344 THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMADbrother of Sa'd b. Aha WaqqQ al-Zubri, who was killed by al-'AS b. Sa'id, he
being a youth of 16. It is said that the Messenger of God (SAAS) told him to
return home because of his youth, but he wept, and was allowed to proceed and so
was killed, God bless him: their ally Dhii al-Shim~layn b. 'Abd 'Amr al-Khuza'i;
Safwm b. Baydx'; 'Aqil b. al-Bukayr al-laythi, ally of the Bans 'Adi; Mihja',
freed-man of Wmar b. al-Khagzb who was the first of the Muslim killed that day.
Of the Helpers, there were eight men killed, as follows: Haitha b. Sumqa who
had an arrow shot at him by Habb~ b. alLCArqala that hit him in the neck and
killed hi; Mu'awwidh and 'Awf, the two sons of 'Afrs'; Yazid b. al-Hitrith,
known as Ibn Fushum; Wmayr b. al-Hammibn; R3iC b. al-Mu'alB b. Lawdhm;
Sa'd b. Khaythama and Mubashshir b. 'Abd al-Mundhir. May God be pleased
with them all.
With the Muslims, as stated above, there were 70 baggage camels.
Ibn Ish3.q stated, "They had two men mounted on horses, one al-Miqdgd b.
al-Aswad, the name of the horse being Bahja, also known as Sabha. The other
was ridden by al-Zubayr b. al-cAwwam, its name being al-Ya'sab.
They had a banner that was carried by Mufab b. Wmayr, and two flags, one
carried for the Emigrants by 'Ali b. Abii Tdib, the other for the Helpers by Sa'd
h. Wbsda.
The leader of the council of the Emigrants was Abn Bakr, "the Trusting",
while the leader of the council of the Helpers was Sa'd b. Mu5dh.As for the polytheists' force, the best that can be said of them is that they totalled
between 900 and 1,000. Wrwa and Qatxda stated that they numbered 930 men.
Al-Wxqidi stated, "They were 930 men."
This figure requires proof. In some of the accounts given above they are stated
to have numbered more than 1,000, perhaps such figures include their atten-
dants. But God knows best.
The authentic account given by al-Bukh%ri from al-Bar2 states that 70 of
them were killed and 70 were wounded.
This is the majority view. It was because of this that Ka'b b. Mnlik stated in a
poem:
"He set up 70 of them that stank at the watering hole,
Wtba and al-Aswad among them."Al-W~qidi stated that there was unanimity on that. Yet this statement is contrw
versial. Mass b. Wqba and Wrwa b. al-Zubayr said the opposite, and they are
prime authorities on this. No unanimity can be claimed without their agreement,
even though their views are superceded by any authentic tradition. But God
knows best.
Ibn Ishnq and others list the names of those killed and taken captive and the
hz$z al-Diyn' compiles these effectively in his work, al-Ahkam.
In the course of the narration of the account it is stated which of them was
killed first, he being al-Aswad b. 'Abd al-Asad al-Makhznmi. The first of them