The listed names are not merely a catalogue; they structure a denial of responsibility for specific bloodshed.
Verse 41 uses the negative clause mā jarrat ... dam. Verse 42 broadens it by repeating wa-lā. Spears appear as grammatical agents even though people wield them; attributing actions to weapons is a familiar rhetorical way of foregrounding the means of violence.
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Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Ḥuṣayn ibn Ḍamḍam, Revenge and the Cost of Bloodshed (Verses 33–42)
The listed names are not merely a catalogue; they structure a denial of responsibility for specific bloodshed.
Verse 41 uses the negative clause mā jarrat ... dam. Verse 42 broadens it by repeating wa-lā. Spears appear as grammatical agents even though people wield them; attributing actions to weapons is a familiar rhetorical way of foregrounding the means of violence.