Ibn Hishām (1) said: The scholars count Abū al-Haytham ibn al-Tayyihān in their number in place of this Rafāʿah. So it is as well in the transmission of Yūnus from Ibn Isḥāq, and this view was adopted by al-Suhaylī and Ibn al-Athīr in Usd al-Ghābah (2).

Ibn Hishām (3) then supported that position with what he related from Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī concerning the verses composed by Kaʿb ibn Mālik in praise of the twelve deputies on that night—the second night at al-ʿAqabah—where he said:

(From the ṭawīl metre)

1. Convey to Ubayy that his counsel has miscarried—
   the dawn in the mountain pass has come, and doom draws near.
2. God has rejected the wish your soul inspired;
   He sees and hears all that people intend.
3. And tell Abū Sufyān that there has shone for us,
   through Aḥmad, a radiant light of God’s guidance.
4. So covet not the mustering of a cause you pursue;
   rouse and rally whatever forces you can—
5. Yet know that to break our covenants is barred to you;
   the company forbade it when they joined as one.
6. Al-Barāʾ and Ibn ʿAmr both refused it,
   and Asʿad and Rāfiʿ refuse it as well.
7. Saʿd of the Sāʿid clan and Mundhir refuse it—
   may your nose be cut should you attempt such a thing.
8. Nor will Ibn Rabīʿ allow you to touch his pact;
   let no aspirant hope where his surrender is sought.
9. Ibn Rawāḥah will never grant it either;
   to violate his pledge would be deadly poison.
10. True to his word, al-Qawqaliyy son of Ṣāmit
    is far removed from the designs you pursue.
11. Abū Haytham likewise stands loyal to it,
    humbly faithful to the covenant he has given.
12. Nor is Ibn Ḥuḍayr a weak link if you seek one;
    will you not desist from the folly of misguidance?
13. Saʿd, brother of ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf, is a goring bull—
    he blocks the way to the goal you attempt.
14. Those men are stars whose light will never fade;
    against you rises an ill-omened star in the night’s dark.

Ibn Hishām (7) remarked: Thus he mentioned Abū al-Haytham ibn al-Tayyihān among them but did not mention Rafāʿah.

I (the author) say: He also cited Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, yet he was not among the deputies at all on that night; God knows best.

Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān narrated through Yūnus ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā, from Ibn Wahb, from Mālik, who said: “On the night when the Anṣār …”