Tarikh (al-Tabari) 2137
The caliphate of Muʿāwiyah b. Abī Sufyān
وَمِمَّنْ تُوُفِّيَ فِيهَا قَيْسُ بْنُ عَاصِمِ بْنِ سِنَانِ بْنِ خَالِدِ بْنِ مُنْقِرِ بْنِ عُبَيْدِ بْنِ مُقَاعِسِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، أَبُو عَلِيٍّ الْمُنْقِرِيُّ، وَيُقَالُ: أَبُو قَبِيصَةَ: كَانَ مِنْ سَادَاتِ النَّاسِ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ وَالْإِسْلَامِ، وَكَانَ مِمَّنْ حَرَّمَ الْخَمْرَ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، وَذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ سَكِرَ يَوْمًا، فَعَبِثَ بِذَاتِ مَحْرَمٍ مِنْهُ، فَهَرَبَتْ مِنْهُ، فَلَمَّا أَصْبَحَ قِيلَ لَهُ فِي ذَلِكَ فَحَرَّمَهَا، وَأَنْشَدَ ذَلِكَ: رَأَيْتُ الْخَمْرَ مَصْلَحَةً وَفِيهَا مَقَابِحُ تَفْضَحُ الرَّجُلَ الْكَرِيمَا فَلَا وَاللَّهِ أَشْرَبُهَا حَيَاتِي وَلَا أَشْفِي بِهَا أَبَدًا سَقِيمًا وَكَانَ إِسْلَامُهُ مَعَ وَفْدِ بَنَى تَمِيمٍ، وَفِي بَعْضِ الْأَحَادِيثِ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ: " هَذَا سَيِّدُ أَهْلِ الْوَبَرِ ". وَكَانَ جَوَادًا مُمَدَّحًا كَرِيمًا، وَهُوَ الَّذِي يَقُولُ فِيهِ الشَّاعِرُ يَوْمَ مَاتَ: فَمَا كَانَ قَيْسٌ هُلْكُهُ هُلْكُ وَاحِدٍ وَلَكِنَّهُ بُنْيَانُ قَوْمٍ تَهَدَّمَا وَقَالَ الْأَصْمَعِيُّ: سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَمْرِو بْنَ الْعَلَاءِ وَأَبَا سُفْيَانَ بْنَ الْعَلَاءِ يَقُولَانِ: قِيلَ لِلْأَحْنَفِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ: مِمَّنْ تَعَلَّمْتِ الْحِلْمَ ؟ قَالَ: مِنْ قَيْسِ بْنِ عَاصِمٍ الْمِنْقَرِيِّ ; لَقَدِ اخْتَلَفْنَا إِلَيْهِ فِي الْحُكْمِ كَمَا يُخْتَلَفُ إِلَى الْفُقَهَاءِ فِي الْفِقْهِ، فَبَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ عِنْدَهُ يَوْمًا وَهُوَ قَاعِدٌ بِفِنَائِهِ مُحْتَبٍ بِكِسَائِهِ، إِذْ أَتَتْهُ جَمَاعَةٌ فِيهِمْ مَقْتُولٌ وَمَكْتُوفٌ، فَقَالُوا: هَذَا ابْنُكَ قَتَلَهُ ابْنُ أَخِيكَ. قَالَ: فَوَاللَّهِ مَا حَلَّ حَبَوْتَهُ حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنْ كَلَامِهِ، ثُمَّ الْتَفَتْ إِلَى ابْنٍ لَهُ فِي الْمَجْلِسِ فَقَالَ: أَطْلِقْ عَنِ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ، وَوَارِ أَخَاكَ، وَاحْمِلْ إِلَى أُمِّهِ مِائَةً مِنَ الْإِبِلِ فَإِنَّهَا غَرِيبَةٌ. ثُمَّ نَظَرَ لَهُ فَقَالَ: نَقَصْتَ عَدَدَكَ، وَقَطَعْتَ رَحِمَكَ، وَعَصَيْتَ رَبَّكَ، وَأَطَعْتَ شَيْطَانَكَ. وَيُقَالُ: إِنَّهُ لَمَّا حَضَرَتْهُ الْوَفَاةُ جَلَسَ حَوْلَهُ بَنُوهُ، وَكَانُوا اثْنَيْنِ وَثَلَاثِينَ ذَكَرًا، فَقَالَ لَهُمْ: يَا بَنِيَّ، سَوِّدُوا عَلَيْكُمْ أَكْبَرَكُمْ تَخْلُفُوا أَبَاكُمْ، وَلَا تَسُوِّدُوا أَصْغَرَكُمْ فَيَزْدَرِي بِكُمْ أَكْفَاؤُكُمْ، وَعَلَيْكُمْ بِالْمَالِ وَاصْطِنَاعِهِ فَإِنَّهُ مَأْبَهَةٌ لِلْكَرِيمِ، وَيُسْتَغْنَي بِهِ عَنِ اللَّئِيمِ، وَإِيَّاكُمْ وَمَسْأَلَةَ النَّاسِ ; فَإِنَّهَا مِنْ أَخَسِّ مَكْسَبَةِ الرَّجُلِ، وَلَا تَنُوحُوا عَلَيَّ ; فَإِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَمْ يُنَحْ عَلَيْهِ، وَلَا تَدْفِنُونِي حَيْثُ يَشْعُرُ بَكْرُ بْنُ وَائِلٍ ; فَإِنِّي كُنْتُ أُعَادِيهِمْ فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ. وَفِيهِ يَقُولُ الشَّاعِرُ: عَلَيْكَ سَلَامُ اللَّهِ قَيْسُ بْنَ عَاصِمٍ وَرَحْمَتُهُ مَا شَاءَ أَنْ يَتَرَحَّمَا تَحِيَّةَ مَنْ أَوْلَيْتَهُ مِنْكَ مِنَّةً إِذَا ذُكِرَتْ أَمْثَالُهَا تَمْلَأُ الْفَمَا فَمَا كَانَ قَيْسٌ هُلْكُهُ هُلْكُ وَاحِدٍ وَلَكِنَّهُ بُنْيَانُ قَوْمٍ تَهَدَّمَا
