Nasb-and-the-Nawasib

They sacrificed a grey person upon who the sign of prostration was clear,
and who would spend the night in glorification and the recitation of the
Qurʾān.
Be patient, may my mother and whoever she bore be sacrificed for thee.
For at times patience in trying times is of benefit.
We are pleased with the land of Shām having an aversion, and with the
Amīr and with the brothers as our brothers.
I am from them, whether they are absent or present, as long as I live and as
long as I am called Ḥassān.
You will soon hear in their abodes Allah is the greatest! O how great is
revenge for ʿUthmān.
If only I had some way to know, and if only the birds informed me of what
really was the issue between ʿAlī and ʿUthmān L. 1
And al-Walīd ibn ʿUqbah who was the uterine brother of ʿUthmān I 2 reveals to
us what many of the Umayyads were assuming regarding ʿAlī I and the Banū
Hāshim, i.e. that they played a clandestine role in the murder of the Khalīfah. He
says:
كصدع الصفا ما يرمض الدهر شائبه
بني هاشم إنا وما كان بيننا
وسيف بن أروى عندكم وحرائبه
بني هاشم كيف المودة بيننا بني هاشم إل تردوا فإننا
بني هاشم إل تردوا فإننا
بني هاشم ردوا سالح ابن أختكم
بني هاشم ردوا سالح ابن أختكم
غدرتم به كيما تكونوا مكانه
غدرتم به كيما تكونوا مكانه
فوالله ل أنسى انسى ابن أمي عيشتي
فوالله ل أنسى انسى ابن أمي عيشتي
1 Dīwān Ḥassān ibn Thābit p. 215. Also see: Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī 2/695; al-Kāmil fī al-Tārīkh 3/77; al-Bidāyah
wa al-Nihāyah 7/196; Maqtal al-Shahīd ʿUthmān p. 208. Also see the comments of Abū ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd
al-Barr in al-Istīʿāb p. 550 and the comments of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Andalusī in Maqtal al-Shahīd
ʿUthmān p. 182.
2 Ibn Khayyāṭ: Ṭabaqāt p. 11; Usd al-Ghābah p. 1108.
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