْ فُلَانٌ وَفُلَانٌ قَالَ كَذَبَ مَنْ قَالَهُ إِنَّ لَهُ لَأَجْرَيْنِ بِإِصْبَعَيْهِ وَإِنَّهُ لَجَاهِدٌ مُجَاهِدٌ وَقَلَّ عَرَبِيٌّ مَا مَشَى بِهَا يُرِيدُكَ عَلَيْهِ.
English Translation
Hammad narrated to us, from Yazid, from Salamah, who said: 'Amir was a poet, and he got down and began chanting: "O Allah, were it not for You we would not have been guided, nor given charity, nor prayed. So forgive - as ransom for You - what we have done, and make firm our feet if we meet [the enemy], and send down tranquility upon us; indeed, when called, we come, and at the cry we rally." The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Who is this chanter?" They said: "Ibn al-Akwa'." He said: "May Allah have mercy on him." A man said: "It has become obligatory [Paradise for him], O Messenger of Allah - if only you had let us enjoy him longer." He said: Then he was struck down, having gone to strike a Jewish man, and the tip of the sword struck the socket of his own knee, and the people said: "His deed has been nullified; he killed himself." He said: So I went to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, after he arrived in Madinah, and he was in the mosque. I said: "O Messenger of Allah, they claim that 'Amir's deed has been nullified." He said: "Who says that?" I said: "Some men from the Ansar, among them so-and-so and so-and-so." He said: "Whoever said that lies; indeed he has a double reward" - with his two fingers - "and indeed he strove and struggled, and few are the Arabs who walked as he did seeking you."