The following are the authentic narrations about Julaybeeb (رضي الله عنه), they are to the point and free from the extra additions of the story tellers who add many things falsely to Ahadith to spice it up.
Abu Barzah Al-Aslami related that:
” Julaybeeb was such a person that he entered upon the company of women and joked with them. I (Abu Barzah) ordered my wife, ‘Do not allow Julaybeeb to enter onto you (to gossip or talk) and if he does enter upon you I would do such and such (out of anger)’.
Whenever a lady of the Ansar would be widowed we wouldn’t propose to her till we would inform about her to the Prophet, if he wanted to marry her or not.
The Prophet ﷺ thus told one Ansari (with an intention to propose for Julaybeeb): ‘I want to get your daughter married’ (but the person intended to was hidden in the sentence).
“How wonderful and blessed, O Messenger of Allah ﷺ and what a delight to the eye (this would be),” replied the Ansari man.
The Prophet ﷺ said: ‘I do not wish her for myself’. The Ansari replied, ‘Then for whom O Messenger of Allah!?’ . The Prophet said: ‘For Julaybeeb’.
The Ansari said, “I will consult with her mother,” and off he went to his wife. “The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, wants to have your daugther married,” he said to her.
She too was thrilled. “What a wonderful idea and what a delight to the eye (this would be),” she said.
The husband said, “He doesn’t want to marry her himself but he wants to marry her to Julaybib”.
The wife said, “Is Julaybeeb for our daughter!? Is Julaybeeb for our daughter!? Is Julaybeeb for our daughter!? By Allah! We shall not get her married (to Julaybeeb).”
As the Ansari was about to return to the Prophet to inform him of what his wife had said, the daughter after she heard of her mother’s cries asked, “Who has asked you to marry me?” Her mother told her of the Prophet’s request for her hand in marriage to Julaybib.
She said, “Do you refuse the request of the Messenger of Allah? Send me to him for he(The Prophet) shall certainly not bring ruin to me.”
The Ansari father went to the Prophet and said, ” As you wish, you may get her married to Julaybeeb”.
[Thus they got married and lived together.]
The Prophet then left for a battle with him (Julaybeeb).
When the battle was over the Prophet said: “Is anyone missing amongst you?”. The people said: “So and so is not being found”. The Prophet said: “Then find! Perhaps someone is missing!”. They said: “No one else is missing!”.
The Prophet ﷺ said: “But Julaybeeb is missing! Search him amongst the martyrs”.
They (his Companions) searched him amongst those who had been killed and they found him by the side of seven (polytheists’ dead bodies) whom he had killed and he had been killed (by the opponents).
Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) came there and stood (by his side) and said: “He killed seven (persons). Then (his opponents) killed him. He is mine and I am his.” The Prophet repeated this two or three times (He is mine and I am his).
He then placed him upon his hands and there was none else to lift but Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ). Then the grave was dug for him and he was placed in the grave and no mention is made of a bath.
His wife was one who was blessed a lot, the Prophet supplicated for Julaybeeb’s widow: “O Allah! Shower blessings of goodness upon her and do not make her life that of difficulty (and toil)”.
The narrator said that: None from the Ansar was so blessed such as her.”
Musnad Ahmad 19810, 19784. Sahih according to Shaikh Al-Arnauut.
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Abu Barza reported that Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) was there in a battlefield that Allah conferred upon him the spoils of war. He said to his Companions:
Is anyone missing amongst you? They said: So and so and so. He again said: Is there anyone missing amongst you? They said: So and so and so. He then said: Is there anyone missing amongst you? They said: No.
Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: But I am missing Julaibib. They (his Companions) searched him amongst those who had been killed and they found him by the side of seven (dead bodies) whom he had killed and he had been killed (by the opponents).
Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ) came there and stood (by his side) and said: “He killed seven (persons). Then (his opponents) killed him. He is mine and I am his.”
He then placed him upon his hands and there was none else to lift but Allah’s Apostle (ﷺ). Then the grave was dug for him and he was placed in the grave and no mention is made of a bath”. (Julaybeeb was not given a bath after his martyrdom)
Sahih Muslim 2472.
-Compiled by Abu Muaaz Mohammed Manna . I got the Hadith from Musnad Ahmad from the beneficial book on Seerah by Dr.Muhammad As-Suyani which is in Arabic and also available in Urdu.
Also present in my compilation: The Biography of The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ From Reliable And Credibly Established Narrations in 3 volumes (A Seerah based only on authentic reports.)
Saheehus-Seerah 