Khalid ibn al-Walid, after over than hundreds of battles, year after year, month after month, battle after battle. It came time; the drawn sword of Allah was to leave this world.
For the last 4 years of his life, he was demoted; he couldn't go into the battlefield, and Khalid dubbed that year as "the year of the women". He was pissed off he couldn't go and fight into the battlefield again. But Khalid Ibn Walid didn't waste his time, he would recite the Quran, men like Khalid Ibn Walid. After every fajar he will recite Quran until dhuhur, and he would say that he was so busy going into jihad, that jihad has stopped him from learning the Quran. Now he made up for it, men like Khalid Ibn Walid. From fajr till dhuhr he would continuously recite the Quran and cry out of fear of Allah.
To tell you the extent of his battles and how busy he was, once he was praying and he forgot some of the ayat, or made mistake on some of the ayats, so the companions helped him out. And when he finished, he said; "by Allah, the only thing that made me busy, and kept me from memorizing Quran was fighting for the sake of Allah".
When Khalid was close to his death, SubhanAllah, can you imagine my friend, a man who has never lost a battles and duels in his life, more than hundreds of battle, is dying upon his bed. The narration mention when people would walk in, he would show them his arms, his legs, his chest, that there was not a handspan on his body which did not have a wound upon it. And he would started to crying and said "look at me, look at my body, you will not find one inch, one finger except that there are scars, and marks of war, and here I'm dying the same way as Camels dies? I've spent my life in battlefield, every single battle I threw myself in the ranks of the enemies until I would be certain than I would not come out alive, and yet here I am dying on my bed like a coward?". He was hurt and pissed off knowing he's not going to die as a Shahid on the battlefield. RadhiAllahu'anhu.
But one of the visitor explained to him a wisdom, "dear Khalid, don't you understand? The day that Prophet Muhammad Shallallahu Alaihi Wasallam dubbed you as Sayfullah Al-Maslul (The Drawn Sword of Allah). That it was impossible, for you to die in the battlefield, for if you die in the battlefield, it would've meant that the sword of Allah was broken by an infidel. But the Sword of Allah, could never be broken!" As Khalid contrary to his desires dying upon his bed.
But see my friend, on the Battle of Mut'ah, Khalid broke nine swords. NINE sword. But why they broke? Because they were the swords of Khalid. As Khalid himself, he was the sword of Allah, he could never be broken. The man, who brought the two major superpower of his time, Persian and Roman Byzantium Empire, down to their knees, passed away upon his bed. Not broken, but retire. RadhiAllahu'anhu.
His jenazah, according to many fuqaha, is not prayed upon the shahid. His clothes, his blood, may not bare testimony to his shahadah. But by Allah, every single shahid of this ummah will bare testimony to Khalid Ibn Walid, because there has never been a shahid in this ummah, who has not been inspired by Khalid Ibn Walid.
Narration mention that he left behind a horse and a sword, and sent it to Umar Ibn Khattab, and when Umar saw it, he began to cry, realising that Khalid has passed away.
But can you imagine my friend, that horse and sword Khalid has left behind, could any other man ride the horse as the way Khalid rode? Could any other man hold the sword as the way Khalid held? No one will can, because he would never be able to fulfill its rights. Because Khalid, this man -may Allah pleased with him- was on a different level.
The narration mention that when Khalid passed away, the women of Bani Makhzum came out and cried, and the Khalifah Umar Ibn Khattab has a strict rule that women could not come out and cry. Even when Abu Bakr passed away the women only gathered in the house of Aisyah and when they were crying Umar dispersed them. But when it came to Khalid Ibn Walid, a man came to Umar and said "ya Umar, women of Bani Makhzum are out and crying over Khalid!". But Umar said "for the likes of Khalid, those who cry, should cry". Yes my friend. Those who cry, should cry.
And then Umar heard the mother of Khalid reciting a poetry for his son: "You are better than a million when men fall infront of you on their faces, and you are braver than a Lion and as for your generousity - you are more generous than that stream which comes down from a mountain." And Umar (radiallahu anhu) said, "The mother of Khalid Ibn Walid has spoken the truth."
But if Khalid was better than a million that time, then he is better than a BILLION of today. And the truth is, that there will never be another Khalid Ibn Walid. Ever! By Allah, this man, he was Frederick The Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Temur, all of them in one! He was more, all of them and more in one. As Abu Bakr said when he bore testimony to Khalid Ibn Walid, "women will never give birth to the likes of Khalid Ibn Walid again". There will never be another man like Khalid Ibn Walid. RadhiAllahu Anhu.
Lying on his bed in Homs, a town in Syria, he said his last message, warning the disbelievers around the world, from his time to the last day, "may the eyes of cowards never sleep".
Never, will the eyes of the cowards sleep.
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