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-{{Quote|Ishaq:340|Surely Badr was one of the world’s great wonders. The roads to death are plain to see. Disobedience causes a people to perish. They became death’s pawns. We had sought their caravan, nothing else. But they came to us and there was no way out. So we thrust our shafts and swung our swords severing their heads. Our swords glittered as they killed. The banner of error was held by Satan. He betrayed the evil ones, those prone to treachery. He led them to death crying, ‘Fear Allah. He is invincible!’ On that day a thousand spirits were mustered on excited white stallions. Allah’s army fought with us. Under our banner, Gabriel attacked and killed them.}}
+{{Quote|{{citation|title=The Life of Muhammad|trans_title=Sirat Rasul Allah|ISBN=0-19-636033-1|year=1955|publisher=Oxford UP|author1=Ibn Ishaq (d. 768)|author2=Ibn Hisham (d. 833)|editor=A. Guillaume|url=https://archive.org/details/GuillaumeATheLifeOfMuhammad/page/n1/mode/2up|page=340}}<br>{{citation|title=سيرة ابن هشام ت السقا|author1=ابن إسحاق|author2=ابن هشام|url=https://app.turath.io/book/23833|publisher=al-Maktabah al-Shamilah|volume=vol. 2|pages=8-9}}|Some Poetry About the Battle of Badr:<br>
+Of the poetry about the battle of Badr which the two parties bandied between them in reference to what happened therein are the lines of Hamza b. 'Abdu'I-Muttalib:
+:Surely one of time's wonders
+:(Though roads to death are plain to see)
+:Is that a people should destroy themselves and perish
+:By encouraging one another to disobedience and disbelief.
+:The night they all set out for Badr
+:And became death's pawns in its well.
+:We had sought but their caravan, naught else,
+:But they came to us and we met unexpectedly.'
+:When we met there was no way out
+:Save with a thrust from dun-coloured straight-fashioned shafts
+:And a blow with swords which severed their heads,
+:Swords that glittered as they smote.
+:We left the erring 'Utba lying dead
+:And Shayba among the slain thrown in the well;
+:'Amr lay dead among their protectors
+:And the keening women rent their garments for him,
+:The noble women of Lu'ayy b. Ghalib
+:Who surpass the best of Fihr.
+:Those were folk who were killed in their error
+:And they left a banner not prepared for victory
+:A banner of error whose people Iblis led.
+:He betrayed them (the evil one is prone to treachery).
+:When he saw things clearly he said to them,
+:'I am quit of you. I can no longer endure,
+:I see what you do not see, I fear God's punishment
+:For He is invincible.'
+:He led them to death so that they perished
+:While ho knew what they could not know.
+:On the day of the well they mustered a thousand,
+:We three hundred like excited white stallions.
+:With us were God's armies when He reinforced us with them
+:In a place that will ever be renowned.
+:Under our banner Gabriel attacked with them
+:In the fray where they met their death.}}
-{{Quote|Ishaq:341|Allah favored His Apostle and humiliated the unbelievers. They were put to shame in captivity and death. The Apostle’s victory was glorious. Its message is plain for all to see. The Lord brought repeated calamities upon the pagans, bringing them under the Apostle’s power. Allah’s angry army smote them with their trusty swords. Many a lusty youngster left the enemy lying prone. Their women wept with burning throats for the dead were lying everywhere. But now they are all in Hell.}}
+{{Quote|{{citation|title=The Life of Muhammad|trans_title=Sirat Rasul Allah|ISBN=0-19-636033-1|year=1955|publisher=Oxford UP|author1=Ibn Ishaq (d. 768)|author2=Ibn Hisham (d. 833)|editor=A. Guillaume|url=https://archive.org/details/GuillaumeATheLifeOfMuhammad/page/n1/mode/2up|page=341-342}}<br>{{citation|title=سيرة ابن هشام ت السقا|author1=ابن إسحاق|author2=ابن هشام|url=https://app.turath.io/book/23833|publisher=al-Maktabah al-Shamilah|volume=vol. 2|pages=11-12}}|'Ali b. Abu Talib said:
+:Have you not seen how God favoured His apostle
-{{Quote|Ishaq:342|I wonder at foolish men like these who sing frivolously and vainly of the slain at Badr. This was nothing more than an impious and odious crime. Men fought against their brothers, fathers, and sons. Any with discernment and understanding recognize the wrong that was done here.}}
+:With the favour of a strong, powerful, and gracious one.
+:How He brought humiliation on the unbelievers
+:Who were put to shame in captivity and death,
+:While the apostle of God's victory was glorious
+:He being sent by God in righteousness.
+:He brought the Furqan sent down from God,
+:Its signs' are plain to men of sense.
+:Some firmly believed in that and were convinced
+:And (thanks to God) became one people;
+:Others disbelieved, their minds went astray
+:And the Lord of the throne brought repeated calamities upon them;
+:At Badr He gave them into the power of His apostle
+:And an angry army who did valiantly.
+:They smote them with their trusty swords,
+:Furbished well, and polished.
+:How many a lusty youngster,
+:Many a hardy warrior did they leave prone.
+:Their keening women spent a sleepless night,
+:Their tears now strong, now weak.
+:They keen for erring 'Utba and his son,
+:And Shayba and Abu Jahl
+:And Dhu'I-Rijl and Ibn Jud'an also,
+:With burning throats in mourning garb displaying bereavement.
+:Dead in Badr's well lay many,
+:Brave in war, generous in times of dearth;
+:Error called them and some responded
+:(For error has ways easy to adopt).
+:Now they are in Hell,
+:Too occupied to rage furiously against us<br>
+Al-Harith b. Hisham b. al-Mughira answered him thus:
+:I wonder at folk whose fool sings
+:Of folly captious and vain,
+:Singing about the slain at Badr
+:When young and old vied in glorious endeavour,
+:The brave swordsman of Lu'ayy, Ibn Ghalib,
+:Thrusting in battle, feasting the hungry in times of dearth;
+:They died nobly, they did not sell their family
+:For strangers alien in stock and homeland,
+:Like you who have made Ghassan your special friends
+:Instead of us-a sorry deed,
+:An impious, odious crime, and a severing of the ties of blood;
+:Men of judgement and understanding perceive your wrongdoing,
+:True, they are men who have passed away,
+:But the best death is on the battlefield.
+:Rejoice not that you have killed them,
+:For their death will bring you repeated disaster.}}
 {{Quote|{{Bukhari|4|52|276}}|Narrated Al-Bara bin Azib: ... On the day (of the battle) of Badr, the Prophet and his companions had caused the 'Pagans to lose 140 men, seventy of whom were captured and seventy were killed...}}