and severed it.

As for al-Aswad ibn al-Muṭṭalib, he lost his sight. Some transmitters say that his blindness came upon him just like that; others report that he had taken shelter beneath a samurah tree (an acacia) and began to cry out, “My sons, will you not ward this off from me?” They replied, “We cannot see anything.” He kept saying, “I am ruined—look, thorns are jabbing me in the eye!” Still they answered, “We see nothing,” and he remained in that state until both his eyes went completely blind.

As for the other al-Aswad [ibn ʿAbd Yaghūth], running sores broke out on his head and he died of them.

As for al-Ḥārith ibn ʿAytal, he was stricken with the “yellow water” in his belly until his own filth came out through his mouth, and he died.

As for al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil, he set out for al-Ṭāʾif riding a donkey. The animal knelt down in a shabraqah thorn-bush, and a thorn pierced the sole of his foot; he died from it. Some say instead that a shabraqah thorn lodged in his head and he died.

Ibn Abī Ḥātim narrated this in his Tafsīr, saying: “Yūnus ibn …”