Hassan ibn Thabit's reply to Asma' bint Marwan

Four verses that Ibn Ishaq says Hassan ibn Thabit used to answer the verses of Asma bint Marwan. ¹ They turn her satire back on her: the Banu Wa'il, the Banu Waqif and Khatma are placed below the Banu al-Khazraj. They then describe what happened to her: whenever she called for folly, woe to her, her husband and the approaching deaths came, and a noble youth of a generous lineage and of a generous manner struck her, and she was stained with clotted blood after the calm of the night, without sin. ¹ The editors explain "tadrij" as staining with blood, and "al-huduw" as an hour of the night. ¹

• The verses describe the killing in the past tense. In Ibn Ishaq's account they are both a reply to her poetry and a record of her death, although the account places the reply before the killing. This is noted in the entry on the account. ¹