The Hadith of Shaddad Ibn ‘ad Ibn Iram

Irtaah bin Dush-habah Muzni lived for one hundred and twenty years. His agnomen was Abu Waleed. Abdul Malik bin Marwan told him, “O Irtah! Is something left from your verses? He replied, “O Amirul Momineen! I do not drink wine nor do I sing nor get angry while the poets who come to me do not have these characteristics. Then I said: I showed man that nights eat him up Like earth eats up the fragments of iron And when death arrived The life of Adam’s son did not remain even for a moment And know it that it would come back again in order to Complete the offering of Abu Waleed. Abdul Malik was taken aback. He said, “O Irtah!” Then Irtah said, “O Amirul Momineen! My agnomen is Abu Waleed.”