“O give me to drink, you two, (1)
before the flare-up (2) of dawn (3)…
Perhaps our appointed end is near, and we know it not.”
—and so the poem runs to its conclusion.
ʿAdī went on to say: The warriors burst in upon him; one of them struck off his head, and it fell into the very bowl before him. His sons, daughters, and wife were taken captive.
In that same engagement two men who had already embraced Islam were killed, each of them carrying a written guarantee of safety from al-Ṣiddīq. The Muslims, however, were unaware of it. One was ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn Abī Ruhm (4) ibn Qirwāsh, slain by Jarīr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī; the other was Labīd ibn Jarīr, killed by one of the Muslim fighters. When the news reached al-Ṣiddīq he paid their blood money and sent instructions that their children be cared for. ʿUmar ibn al-Khattāb spoke critically of Khālid on their account, just as he had done over the affair of Mālik ibn Nuwayrah.
Abū Bakr replied, “Such is the fate of anyone who lodges with the people at war in their own lands. What sin is to be laid upon us for their decision to live among the idolaters?” He then cited the hadith, “I am absolved of every Muslim who dwells among the polytheists in their abode” (5), and another hadith, “Their two fires should not be visible to one another” (6)—that is, Muslims and idolaters must not reside in the same encampment.
Afterwards came the battles of al-Thannī (7) and al-Zumayl (8). The Muslims struck them by night and killed every Bedouin and Persian found there; none escaped to carry tidings (9). Khālid then dispatched the fifth of the spoils and the captives to al-Ṣiddīq. From among these captives ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib purchased an Arab slave-girl, the daughter of Rabīʿah ibn Bujayr al-Taghlibī; she bore him ʿUmar and Ruqayyah—may Allah be pleased with them all.