Tarikh (al-Tabari) 1524
The Expedition of Ḥunayn (Hawāzin)
[ شِعْرُ أَبِي خِرَاشٍ فِي رِثَاءِ ابْنِ الْعَجْوَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ، قَالَ: أُسِرَ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَجْوَةِ الْهُذَلِيُّ يَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ فَكُتِّفَ، فَرَآهُ جَمِيلُ بْنُ مَعْمَرٍ الْجُمَحِيُّ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَأَنْتَ الْمَاشِي لَنَا بِالْمَغَايِظِ ؟ فَضَرَبَ عُنُقَهُ ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو خِرَاشٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ يَرْثِيهِ، وَكَانَ ابْنَ عَمِّهِ: عَجَّفَ أَضْيَافِي جَمِيلُ بْنُ مَعْمَرٍ بِذِي فَجَرٍ تَأْوِي إلَيْهِ الْأَرَامِلُ طَوِيلِ نِجَادِ السَّيْفِ لَيْسَ بِجَيْدَرٍ إذَا اهْتَزَّ وَاسْتَرْخَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْحَمَائِلُ تَكَادُ يَدَاهُ تُسْلِمَانِ إزَارَهُ مِنْ الْجُودِ لَمَّا أَذْلَقَتْهُ الشَّمَائِلُ إلَى بَيْتِهِ يَأْوِي الضَّرِيكُ إذَا شَتَا وَمُسْتَنْبِحٌ بَالِي الدَّرِيسَيْنِ عَائِلُ تَرَوَّحَ مَقْرُورًا وَهَبَّتْ عَشِيَّةً لَهَا حَدَبٌ تَحْتَثُّهُ فَيُوَائِلُ فَمَا بَالُ أَهْلِ الدَّارِ لَمْ يَتَصَدَّعُوا وَقَدْ بَانَ مِنْهَا اللَّوْذَعِيُّ الْحُلَاحِلُ فَأُقْسِمُ لَوْ لَاقَيْتَهُ غَيْرَ مُوثَقٍ لَآبَكَ بِالنَّعْفِ الضِّبَاعُ الْجَيَائِلُ وَإِنَّكَ لَوْ وَاجَهْتَهُ إذْ لَقِيتَهُ فَنَازَلْتُهُ أَوْ كُنْتَ مِمَّنْ يُنَازِلُ لَظَلَّ جَمِيلٌ أَفْحَشَ الْقَوْمِ صِرْعَةً وَلَكِنَّ قِرْنَ الظَّهْرِ لِلْمَرْءِ شَاغِلُ فَلَيْسَ كَعَهْدِ الدَّارِ يَا أُمَّ ثَابِتٍ وَلَكِنْ أَحَاطَتْ بِالرِّقَابِ السَّلَاسِلُ وَعَادَ الْفَتَى كَالشَّيْخِ لَيْسَ بِفَاعِلِ سِوَى الْحَقِّ شَيْئًا وَاسْتَرَاحَ الْعَوَاذِلُ وَأَصْبَحَ إخْوَانُ الصَّفَاءِ كَأَنَّمَا أَهَالَ عَلَيْهِمْ جَانِبَ التُّرْبِ هَائِلُ فَلَا تَحْسَبِي أَنِّي نَسِيتُ لَيَالِيَا بِمَكَّةَ إذْ لَمْ نَعْدُ عَمَّا نُحَاوِلُ إذْ النَّاسُ نَاسٌ وَالْبِلَادُ بِغِرَّةٍ وَإِذْ نَحْنُ لَا تُثْنِي عَلَيْنَا الْمَدَاخِلُ
Translation
✧ The Poetry of Abū Khirāsh in Elegy for Ibn al-ʿAjwah Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿUbaydah narrated to me, saying: Zuhayr b. al-ʿAjwah al-Hudhalī was taken captive on the Day of Ḥunayn, and his arms were bound behind his back. Jamīl b. Maʿmar al-Jumaḥī saw him and said to him: "Are you the one who walked among us with spiteful deeds?" Then he struck his neck. Abū Khirāsh al-Hudhalī, who was his paternal cousin, said in mourning for him: Jamīl b. Maʿmar impoverished my guests at Dhū Fajar, where widows take refuge, a man of long sword-strap, not stout. When he moves and the sword-belts hang loose upon him, his hands almost let his waist-wrapper fall from generosity, when the north winds have made him lean. To his house the destitute man resorts when winter comes, and the one who calls out by night in worn, tattered garments, needy. He returned chilled, and an evening wind blew a rugged land that drives him on, so he seeks shelter. What is the matter with the people of the dwelling that they have not dispersed, though the sharp, steadfast one has departed from among them? I swear, had you met him unfettered, the hyenas would have returned to you from the slope with their bellies full. And indeed, had you faced him when you met him and fought him, or been one of those who fight, Jamīl would have remained the most shameful of the people in his fall. But the binding of the back distracts a man. The abode is not as it was, O Umm Thābit, but chains have encompassed the necks. The young man has become like an old man, unable to do anything but the truth, and the censurers have found rest. The brothers of sincerity have become as if a fearful side of the earth had poured upon them. So do not think that I have forgotten nights in Makkah, when we did not deviate from what we sought, when the people were people and the lands were in heedlessness, and when no entrances could turn us back.
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