And there is also the story of the two rabbis who pulled it down and, in the course of doing so, killed a black dog that was inside it.

He said:

Rudā(1) was a shrine belonging to the Banū Rabīʿah ibn Kaʿb ibn Saʿd ibn Zayd Manāt ibn Tamīm. Concerning it al-Mustawgir—whose name was ʿAmr(2) ibn Rabīʿah ibn Kaʿb—composed:

[from the Kāmil metre]
I fell on Rudā with such a furious charge
that I left her a waste, a dark and empty plain;
ʿAbd Allāh lent a hand in the blow that smote her,
and with a man like ʿAbd Allāh I would face the Sacred Precinct.(3)

It is said that this al-Mustawgir lived three hundred and thirty years, the longest life recorded among all the Mudar tribe. He is also the one who said:

[from the Kāmil]
I have grown weary of life and its long extent,
for I have dwelt among the years for centuries:
one hundred I completed, then two hundred more,
and I added, beyond the tally of months, still more years.
What now remains but, as with what has gone,
a single day that passes and a night that urges us on?(4)

Ibn Hishām said: These verses are also reported(5) as belonging to Zuhayr ibn Janab ibn Hubl.

Al-Suhaylī added: Among those who passed the age of two and even three hundred years were this Zuhayr, ʿUbayd ibn Shariyah, Daghfal ibn Ḥanẓalah the genealogist, al-Rabīʿ ibn Ḍuḍbaʿ al-Fazārī, Dhū’l-Isbaʿ al-ʿAdwānī, and Naṣr ibn Dahmān ibn Ashjaʿ ibn Rayth ibn Ghatafān—whose hair turned black again after having gone white, and whose back straightened after it had become bent.(6)

He continued:(7) Dhū’l-Kaʿbāt was the sanctuary of Bakr and Taghlib, the sons of Wāʾil, and of Iyād, at Sandād,(8) and concerning it the Blind Poet of the Banū Qays ibn Thaʿlabah(9) recited: