361 — ‘Abd Allāh narrated to us, saying: Muhammad ibn ‘Abbād al-Makkī narrated to us: Sufyān narrated to us, saying: I heard al-Zuhrī relate from a member of the family of Abū Rabī‘a, among whom Umm Kulthūm, the daughter of Abū Bakr, was living. He mentioned al-Muhassab and recited:

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“May Allah richly reward such a leader,
And may Allah’s hand bless that wounded body.
Whoever runs or rides an ostrich’s wings
To match what you achieved yesterday will be outstripped.
You settled affairs, then left behind
Calamities in their husks, not yet burst open.”

‘Ā’isha said: They attributed these verses to al-Shammākh ibn Dirār, but when they asked him, he said, “I did not compose them.”