land situated on the Syrian side of the Euphrates, A.H. 37, aged 93 years. A mosque containing the tombs of ʾAmmâr and the other Associates who fell in this action, was erected at Siffîn.
ESH-SHIʾABY relates that Saudah, daughter of ʾAmmârah-ibn-el-Asad, demanded an audience of Muʾâwiyah-ibn-Abu-Sufyân, who granted it, but said to her as soon as she entered his presence, "O daughter of el-Asad! wert not thou the reciter of this poem?
Gird thee like thy sire, O son of ʾAmmârah!
On the day of battle when warriors meet.
ʾAly, Husein, and their people support,
But look upon Hind and her son with contempt.[1]
The Imâm is of kin to the prophet Muhammad,
The Standard of Truth, and Steeple of Faith!
Be in front of the banners! Lead on in advance!
Cleave thro' with the sharp-cutting sword and the lance!"
- ↑ Muʾâwiyah himself and his mother.
he fell into a violent passion, and carried him for punishment to Nimrod. By order of the latter, a large space was enclosed at el-Kuthah, and filled with wood, which, being set on fire, burnt so fiercely that none dared venture near it. Then they bound Abraham, and putting him into an engine (invented some say by the devil), shot him into the midst of the fire, from which he was preserved by the angel Gabriel, the fire burning only the cords with which he was bound. They add, that the fire having miraculously lost its heat in respect to Abraham, became an odoriferous air, while the pile changed to a pleasant meadow. But otherwise the fire raged so furiously that some maintain about two thousand of the idolaters to have been consumed by it.
