حَذارِ طِبَّ اِبنَ شَمعونَ فَقَد حَلَفَت

حَذارِ طِبَّ اِبنَ شَمعونَ فَقَد حَلَفَت

أَن لا تُفارِقُ جِسماً زارَهُ العِلَلُ

أَن لا تُفارِقُ جِسماً زارَهُ العِلَلُ

Beware Ibn Shamʿun’s medicine, for the ailments have sworn

Beware the medicine of Ibn Sham’un, for he has sworn

Never to leave a body he has visited.

That it shall not leave a body visited by illness.

ما جَسَّ نَبضَ فَتىً إِلّا وَأَنشَدَهُ

ما جَسَّ نَبضَ فَتىً إِلّا وَأَنشَدَهُ

وَدِّع هَريرَةَ إنَّ الركَلبَ مُرتَحِلُ

وَدِّع هَريرَةَ إنَّ الركَلبَ مُرتَحِلُ

He never felt a young man’s pulse without reciting to him:

It stilled the pulse of no man but recited him verses,

“Bid farewell to Hurayra; the caravan is departing.”

Bid farewell to Hareerah, for Al-Rakalb departs.