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The Prophet is rumoured dead 
Standing at the rear along with seven of the Ansar and two 
men of the Muhajireen, the Prophet clearly saw Khalid’s 
cavalrymen appear from behind the mountain, and he called out 
at the top of his voice, “O servants of Allah, come to me!” The 
pagans who were positioned closer to him, heard him call out. 
One of their squadrons followed his voice and charged his way in 
a bid to finish him off before help could arrive. As the enemy 
approached, the Prophet said: “Whoever protects me from them 
deserves Paradise and will be my Companion in Paradise.” A man 
from the Ansar heard the Prophet’s call for help and rushed to 
shield him at the expense of his own life. The enemy surged 
toward the Prophet and drew even closer. The Prophet
repeated his call, and another of his Companions advanced on the 
enemies and made them retreat at the cost of his life. One by one, 
all seven Ansar fell trying to save the Prophet .
When the seventh Ansari was slain, only two of the 
Muhajireen, Talha bin Ubaydullah and Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas 
remained with the Prophet . Now the pagans directed their 
main attack at the Prophet . A rock flew at him, and he fell on 

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his side. One of his lower right teeth was broken, his lower lip 
was cut, and his helmet was broken, exposing his head and 
forehead. As an enemy soldier thrust his sword at the Prophet , 
he caught his bone below the eye, and two rings from the 
Prophet’s helmet pierced his face. Someone else struck the 
Prophet’s shoulder with a blow so powerful that it left him in 
severe pain for about a month. Fortunately, he escaped severe 
injury because of his double coat of mail. 
Even as the Ansar and Muhajireen were risking their own lives 
to keep the Prophet safe, he had incurred injury. Sa’d bin Abi 
Waqaas unleashed a volley of arrows at the pagans, and the 
Prophet kept supplying him with more arrows from his own 
quiver, saying encouragingly, “Keep shooting. May my mother 
and father be sacrificed for you.” There was Talha bin Ubaydullah 
fighting against the whole band of enemies, as if he were the only 
one on the field. By the end of the battle, he had 35 or 39 injuries. 
Talha shielded the Prophet from the enemies’ arrows and 
swords with his hands until his fingers bled profusely and were 
palsied. As the arrows pierced his fingers, he gasped involuntarily. 
The Prophet comforted him: “If you had said Bismillah, you 
would have been lifted by the angels before the very eyes of the 
people.” 
With human efforts faltering, Allah sent down supernatural 
allies to the rescue of His Prophet. Jibreel (Gabriel) and Mikaeel 
(Michael) descended and fought on his behalf. More Muslims 
rushed to the Prophet , and they too defended him fiercely. The 
first to come to his aid was Abu Bakr along with Abu Ubaydah 
bin Jarrah. Abu Bakr saw the helmet rings embedded in the 
Prophet’s face and tried to extract them, but it was Abu Ubaydah 
who succeeded in pulling out the metal rings with his teeth, losing 
two of them in the process. Then they advanced together to 
sustain the severely wounded Talha bin Ubaydullah. 
Friend and foe alike gravitated toward the Prophet , who 
quite naturally was the focal point of the whole scene. Among the 

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Muslims Abu Dujana, Mus’ab bin Umayr, Umar bin Khattab and 
Ali bin Abi Talib, flanked the Prophet even as the pagan 
soldiers continued to swarm around him, their attacks penetrating 
deeper and deeper. The Muslims took all possible measures to 
beat them back. Some of them were shooting arrows, others 
putting up defences, some fighting on fiercely while others 
resorted to deflecting arrows with their hands. 
The enemy targeted the Muslims’ standard bearer Mus’ab bin 
Umayr. Countless swords hacked at his right hand severing it. 
Mus’ab transferred the standard to his left hand, and he upheld 
the standard on his knee supported by his breast and neck until 
his last breath. Since Mus’ab resembled the Prophet to a great 
extent, his killer, Abdullah bin Qam’a, thought that he had slain 
the Prophet and jubilantly shouted out that he had killed 
Muhammad . The news flew around the pagans who, in a surge 
of complacence, immediately eased the pressure on the Muslims.