1. قالَ قَومٌ وَلا أَدينُ بِما قالوهُ

    إِنَّ اِبنَ آدَمٍ كَاِبنِ عِرسِ

    Some people said—and I do not subscribe to what they said—

    that the son of Adam is like a weasel.

  2. جِهلَ الناسُ ما أَبوهُ عَلى الدَه

    رِ وَلَكِنَّهُ مُسَمّىً بِحَرسِ

    People have not known what his father was throughout the

    ages, but he is named Hars,

  3. في حَديثٍ رَواهُ قَومٌ لِقَومٍ

    رَهنَ طِرسٍ مُستَنسَخٍ بَعدَ طِرسِ

    in an account that some people transmitted to others,

    bound to parchment, recopied parchment after parchment.