Sahih al-Bukhari 3976

It is related from Abu Talha that on the day of Badr the Prophet of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had commanded that twenty-four men of the leaders of Quraysh be thrown into one of dirty stone wells of Badr. Whenever he defeated a people, he used to stay in the area for three nights. On the third day of Badr, he commanded that his she-camel be saddled and then went, followed by his Companions. They said, 'We only suppose that he is going to something of import,' and he stopped at the edge of the well and became to call them by their names and the names of their fathers, 'O so-amd-so son of so-and-so! O so-amd-so son of so-and-so! Would it have pleased you to have obeyed Allah and His Messenger?' We have found what our Lord promised us to be true? Have you found what your Lord promised you to be true?'" He said, "'Umar said, 'Messenger of Allah, are you speaking to soulless bodies?' The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'By the One who has the soul of Muhammad in His hand, you do not hear what I say better than they do!'" Qatada said, "Allah brought them to life so that they could hear what he said as a rebuke, to belittle them, and for revenge, grief and regret."

‘Abd Allah ibn Muhammad related to me that he heard Rawh ibn ‘Ubadah [say]: Sa‘id ibn Abi ‘Arubah related to us, on the authority of Qatadah who said: Anas ibn Malik narrated to us, on the authority of Abu Talhah: On the day of Badr, the Prophet gave order to throw [the bodies of] twenty-four leaders of the Quraysh into one of the rotten, filthy wells at Badr. Now, whenever he defeated an enemy, the Prophet would remain three nights on the spot, but on the third day after the battle of Badr he called for his dromedary, and it was saddled; then he went forth, and his companions followed him, saying [among themselves]: Surely he is going for some weighty reason. – And he halted at the brink of the well and addressed the corpses of the infidels by their and their fathers’ names: O So-and-so, son of So-and-so! --- and O So-and-so, son of So-and-so! Are ye pleased with having [suchwise] obeyed God and His Apostle? Behold, we have found that our Lord’s promises do come true: did ye [also] find that the promises of your Lord come true? Thereupon ‘Umar said: O Apostle of God! Why speakest thou to bodies that have no soul in them? The Apostle of God answered: By Him in Whose hand is Muhammad’s soul! Ye do not hear better what I am saying than they do. Qatadah said: God made them alive again so that they might hear the Prophet’s words of reproof, humiliation and chastisement, and feel regret and remorse.