Who were killed in Badr...

Who were killed in Badr, brought you to the battlefield, And the vengeance for your uncle who In the said battle had fallen naked, and his garment Had been taken away and in vengeance for Your brother who had fallen with the others Face down in a pit and covered with blood. Fie! You have forgotten that evil deed of yours! Woe to you, an evil which will ever remain in time. And finally you returned in abjectness And failed in your vengeance and gained no victory!

Midwives say that Hind gave birth to a bastard son. (42) Other poems have been composed with a different rhyme on this subject, and they are quoted in his poetical work as follows: 'Whose is this child who has fallen on a corner of the earth in the land of al-Batha'? A child who is abandoned without a cradle in the dust? A young beautiful and free woman gave birth to him. She went wailing to her lover, as-Sabbah. o Hind! How enraged you are!

A respectable woman who used the best perfume of India to make herself sweet-smelling! How like his mother is this child! But the likeness to a black father with curly hair; as-Sabbah is much greater. That vile woman showed unruliness, For, rebellion was a constant habit with her, As well as taking a bone between her teeth and biting it.

(43) In another biting and satirical poem, Hisham describes Hind in the following manner: 'Whose are those children that have fallen in the desert, Rubbing their feet on the desert of Ajyad? Fangs of labor overcame her, And then she gave birth to her child, While she had no midwife, But beasts of the wild and jinn of the desert! Among the abandoned babies fallen in the desert There is one whose mother is of high lineage.

That woman said weekly in her travail: O, that I had been a camel-driver, And would not be involved with this condition!

They abandoned this child in the dust and went away, While that woman's father and uncle Were the Sheikhs and chiefs of the tribe.(44) Ibn Hisham, the well-known biographer, quotes about thirty and a few more odes from the Muslims and infidels about the battle of Uhud in which the savage acts of Hind and Abu Sufyan are recorded.(45) Abu Sufyan as leader in the battle of al-Khandaq The Quraysh proceed towards the battle of al-Khandaq while Abu Sufyan was their leader.

In the month of Sha'ban of the fourth year of the Hijrah, the Prophet and his friends came to the land of Badr as they had agreed the year before.