THE MURDER OF ABU JAHL(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Friday, April 11th, 2008Chapter# 40, Book 19, Number 4434:
It has been narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said (after the encounter at Badr): Who will ascertain for us what has happened to Abu Jahl? Ibn Mas’ud went (to gather this information). He found that the two sons of ‘Afra’ had struck him and he lay cold at the point of death. He caught him by his beard and said: Art thou Abu Jahl? He said: is there anybody superior to the person you have killed, or (he said) his people have killed him. Ibn Mas’ud says that, according to Abu Mijlaz, Abu Jahl said: Alas! a person other than a farmer would have killed me.
Book 19, Number 4435:
A similar tradition has been transmitted by a different chain of narrators, on the same authority with a slight difference In the wording.