Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1482
The Detachment of Khālid b. al-Walīd ᴿᴬ after the Conquest to Banū Jadhīmah of Kinānah
[ شِعْرُ سَلْمَى فِيمَا بَيْنَ جَذِيمَةَ وَقُرَيْشٍ ] وَقَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْ بَنِي جَذِيمَةَ، وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَقُولُ: امْرَأَةٌ يُقَالُ لَهَا سَلْمَى: وَلَوْلَا مَقَالُ الْقَوْمِ لِلْقَوْمِ أَسْلِمُوا لَلَاقَتْ سُلَيْمٌ يَوْمَ ذَلِكَ نَاطِحَا لَمَاصَعَهُمْ بُسْرٌ وَأَصْحَابُ جَحْدَمٍ وَمُرَّةُ حَتَّى يَتْرُكُوا الْبَرْكَ نَاضِحَا فَكَائِنْ تَرَى يَوْمَ الْغُمَيْصَاءِ مِنْ فَتًى أُصِيبَ وَلَمْ يَجْرَحْ وَقَدْ كَانَ جَارِحَا أَلَظَّتْ بِخُطَّابِ الْأَيَامَى وَطَلَّقَتْ غَدَاتَئِذٍ مِنْهُنَّ مَنْ كَانَ نَاكِحَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَوْلُهُ بُسْرٌ، وَأَلَظَّتْ بِخُطَّابِ عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ. [ شِعْرُ ابْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى سَلْمَى ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَأَجَابَهُ عَبَّاسُ بْنُ مِرْدَاسٍ، وَيُقَالُ بَلْ الْجَحَّافُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ السُّلَمِيُّ: دَعِي عَنْكِ تِقْوَالَ الضَّلَالِ كَفَى بِنَا لِكَبْشِ الْوَغَى فِي الْيَوْمِ وَالْأَمْسِ نَاطِحَا فَخَالِدُ أَوْلَى بِالتَّعَذُّرِ مِنْكُمْ غَدَاةَ عَلَا نَهْجًا مِنْ الْأَمْرِ وَاضِحَا مُعَانًا بِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ يُزْجِي إلَيْكُمْ سَوَانِحَ لَا تَكْبُو لَهُ وَبَوَارِحَا نَعَوْا مَالِكًا بِالسَّهْلِ لَمَّا هَبَطْنَهُ عَوَابِسَ فِي كَابِي الْغُبَارِ كَوَالِحَا فَإِنْ نَكُ أَثْكَلْنَاكِ سَلْمَى فَمَالِكٌ تَرَكْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ نَائِحَاتٍ وَنَائِحَا [ شِعْرُ الْجَحَّافِ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى سَلْمَى ] وَقَالَ الْجَحَّافُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ السُّلَمِيُّ: شَهِدْنَ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ مُسَوَّمَاتٍ حُنَيْنًا وَهْيَ دَامِيَةُ الْكِلَامِ وَغَزْوَةَ خَالِدٍ شَهِدَتْ وَجَرَّتْ سَنَابِكَهُنَّ بِالْبَلَدِ الْحَرَامِ نُعَرِّضُ لِلطِّعَانِ إذَا الْتَقَيْنَا وُجُوهًا لَا تُعَرَّضُ لِلِّطَامِ وَلَسْتُ بِخَالِعٍ عَنِّي ثِيَابِي إذَا هَزَّ الْكُمَاةُ وَلَا أُرَامِي وَلَكِنِّي يَجُولُ الْمُهْرُ تَحْتِي إلَى الْعَلَوَاتِ بِالْعَضْبِ الْحُسَامِ [ شِعْرُ غُلَامٍ جَذْمِيٍّ هَارِبٍ أَمَامَ خَالِدٍ ] وَقَالَ غُلَامٌ مِنْ بَنِي جَذِيمَةَ، وَهُوَ يَسُوقُ بِأُمِّهِ وَأُخْتَيْنِ لَهُ، وَهُوَ هَارِبٌ بِهِنَّ مِنْ جَيْشِ خَالِدٍ: رَخِّينَ أَذْيَالَ الْمُرُوطِ وَارْبَعَنْ مَشْيَ حَيِيَّاتٍ كَأَنْ لَمْ يُفْزَعَنْ إنْ تُمْنَعْ الْيَوْمَ نِسَاءٌ تُمْنَعَنْ [ ارْتِجَازُ غِلْمَةٍ مَعَ بَنِي جَذِيمَةَ حِينَ سَمِعُوا بِخَالِدِ ] وَقَالَ غِلْمَةٌ مِنْ بَنِي جَذِيمَةَ، يُقَالُ لَهُمْ بَنُو مُسَاحِقٍ، يَرْتَجِزُونَ حِينَ سَمِعُوا بِخَالِدِ فَقَالَ أَحَدُهُمْ: قَدْ عَلِمَتْ صَفْرَاءُ بَيْضَاءُ الْإِطِلْ يَحُوزُهَا ذُو ثَلَّةٍ وَذُو إبِلْ لَأُغْنِيَنَّ الْيَوْمَ مَا أَغْنَى رَجُلْ وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ: قَدْ عَلِمَتْ صَفْرَاءُ تُلْهِي الْعِرْسَا لَا تَمْلَأُ الْحَيْزُومَ مِنْهَا نَهْسَا لَأَضْرِبَنَّ الْيَوْمَ ضَرْبًا وَعْسَا ضَرْبَ الْمُحِلِّينَ مَخَاضًا قُعْسَا وَقَالَ الْآخَرُ: أَقْسَمْتُ مَا إنْ خَادِرٌ ذُو لِبْدَهْ شَثْنُ الْبَنَانِ فِي غَدَاةٍ بَرْدَهْ جَهْمُ الْمُحَيَّا ذُو سِبَالٍ وَرْدَهْ يُرْزِمُ بَيْنَ أَيْكَةٍ وَجَحْدَهْ ضَارٍ بِتَأْكَالِ الرِّجَالِ وَحْدَهْ بِأَصْدَقَ الْغَدَاةَ مَنِّي نَجْدَهْ
