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, the “son of ʿIrs”:

  2. جِهلَ الناسُ ما أَبوهُ عَلى الدَه

    رِ وَلَكِنَّهُ مُسَمّىً بِحَرسِ

    People have never known what his father is,

    yet he is named Ḥars,

  3. في حَديثٍ رَواهُ قَومٌ لِقَومٍ

    رَهنَ طِرسٍ مُستَنسَخٍ بَعدَ طِرسِ

    in a tale one group related to another,

    bound to one copied parchment after another.