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Sirat Ibn Hisham

37. The enemies among the Jews

  1. Sirat Ibn Hisham 596No grade recorded

    الْأَعْدَاءُ مِنْ يَهُودَ [ سَبَبُ عَدَاوَتِهِمْ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَنَصَبَتْ عِنْدَ ذَلِكَ أَحْبَارُ يَهُودَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْعَدَاوَةَ، بَغْيًا وَحَسَدًا وَضِغْنًا، لِمَا خَصَّ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِهِ الْعَرَبَ مِنْ أَخْذِهِ رَسُولَهُ مِنْهُمْ، وَانْضَافَ إلَيْهِمْ رِجَالٌ مِنْ الْأَوْسِ وَالْخَزْرَجِ، مِمَّنْ كَانَ عَسِيَ عَلَى جَاهِلِيَّتِهِ فَكَانُوا أَهْلَ نِفَاقٍ عَلَى دِينِ آبَائِهِمْ مِنْ الشِّرْكِ وَالتَّكْذِيبِ بِالْبَعْثِ، إلَّا أَنَّ الْإِسْلَامَ قَهَرَهُمْ بِظُهُورِهِ وَاجْتِمَاعِ قَوْمِهِمْ عَلَيْهِ، فَظَهَرُوا بِالْإِسْلَامِ، وَاِتَّخَذُوهُ جُنَّةً مِنْ الْقَتْلِ وَنَافَقُوا فِي السِّرِّ، وَكَانَ هَوَاهُمْ مَعَ يَهُودَ، لِتَكْذِيبِهِمْ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ، وَجُحُودِهِمْ الْإِسْلَامَ. وَكَانَتْ أَحْبَارُ يَهُودَ هُمْ الَّذِينَ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَيَتَعَنَّتُونَهُ، وَيَأْتُونَهُ بِاللَّبْسِ، لِيَلْبِسُوا الْحَقَّ بِالْبَاطِلِ، فَكَانَ الْقُرْآنُ يَنْزِلُ فِيهِمْ فِيمَا يَسْأَلُونَ عَنْهُ، إلَّا قَلِيلًا مِنْ الْمَسَائِلِ فِي الْحَلَالِ وَالْحَرَامِ كَانَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ يَسْأَلُونَ عَنْهَا.

    ✧ The enemies among the Jews [the cause of their enmity] Ibn Isḥāq said: On account of that the rabbis of the Jews showed enmity to the Messenger of God ﷺ, out of oppression, envy, and rancor, because of that with which God Most High distinguished the Arabs, namely His taking His Messenger from among them. And there joined them men from the Aws and the Khazraj who had persisted in their paganism; thus they were people of hypocrisy upon the religion of their fathers, namely polytheism and denial of the resurrection, except that Islam overpowered them by its emergence and their people's gathering around it. So they displayed Islam and took it as a shield from being killed, while they acted as hypocrites in secret. Their inclination was with the Jews, because of their denying the Prophet ﷺ and their rejecting Islam. The rabbis of the Jews were the ones who questioned the Messenger of God ﷺ and sought to trouble him, and brought him ambiguities so as to confound truth with falsehood. Thus the Qurʾān would descend concerning them regarding what they asked about, except for a few questions about the lawful and the unlawful which the Muslims asked about.

