Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 9948

Mus'ab bin Abdullah and others have narrated about Quraysh that Sayyidah Atikah bint Abd al-Muttalib composed these verses about the truth of her dream and Quraysh's denial of her, after the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) inflicted harm on those people at the Battle of Badr: "Was that dream not true, whose interpretation was brought by a man fleeing back from the people? He saw, and then he brought you the certainty he had seen with his own two eyes: the sharp-edged swords do not lie. You said that I had lied, though I had not lied; only one who is himself a liar will call me a liar about the truth. That fleeing man fled only out of fear of death; he was the sensible one among them, for whom the ways had grown narrow. Did the man who cried out to the people flee from the resolve of their hearts? These are but desires, and dreams that have no home. They came up against your lives with sharp-edged swords, the way a cloud comes from the south. When those people faced Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), what did they see that day, they who are his cousins? And in war there are ups and downs. Did not Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) cover those people with a blow at whose fall the coward is left bewildered and the stars appear by day? On the day of facing Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), did this situation not arise, when the aid of war tore at the shoulders? Their swords stood out because of inner fervour as a strong wind comes, though before there had been fever in them. I have sworn that if you do this again, they will uproot you and push you aside, with attackers on both its flanks. It seems as though the light of the sun, with the gleam of its rays, has light on both sides: one is a ray, and one is a piercing meteor."
Al-Tabarani recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Ibn Lahi'ah, in whom there is weakness, and his narration is hasan (good). The remaining narrators of this narration are thiqat (trustworthy).