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The Life of Muhammad
her head to graze and a snake seized her by the lip and forced her downwards
until she feU on her side. Then the snake bit Sarna so that he died.
The story goes that when Sarna felt death upon him he said:
Eye, weep for Sarna b. Lu'ayy.
The clinging snake has clung to Sama's leg.'
Never have I seen such a victim of a camel
As Sarna b. Lu'ayy when they came upon him.
Send word to 'Amir and Kab,
That my soul yearneth for them.
Though my home be in 'Uman
I am a Gh5.libi, I came forth not driven by poverty.
Many a cup hast thou spilt, a b. Lu'ayy,
For fear of death, which otherwise would not have been spilt.
Thou didst wish to avoid death, a b. Lu'ayy,
But none has power to avoid death.
Many a camel silent on night journeys didst thou leave prostrate Z
After its prodigious exertion (8g).
THE MIGRATION OF 'AUF ll.
LU'AYY
It is alleged that 'Auf b. Lu'ayy went out with a caravan of Quraysh as far
as the district of Ghalafan b. Sad b. Qays b. 'Aylan when he was left
behind and his tribesmen went on without him. Thalaba b. Sad (he
64 being his brother according to the kindred reckoning of B. Dhubyan,
Tha'laba b. Sad b. Dhubyan b. Baghi