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BODY OF THE MARTYRED

1544

“My (Jabir, the son of Abdullah) father called me the evening before Uhud and said, ‘I believe I shall be among the first of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, to be martyred; and after the Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, you are the one most dear to me. Discharge my debt and treat your sisters well.’

The next morning my father was among the first to be martyred and I buried him along with another in the same grave. After that I was unhappy that I left him sharing the grave with another, so I exhumed his body after six months and found that he was in the same condition on the day I buried him, except for his ear. Then I buried him in a separate grave.’"

Bukhari with a chain up to Jabir the son of Abdullah who related this.