Waraqah also recited—as Yūnus ibn Bukayr relates from Ibn Isḥāq—(1):

Will you set out at dawn, or return at eventide,
While the grief you harbor still smolders within your breast?
It is the anguish of parting from a people whose separation I detest,
As though, two days hence, you would already be far away.
And there are truthful tidings you have conveyed about Muḥammad—
Reported on his behalf whenever a loyal confidant is absent.
That is the one (2) to whom, O noblest of free women, you sent your caravan,
Through the valley depths and over the twin highlands, across the barren flats (3);
To the market of Busra in that train of beasts which set out,
Their backs rounded beneath bulging, heavy loads (4).
He brings us news of every good by virtue of his knowledge—
For truth has doors, and he holds their keys (5);
That the son of ʿAbd Allāh, Aḥmad, is sent forth
To all whom these valley flats enfold.
I am convinced he shall be raised in truth,
Just as the two servants, Hūd and Ṣāliḥ, were sent before;
And Moses and Abraham—until there appears for him
A radiance and a clear, public scripture.
The clans of Luʾayy and Ghālib will follow him,
Their vigorous youth and their venerable white-haired chiefs (6).
If I survive until people reach the era he ushers in,
I shall greet him with joyful love and delight;
But if not, then know, O Khadījah,
That I shall roam far from your land across the wide-stretching earth.

Al-Umawī adds (7):