Hassan ibn Thabit's poem enumerating the Ansar's campaigns with the Prophet

A qasida on the rhyme of the lam, attributed by Ibn Ishaq to Hassan ibn Thabit. In it he enumerates the days of the Ansar with the Prophet and names their places in his campaigns. Ibn Ishaq closes the section on the pilgrimage of Abu Bakr and the Declaration of Immunity with it. ¹

Ibn Ishaq introduces the qasida by saying that Hassan composed it to enumerate the days of the Ansar with the Prophet. ¹ Ibn Hisham adds that it is also transmitted for Abd al-Rahman, the son of the poet Hassan, so the attribution rests on transmission and is not certain. ¹ Ibn Hisham also says that the last line of the poem differs in wording in sources other than Ibn Ishaq. ²

The qasida opens with a rhetorical question: is not the poet's people the best of all the tribes in number and in company? It then lists their presence at Badr with the Messenger, all of them, and the pledge that none of them broke. ¹ It recalls the day of Uhud in the mountain pass, the day of Dhu Qarad on horses, the day of Waddan when they drove out its people, a night when they pursued their enemy, an expedition to Najd, the night of Hunayn, the expedition of al-Qa', and the day of the pledge. ^{1 2} It then goes on to the Conquest, where they stood guard in his detachment, the day of Khaybar in his battalion, and the day the Messenger marched to Tabuk, when they were his first banners and the managers of war. ² It ends by saying that those people are the Ansar of the Prophet and the tribe of the poet to whom he traces his descent, and that they died honoured, with their pledges unbroken. ²

One of its well-known lines says that they are the Ansar of the Prophet, and they are my people, whom I join when I am connected. ²

The editors of the 1936 edition explain the rare words of the poem: "huslu" means gathered; they report another reading from Abu Dharr al-Khushani, and "ma alaw" means did not fall short, with two other transmissions; "al-raqs" is a kind of trot; "al-hazn" is the high ground; "al-qafl" is return; "hina attasil" means when I trace my descent. ^{1 2} They also note a transmission reading "dasuha" in place of "jasuha". ²

The museum does not give the full text of the qasida. The reader is referred to the diwan of Hassan and to the two pages cited from the biography of Ibn Hisham.