[1] The origin of Hind's laqab, al-Khuss, is not clear, but some scholarship suggests that the Arabic word khuss meant 'the son of a man and a female jinn.
[3] Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr's Balāghāt al-nisāʾ has Hind and Jumʿa visiting the famous fair at ʿUkāẓ.
When Hind Bint al-Khuss died, her faithful lover 'cropped her hair, wore black clothes, rejected worldly pleasures, vowed to God that she would lead an ascetic life until she passed away'.
In the words of Kathrin Müller, The structure of these anecdotes is characteristic of texts preserving traditional knowledge of Bedouin life and its lexicographical material.
Many questions follow the pattern “what is the best thing?—what is the worst?” Sometimes the questioner begins a sentence with “almost,” and Bint al-Khuss completes it, as in “almost, the ostrich is a bird.”[1]An incantation in the rajaz metre attributed to Zarqā'/Hind bint al-Khuss, characterised by D. Frolov as 'very archaic because of the abundance and diversity of foot variations', runs[7] yā layta dha-l-qatā liyah wa-mithla niṣfin maʿiyah ʾilā qaṭāti ʾahliyah ʾidhan lanā qatan miyah If only those partridges belonged to me, And about a half of them were with me In addition to the partridges of my kin, We would have one hundred partridges.