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Rh acknowledge this of thy gluttony or not, O Muʾâwiyah?" Then Hásan continued: "And I call God to witness before you whether you are not aware that Muʾâwiyah was leading a camel on which his father was riding, while his brother here present was driving her. And the Prophet of God said what he said. And thou, thou knowest this! So much for thee, O Muʾâwiyah!—As for thee, O ʾAmru! five of the Kuraish were disputing with thee, and one of them got the better of thee, like el-Aiham. He was the meanest of them in estimation, and of lower degree than the others. Then thou didst rise in the midst of the Kuraish, and saidst: 'I have ridiculed Muhammad in a poem of thirty lines.' And when the Prophet heard this, he cried, 'O Allâh ! I am no poet. O Allâh! do thou for every line curse ʾAmru-ibn-el-ʾAs with a curse!' Then thou didst depart with thy poem to the en-Najâshy, and didst tell him