Anas ibn al-Nadr

Anas ibn al-Naḍr was an Anṣārī Companion from the Khazraj and the paternal uncle of Anas ibn Mālik (raḍiyallāhu ʿanhu). During the chaos and false rumor of the Prophet's (ﷺ) death at Uḥud, he came upon a group of Muslims who had thrown down their weapons in despair. When told the Prophet (ﷺ) had been killed, he replied: "Even if the Prophet (ﷺ) has been killed, then the Lord of Muḥammad has not been killed! What will you do with life now that the Prophet is dead? Let us go and die as he died." He then met his close friend Saʿd ibn Muʿādh on the way and said, "O Saʿd, verily I smell the fragrance of Jannah from behind that mountain," before making duʿāʾ: seeking Allah's forgiveness for the Muslims' failures, and dissociating himself from the deeds of the Quraysh. He then threw himself into the battle and fought so ferociously that his body sustained over eighty wounds. His body was so disfigured that no one could identify it until his sister recognized him by his fingertips. Allah (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) revealed Sūrat al-Aḥzāb (33:23) concerning men like him: "Minal-muʾminīna rijālun ṣadaqū mā ʿāhadū-llāha ʿalayh, Among the believers are men who have been true to what they promised Allah."