She then followed up the first blow with a second and a third, finishing him off and stifling the last breath in his chest… Next she hurried over, severed his head with the knife she carried, and hurled the head from the top of the fortress. It went tumbling down the slope until it came to rest in front of the Jews who had been lying in wait (1) at its base. When they saw the head of their companion, they said to one another, “Now we know that Muhammad would never leave the women and children without protectors.” With that, they turned back the way they had come…

May Allah be pleased with Ṣafiyyah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. She was a peerless model of the Muslim woman… She raised her only child and did so with the utmost care