The tribes of Rial, Zakwan, Usayya, and Banu Lihyan came to the Prophet ﷺ claiming that they had embraced Islam, and they asked him for support against their people. The Prophet ﷺ sent with them seventy men from the Ansar.Anas said, "We used to call them the Reciters. They would gather firewood by day and pray by night."They set out with them until they reached the well of Maunah, where they betrayed them and killed them. So the Prophet ﷺ performed the qunut for a month, supplicating against Rial, Zakwan, and Banu Lihyan.Qatada said, "Anas told us that they had recited a passage of Quran concerning them, 'Convey to our people on our behalf that we have met our Lord, and He is pleased with us and has pleased us.' This was later abrogated."
أن النبي ﷺ أتاه رغل وذكوان وعصية، وبنو لحيان، فزعموا أنهم قد أسلموا، واستمدوه على قومهم، فأمدهم النبي ﷺ بسبعين من الأنصار. قال أنس: كنا نسميهم القراء، يحطبون بالنهار ويصلون بالليل، فانطلقوا بهم حتى بلغوا بئر معونة غدروا بهم وقتلوهم، فقنت شهرا يدعوا على رغل وذكوان وبني لحيان. قال قتادة: وحدثنا أنس أنهم قرؤوا بهم قرآنا: ألا بلغوا عنا قومنا بأنا قد لقينا ربنا، فرضي عنا وأرضانا، ثم رفع ذلك بعد.
Bukhari narrated it in Jihad wal-Siyar (3046), from Muhammad bin Bashshar, who said, Ibn Abu Adi and Sahl bin Yusuf narrated to us, from Saeed, from Qatada, from Anas, and he mentioned it.His words, "They recited concerning them a portion of the Quran..." mean that a portion of the Quran was revealed about them, to be recited, and was later abrogated, as reported in another narration from Anas with the wording, "A portion of the Quran was revealed about those killed at Bir Mauna, which we used to recite, and it was later abrogated, saying, convey to our people that we..." and he mentioned it.Bukhari narrated it in Jihad (2814), and Muslim in Masajid wa Mawadi al-Salah (677-297), both through the route of Malik, from Ishaq bin Abdullah bin Abu Talha, from Anas, who said, and he mentioned it.As for what was reported from Abdullah bin Masud, who said, "Beware of saying, so-and-so died a martyr, or so-and-so was killed a martyr, for a man may fight for spoils, or fight to be remembered, or fight to be seen in his place. If you must bear witness, then bear witness for the group whom the Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent out on a raiding party, who were killed and said, 'O Allah, convey to our Prophet ﷺ from us that we have met You, and we are pleased with You, and You are pleased with us,'" this is daif and munqati.Ahmad narrated it (3952), and Ibn Abu Asim in Jihad (185), both through the route of Hammad bin Salama, from Ata bin Saaib, from Abu Ubayda bin Abdullah, from Ibn Masud, who said, and he mentioned it.In its chain is Ata bin Saaib, who is truthful but whose memory became confused late in his life. Hammad bin Salama is among those who heard from him early on. However, it is flawed due to a break between Abu Ubayda and his father, for he did not hear from him, according to the majority of scholars.It was reported from Abu Usama, who said, Hisham bin Urwa said, my father told me, saying, when those at Bir Mauna were killed, and Amr bin Umaya Damri was captured, Amir bin Tufayl said to him, "Who is this?" pointing to a slain man. Amr bin Umaya said to him, "This is Amir bin Fuhayra." He said, "I indeed saw him, after he was killed, raised up to the sky, until I was looking at the sky between him and the earth, then he was set down." Then news of them reached the Prophet ﷺ, and he announced their deaths, saying, "Your companions have been struck down, and they asked their Lord, saying, 'Our Lord, inform our brothers on our behalf that we are pleased with You and You are pleased with us,' so He informed them about them."Among those struck down that day was Urwa bin Asma bin Salt, after whom someone was named Urwa, and Munzir bin Amr, after whom someone was named Munzir.Bukhari mentioned it in Maghazi (4093), following the hadith of the migration reported from Ayesha, from his teacher Ubayd bin Ismail, who said, Abu Usama narrated to us, from Hisham, from his father, from Ayesha.Then he said following it, "And from Abu Usama..." mentioning it as mursal, so it is connected by conjunction to the preceding chain, as Hafiz said in Taghliq (4/112), and he only separated it to distinguish the connected (mawsul) from the mursal, as he said in Fath al-Bari (7/390).That is, he narrated it from the hadith of Ayesha as mawsul, containing the story of the Prophet's ﷺ migration to Madinah, then he narrated it with the chain going to Urwa bin Zubayr, mentioning the story of the people of Bir Mauna as mursal from Urwa. Both hadiths were narrated by Abu Naeem, Ismaili, and Bayhaqi in a single continuous mawsul narration, with the second embedded into the first, and they did not separate the two as Bukhari separated them. For this reason, Ibn Hajar included it in his book on mudraj narrations, to show that this combining constitutes idraj, and that the second story is not connected but is rather one of the mursal reports of Urwa. And Allah knows best.See Fath al-Bari (7/390).