In Defense of Hassan Bin Thabit

In defense of the poet of the Messenger , Hassan bin Thabit

This great companion defended the Messenger of Allah in more than one situation, and he has a right over us that drowns us because of our inability to appreciate him. However, I will present this simple response, quoted from Islamic websites, to be a response to those who unleashed their tongues against the poet of the Messenger , who always defended him with his tongue, not his sword. One of the ignorant Christians

says :

, we read: Ibn Hisham said: We left out three verses from the end of Hassan’s poem, because he was too obscene in it. Ibn Hisham, the Islamic historian, deleted three verses from Hassan’s

poem, and the reason is “because he was too obscene in it”..

We must first understand the meaning of the phrase “to be too obscene”?! Let

us read its meaning in the dictionary (Lisan Al-Arab) by Ibn Manzur

{Qadha’: indecency and obscenity. Qadha’ahu yaqdhuhu qadh’an and aqdha’ahu and aqdha’a lahu iqda’an: he accused him of obscenity and said bad things about him. Al-Azhari said: I have not heard qadha’tu without an alif from anyone other than Al-Layth: And aqdha’a al-qawl means he said bad things about him.

In the hadith: Whoever recites offensive poetry about Islam, his tongue is wasting away. And obscenity is the obscenity of speech that is ugly to mention. In the hadith: Whoever narrates offensive satire is one of the two insulters; offensive satire: that which contains obscenity, slander, and cursing that is ugly to spread, meaning that its sin is like the sin of the one who first said it.

And he was obscene in his cursing.

So Hassan was cursing, obscene, and ugly in his poetry…

and he was the ” poet of the Messenger ” who was supported by Gabriel!

Let us see who Hassan bin Thabit is first, then we will respond to this ignorant person.

He is Abu Al-Walid Hassan bin Thabit from the Khazraj tribe that migrated from Yemen to the Hijaz and settled in Medina with the Aws. He was born in Medina about eight years before the birth of Muhammad. He lived for sixty years in the pre-Islamic era , and another sixty years in Islam. He grew up in a house of prestige and honor, devoted to entertainment, drinking, and flirting. His father was Thabit bin Al-Mundhir bin Haram Al-Khazraji, one of the leaders and nobles of his people. His mother, Al-Fari’ah, was from Khazraj like his father. Hassan bin Thabit was not only from Khazraj, but he was also from Banu Al-Najjar, the maternal uncles of the Messenger of God , may God bless him and grant him peace, so he had a connection and kinship with him.

In the pre-Islamic era, the city was a battlefield between the Aws and the Khazraj, with many disputes and wars. Qais ibn al-Khatim was the poet of the Aws, and Hassan ibn Thabit was the poet of the Khazraj, who was the mouthpiece of his people in the wars that broke out between them and the Aws in the pre-Islamic era, and he became widely known in the Arab countries . Hassan ibn Thabit

connected with the Ghassanids, praising them in his poetry, and he, al-Nabigha al-Dhubyani, and Alqama al-Fahl shared the gifts of the Ghassanids. Life was pleasant for him in the shade of that abundant grace. Then he connected with the court of al-Hirah, where al-Nu’man ibn al-Mundhir was , and he took the place of al-Nu’man when the latter was in a dispute with al-Nu’man, until al-Nu’man returned to the shadow of Abu Qabus al-Nu’man, and Hassan left him reluctantly. He benefited from his contact with kings in terms of knowledge of praise poetry and its styles, and knowledge of satirical poetry and its schools. His artistic performance in his poetry was characterized by magnification and glorification , and included powerful, eloquent words .

Thus, he was fully prepared to move into the shadow of Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, the Prophet of Islam, and to fight for him with the weapons of his praise and satire. Hassan bin Thabit

was not the only poet who responded to the plot of the polytheists, but there were a large number of poets who had truly converted to Islam standing by his side. The Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, praised Hassan’s poetry , urged him to do so, and prayed for him with the likes of: ” O God, support him with the Holy Spirit . ” He showed him compassion , brought him close to him, and divided for him the spoils and gifts. However, Hassan bin Thabit did not satirize the Quraysh for their disbelief and idolatry , but rather he satirized them for the days in which they were defeated and taunted them with faults and lineages . If he had satirized them for their disbelief and polytheism, he would not have reached the level of them . Hassan bin Thabit was His heart was not strong enough for war, so he contented himself with poetry. He did not support Muhammad with his sword, and he did not witness a battle with the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, nor a raid.

The works of Hassan bin Thabit

Narratorsandcritics agreed thatHassan binThabit was the most eloquent poet of the city of his time, and the most eloquent poet of the people of Yemen as a whole. He left behind a huge collection of poems narrated by Ibn Habib,but a lot of fabricated poetry entered it, because sinceHassan bin Thabit specialpositionfromthe politicalandreligious,a lot of fabricated poetry was inserted into it .Thiswas doneby the enemies of Islam, as was done by some biographerssuchasIbn Ishaq.