When the verse "Perish the two hands of Abu Lahab" [Masad 111:1] was revealed, the one-eyed Umm Jamil bint Harb came along wailing, with a stone in her hand, chanting, "The reviled one we have rejected, his religion we have despised, his command we have disobeyed."The Prophet ﷺ was sitting in the masjid, and he then recited some Quran, with Abu Bakr beside him. When Abu Bakr saw her he said, "Messenger of Allah, she is coming, and I fear she will see you."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ replied, "She will not see me." Then he recited Quran and shielded himself with it, as he had said he would, reciting, "And when you recite the Quran, We place between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter a concealed barrier" [Isra 17:45].She came on until she stood right over Abu Bakr, and she did not see the Messenger of Allah ﷺ at all. She said, "Abu Bakr, I have been told that your companion has lampooned me."Abu Bakr answered, "No, by the Lord of this House, he has not lampooned you."So she turned away, saying, "Quraysh knows that I am the daughter of their chief."Walid said in his account, or perhaps someone else said it, that Umm Jamil tripped over her cloak while she was making tawaf around the House, and she cried out, "May the reviled one perish."At that Umm Hakim bint Abdul-Muttalib said, "I am a chaste woman, so I am not slandered, and I am firm, so I bear no blemish. Both of us are daughters of the same uncle, and Quraysh knows best in the end."
لما نزلت {تبت يدا أبي لهب} أقبلت العوراء أم جميل بنت حرب، ولها ولولة، وفي يدها فهر، وهي تقول: مذمم أبينا، ودينه قلينا، وأمره عصينا، والنبي ﷺ جالس في المسجد، ثم قرأ قرآنا ومعه أبو بكر، فلما رآها أبو بكر قال: يا رسول الله، قد أقبلت وأنا أخاف أن تراك. فقال رسول الله ﷺ: إنها لن تراني، وقرأ قرآنا اعتصم به كما قال، وقرأ: {وإذا قرأت القرءان جعلنا بينك وبين الذين لا يؤمنون بالآخرة حجابا مستورا}[الإسراء: ٤٥] فأقبلت حتى وقفت على أبي بكر، ولم تر رسول الله ﷺ، فقالت: يا أبا بكر، إني أخبرت أن صاحبك هجاني. فقال: لا، ورب هذا البيت ما هجاك فولت وهي تقول: قد علمت قريش أني بنت سيدها. قال: فقال الوليد في حديثه أو قال غيره: تعثرت أم جميل وهي تطوف بالبيت في مرطها، فقالت: تعس مذمم. فقالت أم حكيم ابنة عبد المطلب: إني لحصان فما أكلم، وثقاف فما أعلم، فكلتانا من بني العم، قريش بعد أعلم.
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Humaydi narrated it (323), and from him Hakim (2/361), from Sufyan, who said, Walid bin Kathir told us, from Ibn Tadrus, from Asma bint Abu Bakr, and he related it. The wording is Humaydi's, and Hakim did not mention, "Walid said in his hadith..." etc. Ibn Tadrus is Yazid bin Tadrus, and it is not known who he is. But Bayhaqi narrated it in Dalail (2/196) through another route, from Saeed bin Kathir, from his father, from Asma bint Abu Bakr. Its chain is hasan because of this corroboration. Hakim said, "Its chain is sahih."Similar in meaning is what was narrated from Ibn Abbas, who said,"When "May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined, and ruined is he" [Masad 111:1] was revealed, the wife of Abu Lahab came to the Prophet ﷺ while Abu Bakr was with him. When Abu Bakr saw her, he said, 'Messenger of Allah, she is a foul-mouthed woman, and I fear she may harm you, so why don't you get up?' He said, 'She will not see me.' Then she came and said, 'Abu Bakr, your companion has satirized me.' He said, 'He does not compose poetry.' She said, 'You I trust,' and left. I said, 'Messenger of Allah, why did she not see you?' He said, 'An angel kept shielding me from her with his wings.'"Abu Yaala narrated it (25, 2358), and from him Ibn Hibban (6511), and Bazzar in Kashf Astar (2294), all of them from the hadith of Abu Ahmad Zubayri, who said, Abdul-Salam bin Harb told us, who said, Ata bin Saaib told us, from Saeed bin Jubayr, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it. Its chain is daif because of Ata bin Saaib, for he became confused in his later years, and Abdul-Salam bin Harb narrated from him during that period of confusion. Hafiz bin stated in Hadi Sari, "Whoever narrated from him after the confusion set in, his hadith is daif." He graded it hasan in Fath (8/738), perhaps because of its corroborating witness.It has another corroborating witness from Zayd bin Arqam with Hakim (2/526), but it contains a flaw which Hakim himself pointed out.This surah is considered one of the great miracles of the Noble Quran, for Allah revealed this surah while Abu Lahab and his wife were still alive and had not yet died. Allah, Most High, informed that they would enter the Fire and be punished in it because they would not accept Islam, and it happened exactly as Allah, Most High, the Knower of the unseen and the seen, had foretold.