Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1523
The Expedition of Ḥunayn (Hawāzin)
[ شِعْرُ ضَمْضَمٍ فِي يَوْمِ حُنَيْنٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ ضَمْضَمُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ جُشَمِ بْنِ عَبْدِ بْنِ حَبِيبِ بْنِ مَالِكِ بْنِ عَوْفِ بْنِ يَقَظَةَ بْنِ عُصَيَّةَ السُّلَمِيُّ فِي يَوْمِ حُنَيْنٍ، وَكَانَتْ ثَقِيفٌ أَصَابَتْ كِنَانَةَ بْنَ الْحَكَمِ بْنِ خَالِدِ بْنِ الشَّرِيدِ، فَقَتَلَ بِهِ مِحْجَنًا وَابْنَ عَمٍّ لَهُ، وَهُمَا مِنْ ثَقِيفٍ: نَحْنُ جَلَبْنَا الْخَيْلَ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَجْلَبٍ إلَى جُرَشٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ زَيَّانَ وَالْفَمِ نُقَتِّلُ أَشْبَالَ الْأُسُودِ وَنَبْتَغِي طَوَاغِيَ كَانَتْ قَبْلَنَا لَمْ تُهَدَّمْ فَإِنْ تَفْخَرُوا بِابْنِ الشَّرِيدِ فَإِنَّنِي تَرَكْتُ بِوَجٍّ مَأْتَمًا بَعْدَ مَأْتَمِ أَبَأْتُهُمَا بِابْنِ الشَّرِيدِ وَغَرَّهُ جِوَارُكُمْ وَكَانَ غَيْرَ مُذَمَّمِ تُصِيبُ رِجَالًا مِنْ ثَقِيفٍ رِمَاحُنَا وَأَسْيَافُنَا يَكْلِمْنَهُمْ كُلَّ مَكْلَمِ وَقَالَ ضَمْضَمُ بْنُ الْحَارِثِ أَيْضًا: أَبْلِغْ لَدَيْكَ ذَوِي الْحَلَائِلِ آيَةً لَا تَأْمَنَنَّ الدَّهْرَ ذَاتَ خِمَارِ بَعْدَ الَّتِي قَالَتْ لِجَارَةِ بَيْتِهَا قَدْ كُنْتُ لَوْ لَبِثَ الْغَزِيُّ بِدَارِ لَمَّا رَأَتْ رَجُلًا تَسَفَّعَ لَوْنَهُ وَغْرُ الْمَصِيفَةِ وَالْعِظَامُ عَوَارِي مُشُطَ الْعِظَامِ تَرَاهُ آخِرَ لَيْلِهِ مُتَسَرْبِلًا فِي دِرْعِهِ لِغِوَارِ إذْ لَا أَزَالُ عَلَى رِحَالَةِ نَهْدَةٍ جَرْدَاءَ تُلْحِقُ بِالنِّجَادِ إزَارِي يَوْمًا عَلَى أَثَرِ النِّهَابِ وَتَارَةً كُتِبَتْ مُجَاهِدَةً مَعَ الْأَنْصَارِ وَزُهَاءَ كُلِّ خَمِيلَةٍ أَزْهَقْتهَا مَهَلًا تَمَهَّلُهُ وَكُلِّ خَبَارِ كَيْمَا أُغَيِّرَ مَا بِهَا مِنْ حَاجَةٍ وَتَوَدُّ أَنِّي لَا أَؤُوبُ فَجَارِ
Translation
✧ [ Poetry of Ḍamḍam on the Day of Ḥunayn ] Ibn Isḥāq said: Ḍamḍam b. al-Ḥārith b. Jusham b. ʿAbd b. Ḥabīb b. Mālik b. ʿAwf b. Yaqaẓah b. ʿUṣayyah al-Sulamī said on the day of Ḥunayn, when Thaqīf had struck Kinānah b. al-Ḥakam b. Khālid b. al-Sharīd, and he killed in retaliation for him Miḥjan and a cousin of his, both of Thaqīf: We brought the horses from no pasture to Jarash from the people of Zayyān and al-Fam We slay the cubs of lions and we seek the tyrants who were before us and had not been demolished If you boast of Ibn al-Sharīd, then I have left at Wajj a mourning after a mourning I requited them for Ibn al-Sharīd, and your protection deceived him, though he was not blameworthy Our spears reach men of Thaqīf and our swords wound them with every wound Ḍamḍam b. al-Ḥārith also said: Convey to those with wives a sign: let not a woman with a veil ever feel safe from time After she said to the neighbor of her house: I would have, had the raiders stayed at the abode When she saw a man whose color was scorched by the heat of summer, and the bones were bare Bones protruding, you see him at the end of his night clad in his coat of mail for a raid For I do not cease to be on the saddle of a sturdy, sleek she-camel that makes my loincloth reach the highlands One day following the spoils, and at another time it was recorded as a struggle alongside the Anṣār And the pride of every thicket I have destroyed, slowly, while it lingers, and of every soft ground So that I may change what is in it of need, and she wishes that I would not return, so I went forth
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