they bear wide-eyed maidens, sweeping along in fine silk cloaks, lovely of face, white as hail. (1)
Just short of Bosra—and beyond it Mount al-Thalj, its crown of cloud lying in striped bands;
and the sacrificial camels when they are led forward to the place of slaughter, a zealous fulfilment of a righteous, sworn pledge.
I have never swerved from the covenant you know, nor have I ever transferred the love I bear you to anyone else. (2)
I delight in the talk of boon-companions at the clear break of dawn, and in the melodious voice of the cheerful night-converser. (3)

At this Ḥassān was moved and wept.

Ibn al-Kalbī said: “Ḥassān was eloquent and brave, but an illness later afflicted him and produced cowardice in him.” (4)

Sulaymān ibn Yasār (5) said: “I saw Ḥassān with a forelock that he had let hang between his eyes.”

Isḥāq al-Farawī—and another narrator—reported from Umm ʿUrwah bint Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām, from her father, from her grandfather, who said:

“When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ left his wives behind on the Day of Uḥud (6), he lodged them at Fāriʿ (7), and among them was Ṣafiyyah bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, and he left among them …”