Boy’s Don’t Cry….

Safiyyah (radhiallaho anha) was the
aunt of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallam) and a real sister of Hamza (radhiallaho
anha). She took part in battle of "Uhud". When the Muslims were defeated and
some of them began to flee from the battle she would smite them with her spear
and excite them to go back and fight.

In the war of the Treanch the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallam) had collected all the Muslim ladies in a fortress and had deputed Hassan-bin-Thabit (radhiallaho anho) to look after them. The Jews who were always in the look-out for such opportunities for doing mischief surrounded the place and sent one of them to find out if there were any men with the ladies. Safiyyah happened to see the Jew approaching the fort. She said to Hassan: "There is a Jew coming to spy on us. You go out and Kill him."

Hassan (radhiallaho anha) was a weak person. He did not make bold to do the job. Safiyyah got hold of a tent pin and went outside the fortress  and gave a blow on the head of the Jew and killed him on the spot.  She back and said to Hassan: "The man is dead. I have not removed the clothes and arms from his body for reasons of modesty. Now you go and remove everything from his body. Also bring his head after severing from the body."

Hassan was too weak-hearted to do that even. She herself went again and brought his head and threw it over the wall amidst the  Jews. When they was this they said: "We are wondering how Muhammad could keep the ladies alone in this fort. Surely, There are men inside to guard the ladies."

Safiyyah died in 20 A.H. at the age of seventy-three. The was of Trench was fought in 5 A.H. She was therefore 58 then. These days a lady of that age is hardly able to do her domestic work. But look how Safiyyah (radhiallaho anha) goes and kills a Jew all alone.

Hafsa, may Allah be pleased with her, was the daughter of
Sayyiduna Umar ibn al Khattab. She had been married to someone else, but was
widowed when she as still very young, only eighteen. Umar asked both Abu Bakr
and Uthman ibn Affan, one after another, if they would like to marry her, but
they both declined because they knew that the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him) had expressed an interest in marrying her. When Umar (may
Allah be pleased with him) went to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him) to complain about their behavior, the Prophet smiled, and said, "Hafsa
will marry one better than Uthman and Uthman will marry one better than Hafsa."
Umar was startled and then realized that it was the Prophet was asking for her
hand in marriage. HE was overcome with delight. They were married just after the
battle of Badr, when Hafsa was about twenty years old and the Prophet as
fifty-six. By this marriage, the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) strengthened the ties between two of his closest Companions, the two who
would become the first two rightly guided khalifs after his death. He was now
married to the daughter of Abu Bakr, A’isha and to the daughter of Umar,
Hafsa.

Two of the other closest Companions of the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) who would become the third and fourth Rightly
guided Khalifs were also connected to the Prophet through marriage. Uthman ibn
Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) married Ruqayya, then daughter of the
Prophet, in Mecca, and then, after her death in Medina, soon after the battle of
Badr, he had married Umm Khulthum, also the daughter of the Prophet. It was
because he married two of the daughters of the Prophet (peace and blessings of
Allah be upon him) that Uthman was given the title of Dhun Nurayn, which means
‘the possessor of two lights’. And Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with
him) had married Fatima, the youngest daughter of the Prophet, shortly before
the Prophet had married A’isha.

Hafsa, like A’isha with whom she became close friends, was never
at a loss for words, and was not afraid to argue with the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) who was content to allow her to say what she
thought. One day, while speaking to Hafsa’s mother Umar (may Allah be pleased
with him) said, "I think I shall so and so." Whereupon his wife replied, "But it
would be better if you did such and such." "Are you arguing with me, woman?"
said Umar who was a fierce man who did not expect his wives to talk back at him.
"Why not?" she answered. "Your daughter keeps arguing with the Messenger of
Allah until she upsets him for the whole day." Umar (may Allah be pleased with
him) immediately put on his cloak and went directly to his daughter’s house. "Is
it true that you argue with the Messenger of Allah?" he asked. "Indeed I do."
She replied. Umar was just about to chastise her for what he considered were bad
manners, when the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) came into
the room and would not allow him to even touch her. So Umar went round to visit
Umm Salama, to whom Umar was related in order to try and influence Hafsa’s
behavior through her.

"I wonder at you, Ibn Khattab," she said, after she had listened
to him. "You have interfered in everything. Will you now interfere between the
Messenger of Allah and his wives?" Sayiduna Umar when relating this incident,
continued, "And she kept after me until she mad me give up much of what I
thought proper." Some sources say that the Prophet divorced Hafsa with a single
divorce and that Umar was heart broken when this happened and began to throw
dust on his head.

Then the Prophet took her back after Jibril had descended and said
to him. "Take Hafsa back. She fasts and prays and she will be your wife in the
Garden." Like A’isha, Hafsa memorized the entire Qur’an by heart. The written
copy of the Qur’an which was recorded by Zayd ibn Thabit on Abu Bakr’s
instructions, and which was then given to Umar for safekeeping, was then given
by Umar to Hafsa to look after. When Uthman eventually became the khalif, he
instructed several written copies of the Qur’an to be made so that they could be
sent to the main centers of the now rapidly expanding Muslim empire, and it was
the copy in Hafsa’s keeping that was used, after it had been meticulously
checked for its accuracy by referring to all the other written records of the
Qur’an and to all the Muslims who knew the Qur’an by heart.

Hafsa lived with the Prophet in Medina for eight years, may Allah
bless him and grant him peace and lived on for another thirty four years after
his death, witnessing with joy the victories and expansion of Islam under her
father’s guidance, and with sorrow the troubles that beset the Muslim community
after the murder of Uthman. She died in 47 AH at the age of sixty-three. May
Allah be pleased with her.