During the Uhud Campaign, Ibn Ishaq said, “The Messenger of Allah (A.S.) passed by the homes of the Ansar on his way back to Medina and heard them mourning their dead. The eyes of the Messenger of Allah (A.S.) were soon overflowing with tears. Then he (A.S.) said, `But Hamzah has none to mourn him...,’ whereupon Sa`d ibn Mu`ath (or, some say, Asad ibn Hadar) ordered the women of Bani `Abd al-Ashhal to go and mourn Hamzah first then to mourn their own dead thereafter. When he (A.S.) heard them thus mourning, and they were sitting at his Mosque’s door, he ordered them to go home, forbidding them from mourning there. The women of al-Ansar went to him early the next morning and said, `It has come to our knowledge, O Messenger of Allah, that you prohibited (some women) from mourning. We only weep over our dead and thus find some relief; so, please grant us permission to do so.’ He (A.S.) said, `If you do it, do not slap your cheeks, nor should you scratch your faces with your nails, nor shave your hair nor tear your clothes.’^[1] The mother of Sa`d ibn Mu`ath said, `No woman from among us ever mourned anyone without first mourning al-Hamzah till now.’”

In another text, the women wept when Ruqayya died, so `Omer kept hitting them with his whip. He (A.S.) took the whip from `Omer’s hand and said, “Leave them alone, O `Omer!” He (A.S.) also said, “Do not wail like the wailing of Satan...” Then the narrator adds saying, “Fatima (A.S.) wept as she sat at the grave’s side (Ruqayya’s grave), so the Prophet (A.S.) kept wiping her tears out with the end of his garment.”^[2]