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66 – Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān recited to me a poem composed by a man of Banū Tamīm (Ṭawīl metre):
I lament over my own soul and weep for a sin
whose train of misdeeds has weighed my back down.
O pleasure whose stay was all too brief,
and O regret that endures, leaving me with no excuse.
٦٦ - أَنْشَدَنِي الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ:
[البحر الطويل]
أَنُوحُ عَلَى نَفْسِي وَأَبْكِي خَطِيئَةً ... تَقُودُ خَطَايَا أَثْقَلَتْ مِنِّي الظَّهْرَا
فَيَا لَذَّةً كَانَتْ قَلِيلًا بَقَاؤُهَا ... وَيَا حَسْرَةً دَامَتْ وَلَمْ يَبْقِ لِي عُذْرًا