Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 1 of 3

550 THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH @,g&> (Vol-1)
you even if you were clinging on to the shroud of the Kabah." Someone then
suggested, "Should you not discuss making peace with them?" He replied, "Is this
the time for making peace? I swear by Allaah that even if they find you inside the
Kabah, they would slaughter you all." He then recited the following couplets
(which meant):
7 shall not sell my life for something that is Rawed
nor shall r climb a ladder for fear of death
1 aspire for an arrow that strikes and cannot be shined
How can one who desires death have any other aspiration?"
Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Zubayr WGW then addressed the family of (his father)
Hadhrat Zubayr %B&j saying, "Each one of you should look after his sword as
he looks after his face. He should ensure that it does not break otherwise he will
have to defend himself with his hands as if he were a woman. By Allaah! I have
always been in the front line of every battle and I have never felt the pain of any
wound unless I applied medicine to it."
As they were talking, some people suddenly entered through the door of Banu
Jumh. Amongst them was black man. "Who are they?" asked Hadhrat Abdullaah
bin Zubayr !3=. When he was informed that they were people from Hims, he
attacked them carrying two swords. The first person he met was the black man,
whom he attacked with his sword and severed his leg. The man shoyted in pain
and said, "0 son of an adulteress!" Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Zubayr ?3Iw
responded by saying, "Get lost, 0 son of ~aam(')! Was Asmaa ever an
adulteress?!" Hadhrat Aodullaah bin Zubayr %Wj then removed them all
from the Masjid and retur ed.
Just then another group o ! people barged through the Banu Salam door. When
Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Zubayr WWj asked who they were, he was informed
that they were people from Jordan. He then attacked them as he recited the
following couplets (which meant):
"r do not trust an attack that comes in Roods
The dust of which does not settle until the night"
After he had removed them also from the Masjid, another group of people rushed
in through the Banu Makhzoom door. This time, Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Zubayr
BWj attacked them reciting the following couplet (which meant):
"Had my opponent been a single person, I would have been more than able to
settle with him"
There were many supporters of Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Zubayr %%Wj on the roof
of the Masjid who were throwing bricks on the invaders. However, as Hadhrat
Abdullaah bin Zubayr %w attacked the enemy, a brick struck the centre of his
head, causing a terrible gash. He paused for a while as he said:
"Our wounds do not bleed on to our heels
On the contrag our blood drops on to our feet (rather than having wounds on
the back of oul bodies as cowards have, our wounds are on the front parts of our
(1) Historians are of the opinion that Negroid people are the descendants of Haam, who was one of
Hadhrat Nooh @.#s sons.