Salamah bin al-Akwa reported, "We set out with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ on the campaign of Hunayn. When we faced the enemy, I advanced ahead and climbed a mountain pass. A man from the enemy came toward me, and I shot him with an arrow, but he disappeared from my sight, so I did not know what became of him.Then I looked at the enemy and saw that they had emerged from another pass. They clashed with the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, and the companions of the Prophet ﷺ turned back. I too retreated in defeat. I was wearing two cloaks, using one as a lower garment and the other as an upper garment. My waist-wrapper came loose, so I gathered them both together and passed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in my retreat while he was on his white mule.The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Ibn al-Akwa has indeed seen something frightening.'When the enemy closed in around the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he dismounted from the mule, took a handful of dust from the ground, and threw it in their faces, saying, 'May the faces be disfigured.'Allah did not create a single one of them whose eyes were not filled with dust from that handful. They turned and fled, and Allah defeated them. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then divided their spoils among the Muslims."
غزونا مع رسول الله ﷺ حنينا، فلما واجهنا العدو تقدمت، فأعلو ثنية. فاستقبلني رجل من العدو، فأرميه بسهم فتوارى عني، فما دريت ما صنع ونظرت إلى القوم فإذا هم قد طلعوا من ثنية أخرى، فالتقوا هم وصحابة النبي ﷺ فولى صحابة النبي ﷺ، وأرجع منهزما وعلي بردتان، متزرا بإحداهما، مرتديا بالأخرى، فاستطلق إزاري، فجمعتهما جميعا ومررت على رسول الله ﷺ منهزما، وهو على بغلته الشهباء فقال رسول الله ﷺ: لقد رأى ابن الأكوع فزعا. فلما غشوا رسول الله ﷺ نزل عن البغلة، ثم قبض قبضة من تراب من الأرض، ثم استقبل به وجوههم، فقال: شاهت الوجوه. فما خلق الله منهم إنسانا إلا ملأ عينيه ترابا، بتلك القبضة. فولوا مدبرين فهزمهم الله عز وجل وقسم رسول الله ﷺ غنائمهم بين المسلمين.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Jihad and Expeditions (81:1777), from Zuhayr bin Harb, who said, Umar bin Yunus Hanafi told us, Ikrima bin Ammar told us, Iyas bin Salama told me, my father told me, and he related it.His words, "and I passed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while routed" describe the state of Ibn Akwa himself. He had already stated plainly that he was the one routed, and he did not mean that the Prophet was routed. No companion has ever transmitted that the Prophet ﷺ was routed on any occasion, and they have transmitted the consensus of the Muslims that it is not permissible to believe he was routed, nor is that possible in his case.