Hassan ibn Thabit's elegy for the Prophet

An elegy composed by Hassan ibn Thabit on the Prophet, which Ibn Hisham transmits from Abu Zayd al-Ansari. ¹ It opens with Medina as the traces and dwelling place of the Messenger, mentions his chambers and his grave, which the earth has covered, and says that weeping is not enough for him and the earth has wept for him. It ends by saying that the calamity of the day Muhammad died cannot be equalled by anything. ²

• The poem is given here in sense; its wording is as in the edition, whose editors explain its words (the traces, the signs, the landmarks). ¹
• Ibn Hisham notes a difference between copies in a line that reads "are extinguished" in one and "perish" in another. ²