Sahih Ibn Hibban 7039

Translation

✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent out a raiding party as scouts, appointing ʿĀṣim b. Thābit over them. They set out until, when they were partway along the route between ʿUsfān and Makkah, they halted. They were mentioned to a clan of Hudhayl called Banū Liḥyān, who pursued them with nearly a hundred archers, tracking their traces until they reached a place where they had stopped and found date stones from the dates of Madinah. It was said, “This is from the dates of the people of Yathrib,” and they followed their traces until they caught up with them. When ʿĀṣim b. Thābit and his companions sensed them, they took refuge on a high rocky hill, and the people came and surrounded them. They said, “You have a covenant and a solemn promise: if you come down to us, we will not kill any man among you.” ʿĀṣim said, “As for me, I will not descend under the protection of a disbelieving people. O Allah, inform Your Messenger about us.” They fought them from their positions until they killed ʿĀṣim along with seven men. Khubayb b. ʿAdī, Zayd b. al-Dathinah, and another man remained. They gave them a covenant and a solemn promise to come down to them. When they had them in their power, they untied the strings of their bows and bound them with them. The third man who was with them cried out, “This is the first treachery!” and refused to accompany them. They dragged him, but he refused to follow them and said, “I have an example in these,” so they struck his neck. They took Khubayb b. ʿAdī and Zayd b. al-Dathinah and sold them in Makkah. Khubayb was bought by the Banū al-Ḥārith b. ʿĀmir—and al-Ḥārith had been killed at Badr. He remained with them as a prisoner until, when they agreed to kill him, he borrowed a razor from one of the daughters of al-Ḥārith to shave his pubic hair, and she lent it to him. She said, “I was heedless of a young son of mine until he went to him and took him and laid him on his thigh while the razor was in his hand. When I saw him, I was terrified with a great terror. He said, ‘Did you fear that I would kill him? I would not do that, if Allah wills.’” She said, “I have never seen a prisoner better than Khubayb. I saw him eating from a bunch of grapes while Makkah had no fruit that day, and he was bound in iron. It was nothing but provision Allah granted him.” Then they brought him out of the sanctuary to kill him. He said, “Let me pray two rakʿahs,” and he prayed two rakʿahs. Then he said, “Were it not that you would think that what is in me is dread of death, I would have added more.” He was the first to establish the two rakʿahs at the time of execution. Then he said:

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