The Amazing Resting Place of Sayyiduna Khalid bin Walid radiyallahu 'anhu - Abu Hashim Bakr al-Tabrani
The people of Hims did not guard the shrine of the "Drawn Sword of Allah" (may Allah be pleased with him); rather, the Sword of Allah himself guarded Hims. One night during a gruelling siege—when the Franks encircled Hims like wolves at the dawn of the second Christian millennium, and the city gates shut its trapped inhabitants in—a lone man stood by a grave that radiated light in the darkness. The grave lay outside the city walls rather than within them, standing as if it were the city’s very guardian. He wept with a sorrow that tore at the heart and wailed with a grief that shook the soul. A passerby asked him, "What makes you weep like this?" The man raised his head, his eyes brimming with tears, and said, "The enemy is at the gates, and the city is suffocating; so I came to seek aid from this Sword—the Sword that was never sheathed." Then, he raised his hands toward the heavens and cried out from the depths of his heart: "O Allah, by the honour ...