And I have testified that your religion is true—
established in right, and that you, among all mankind, are of mighty worth.
God bears witness that Aḥmad, the Chosen One,
has before him, among the righteous, an honored destiny.
A noble chief whose structure rises from Hāshim—
a lofty branch, firmly rooted in the highest peaks, of illustrious stock.

Ibn Hishām remarks: Some scholars versed in poetry deny that these verses are his.

I say: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zibʿarī al-Sahmī had been one of Islam’s fiercest enemies, a poet who devoted his talents to satirizing the Muslims. God then granted him repentance, so he returned to Islam and set himself to champion and defend it.

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Ibn Isḥāq reports: The total number of Muslims who witnessed the Conquest of Mecca was ten thousand. Of these, seven hundred were from Banū Sulaym—though some say one thousand—four hundred from Banū Ghifār, four hundred from Aslam, one thousand and three men from Muzaynah, and the remainder from Quraysh, the Anṣār, their confederates, and various Arab tribes such as Tamīm, Qays, and Asad.

ʿUrwah, al-Zuhrī, and Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah maintain that the Muslims who accompanied the Messenger of God ﷺ on the day of the Conquest numbered twelve thousand. God knows best.

Ibn Isḥāq also relates that among the poems recited on the day of the Conquest were these lines by Ḥassān ibn Thābit:

[Wāfir metre]
The traces of Dhāt al-Aṣābiʿ and al-Jiwāʾ have vanished—
all the way to ʿAdhrāʾ her dwelling lies deserted.
The homesteads of Banū al-Ḥasḥās are an empty waste,
scoured clean by torrents and the sky’s downpour.
Yet once there was always company there:
sheep and goats wandered among its meadows.
But leave that aside—who will attend the slender one
who keeps me wakeful when evening slips away?
For that tousled-haired beauty who has enslaved him,
his heart can find no remedy.
She is like a hidden draught from Bayt Raʾs,
whose mixture is honey and water.
Whenever beverages are praised,
they would all be ransomed for such fine wine.