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57 – Saʿīd ibn Yaḥyā al-Qurashī narrated to us, from his father, who said: Ibn Shubruma declared:
[in the al-Baḥr al-Ṭawīl metre]
They promise me a mighty reward, yet I would that
I escaped merely even—nothing against me, nothing for me.
٥٧ - حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْقُرَشِيُّ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، قَالَ: قَالَ ابْنُ شُبْرُمَةَ: «
[البحر الطويل]
يُمَنُّونَنِي الْأَجْرَ الْعَظِيمَ وَلَيْتَنِي ... نَجَوْتُ كَفَافًا لَا عَلَيَّ وَلَا لِيَا»