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172 her beauty being highly extolled before el-Hajjâj, he sought her in marriage, and laid out large sums upon her, and settled two hundred thousand dirhems upon her over and above the dowry. Then he married her, and she went down with him to el-Máárrah, her father's country. And el-Hajjâj remained with her in el-Maʾárrah for a long while, and then set off with her for ʾIrâk, where she abode with him according to the will of God.

And Hind was well-educated and eloquent; and it happened that one day as el-Hajjâj was going to see her, he heard her reciting:

And when el-Hajjâj heard this, he would have