Ibn Ishaq said: Yahya ibn ‘Abbad ibn Abdullah ibn Al-Zubair related from his father ‘Abbad, who said: Safiyah bint ‘Abd Al-Muttalib was up in the fortification of Hassan ibn Thabit. She said: Hassan ibn Thabit was with us there, along with the women and children. Safiyah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: And a man from the Jews passed by us and began to walk around the fortification. The Banu Qurayza had gone off to war and cut off contact between themselves and the Messenger of Allah (SAW), so between us and them there was no one to protect us while the Messenger of Allah (SAW) and the Muslims were out slaughtering their enemy; they were unable to break away from them and come to us if someone were to come upon us. Safiyah said: So I said: Oh Hassan, there is this Jewish man, as you see, going around the fortification, and truly I swear by Allah I don’t trust him not to disclose our nakedness [exposure] from the Jews that are behind us, but the Messenger of Allah (SAW) and his Companions have become occupied away from us; so go down to him and kill him. Hassan said: May Allah forgive you, oh daughter of ‘Abd Al-Muttalib, you know that I am not the man for that. She said: When he said that to me, and I didn’t see any way with him, I tightened my robe, grabbed a pole, and then went down from the fortification to him. And I struck him with the pole until I killed him, and when I was finished with him I went back to the fortification and said: Oh Hassan, go down to him and pilfer him, for indeed I wouldn’t be prohibited from pilfering him except that he is a man. He said: I have no need to pilfer him, oh daughter of ‘Abd Al-Muttalib.