I bear witness—by Allah’s leave—that Muḥammad
is the Messenger of the One who is exalted above the heavens on high;
And that Abū Yaḥyā and Yaḥyā—both of them—
present to their Lord deeds that will be accepted;
And that the brother of the Sand–dunes (Hud), when he rose among his people,
spoke of Allah Himself and judged them with justice.

At that the Prophet ﷺ said, “And so am I.” (1)

This chain is mursal.

Abu Ghassān al-Nahdī also related—‘Umar ibn Ziyād told us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr—
that Ḥassān recited these lines to the Prophet ﷺ, mentioned the poem, and added:

“And that the one opposed by the Jews, the son of Mary,
is a Prophet sent from the Lord of the Throne.” (2)

Ibn Isḥāq reported from ʿĀṣim ibn ʿUmar and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥazm:
When Ḥassān composed the verses that begin:

‘Anxieties at night have driven sleep away,
and a phantom comes whenever the stars withdraw;
From a beloved whose memory has smitten your heart
with an ailment—hidden, yet lodged within;
O my people, is a man like me to be slain—
feeble of strike, his very bones worn thin?
Her trappings are perfume and soft bedding, and over them
lie silver and strings of pearls well-set;
Even were a year-old of the ant’s brood to crawl upon it,
its delicate surface would split and bleed.’