1400 — Abū al-Abbās Sahl ibn Abī Sahl al-Wāsitī narrated to us: Yahyā ibn Habīb ibn Arabī narrated to us: Hammād ibn Zayd narrated to us: Ayyūb narrated to us, from Abd Allah ibn Abī Mulayka, who said: The jinn wailed in mourning for Umar ibn al-Khattāb—may Allah be pleased with him. He described their lament as follows:

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May Allah’s peace be upon you, O commander,
and may Allah’s Hand bless that lacerated body.

You brought matters to completion, then thereafter left behind
mourners whose sleeves had not yet been rent.

Whoever runs, or mounts the twin wings of an ostrich,
to catch what I put forward yesterday, will be outstripped.

After a man was slain in Medina, has the earth
grown dark on his account, while the ghadā trees tremble upon their trunks?