ʿĀmir was a poet. He dismounted and began to chant while driving the camels: “O Allah, were it not for You, we would not have been guided, nor given charity, nor prayed. So forgive what wrong we have done, offering ourselves in ransom for You, and make our feet firm if we meet the enemy, and send down tranquility upon us. Indeed, when the call to arms is raised, we answer it, and to the cry [of battle] they have turned for support.” The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked, “Who is this driver?” They said, “Ibn al-Akwaʿ.” He said, “May Allah have mercy on him.” A man said, “It has become binding upon him, Messenger of Allah, if only you had let us enjoy him longer.” Then he was struck: he had gone to strike a Jewish man, but the tip of the sword recoiled and struck his own knee, and he died from it. The people began saying, “His deeds have been nullified; he killed himself.” So I went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ after he had returned to Madīnah, while he was in the mosque, and said, “Messenger of Allah, they claim that ʿĀmir’s deeds have been nullified.” He said, “Who says that?” I said, “Some men from the Anṣār, so-and-so and so-and-so.” He said, “Whoever said that has lied. He indeed has a double reward”, indicating this with two of his fingers, “he was a striver and a warrior, and few Arabs walk the earth with the like of what he had.” Reference: Musnad Aḥmad 285