The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by Ibn Kathir - Volume 2 of 4

"This comment reached 'Ali b. al-Husayn b. Zayn al-'Abidin, who then went
to Wrwa and asked hi, 'What is this hadith I hear you have been relating?'
Wrwa replied, 'By God, I really wouldn't diminish Fatima's reputation for all
the world, and moreover, I'll never relate that again!"'
Ihn Ishaq stated, "On that subject, it was either 'Abd All& h. Raw*a or Abii
Khaythama, brother of the Banii Sdim b. 'AwP' - Ibn Hisham said it was Abii
Khaythama - "who spoke the following verses,
'There has reached me unimaginable information about
Zaynab's evil, terrible treatment by them.
But by their expelling her over a battle, there being a
fierce war between us, Muhammad was not disgraced.
By his alliance with Damdam and by making war on us,
Abii Sufy2n has earned only spite and regret,
We bound his son 'Amr and the man pledged to him in
strong, well-wrought fetters,
I swore we will never lack forces wellaained and
numerous with which
We will terrify the heathen Quraysh, attacking them
again and again, placing muzzles over their noses and
branding them,
We will expel them up into Najd and Nakhla, and if they
descend we will follow down on horse and foot,
For ever, our forces never going astray; we will make
them follow in the tracks of 'Ad and Jurhum.
Those who did not obey Mukmad will regret their
actions and how they will repent indeed!
Tell Abii Sufysn, if you do meet him, "If you do not
accept Islam and bow down sincerely,
Then welcome that disgrace soon coming to you in this
life, and that mantle of tar for ever upon you in hell!" "'
Ibn Ishaq stated, "The 'man pledged' to Abii Sufya referred to by the poet was
'Amir b. al-Hadrami." Ihn Hishm stated, "It was redly Wqba b. 'Abd al-Haith
b. d-Hadrami; 'Amr b. d-Hadrami was killed at Badr."
Ibn Ishaq stated, "Yazid b. Abii Habib related to me, from Bnkayr b. 'Abd All&
b. al-Ashajj, from Sulayma b. Yasr, from Abii Ishaq al-Dawsi, from Abii
Hurayra, who said, 'The Messenger of God (SAAS) sent out a raiding party of
which I was one, and told us, "If you capture Habba b. al-Aswad and the other
man who caught up with Zaynab, then bum them in fire!"
"'The next day he sent us a message saying, "I told you to burn those two men
if you took them. But then I saw that no one should bum anyone by fire except
God, Almighty and Glorious is He; so if you take them, then kill them both.""'
Ibn Is@q alone gave this &did, which conforms to criteria of the ~ahih collections,
though not cited therein.