Sirat Ibn Hisham 1146
Ṣafiyya and Ḥassān and what she mentioned about his cowardice
[ صَفِيَّةُ وَحَسَّانُ وَمَا ذَكَرَتْهُ عَنْ جُبْنِهِ يوم الخندق ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبَّادٍ قَالَ: كَانَتْ صَفِيَّةُ بِنْتُ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ فِي فَارِعٍ، حِصْنُ حَسَّانِ بْنِ ثَابِتٍ؛ قَالَتْ: وَكَانَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ مَعَنَا فِيهِ، مَعَ النِّسَاءِ وَالصِّبْيَانِ. قَالَتْ صَفِيَّةُ؛ فَمَرَّ بِنَا رَجُلٌ مِنْ يَهُودَ، فَجَعَلَ يُطِيفُ بِالْحِصْنِ، وَقَدْ حَارَبَتْ بَنُو قُرَيْظَةَ، وَقَطَعَتْ مَا بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَلَيْسَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ أَحَدٌ يَدْفَعُ عَنَّا، وَرَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَالْمُسْلِمُونَ فِي نُحُورِ عَدُوِّهِمْ، لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ أَنْ يَنْصَرِفُوا عَنْهُمْ إلَيْنَا إنْ أَتَانَا آتٍ. قَالَتْ: فَقُلْتُ: يَا حَسَّانُ، إنَّ هَذَا الْيَهُودِيَّ كَمَا تَرَى يُطِيفُ بِالْحِصْنِ، وَإِنِّي وَاَللَّهِ مَا آمَنُهُ أَنْ يَدُلَّ عَلَى عَوْرَتِنَا مَنْ وَرَاءَنَا مِنْ يَهُودَ، وَقَدْ شُغِلَ عَنَّا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَأَصْحَابُهُ، فَانْزِلْ إلَيْهِ فَاقْتُلْهُ، قَالَ: يَغْفِرُ اللَّهُ لَكَ يَا بْنَةَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ، وَاَللَّهِ لَقَدْ عَرَفْتُ مَا أَنَا بِصَاحِبِ هَذَا: قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا قَالَ لِي ذَلِكَ، وَلَمْ أَرَ عِنْدَهُ شَيْئًا، احْتَجَزْتُ ثُمَّ أَخَذْتُ عَمُودًا، ثُمَّ نَزَلْتُ مِنْ الْحِصْنِ إلَيْهِ، فَضَرَبْتُهُ بِالْعَمُودِ حَتَّى قَتَلْتُهُ. قَالَتْ: فَلَمَّا فَرَغْتُ مِنْهُ، رَجَعْتُ إلَى الْحِصْنِ، فَقُلْتُ: يَا حَسَّانُ، انْزِلْ إلَيْهِ فَاسْلُبْهُ، فَإِنَّهُ لَمْ يَمْنَعْنِي مِنْ سَلَبِهِ إلَّا أَنَّهُ رَجُلٌ؛ قَالَ: مَا لِي بِسَلَبِهِ مِنْ حَاجَةٍ يَا بْنَةَ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ
Translation
✧ [Ṣafiyyah, Ḥassān and what she related of his cowardice on the day of al-Khandaq] Ibn Isḥāq said: Yaḥyā b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr related to me, from his father ʿAbbād, who said: Ṣafiyyah bt. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was in Fāriʿ, the fortress of Ḥassān b. Thābit; she said: Ḥassān b. Thābit was with us in it, along with the women and children. Ṣafiyyah said: A man of the Jews passed by us and began to go around the fortress, while Banū Qurayẓah had made war and cut off what was between them and the Messenger of God ﷺ, and there was no one between us and them to defend us, while the Messenger of God ﷺ and the Muslims were at the throats of their enemy, unable to turn away from them to us if someone came to us. She said: I said, “O Ḥassān, this Jew, as you see, is going around the fortress, and by God, I do not feel safe that he may point out our vulnerable spot to those behind us from the Jews, while the Messenger of God ﷺ and his companions are occupied from us; so go down to him and kill him.” He said, “May God forgive you, O daughter of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib; by God, you know that I am not one for this.” She said: When he said that to me, and I saw nothing in him, I girded myself, took a club, then descended from the fortress to him and struck him with the club until I killed him. She said: When I had finished with him, I returned to the fortress and said, “O Ḥassān, go down to him and strip him, for nothing prevented me from stripping him except that he is a man.” He said, “I have no need of his spoils, O daughter of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib.”
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