[From al-Ṭawīl]
They return with fresh events until they too are worn,
While the broad cloth of bounty casts over us its veils.
Suddenly the Prophet Muḥammad will arrive,
Relating tidings both truthful and well-informed. (1)

Then he would say:
“By Allah, were I in that age with hearing and sight, with hand and foot, I would plant myself there as firmly as a kneeling camel, (2) and I would stride within it with the swift gait of a virile stud. (3)”

Then he would say:
[From al-Basīṭ]
Oh, that I might witness the secluded moments of his summons,
When the clan will seek to betray the truth and abandon it. (4)

He added: Between the death of Kaʿb b. Luʾayy and the commissioning of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ lay five hundred and sixty years. (5)

Mention of the renewed excavation of Zamzam
by the hand of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim, after its traces had been effaced when Jurhum filled it in, until his own time. (6)

Muḥammad b. Isḥāq said:
While ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was sleeping in the Ḥijr [of the Kaʿbah], he was visited and ordered to dig Zamzam. (7)

The first report of how ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib began the excavation is what Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Miṣrī related to me, from Marthad b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Yaznī, (8) from ʿAbd Allāh b. Zurayr (9) al-Ghāfiqī, who said he heard ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib recount the story of Zamzam when ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was commanded to dig it. (10) He said that ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib declared:
“I was asleep in the Ḥijr when a figure came to me and said, ‘Dig Ṭayyibah.’ (11) I asked, ‘And what is Ṭayyibah?’ Thereupon he departed. The next day I returned to my resting-place…"