  2. Sirat Ibn Hisham 597No grade recorded

    [ الْأَعْدَاءُ مِنْ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ ] مِنْهُمْ: حُيَيُّ بْنُ أَخْطَبَ، وَأَخَوَاهُ أَبُو يَاسِرِ بْنِ أَخْطَبَ، وَجُدَيُّ بْنُ أَخْطَبَ، وَسَلَّامُ بْنُ مُشْكِمٍ، وَكِنَانَةُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ وَسَلَّامُ بْنُ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ، أَبُو رَافِعٍ الْأَعْوَرُ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي قَتَلَهُ أَصْحَابُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِخَيْبَرٍ - وَالرَّبِيعُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ بْنِ أَبِي الْحُقَيْقِ، وَعَمْرُو بْنُ جَحَّاشٍ، وَكَعْبُ بْنُ الْأَشْرَفِ، وَهُوَ مِنْ طَيِّئ، ثُمَّ أَحَدُ بَنِي نَبْهَانَ، وَأُمُّهُ مِنْ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ، وَالْحَجَّاجُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، حَلِيفُ كَعْبِ بْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ، وَكَرْدَمُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، حَلِيفُ كَعْبِ بْنِ الْأَشْرَفِ، فَهَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ. [ مِنْ بَنِي ثَعْلَبَةَ ] وَمِنْ بَنِي ثَعْلَبَةَ ابْنُ الفِطْيَوْنِ: عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صُورِيَّا الْأَعْوَرُ، وَلَمْ يَكُنْ بِالْحِجَازِ فِي زَمَانِهِ أَحَدٌ أَعْلَمَ بِالتَّوْرَاةِ مِنْهُ، وَابْنُ صَلُوبا، وَمُخَيْرِيقٌ، وَكَانَ حَبْرَهُمْ، أَسْلَمَ. [ مِنْ بَنِي قَيْنُقَاعَ ] وَمِنْ بَنِي قَيْنُقَاعَ: زَيْدُ بْنُ اللَّصِيتِ - وَيُقَالُ: ابْنُ اللُّصَيتِ - فِيمَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ - وَسَعْدُ بْنُ حُنَيْفٍ، وَمَحْمُودُ بْنُ سَيْحَانَ، وَعُزَيْزُ بْنُ أَبِي عُزَيْزٍ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ صَيْفٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: ابْنُ ضَيْفٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، وَرِفَاعَةُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، وَفِنْحَاصُ، وَأَشْيَعُ، وَنُعْمَانُ بْنُ أضَا، وَبَحْرِيُّ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، وَشَأْسُ بْنُ عَدِيٍّ، وَشَأْسُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ، وَزَيْدُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ، وَنُعْمَانُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو، وَسُكَيْنُ بْنُ أَبِي سُكَيْنٍ، وَعَدِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَنُعْمَانُ بْنُ أَبِي أَوْفَى، أَبُو أَنَسٍ، وَمَحْمُودُ بْنُ دَحْيَةَ، وَمَالِكُ بْنُ صَيْفٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: ابْنُ ضَيْفٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَعْبُ بْنُ رَاشِدٍ، وَعَازِرٌ، وَرَافِعُ بْنُ أَبِي رَافِعٍ، وَخَالِدٌ وَأَزَارُ بْنُ أَبِي أَزَارٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: آزِرُ بْنُ آزِرُ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَرَافِعُ بْنُ حَارِثَةَ، وَرَافِعُ بْنُ حُرَيْمِلَةَ، وَرَافِعُ بْنُ خَارِجَةَ، وَمَالِكُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ، وَرِفَاعَةُ بْنُ زَيْدِ بْنِ التَّابُوتِ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَلَامِ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ، وَكَانَ حَبْرَهُمْ وَأَعْلَمَهُمْ، وَكَانَ اسْمُهُ الْحُصَيْنُ، فَلَمَّا أَسْلَمَ سَمَّاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ. فَهَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ بَنِي قَيْنُقَاعَ

