This is the very opposite of what the lying Rāfiḍites allege about him: that he gloated over their misfortune, found gratification in their killing, and that he recited—approvingly—the verses of Ibn al-Zibʿarā mentioned earlier.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Khalaf ibn al-Marzbān ibn Bassām said: “Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim related to me; I heard al-Aṣmaʿī say: I heard Hārūn al-Rashīd recite, quoting Yazid ibn Muʿāwiyah:

Her lineage runs between ʿĀmir ibn Luʾayy
and ʿAbd Manāf when the line is traced;
Among the pure she has forbears,
and she has gained the virtues of later generations.
She is the Prophet’s cousin—the noblest of all
who set foot upon the earth, shod or bare.
You will never see her fickle or harsh—
she is but a pearl snug in its shell.

Al-Zubayr ibn Bakkār said: “My uncle Muṣʿab recited to me these verses by Yazid ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān:

This sorrow returned and clung fast (1),
then sleep passed by and would not stay;
Keeping watch on the stars I scan them,
and whenever a bright one rises
it circles until I seem to see
that it has plunged into the deepest vale.
For her there is, at al-Māṭirūn (2) when
the ants have eaten all they stored,
a pleasure-ground; and when it is reached
she alights from Jilliq (3) at Biyʿā,
within domes amid a garden (4)
round which the olives have already ripened (5).

And among his poetry:

She said to me when I once likened her face
to the moon of the dark night, while my path was straitened,
‘You compare me to the moon? That belittles my worth—
yet I am not the first to be satirized.’
Do you not see that the moon, at the height of its fullness,
once used for comparison, becomes like a mere silver armlet (6)?