حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ وَ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي نَصْرٍ الْبَزَنْطِيِّ جَمِيعاً عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ الْأَحْمَرِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ تَغْلِبَ عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: لَمَّا دَعَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص بِكَعْبِ بْنِ أَسَدٍ لِيَضْرِبَ عُنُقَهُ فَأُخْرِجَ وَ ذَلِكَ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَنِي قُرَيْظَةَ نَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَالَ لَهُ يَا كَعْبُ أَ مَا نَفَعَكَ وَصِيَّةُ ابْنِ حَوَّاشٍ الْحِبْرِ الَّذِي أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الشَّامِ فَقَالَ تَرَكْتُ الْخَمْرَ وَ الْخَمِيرَ وَ جِئْتُ إِلَى الموس [الْبُؤْسِ] وَ التُّمُورِ لِنَبِيٍّ يُبْعَثُ هَذَا أَوَانُ خُرُوجِهِ يَكُونُ مَخْرَجُهُ بِمَكَّةَ وَ هَذِهِ دَارُ هِجْرَتِهِ وَ هُوَ الضَّحُوكُ الْقَتَّالُ يَجْتَزِي بِالْكُسَيْرَاتِ وَ التَّمَرَاتِ وَ يَرْكَبُ الْحِمَارَ الْعَارِيَ فِي عَيْنَيْهِ حُمْرَةٌ وَ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ خَاتَمُ النُّبُوَّةِ يَضَعُ سَيْفَهُ عَلَى عَاتِقِهِ وَ لَا يُبَالِي بِمَنْ لَاقَى يَبْلُغُ سُلْطَانُهُ مُنْقَطَعَ الْخُفِّ وَ الْحَافِرِ قَالَ كَعْبٌ قَدْ كَانَ ذَلِكَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ وَ لَوْ لَا أَنَّ الْيَهُودَ تُعَيِّرُنِي أَنِّي جَبُنْتُ عِنْدَ الْقَتْلِ لَآمَنْتُ بِكَ وَ صَدَّقْتُكَ وَ لَكِنِّي عَلَى دِينِ الْيَهُودِيَّةِ عَلَيْهِ أَحْيَا وَ عَلَيْهِ أَمُوتُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ص فَقَدِّمُوهُ وَ اضْرِبُوا عُنُقَهُ فَقُدِّمَ وَ ضُرِبَ عُنُقُهُ.
Narrated to us my father 
that: Narrated to us Ali bin Ibrahim from his father Ibrahim bin Hashim from Muhammad bin Abi Umair; and Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Abi Nasr Bazanti all of them from Aban bin Uthman al-Ahmar from Aban bin Taghlib from Ikramah from ibn Abbas that he said:
“When the Holy Prophet ﷺ got Kaab bin Asad of Bani Quraiza arrested and wanted him to be executed, he said: O Kaab, did the advice of ibn Hawash the Rabbi not benefit you, who had come from Damascus and used to say: I have given up wine and luxury, I have adopted abstemiousness and started eating dates in anticipation of the prophet the time of whose advent has arrived; he will migrate from Mecca and come to Medina. His food will be dry bread and dates and he will ride a bare-backed mule.
There will be redness in his eyes and the mark of prophethood will be embossed between his two shoulders. He will carry his sword on his shoulders and not care for any enemy. His dominion will extend to every place where the hooves of the horses can reach. Kaab said: O Muhammad, it is so. If the Jews had not said that I brought faith under the threat of death I would have indeed accepted (your) faith. But I have lived on the Jewish faith so far and I shall die on it. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Come and execute him.’ The executioner stepped forward and cut off his head.”
