Mishkat al-Masabih — Hadith #52250

On the authority of Anas, he said: We were with Omar between Mecca and Medina when we saw the crescent moon, and I was a man of sharp sight, so I saw it, but no one claims to have seen it. Someone else said, so I started to say to Omar, “Do you not see it?” He began not to see it. He said, “Omar says, ‘I will see it while I am lying on my bed.’ Then he went on.” He talks to us about the people of Badr. He said that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was showing us the fights of the people of Badr yesterday. He said, “This is the death of so-and-so tomorrow.” God willing, he said, and Omar said, “By the One who sent him with the truth, they did not miss the limits set by the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace.” He said, “So they were placed in a well.” They attacked each other, so the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, set off until he reached them and said, O so-and-so, son of so-and-so, and O so-and-so, son of so-and-so. You have found what God and His Messenger promised you to be true. Indeed, I have found what God promised me to be true. Omar said, O Messenger of God, how do you speak? Bodies without souls. He said, “You do not listen better to what I say than they do, except that they cannot respond to me at all.” Narrated by Muslim.