just as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rawāḥah would ride ahead of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, chanting what the Helpers used to recite while digging the Trench:
We are the ones who pledged to Muhammad
To wage striving in Allah’s cause as long as we live, forever.
The Prophet ﷺ would answer them, saying:
“O Allah, there is no good except the good of the Hereafter;
so forgive the Helpers and the Emigrants.”

Ibn al-Jawzī also relates—citing al-Khallāl; this appears in al-Amr bi’l-Maʿrūf, p. 34—with his chain of transmission from ʿĀʾishah ﵂, who said:
“We had an orphan girl from the Anṣār, and we married her to an Anṣārī man. I was among those who escorted her to her husband. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘ʿĀʾishah, the Anṣār are a people who enjoy singing; what did you say to her?’ I replied, ‘We invoked blessing upon her.’ He said, ‘Why did you not say:
We have come to you, we have come—
Greet us and we shall greet you.
Had it not been for the red gold,
Your brides would never have adorned your valley,
And were it not for the dark grain,
Your maidens would never have grown plump.’ 1”

Among the same category are the poems recited by ascetics with tune and melody, stirring hearts toward remembrance of the Hereafter; they call them zuhdiyyāt (ascetic odes), such as this line:
O heedless traveler who comes and goes—
How long will you continue to find ugly deeds appealing?