O Banu Hashim!
O Banu Hashim! How could I accept your friendship while the spears of Ibn Arwa (‘Uthman) are with you?
[^9] Then, ‘Abd Allah ibn Abi Sufyan ibn Harith ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib answered him, saying thus poetically: فلاتسألونا سيفكم ان سيفكم اضيع و القاه لدى الروع صاحبه و شبهته كسرى و قد كان مثله شبيهاً بكسرى هديه و ضرائبه منا عليٌّ الخير صاحب خيبر و صاحب بدر يوم سالت كتائبه و كان ولى الأمر بعد محمد عليّ و في كل المواطن صاحبه وصي النبي المصطفى و ابن عمه وأول من صلى و من لان جانبه You may not get your sword from us because when its owner was frightened, he threw it and it was lost.
You likened him to Khosroe, and in fact he was like…
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