Yūnus transmitted, on the authority of Ibn Isḥāq:

“Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr related to me, from his father, that ʿĀʾishah—Mother of the Believers—would never pass by the place where Abū Lahab lay without drawing her garment over herself until she had gone beyond it.

Ibn Isḥāq also said:

“Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbbād [ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr] told me, from his father, who said: Quraysh began to wail over their dead, but then they said, ‘Do not do that, or the news will reach Muhammad and his Companions and they will rejoice at your misfortune. And do not rush to ransom your prisoners until you have first deliberated about them, lest Muhammad and his Companions increase the price against you.’

I say: This, too, was part of the punishment with which Allah afflicted the survivors at that time: He kept them from mourning their slain—yet crying for the dead soothes the grieving heart.

Ibn Isḥāq continued:

“Al-Aswad ibn al-Muṭṭalib had lost three sons—Zamʿah, ʿAqīl, and al-Ḥārith—and longed to weep for them.

“One night, while he was in that state, he heard a woman lamenting. He said to a servant of his—he had gone blind—‘Look and see whether wailing has now been permitted. Has Quraysh begun to weep for its dead? Perhaps I may weep for Abū Ḥakīmah,’ meaning his son Zamʿah, ‘for my breast is burning with grief.’

“When the servant returned he said, ‘It is only a woman crying over a camel she has lost.’

“At that al-Aswad recited:

‘Is she weeping because a camel of hers has strayed,
while sleepless grief keeps her from repose?
Weep not for a stray beast, but for Badr,
where ancestral glories were laid low—
For Badr, the chiefs of Banū Huṣayṣ,
of Makhzūm, and the clan of Abū al-Walīd.
If you must weep, then weep for ʿAqīl,
and weep for Ḥārith, the lion of lions.
Weep for them all and name them one by one—
for Abū Ḥakīmah has no equal.
Lo, men have risen to lordship after them,
and but for the day of Badr they would never have ruled.’