and that Abū Yaḥyā and Yaḥyā—both of them … each has a deed that his Lord accepts. (1)
Both couplets have likewise been transmitted as belonging to Ḥassān.
Sharik narrated—from al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah:
“The Prophet ﷺ would sometimes quote the poetry of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah, and on occasion he recited:
‘And one for whom you packed no provisions will come to you with news.’ (2)”
Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr related to us, from ʿUrwah, who said:
“Then he took the banner—that is, after the previous bearer had been killed. He wrapped it around a little, advanced with it on his horse, and began urging himself to dismount, hesitating for a moment.
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ḥazm told me that at that moment he recited:
‘I swear by Allah, you will dismount—
willingly, or be forced to do it.
Though the people surge and raise the war-cry,
why do I see you shrinking from Paradise?
You have rested long enough in ease;
what are you but a drop of fluid in a skin?’
He then dismounted, fought, and was killed.