275 – My father related to me, from al-Asmaʿī, that he once heard a Bedouin woman say to her young son:

May the people of al-Hirah
in al-Sham and the Jazirah,
the eastern lands of ʿAmirah,
the mighty clan of Mudar,
and every friendly neighbor—
all be a ransom for you!

He added: I also heard her say to him:

I seek for him the protection of the Most High
from the harm of every woman—
whether nursing or pregnant,
or widowed and now courted,
or barren, yearning for fruit
that drops and is lost
in the depths of her own sea.