Our cavalry, whenever they rode out at dawn and when they returned at nightfall, fell upon the foe—fierce, unmistakable.

By Allah, we shall aid Aḥmad until we become true and devoted servants.

Thus will the people of Mecca, when they set forth—and the confederate clans who marched in tight array—come to realize
that Allah has no partner, and that Allah is the Protector of the believers.

So if, in your folly, you should kill Saʿd, know that Allah is the most capable;
He will admit him to pleasant gardens, an everlasting abode for the righteous.

Even as He has already driven you back—broken and scattered, seething with rage, disgraced and thwarted—
disgraced, for you gained no benefit there and were on the verge of destruction,
when a raging wind swept down upon you and left you cowering beneath its blast.

Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Zubʿarā al-Sahmī also recited on the Day of the Trench—this was before he embraced Islam—[in the Kāmil metre]:

Greet the dwellings whose familiar traces long decay and the revolving ages have effaced;
it is as though the Jews had inscribed their marks upon them—save the latrine and the place where the tent-ropes were fastened.
Desolate, as though you had never frolicked there in bliss with youthful companions.
So leave off recalling the life that has passed and the quarter whose stay has grown worn and waste;
remember instead the valor of comrades—and thank them—who moved out to a man from the precincts of the idols,
the idols of Mecca, bound for Yathrib in a host, helmeted, vast and formidable,
leaving the highlands by well-known tracks over every prominent rise and ravine.
Within it were steeds swift and supple, lean-bellied, overtaking one another;
each a sleek, powerful stallion, like a noble chief pouncing upon unguarded throats.
An army with ʿUyaynah bearing its banner, and Ṣakhr commanding the confederate clans.