Translation
✧ [Poem of Salmā concerning the affair between Jadhīmah and Quraysh] A man from Banū Jadhīmah said—and some of them say it was a woman called Salmā: Were it not for the people's saying to the people, “Submit!” Sulaym would have met that day a butting one. Busr and the companions of Jaḥdam would have fought them, and Murrah, until they left the kneeling camels as water-bearers. How many you will see on the day of al-Ghumayṣāʾ of a young man struck down without being wounded, though he had been a wounder. She clung to the suitors of widows, and divorced that morning from among them whoever had been a bridegroom. Ibn Hishām said: His words “Busr” and “she clung to suitors” are from other than Ibn Isḥāq. [Poem of Ibn Mirdās in reply to Salmā] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbbās b. Mirdās answered him—and it is also said the answer was by al-Jaḥḥāf b. Ḥakīm al-Sulamī: Leave off your talk of error; enough for us as a ram of battle, today and yesterday, is a butter. Khālid is more worthy of apology than you on the morning he mounted a clear path of the affair, aided by God's command, driving toward you auspicious signs that do not stumble for him, and ill-omened ones. They announced Mālik on the plain when they descended it, frowning amid the dust that sank down, grim-faced. If we have bereaved you, Salmā, then Mālik— you left upon him wailing women and a wailer. [Poem of al-Jaḥḥāf in reply to Salmā] Al-Jaḥḥāf b. Ḥakīm al-Sulamī said: They witnessed with the Prophet, branded mares, Ḥunayn, while their mouths were bleeding from the bit. And Khālid's expedition they witnessed, and their hooves dragged through the sacred land. We offer to the spears when we meet faces that are not offered to slaps. I am not one to strip off my clothes when the warriors shake, nor do I shoot arrows. But the colt under me gallops to the heights with the sharp cutting sword. [Poem of a Jadhīmah youth fleeing before Khālid] A youth of Banū Jadhīmah said, while driving his mother and two sisters, fleeing with them from Khālid's army: Let down the skirts of the woollen cloaks and walk on all fours, the pace of shy serpents as though never startled. If women are denied today, they are denied. [Rajaz poems of youths among Banū Jadhīmah when they heard of Khālid] Youths of Banū Jadhīmah, called Banū Musāḥiq, recited rajaz when they heard of Khālid. One of them said: The tawny white-flanked one knows the possessor of a flock and possessor of camels guards her. I will suffice today as a man suffices. Another said: The tawny one that distracts the bride knows: the chest cannot be filled from her by a bite. I will strike today a hard, crushing blow, a strike of those who encamp in a place, striking pregnant camels bent-backed. Another said: I swear no lurking lion with a mane, thick-padded paws on a cold morning, gloomy-faced, with tawny whiskers, growling between a thicket and a hard rocky ground, accustomed to devouring men alone, is more truthful this morning in aid than I.
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