Hassan ibn Thabit (Arabic:حسان بن ثابت) (born c. 563, Medina died 674) was anArabianpoet and one of the companions of the Islamic prophetMuhammad, who was best known for poems in defense of the prophet.
Hassan ibn Thabit حسان بن ثابت | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | c. 564 CE Yathrib, Hejaz, Arabia |
| Died | 674(674-00-00) (aged 110–111) Medina, Umayyad Caliphate |
| Spouse | Sirin bint Shamun |
| Children | Abdul-Rahman ibn Hassan |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Relations | Banu Khazraj (fromAzd) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
He was born inMedina, and was a member of theBanu Khazraj tribe.[1]Muhammad gave him a slave,Sirin, as a concubine.
His writings in defense of Muhammad refer to contemporary events that have been useful in documenting the period. He was also Islam's first religious poet.
According to Islamic tradition Ḥassān lived for 120 years, sixty years before converting to Islam and another sixty thereafter.[2] In his youth he traveled toAl-Hirah andDamascus, then he settled inMedina, where, after Muhammad's arrival, he acceptedIslam and wrote poems in his defense.[1][3]
Hassan bin Thabit wrote more than two thousand satires and elegies. He is said to have written about 1,000 poems of three to twenty lines. Those poems were composed satirizing Abu Sufyan, Ibn al-Jibara, Amr bin al-Ās, Hatim bin Hisham and Abu Jahl. He belittled them by comparing them to monkeys, goats, ostriches, and foxes.
Hassan bin Thabit died in Al-Madinah between the years 655 and 661 and during the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib at the age of around 120. Some historians suggest that Hassan bin Thabit died during the caliphate of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan between the years 670 and 674.[4]
The Palestinian poetSalim Al-Ya'qubi titled himself as "Hassan of Palestine" and chose it as aliterarypseudonym.[5]Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Al Hanafi Al Maturidi also known as Hassanul Hind.
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler (1911). "Ḥassān ibn Thābit". InChisholm, Hugh (ed.).Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 51.
