together with a dead dog. When he saw the state of his idol, the Muslims among his clan spoke to him, whereupon he accepted Islam by Allah’s mercy, and his conversion proved sincere. After embracing the faith and learning what Allah wished him to learn, he recalled that idol and what he had witnessed of its impotence. Thanking Allah for rescuing him from blindness and misguidance, he recited:

[rajaz]
By God, had you been a god in truth,
you and a dog would not be rotting together at a well’s depth.
Fie on one who seeks you as a deity for aid—
today we have exposed the foul deceit!

Praise belongs to Allah, the Most High, the Lord of gracious gifts,
the Bestower, the Provider, the Judge of every debt.
He is the One who saved me long before
I lay pawned in the darkness of the grave.

Section: Names of those who witnessed the Second Pledge of ʿAqabah
According to Ibn Isḥāq, their number was seventy-three men and two women.

Of the Aws there were eleven men:
• Usayd ibn Ḥuḍayr, one of the chiefs (naqīb);
• Abū al-Haytham ibn al-Tayyihān, who fought at Badr;
• Salamah ibn Salamah ibn Waqsh, a participant at Badr;
• Zuhayr ibn Rāfiʿ;
• Abū Burdah ibn Niyār, also a Badri;
• Nuhayr ibn al-Haytham ibn Nābiʿ ibn Majdaʿah ibn Ḥārithah;
• Saʿd ibn Khaythamah, one of the chiefs, a Badri who was martyred there;
• Rafāʿah ibn ʿAbd al-Mundhir ibn Zanbar, a chief and Badri;
• ʿAbd Allah ibn Jubayr ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Umayyah ibn al-Burak, a Badri who was martyred at Uhud while commanding the archers;
• Maʿn ibn ʿAdī ibn al-Jadd ibn ʿAjlān ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Ḍubayʿah al-Balawī, an ally of the Aws, who fought at Badr and subsequent battles and was martyred at al-Yamāmah;
• ʿUwaym ibn Sāʿidah, who fought at Badr and thereafter.