—the verse (1). He is the very man who, on the Day of the Confederates, scoffed, “Muhammad is telling us we shall feast on the treasures of Chosroes and Caesar, while not one of us feels safe enough even to go to the latrine!” Thereupon God revealed: “And when the hypocrites and those whose hearts are diseased said, ‘All that Allah and His Messenger have promised us is nothing but delusion.’” (al-Aḥzāb 33:12) (2).

Ibn Isḥāq (3) also named al-Ḥārith ibn Ḥāṭib.

Ibn Hishām added: Muʿattib ibn Qushayr, and Thaʿlabah and al-Ḥārith, the two sons of Ḥāṭib—both of the clan of Banū Umayyah ibn Zayd—were veterans of Badr and, according to scholars I trust, were not hypocrites. He further noted that Ibn Isḥāq, for his part, lists Thaʿlabah and al-Ḥārith among the Banū Umayyah ibn Zayd in the roster of those who fought at Badr.

Ibn Isḥāq (4) went on to mention ʿAbbād ibn Ḥanīf—the brother of Sahl ibn Ḥanīf and Baḥzaj—who helped build the Masjid of Harm (Masjid al-Ḍirār); ʿAmr ibn Khidhām (5); ʿAbd Allāh ibn Nubtal; Jāriyah ibn ʿĀmir ibn al-ʿAṭṭāf; and his two sons, Yazya (6) and Mujammaʿ. These, too, were among those who founded the Masjid al-Ḍirār. Mujammaʿ, though still a youth, had memorized most of the Qur’an and used to lead them in prayer there. When the Masjid al-Ḍirār was demolished—as will be explained later, under the expedition of Tabūk—and this occurred during the caliphate of ʿUmar, the people of Qubāʾ asked ʿUmar to allow Mujammaʿ to lead them in prayer. He replied, “By Allah, never! Was he not the imam of the hypocrites in the Masjid al-Ḍirār?” Mujammaʿ swore by God, “I knew nothing of their affair whatsoever.” They say that ʿUmar eventually relented and permitted him to lead the prayer.

He also cited Wadiʿah ibn Thābit, one of those who helped build the Masjid al-Ḍirār. It was he who said, “We were only talking idly and joking” (al-Tawbah 9:65), and the verse was revealed about him.

He mentioned as well Khidhām ibn Khālid, the man on whose property the Masjid al-Ḍirār was erected.

Correcting Ibn Isḥāq concerning the hypocrites of Banū al-Nubayt from the Aws, Ibn Hishām added: Bishr and Rāfiʿ, the two sons of Zayd.

Ibn Isḥāq (7) also included Murbaʿ ibn Qayẓī, who was blind. When the Messenger of God ﷺ, on his way to Uḥud, passed through his orchard (8), he protested, “I do not permit you—if you are truly a prophet—to walk through my orchard.” He then picked up a handful of soil and said, “By God, were I certain it would hit no one but you, I would hurl it at you.” The Companions rushed forward to kill him, but he said—