The Lovers of Banu Jadhimah

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi explains:

One tragedy of Khālid's mistaken killings at Banū Jadhīmah was not mentioned before. Among the captives about to be executed was a young man, betrothed to be married. He begged to be taken to the women's side, and there recited a beautiful love-poem to his betrothed (preserved in Ibn Isḥāq); wailing, she answered him in verse, and as he was killed she took him and he died in her arms.

When the Prophet ﷺ heard of it he grew more angry still and said, أَلَيْسَ مِنْكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَحِيم, "Was there not among you a single man of mercy" to have stopped it? A striking window onto his tenderness, that even the romance of two lovers moved his mercy.