Ibn Abi al-Hadid writes...

Ibn Abi al-Hadid writes: “Abu Sufyan said, when the emigrants (muhajirin) gathered around Abu Bakr: 'Islam has been encompassed by a great tornado which will not be calmed except by the spilling of blood.' He then approached ‛Ali (a) and ‛Abbas and said: 'Abu Bakr has won, even though he is in the minority.' Subsequently, he stretched his hand out to ‛Ali (a) to swear allegiance and said: 'I shall fill Medina's Mosque full of soldiers against Abu Bakr.' ‛Ali (a) did not accept his allegiance and when Abu Sufyan became hopeless he recited the following two lines of poetry: No man will tolerate inequity aimed at him, Except the two most base ones, who lack both life and spine, This one is bound completely to a hoof, While that one's head is cracked open, such that no one will mourn him.[^4] “Abu Sufyan recited the following poem to the Commander of the Faithfulon the day that Abu Bakr became caliph: Oh Bani Hashim, do not let the people covet what is yours,…