    ✧ [The enemies among the Banū al-Naḍīr] Among them were: Ḥuyayy b. Akhṭab, and his two brothers Abū Yāsir b. Akhṭab and Judayy b. Akhṭab; Sallām b. Mishkam; Kinānah b. al-Rabīʿ b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq; Sallām b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq, Abū Rāfiʿ the one-eyed—he is the one whom the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ killed at Khaybar—; al-Rabīʿ b. al-Rabīʿ b. Abī al-Ḥuqayq; ʿAmr b. Jaḥḥāsh; Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf—he was of Ṭayyiʾ, then one of the Banū Nabhān, and his mother was of the Banū al-Naḍīr—; al-Ḥajjāj b. ʿAmr, an ally of Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf; and Kardam b. Qays, an ally of Kaʿb b. al-Ashraf. These were of the Banū al-Naḍīr. [Of the Banū Thaʿlabah] And of the Banū Thaʿlabah ibn al-Fiṭyūn: ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣūriyā the one-eyed—there was no one in the Ḥijāz in his time more learned in the Torah than he—; Ibn Ṣalūbā; and Mukhayrīq—he was their rabbi; he became a Muslim. [Of the Banū Qaynuqāʿ] And of the Banū Qaynuqāʿ: Zayd b. al-Laṣīt—and it is said Ibn al-Luṣayt, according to what Ibn Hishām said—; Saʿd b. Ḥunayf; Maḥmūd b. Sayḥān; ʿUzayz b. Abī ʿUzayz; and ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣayf. Ibn Hishām said: And it is said Ibn Ḍayf. Ibn Isḥāq said: And Suwayd b. al-Ḥārith; Rifāʿah b. Qays; Finḥāṣ; Ashyaʿ; Nuʿmān b. Aḍā; Baḥrī b. ʿAmr; Shaʾs b. ʿAdī; Shaʾs b. Qays; Zayd b. al-Ḥārith; Nuʿmān b. ʿAmr; Sukayn b. Abī Sukayn; ʿAdī b. Zayd; Nuʿmān b. Abī Awfā, Abū Anas; Maḥmūd b. Daḥyah; and Mālik b. Ṣayf. Ibn Hishām said: And it is said Ibn Ḍayf. Ibn Isḥāq said: And Kaʿb b. Rāshid; ʿĀzir; Rāfiʿ b. Abī Rāfiʿ; Khālid; and Azār b. Abī Azār. Ibn Hishām said: And it is said Āzir b. Āzir. Ibn Isḥāq said: And Rāfiʿ b. Ḥārithah; Rāfiʿ b. Ḥuraymilah; Rāfiʿ b. Khārijah; Mālik b. ʿAwf; Rifāʿah b. Zayd b. al-Tābūt; and ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām b. al-Ḥārith—he was their rabbi and most learned, and his name was al-Ḥuṣayn, but when he became a Muslim, the Messenger of God ﷺ named him ʿAbd Allāh. These were of the Banū Qaynuqāʿ.

  3. Sirat Ibn Hisham 598No grade recorded

    [ مِنْ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ ] وَمِنْ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ: الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ بَاطَا بْنُ وَهْبٍ وَعَزَّالُ بْنُ شَمْوِيلٍ، وَكَعْبُ بْنُ أَسَدٍ، وَهُوَ صَاحِبُ عَقْدِ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ الَّذِي نُقِضَ عَامَ الْأَحْزَابِ، وَشَمْويِلُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَجَبَلُ بْنُ عَمْرِو بْنِ سُكَيْنَةَ، وَالنَّحَّامُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَقَرْدَمُ بْنُ كَعْبٍ، وَوَهْبُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَنَافِعُ بْنُ أَبِي نَافِعٍ، وَأَبُو نَافِعٍ، وَعَدِيُّ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ عَوْفٍ، وَكَرْدَمُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، وَأُسَامَةُ بْنُ حَبِيبٍ، وَرَافِعُ بْنُ رُمَيْلَةَ، وَجَبَلُ بْنُ أَبِي قُشَيْرٍ، وَوَهْبُ بْنُ يَهُوذَا، فَهَؤُلَاءِ مِنْ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ. [ مِنْ بَنِي زُرَيْقٍ ] وَمِنْ يَهُودِ بَنِي زُرَيْقٍ: لَبِيدُ بْنُ أَعْصَمَ، وَهُوَ الَّذِي أَخَّذَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَنْ نِسَائِهِ.: [ مِنْ بَنِي حَارِثَةَ ] وَمِنْ يَهُودِ بَنِي حَارِثَةَ: كِنَانَةُ بْنُ صُورِيَّا. [ مِنْ بَنِي عَمْرٍو ] وَمِنْ يَهُودِ بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ: قَرْدَمُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو. [ مِنْ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ ]

