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al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 8464

✧ al-Fitna and al-Malahim > The Hadith of Abu Awanah

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سَمِعْتُ الْفَقِيهَ الْأَدِيبُ الْأَوْحَدُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ الْقَفَّالُ غَيْرَ مَرَّةٍ يَقُولُ

سَمِعْتُ أَبَا بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الصُّولِيُّ النَّحْوِيُّ يَقُولُ أَوَّلُ مَنْ مَدَحَ التُّرْكَ مِنْ شُعَرَاءِ الْعَرَبِ عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْعَبَّاسِ الرُّومِيُّ حَيْثُ يَقُولُ [البحر الوافر] إِذَا ثَبَتُوا فَسَدٌّ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ تَخَالُ عُيُونَنَا فِيهِ تَحَارُ وَإِنْ بَرَزُوا فَنِيرَانٌ تَلَظَّى عَلَى الْأَعْدَاءِ يَصْرِفُهَا اسْتَعَارُ مُلُوكُ الْأَرْضِ أَعْيُنُهُمْ صِغَارُ إِذَا بَرَزُوا وَأَنْفُسُهُمْ كِبَارُ

Translation

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  1. al-Faqīh al-Adīb al-Awḥad Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Qaffāl Ghayr Marrah
  2. Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Ṣūlī al-Naḥwī
  3. Awwal Man Madaḥ al-Turk from Shuʿarāʾ al-ʿArab ʿAlī b. al-ʿAbbās al-Rūmī Ḥayth

✧ I heard Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Yahya al-Suli the grammarian say, "The first of the Arab poets to praise the Turks was 'Ali b. al-'Abbas al-Rumi, when he said [in the wafir meter]: When they stand firm, they are a barrier of iron; you would think our eyes are bewildered within it. And when they go forth, they are fires blazing upon the enemies, driven by borrowing. The kings of the earth: their eyes are small when they go forth, but their souls are great."

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