was really begotten by as-Sabbah. They say also that Hind had no inclination to give birth to this child at her home, so she went out to the desert and gave birth to him there.
Hassan ibn Thabit a great poet of Islam, before the capture of Mecca and at a time when a cold war raged between the Muslims and infidels, composed a poem about this incident, satirizing and criticizing Hind:
"Whose is that child who lies in the corner of that sandy desert of al-Batha', Mecca?
A child, lying on the earth and out of cradle.
He is born by a young and beautiful woman of the Banu Urnayyah tribe!"
Hisham ibn Muhammad al-Kalbi writes as follows in his book of al-Mathalib: Hind was one of the women who was greatly attracted by black men, and whenever she gave birth to a black baby, she killed it. He adds: One day a heavy quarrel took up between Yazid ibn Mu'awiyah and Ishaq ibn Tabah in the presence of Mu'awiyah and during his caliphate. Yazid said ironically to Ishaq: "It is to your interest that all the children of Harb ibn Umayyah should enter heaven", meaning that Ishaq was an illegitimate son of that house and a bastard, since his mother had secret relations with the Umayyads.
Ishaq retorted sarcastically: "O Yazid! It is to your interest that all the children of Banu 'Abbas should go to heaven!"
Yazid did not get the meaning of Ishaq's sharp remark, but his father, Mu'awiyah, did. So when Ishaq left the gathering, Mu'awiyah said to Yazid: "Why do you open your mouth to abuse when you do not understand what they say about you?" Yazid said: "My intention was to show his defects. "Mu'awiyah said: "He, too, had the same intention about you." Yazid asked:
"How?" Mu'awiyah said: "Don't you know that some of the
Quraysh of pagan times considered me a son of Banu 'Abbas?" It -was then that Yazid realized what an insult he had received.
Indeed, Hind's bad reputation was so obvious and certain that on the day of capture of Mecca the Prophet made some reference to it. When Hind came to his presence to show allegiance, the Prophet pardoned her, even though he had declared Hind's blood worthless owing to her great anti-Islamic crimes, and accepted her allegiance, and showed indulgence