    ✧ [From Banū Qurayẓah] And from Banū Qurayẓah: al-Zubayr b. Bāṭā b. Wahb; ʿAzzāl b. Shamwīl; Kaʿb b. Asad, who was the holder of the pact of Banū Qurayẓah that was broken in the year of the Confederates; Shamwīl b. Zayd; Jabal b. ʿAmr b. Sukaynah; al-Naḥḥām b. Zayd; Qardam b. Kaʿb; Wahb b. Zayd; Nāfiʿ b. Abī Nāfiʿ; Abū Nāfiʿ; ʿAdī b. Zayd; al-Ḥārith b. ʿAwf; Kardam b. Zayd; Usāmah b. Ḥabīb; Rāfiʿ b. Rumaylah; Jabal b. Abī Qushayr; and Wahb b. Yahūdhā. These are from Banū Qurayẓah. [From Banū Zurayq] And from the Jews of Banū Zurayq: Labīd b. Aʿṣam, who is the one who held the Messenger of God ﷺ back from his wives. [From Banū Ḥārithah] And from the Jews of Banū Ḥārithah: Kinānah b. Ṣūriyā. [From Banū ʿAmr] And from the Jews of Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf: Qardam b. ʿAmr. [From Banū al-Najjār]

  4. Sirat Ibn Hisham 599No grade recorded

    وَمِنْ يَهُودِ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ: سِلْسِلَةُ بْنُ بَرْهَامَ. فَهَؤُلَاءِ أَحْبَارُ الْيَهُودِ، أَهْلُ الشُّرُورِ وَالْعَدَاوَةِ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَصْحَابِهِ، وَأَصْحَابُ الْمَسْأَلَةِ، وَالنَّصْبُ لِأَمْرِ الْإِسْلَامِ الشُّرُورَ لِيُطْفِئُوهُ، إلَّا مَا كَانَ مِنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ وَمُخَيْرِيقٍ.

    ✧ And among the Jews of the Banū al-Najjār: Silsilah b. Barhām. These are the rabbis of the Jews, the people of evils and enmity toward the Messenger of God ﷺ and his companions, and the people of questioning, and the ones who set up evils against the affair of Islam to extinguish it—except for what was from ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām and Mukhayrīq.

  5. Sirat Ibn Hisham 600No grade recorded

    إسْلَامُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ [ كَيْفَ أَسْلَمَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ، كَمَا حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِهِ عَنْهُ وَعَنْ إسْلَامِهِ حَيْنَ أَسْلَمَ، وَكَانَ حَبْرًا عَالِمًا، قَالَ: لَمَّا سَمِعْتُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَرَفْتُ صِفَتَهُ وَاسْمَهُ وَزَمَانَهُ الَّذِي كُنَّا نَتَوَكَّفُ لَهُ، فَكُنْتُ مُسِرًّا لِذَلِكَ، صَامِتًا عَلَيْهِ، حَتَّى قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ، فَلَمَّا نَزَلَ بقُباءٍ، فِي بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ، أَقْبَلَ رَجُلٌ حَتَّى أَخْبَرَ بِقُدُومِهِ، وَأَنَا فِي رَأْسِ نَخْلَةٍ لِي أَعَمَلُ فِيهَا، وَعَمَّتِي خَالِدَةُ ابْنَةُ الْحَارِثِ تَحْتِي جَالِسَةٌ، فَلَمَّا سَمِعْتُ الْخَبَرَ بِقُدُومِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَبَّرْتُ؛ فَقَالَتْ لِي عَمَّتِي، حَيْنَ سَمِعَتْ تَكْبِيرِي: خَيَّبَكَ اللَّهُ، وَاَللَّهِ لَوْ كُنْتَ سَمِعْتَ بِمُوسَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ قَادِمًا مَا زِدْتَ، قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لَهَا: أَيْ عَمَّةُ، هُوَ وَاَللَّهِ أَخُو مُوسَى بْنِ عِمْرَانَ، وَعَلَى دِينِهِ، بُعِثَ بِمَا بُعِثَ بِهِ. قَالَ: فَقَالَتْ: أَيْ ابْنَ أَخِي، أَهُوَ النَّبِيُّ الَّذِي كُنَّا نُخْبَرُ أَنَّهُ يُبْعَثُ مَعَ نَفْسِ السَّاعَةِ ؟ قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لَهَا: نَعَمْ. قَالَ: فَقَالَتْ: فَذَاكَ إذًا. قَالَ: ثُمَّ خَرَجْتُ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَسْلَمْتُ، ثُمَّ رَجَعْتُ إلَى أَهْلِ بَيْتِي، فَأَمَرْتُهُمْ فَأَسْلَمُوا

