PEYGAMBER ŞAİRİ HASSÂN B. SÂBİT VE DİVANI

Year 2004, Issue: 4, 201 - 218, 01.12.2004

Abdurrahman Özdemir

Abstract

The Prophet’s Poet Hassan b. Thabit and His Collected Poems (Diwan)

Abstract

Hassan b. Thabit was born in Yathrib (al-Madinah) in 562 or 563
A.D., approximately eight years before the birth of the Holy Prophet
Mohammad. He belongs to Bani al-Najjar, a branch of Khazraj which
is an important tribe in Yathrib. He lived 120 years; 60 years of his life
passed in pre-Islamic (Jahiliyyah) period, the rest of it in Islamic
period. He had an incredible capability of composing poetry. This
capability that he allocated to his tribe and some monarchs was
reserved by him to the Holy Prophet. He gained the appreciation of the
Holy Prophet by this attitude and as a result, a private pulpit was
reserved to him by the Prophet’s order in the Prophetic mosque. His
poetry has an important role in parrying the molestations directed to
the Prophet and Believers around him. As a result of his poems the moral
advantage passed to Muslims’ side. Therefore the Prophet praised
him. He enlightened the history of his time, because he composed the
poetry about majority of events that happened in his Islamic life. Hassan
b. Thabit who was called as the Prophet’s Poet for these properties
died in the period of Muawiyah’s caliphate. It is under dispute when he
died. However, the majority of the savants assume that he died in 54
A.H.