426 — Ahmad ibn Abd al-Alā al-Shaybānī and Ahmad ibn Ubayd al-Anbarī told me that Abdullah ibn Jafar was once traveling when he passed by some young men tending a fire beneath their cooking pot. One of them rose and addressed him:

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“I said to him when I came upon him:
‘Peace be upon you, Abū Jafar!’”

He stopped and replied, “Peace and Allah’s mercy be upon you.” The young man continued:

“These clothes of mine are threadbare and worn;
Bitter times have sunk their teeth into me.”

He said, “Then let these clothes of mine replace them”—he was wearing a wool-and-silk robe, a wool-and-silk turban, and a bordered wool-and-silk mantle—“and they will help you through your bitter times.”

The young man said:

“You are the noble one of Banū Hāshim,
The man renowned within that House.”

He replied, “My nephew, that is the Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”

Abū Bakr said: Musab al-Zubayrī said, “The man who recited this poem to him was al-Hazīn al-Kinānī.”