    ✧ The Islam of ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām [how he became Muslim]. Ibn Isḥāq said: Part of the account of ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām, as one of his family related to me from him and about his conversion when he became Muslim—he was a learned rabbi—he said: When I heard of the Messenger of God ﷺ, I recognized his description, his name, and the time for which we had been waiting, and I kept this secret and remained silent about it until the Messenger of God ﷺ arrived in Madinah. When he alighted at Qubāʾ among the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, a man came and announced his arrival while I was at the top of a date palm of mine, working on it, and my paternal aunt Khālidah bt. al-Ḥārith was sitting below me. When I heard the news of the arrival of the Messenger of God ﷺ, I exclaimed, 'Allāhu akbar!' My aunt said, when she heard my exclamation: 'May God thwart you! By God, if you had heard that Moses son of ʿImrān was coming, you would not have done more.' He said: I said to her, 'Aunt, by God, he is the brother of Moses son of ʿImrān, and upon his religion; he has been sent with what he was sent with.' He said: She said, 'O son of my brother, is he the prophet about whom we were told that he would be sent with the same breath as the Hour?' He said: I said to her, 'Yes.' He said: She said, 'Then it is he.' He said: Then I went out to the Messenger of God ﷺ and became Muslim, then returned to my household and commanded them, and they became Muslim.

  6. Sirat Ibn Hisham 601No grade recorded

    [ قَوْمُهُ يُكَذِّبُونَهُ وَلَا يَتَّبِعُونَهُ ] قَالَ: وَكَتَمْتُ إسْلَامِي مِنْ يَهُودَ، ثُمَّ جِئْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنَّ يَهُودَ قَوْمٌ بُهْتٌ، وَإِنِّي أُحِبُّ أَنْ تُدْخِلَنِي فِي بَعْضِ بُيُوتِكَ، وَتُغَيِّبَنِي عَنْهُمْ، ثُمَّ تَسْأَلُهُمْ عَنِّي، حَتَّى يُخْبِرُوكَ كَيْفَ أَنَا فِيهِمْ، قَبْلَ أَنْ يَعْلَمُوا بِإِسْلَامِي، فَإِنَّهُمْ إنْ عَلِمُوا بِهِ بَهَتُونِي وَعَابُونِي. قَالَ: فَأَدْخَلَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي بَعْضِ بُيُوتِهِ، وَدَخَلُوا عَلَيْهِ، فَكَلَّمُوهُ وَسَاءَلُوهُ، ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُمْ: أَيُّ رَجُلٍ الْحُصَيْنُ بْنُ سَلَامٍ فِيكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: سَيِّدُنَا وَابْنُ سَيِّدِنَا، وَحَبْرُنَا وَعَالِمُنَا. قَالَ: فَلَمَّا فَرَغُوا مِنْ قَوْلِهِمْ خَرَجْتُ عَلَيْهِمْ، فَقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: يَا مَعْشَرَ يَهُودَ، اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَاقْبَلُوا مَا جَاءَكُمْ بِهِ، فَوَاَللَّهِ إنَّكُمْ لَتَعْلَمُونَ إنَّهُ لَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ، تَجِدُونَهُ مَكْتُوبًا عِنْدَكُمْ فِي التَّوْرَاةِ بِاسْمِهِ وَصِفَتِهِ، فَإِنِّي أَشْهَدُ أَنَّهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَأُومِنُ بِهِ وَأُصَدِّقُهُ وَأَعْرِفُهُ، فَقَالُوا: كَذَبْتَ ثُمَّ وَقَعُوا بِي، قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَلَمْ أُخْبِرْكَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُمْ قَوْمٌ بُهْتٌ، أَهْلُ غَدْرٍ وَكَذِبٍ وَفُجُورٍ اليهود وعبد الله بن سلام قَالَ: فَأَظْهَرْتُ إسْلَامِي وَإِسْلَامُ أَهْلِ بَيْتِي، وَأَسْلَمَتْ عَمَّتِي خَالِدَةُ بِنْتُ الْحَارِثِ، فَحَسُنَ إسْلَامُهَا

