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Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Ḥassān! Are you reviling (1) my people because Allah has guided them to Islam—meaning, venting your anger against them? O Ḥassān, conduct yourself well in what has befallen you.”

He replied, “It is for you, Messenger of Allah.”

The Prophet ﷺ thereupon gave him Sīrīn the Copt, who bore him ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; he also granted him a tract of land that had belonged to Abū Ṭalḥah, the very property Abū Ṭalḥah had donated to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as charity.

Ibn Isḥāq said: Ḥassān composed the following lines about ʿĀʾishah:

I saw you—may Allah forgive you—an honourable free woman,
one of the well-protected, untouched by hidden disgrace.
Chaste, dignified, never approached by suspicion,
who would wake hungry rather than feast on the flesh of the heedless.
Indeed, what has been said is never fitting for you—
it is only the talk of a slanderous man. (2)
So if ever I abused you, as they have reported,
may my fingers never again raise my whip!
How could it be, when as long as I live my love and my support
belong to the family of Allah’s Messenger, the jewel of gatherings?
Surely they possess a nobility before which all people appear small;
lofty honour that outstrips every attempt at exaltation.
She is the noble lady of a clan from Lu’ayy ibn Ghālib—
men of generous deeds whose glory never fades.
Refined: Allah has purified her nature
and cleansed her of every evil and falsehood. (3)

Ibn Abī Uways narrated: my brother told me, from Sulaymān b. Bilāl, from Hishām b. ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“Messenger of Allah! What would you say if you…"

(1) In other words: “Have you disowned them and spoken to them with scorn?” The Prophet ﷺ therefore regarded the Ansar as his own clan because they supported him. In the printed edition the verb has been wrongly set as “atachawwafat.” (2) laʾiq means “adhering, clinging”; the Diwan and the Sira read balaʾit, which has the same sense. al-mutamaḥḥil denotes a crafty, scheming person. Ibn Hisham’s Sira transmits the second hemistich as: “wa lākinnahu qawlu imriʾin bī mā ḥall” (“but it is the utterance of a man upon whom what befell me has alighted”). al-māḥil likewise means “deceiver, trickster.” (3) al-khaym means natural disposition. For the full narrative together with the poem, see Ibn Hisham, al-Sira, vol. 2, pp. 304 and 306.

حَسَّانُ! أَتَشَوَّهْتَ (١) عَلَى قَوْمِي أَنْ هَدَاهُمُ اللهُ لِلإِسْلاَمِ - يَقُوْلُ: تَنَفَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم - يَا حَسَّانُ، أَحْسِنْ فِيْمَا أَصَابَكَ) . قَالَ: هِيَ لَكَ يَا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ. فَأَعْطَاهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ سِيْرِيْنَ القُبْطِيَّةَ، فَوَلَدَتْ لَهُ عَبْدَ الرَّحْمَنِ، وَأَعْطَاهُ أَرْضاً كَانَتْ لأَبِي طَلْحَةَ، تَصَدَّقَ بِهَا أَبُو طَلْحَةَ عَلَى رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ. قَالَ ابْنُ إِسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ حَسَّانُ فِي عَائِشَةَ: رَأَيْتُكِ - وَلْيَغْفِرْ لَكِ اللهُ - حُرَّةً ... مِنَ المُحْصَنَاتِ غَيْرِ ذَاتِ غَوَائِلِ حَصَانٌ رَزَانٌ مَا تُزَنُّ بِرِيْبَةٍ ... وَتُصْبِحُ غَرْثَى مِنْ لُحُوْمِ الغَوَافِلِ وَإِنَّ الَّذِي قَدْ قِيْلَ لَيْسَ بِلائِقٍ ... بِكِ الدَّهْرَ بَلْ قِيْلُ امْرِئٍ مُتَمَاحِلِ (٢) فَإِنْ كُنْتُ أَهْجُوْكُمْ كَمَا بَلَّغُوْكُمُ ... فَلاَ رَفَعَتْ سَوطِي إِلَيَّ أَنَامِلِي وَكَيْفَ وُوُدِّي مَا حَيِيْتُ وُنُصْرَتِي ... لآلِ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ زَيْنِ المَحَافِلِ وَإِنَّ لَهُمْ عِزّاً يُرَى النَّاسُ دُوْنَهُ ... قِصَاراً وَطَالَ العِزُّ كُلَّ التَّطَاوُلِ عَقِيْلَةُ حَيٍّ مِنْ لُؤَيِّ بنِ غَالِبٍ ... كِرَامِ المَسَاعِي مَجْدُهُمْ غَيْرُ زَائِلِ مُهَذَّبَةٌ قَدْ طَيَّبَ اللهُ خِيْمَهَا ... وَطَهَّرَهَا مِنْ كُلِّ سُوْءٍ وَبَاطِلِ (٣) ابْنُ أَبِي أُوَيْسٍ: حَدَّثَنِي أَخِي، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ بنِ بِلاَلٍ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بنِ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، قَالَتْ: يَا رَسُوْلَ اللهِ! أَرَأَيْتَ لَو أَنَّكَ

(١) أي: أتنكرت وتقيحت لهم؟ وجعل ﷺ الانصار قومه لنصرتهم إياه. وقد تحرفت في المطوبع إلى: " أتشوفت ". (٢) لائق: لازق، وفي الديوان والسيرة: بلائط، وهو اللازق أيضا. والمتماحل: المتماكر، ورواية الشطر الثاني في السيرة: ولكنه قول امرئ بي ما حل. والماحل: الماكر. (٣) الخيم: الطبع، وانظر الخبر بطوله مع الشعر في سيرة ابن هشام ٢ / ٣٠٤، ٣٠٦.