Ibn Isḥāq said:

Nuʿm, the wife of Shammās ibn ʿUthmān, lamented her husband, saying (basīṭ metre):

O eye, pour forth a flood, not a trickle of tears,
for a generous youth, ever clad in shining mail.
Hardy at first encounter, blessed in every venture—
a bearer of banners, a rider of noble steeds.
I cried, distraught, when the herald of his death arrived:
“The bountiful one is gone; the feeder and clothing-giver is gone.”
And when his gathering-places lay empty I said:
“May God never distance from us the nearness of Shammās.”

Her brother, al-Ḥakam ibn Saʿīd ibn Yarbuʿ, answered to console her (basīṭ):

Guard your modesty behind its veil, with dignity;
Shammās, after all, was but a man among men.
Do not destroy yourself now that his appointed term has come—
he died obeying God on the day of fear and hardship.
Hamzah was the Lion of God; so be patient—
that day he too drank from the same cup as Shammās.

Hind bint ʿUtbah, the wife of Abū Sufyān, said on returning from Uhud (ṭawīl):

I returned with countless anxieties weighing on my soul,
for part of what I had sought escaped me—
men of Badr from Quraysh and others,
the clan of Hāshim among them and the people of Yathrib.
Yet I did gain something, though it was not
what I had hoped for when I set out and took the saddle.

Ibn Isḥāq has recorded many other poems on this event; we have omitted much of them to avoid undue length and tedium. What we have quoted is sufficient, and praise belongs to God.

Al-Umawī, in his Maghāzī, cites even more poetry than Ibn Isḥāq, especially here. Among it is what he attributes to Ḥassān ibn Thābit—Allah knows best—concerning the Battle of Uhud (ramal):

They obeyed Satan when he disgraced them,
and disgrace and failure became plain among them,
when they shouted as one with Abū Sufyān, “Exalt Hubal!”
We all answered together, “Our Lord, the All-Merciful, is higher and more exalted!”
Stand firm; we shall give it to you, bitter indeed,
from the pools of death, while death itself drinks deep.
Know that when the cauldron set at the brink of death begins to boil,
flames leap from its sides—and there you will find us.

These verses appear to be part of his reply to ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubʿarā; God knows best.