Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ - Shams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi - (سيرة 1/514)

Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

and no one to guide me, and you have taken my wife and my children.”

Thābit then returned to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and asked that al-Zubayr’s offspring and his wife be restored to him. The Prophet granted his request. Thābit went back and said, “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has returned your wife and your children to you.” Al-Zubayr replied, “I own an orchard with a few date-palms; my family and I have no means of living except from it.” So the Messenger of Allah ﷺ bestowed the orchard on him as well. Thābit said to him, “Accept Islam.” Al-Zubayr asked, “What became of the two councils?” and he mentioned several men of his tribe by name. Thābit answered, “They have been killed and their affair is finished, yet perhaps Allah will guide you.” Al-Zubayr said, “I implore you by Allah and by the favour you owe me—do not leave me behind; let me follow them, for there is no good in life after them.” Thābit reported this to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, who ordered that al-Zubayr be executed.

Regarding the Banū Qurayẓah in the account of the Confederates, Allah the Exalted says: “He brought down from their strongholds those People of the Book who had supported them, and cast terror into their hearts—some of them you killed, and others you took captive.” (Al-Aḥzāb 33:26)

ʿUrwah explained the verse, “and land you have not yet trodden” (Al-Aḥzāb 33:27), as referring to Khaybar.

Al-Bakkāʾī narrates from Ibn Isḥāq: ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah told me, on the authority of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr ibn Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, from ʿAlqamah ibn Waqāṣ al-Laythī, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Saʿd, “You have judged them with the judgment of Allah from above seven heavens.”

Al-Bakkāʾī also reports from Ibn Isḥāq that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ confined them in the house of the daughter of al-Ḥārith al-Najjāriyyah, then went out to the marketplace of Medina, dug trenches there, and sent for them; they were beheaded in those trenches—including Ḥuyayy ibn Akhṭab and Kaʿb ibn Asad, the chief of the people—about six or seven hundred men in all.

قائد، وقد أخذتم امرأتي وبني، فرجع ثابت إلى رسول الله ﷺ فسأله ذرية الزبير وامرأته، فوهبهم له، فرجع إليه فقال: قد رد إليك رسول الله ﷺ امرأتك وبنيك قال الزبير: فحائط لي فيه أعذق ليس لي ولأهلي عيش إلا به. فوهبه له رسول الله ﷺ فقال له ثابت: أسلم. قال: ما فعل المجلسان؟ فذكر رجالا من قومه بأسمائهم, فقال ثابت: قد قتلوا وفرغ منهم، ولعل الله أن يهديك. فقال الزبير: أسألك بالله وبيدي عندك إلا ما ألحقتني بهم، فما في العيش خير بعدهم. فذكر ذلك لرسول الله ﷺ، فأمر بالزبير فقتل. وقال الله تعالى في بني قريظة في سياق أمر الأحزاب: ﴿وَأَنْزَلَ الَّذِينَ ظَاهَرُوهُمْ﴾ يعني: الذين ظاهروا قريشا: ﴿مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ مِنْ صَيَاصِيهِمْ وَقَذَفَ فِي قُلُوبِهِمُ الرُّعْبَ فَرِيقًا تَقْتُلُونَ وَتَأْسِرُونَ فَرِيقًا﴾ [الأحزاب: ٢٦] . وقال عروة في قوله: ﴿وَأَرْضًا لَمْ تَطَأُوهَا﴾ [الأحزاب: ٢٧] ، هي خيبر. وقال البكائي، عن ابن إسحاق: حدثني عاصم بن عمر بن قتادة، عن عبد الرحمن بن عمرو بن سعد بن معاذ، عن علقمة بن وقاص الليثي، قال: قال رسول الله ﷺ لسعد: "لقد حكمت فيهم بحكم الله من فوق سبعة أرقعة". وقال البكائي، عن ابن إسحاق: فحبسهم رسول الله ﷺ في دار بنت الحارث النجارية، وخرج إلى سوق المدينة، فخندق بها خنادق، ثم بعث إليهم فضرب أعناقهم في تلك الخنادق وفيهم حيي بن أخطب وكعب بن أسد رأس القوم وهم ستمائة أو سبعمائة،