52 – ʿUmar ibn Shabbah recited to me these verses attributed to Ḥārith ibn Badr [in the Ṭawīl metre]:

I have tested life and found it nothing but a passing pretext,
and Time no more than a catapult that keeps overturning.
Time is but the yesterday that has slipped away,
and the tomorrow that is on its way—and each will soon be gone.