    ✧ [His people deny him and do not follow him] He said: I concealed my Islam from the Jews. Then I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said to him: O Messenger of Allah, the Jews are a people of slander, and I would like you to admit me into one of your houses and hide me from them, then ask them about me, so that they may tell you how I am among them before they learn of my Islam. For if they learn of it, they will slander me and find fault with me. He said: So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ admitted me into one of his houses, and they entered upon him and spoke with him and questioned him. Then he said to them: What sort of man is al-Ḥuṣayn b. Salām among you? They said: Our chief and the son of our chief, our rabbi and our scholar. He said: When they had finished their words, I came out upon them and said to them: O assembly of Jews, fear Allah and accept what he has brought you. For by Allah, you know that he is the Messenger of Allah; you find him written with you in the Torah by his name and description. I bear witness that he is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I believe in him, and I affirm him, and I know him. They said: You have lied. Then they fell upon me. He said: I said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Did I not tell you, O Messenger of Allah, that they are a people of slander, a people of treachery, lying, and wickedness? The Jews and ʿAbd Allāh b. Salām. He said: I made my Islam public, and the Islam of my household, and my paternal aunt Khālida bt. al-Ḥārith embraced Islam, and her Islam was good.

  7. Sirat Ibn Hisham 602No grade recorded

    حَدِيثُ مُخَيْرِيقٍ [ إِسْلَامُهُ وَمَوْتُهُ وَوُصَاتُهُ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِنْ حَدِيثِ مُخَيْرِيقٍ، وَكَانَ حَبْرًا عَالِمًا، وَكَانَ رَجُلًا غَنِيًّا كَثِيرَ الْأَمْوَالِ مِنْ النَّخْلِ، وَكَانَ يَعْرِفُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِصِفَتِهِ، وَمَا يَجِدُ فِي عِلْمِهِ، وَغَلَبَ عَلَيْهِ إلْفُ دِينِهِ، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، حَتَّى إذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ أُحُدٍ، وَكَانَ يَوْمُ أُحُدٍ يَوْمَ السَّبْتِ، قَالَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ يَهُودَ، وَاَللَّهِ إنَّكُمْ لَتَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ نَصْرَ مُحَمَّدٍ عَلَيْكُمْ لَحَقٌّ. قَالُوا: إنَّ الْيَوْمَ يَوْمُ السَّبْتِ، قَالَ: لَا سَبْتَ لَكُمْ. ثُمَّ أَخَذَ سِلَاحَهُ، فَخَرَجَ حَتَّى أَتَى رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِأُحُدٍ، وَعَهِدَ إلَى مَنْ وَرَاءَهُ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ: إنْ قُتِلْتُ هَذَا الْيَوْمَ، فَأَمْوَالِي لِمُحَمَّدٍ ( ﷺ ) يَصْنَعُ فِيهَا مَا أَرَاهُ اللَّهُ. فَلَمَّا اقْتَتَلَ النَّاسُ قَاتَلَ حَتَّى قُتِلَ. فَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ - فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي - يَقُولُ: مُخَيْرِيقُ خَيْرُ الْيَهُودِ وَقَبَضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَمْوَالَهُ، فَعَامَّةُ صَدَقَاتِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِالْمَدِينَةِ مِنْهَا.

