The Messenger of God ﷺ said, “Leave him alone; this blind man is blind of heart as he is blind of sight.”(1)

Saʿd ibn Zayd al-Ashhalī nevertheless struck him with his bow and split his head. He [Ibn Isḥāq] said: His brother Aws ibn Qayẓī is the one who exclaimed, “Our houses are exposed,” whereupon God said, “Yet they are not exposed; they only wished to flee.” (al-Aḥzāb 33:13)(2)

He continued: Also numbered among them was Ḥāṭib ibn Umayyah ibn Rāfiʿ, an elderly, heavy-set man who had served as a night watchman in the pre-Islamic period.(3) He had a son—one of the finest Muslims—named Yazīd ibn Ḥāṭib. On the day of Uḥud the son was so grievously wounded that he lay helpless; he was carried to the house of Banū Ẓafar. ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar ibn Qatādah told me that the Muslim men and women there gathered around him as he was dying and kept saying, “Rejoice in Paradise, O son of Ḥāṭib!” At that, his father’s hypocrisy surfaced,(4) and he retorted, “Yes indeed—a ‘paradise’ of wild rue! By God, you have deluded this poor fellow about his very soul.”

He [Ibn Isḥāq] also cited Bashīr ibn Abīriq,(5) known as Abū Ṭuʿmah, the thief of the two coats of mail, about whom God revealed, “And do not plead on behalf of those who betray themselves …” (al-Nisāʾ 4:107)(6).

He added Quzmān, an ally of Banū Ẓafar, who killed seven men at Uḥud; when his wounds became unbearable he killed himself, saying, “By God, I fought only out of tribal zeal for my people.” He then died—may Allah curse him.(7)

Ibn Isḥāq(8) said: There was no known hypocrite, male or female, among Banū ʿAbd al-Ashhal, except that al-Ḍuḥḥāk ibn Thābit was suspected of hypocrisy and of affection for the Jews. All of the foregoing individuals belonged to the Aws.

Ibn Isḥāq(9) went on: Among the Khazraj were Rāfiʿ ibn Wadīʿah, Zayd ibn ʿAmr, [ʿAmr ibn Qays], Qays ibn ʿAmr ibn Sahl, and al-Jadd ibn Qays—the one who said, “Grant me leave and do not tempt me.” (al-Tawbah 9:49)(10)