Sunan Abu-Dawud (full name Abu-Dawud Sulaiman bin Al-Aash'ath Al-Azdi as-Sijistani) was born in 202 A.H. and died in 275 A.H.
Given that the Hajj was in 622 AD, that places the recording of these verses somewhere between 844-897 AD. So much for the hunch.
>>So much for the hunch.
Not an unreasonable hunch at all. IMHO, the 1600s version was just a remake of a dramatic production as old as human history itself... and probably older than that.
Got morals and dogma?