said:
“I felt angry and discouraged when the Messenger of Allâh (Peace be upon him) refused to give me  the  sword but gave it to Abu Dujana. I said to myself: ‘I am his paternal cousin — the cousin of his aunt
Safiya — a Quraishite, besides, I was the first who demanded it and yet he favoured him to me. By
Allâh, I will watch how he will use it.’ So I followed him, I saw him take out his red band and wear it  round his head. Seeing him like that, the Helpers said, ‘Abu Dujana had worn the band of death.’ Then  he set out saying loudly:
‘I am the one whom my intimate friend made covenant with, when we were under the palmtrees  on the mountain side.
The covenant that we made was that I should not fight at the rear.
But fight at the front heroically with the sword of Allâh and His Messenger.’
No one stood the way of Abu Dujana but was killed. There was a man among the idolaters whose only  target was to finish off the wounded Muslims. During the fight Abu Dujana drew near that man; so I  implored Allâh that they might engage in combat. They in fact did and exchanged two sword-strokes.
The idolater struck Abu Dujana, but he escaped it and it pierced into his leather shield. The idolater’s  sword now stuck to it, Abu Dujana struck him with the sword and killed him. Into the thick of the  battle,  he rushed to kill a person who was inciting the enemy to fight the Muslims. Upon this the person  shrieked and lo! it was a woman. Abu Dujana spared her saying: ‘I respect the Prophet ’s sword too  much to use it on a woman.’ The woman was Hind bint ‘Utbah.”
Describing the same incident, Az-Zubair bin Al-‘Awwam said: “I saw Abu Dujana raising a sword over  the parting part of Hind bint ‘Utba’s head then he moved it off. I said to myself: ‘Allâh and His
Messenger know best.’ (i.e. know why he acted like that).”
Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib displayed wonderful feats of gallantry againstthe overwhelming odds  which  stood unparalled and created consternation and confusion in the disbelieving hosts. Heroes dispersed  off his way as if they had been tree-leaves blown away by strong wind. In addition to his effective  contribution to the annihilation of the idolaters who stood in defence of the standard, he was even of  much greater effect at fighting against men of bravery and distinguished horsemen. It was Allâh’s Will  that he be murdered when he was at the top. He was not killed in a face-to-face fight on the  battlefield
— in the normal way by which heroes die — but rather assassinated in the dead-dark as was the  custom of killing generous and noble men that were impossible to kill in an honourable fight.
Assassination of Asadullâh (the Lion of Allâh) Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib:
Hamzah’s assassin, Wahshi bin Harb, described how he killed Hamzah. He said:
“I was a slave working to Jubair bin Mut‘im, whose paternal uncle Tu‘aimah bin ‘Adi was injured at
Badr
Battle. So when Quraish marched to Uhud, Jubair said to me: ‘If you kill Hamzah, the uncle of
Muhammad, stealthily you shall be manumitted.’ ”
“So I marched with the people to Uhud.” He used to describe himself as, “I am a picaro good at  spearing.” “So when the two parties fought, I set out seeking Hamzah. I saw him amidst people  fighting. He was like a white and black striped camel, striking severely with his sword and no one  could  stand on his way. By Allâh! When I was getting ready and trying to seize the fit opportunity to spear  him, hiding sometimes behind a tree or a rock hoping that he might draw nearer and be within range
—  at that moment I caught sight of Siba‘ bin ‘Abd Al-‘Uzza going closer towards him. When Hamzah  observed him, he said: ‘Come on! O son of the ‘clitoris-cutter.’ — for his mother used to be a  circumciser. Then he struck one strong stroke that could hardly miss his head.”
Wahshi said: “Then I balanced my spear and shook it till I was content with it, then I speared him and  it went down into his stomach and issued out between his legs. He attempted moving towards me but  he was overcome by his wound. I left him there with the spear in his entrails till he died. Then I came  to him, pulled out my spear and returned to the encampment place. I stayed there and did not go out,  for he was the only one I sought. I only killed him to free myself. So as soon as I got back to Makkah,
I  became a free man.”
BRINGING THE SITUATION UNDER CONTROL:
Although the death of Asad (Lion) of Allâh and His Messenger — Hamzah bin ‘Abdul Muttalib — was a