Hazrat Hassan ibn Thabit

Eyewitness at Makkah

Before his Islam, Umar ibn al-KhattabHazrat Umar ibn al-Khattabرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُSecond Caliph; al-Farooq, who expanded the Islamic stateKhulafa Rashidun · Ashara Mubashara · Muhajirun used to torture the slave-girls of Banu Mu’ammil for their Islam. Hassan ibn Thabit himself bore witness — narrating the cruelty inflicted on Zinneera in the days when there was no defender for the weak. 1 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 1 · pp. 116 — Kandhlawi — Hassan ibn Thabit's eyewitness testimony to Umar's torture of Zinneera before his Islam.

The Poet of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

Hassan was the leading poet of the Ansar — known to the later tradition as the Poet of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.

In the Affair of the Slander

In the affair of the slander of Aisha رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَاHazrat Aisha bint Abi Bakrرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَاWife of the Prophet ﷺ; the most beloved of his wives and a foremost scholar of the UmmahMothers of the Believers · Narrators, the Prophet ﷺ instructed that Mistah ibn Uthatha, Hassan ibn Thabit, and Hamna bint Jahsh رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَاHazrat Hamna bint Jahshرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَاSister of Zaynab, wife of Mus'ab ibn Umayr; the woman whose three losses at Uhud brought a famous saying of the Prophet ﷺMuhajirun be lashed according to the prescribed penalty — because of the part they had played in spreading the accusation. 2 Hayatus Sahaba · Vol 1 · pp. 565 — Kandhlawi — Mistah, Hassan and Hamna lashed in the prescribed penalty after the slander.

The Gift of Sirin

After Muqawqis of Alexandria sent his gift of two Coptic slave-women to the Prophet ﷺ, the Prophet ﷺ kept Maria رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَاHazrat Maria al-Qibtiyyaرَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَاThe Egyptian gifted to the Prophet ﷺ; mother of his son IbrahimAhl al-Bayt for himself and gave her sister Sirin to Hassan ibn Thabit; she bore him his son Abdur-Rahman. 3 Seerat-e-Mustafa · Vol 2 · pp. 113 — Idris Kandhlawi — the Prophet ﷺ gives Sirin to Hassan ibn Thabit.