    ✧ The account of Mukhayrīq [his conversion, his death, and his bequest]. Ibn Isḥāq said: As for the account of Mukhayrīq—he was a learned rabbi, and he was a wealthy man with many date-palm properties. He recognized the Messenger of God ﷺ by his description and by what he found in his knowledge, but he was overcome by his attachment to his religion and remained so until the day of Uḥud. The day of Uḥud was a Saturday. He said: “O assembly of Jews, by God, you know that the victory of Muḥammad over you is certain.” They said: “Today is the Sabbath.” He said: “You shall have no Sabbath.” Then he took up his weapon and went out until he came to the Messenger of God ﷺ at Uḥud. He made a covenant with those of his people who were behind him: “If I am killed today, my properties are for Muḥammad ﷺ, to do with them what God shows him.” When the people fought, he fought until he was killed. The Messenger of God ﷺ, as it has reached me, used to say: “Mukhayrīq is the best of the Jews.” The Messenger of God ﷺ took possession of his properties, and most of the charitable endowments of the Messenger of God ﷺ in Madinah came from them.

  8. Sirat Ibn Hisham 603No grade recorded

    شَهَادَةٌ عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ على عناد اليهود قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَزْمٍ قَالَ: حُدِّثْتُ عَنْ صَفِيَّةَ بِنْتِ حُيَيِّ بْنِ أَخْطَبَ أَنَّهَا قَالَتْ: كُنْتُ أَحَبَّ وَلَدِ أَبِي إلَيْهِ، وَإِلَى عَمِّي أَبِي يَاسِرٍ، لَمْ أَلْقَهُمَا قَطُّ مَعَ وَلَدٍ لَهُمَا إلَّا أَخَذَانِي دُونَهُ. قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ، وَنَزَلَ قُبَاءَ، فِي بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ، غَدَا عَلَيْهِ أَبِي، حُيَيُّ بْنُ أَخْطَبَ، وَعَمِّي أَبُو يَاسِرِ بْنِ أَخْطَبَ، مُغَلِّسَيْنِ. قَالَتْ: فَلَمْ يَرْجِعَا حَتَّى كَانَا مَعَ غُرُوبِ الشَّمْسِ. قَالَتْ: فَأَتَيَا كَالَّيْنِ كَسْلَانَيْنِ سَاقِطَيْنِ يَمْشِيَانِ الْهُوَيْنَى. قَالَتْ: فَهَشِشْتُ إلَيْهِمَا كَمَا كُنْتُ أَصْنَعُ، فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا الْتَفَتَ إلَيَّ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُمَا، مَعَ مَا بِهِمَا مِنْ الْغَمِّ. قَالَتْ: وَسَمِعْتُ عَمِّي أَبَا يَاسِرٍ، وَهُوَ يَقُولُ لِأَبِي حُيَيِّ بْنِ أَخْطَبَ: أَهُوَ هُوَ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ وَاَللَّهِ؛ قَالَ: أَتَعْرِفُهُ وَتُثْبِتُهُ ؟ قَالَ: نَعَمْ، قَالَ: فَمَا فِي نَفْسِكَ مِنْهُ ؟ قَالَ: عَدَاوَتُهُ وَاَللَّهِ مَا بَقِيتُ.

    ✧ A testimony from Ṣafiyyah concerning the obstinacy of the Jews. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm related to me, saying: I was told on the authority of Ṣafiyyah bt. Ḥuyayy b. Akhṭab that she said: I was the dearest of my father’s children to him, and to my uncle Abū Yāsir. I never met them together with any child of theirs but they took me rather than him. She said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came to Madinah and alighted at Qubāʾ among the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, my father Ḥuyayy b. Akhṭab and my uncle Abū Yāsir b. Akhṭab went to him early, before dawn. She said: They did not return until sunset. She said: They came back weary, dejected, and drooping, walking slowly. She said: I hurried to meet them as I used to do, but by Allah, neither of them turned to me, because of the grief that was upon them. She said: And I heard my uncle Abū Yāsir saying to my father Ḥuyayy b. Akhṭab: Is it he? He said: Yes, by Allah. He said: Do you recognize him and confirm him? He said: Yes. He said: Then what is in your heart concerning him? He said: Enmity toward him, by Allah, as long as I live.