He is the one who defeated the Confederates alone, for no one participated with him in that. When 'Amr bin 'Abd Wudd began challenging all the Muslims, requesting to duel them, and the Messenger—Exalted is His might—was calling upon them and urging them to duel, no one among them dared to do so except our master the Commander of the Faithful, who answered the Messenger by saying: "I will take him on." And the moment he slew the disbeliever, the polytheists fled in defeat; let the reader ponder this.
The Second Verse: [“Indeed, Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet. O you who have believed, ask [Allah to confer] blessing upon him and ask [Allah to grant him] peace.”] 1
This is an allusion to what our master the Commander of the Faithful undertook regarding the preparations for the Messenger—washing him and praying over him—alongside rows of angels.
[113] And from his words reported in Nahj al-Balagha: “The Messenger of Allah—Exalted is His might—passed away while his noble head was upon my chest,