Yūnus ibn Bukayr also reports from Ibn Isḥāq: “Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUtbah ibn al-Mughīrah narrated to me, from al-Zuhrī, who said: Ibn Abī Ḥadrad related to me from his father:

‘I was among the cavalry with which Khālid attacked Banū Jadhīmah when a young man of theirs appeared with his hand tied to his neck by a rimmah—that is, a rope. He said to me, “Young man, will you take this rope, lead me over to those women so that I may attend to a need with them, and then you may do with me whatever you wish?”

I replied, “What you ask is easy.” I took the rope and brought him to the women. He said, “Ḥabīsh submits, now that life is ebbing away,” and then recited:

Have you considered, if I pursued you and found you
At Ḥilyah, or overtook you at al-Khuwāniq?
Is it not right that a lovesick man be granted his wish—
One who braved the darkness of night and its hardships?
I bear no blame—I said it while our people were together:
Reward me with affection before one of the blows descends.
Reward me with affection before distance drags you far away
And the commander carries off the parting beloved.
No secret have I lost or betrayed,
And nothing has pleased my eye after the sight of your face.
Yet what has befallen the clan has left no room for diversion—
Unless calamities themselves be sport.’

She replied, “And may you live ten years, and seven more as an odd number, and eight in succession.” We then brought him forward and struck off his head.’

Ibn Isḥāq added: Abu Firās al-Aslamī told us—on the authority of elders of his tribe who witnessed the incident with Khālid—‘After he had been killed, she came to him and went on kissing him until she died upon him.’”