Translation
✧ Among those who died in this year was Qays b. ʿĀṣim b. Sinān b. Khālid b. Munqir b. ʿUbayd b. Muqāʿis b. ʿAmr b. Kaʿb b. Saʿd, Abū ʿAlī al-Munqirī, also called Abū Qabīṣa: He was among the leaders of the people in the Jāhiliyyah and Islam, and he was among those who forbade wine in the Jāhiliyyah. That was because one day he became drunk and behaved improperly with a female relative of his, so she fled from him. When morning came, he was told about that, and he forbade it, reciting: I saw wine as a benefit, yet in it are disgraceful things that shame the noble man. So no, by God, I will never drink it as long as I live, nor will I ever use it to cure a sick person. His conversion to Islam was with the delegation of Banū Tamīm, and in some ḥadīths, the Messenger of God ﷺ said: "This is the master of the people of the desert." He was generous, praised, and noble. He is the one about whom the poet said on the day he died: Qays was not one whose loss is the loss of a single man, but rather he was the edifice of a people that has collapsed. Al-Aṣmaʿī said: I heard Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ and Abū Sufyān b. al-ʿAlāʾ say: It was said to al-Aḥnaf b. Qays: "From whom did you learn forbearance?" He said: "From Qays b. ʿĀṣim al-Minqarī. We used to go to him for judgment as people go to jurists for jurisprudence. One day, while we were with him, sitting in his courtyard with his cloak wrapped around his legs, a group came to him with a slain man and a bound man. They said: 'This is your son; your nephew killed him.' He said: 'By God, he did not untie his sitting posture until he finished his speech, then he turned to a son of his in the assembly and said: 'Release your cousin, bury your brother, and send to his mother a hundred camels, for she is a stranger.' Then he looked at the killer and said: 'You have decreased your number, severed your kinship, disobeyed your Lord, and obeyed your devil.' It is said that when death came to him, his sons sat around him, and they were thirty-two males. He said to them: 'O my sons, appoint the eldest of you as your leader, and you will succeed your father. Do not appoint the youngest, lest your peers despise you. Hold fast to wealth and its acquisition, for it is a source of honor for the noble and a means of independence from the base. Beware of asking people, for it is among the lowest earnings of a man. Do not wail over me, for the Messenger of God ﷺ was not wailed over. And do not bury me where Bakr b. Wāʾil might notice, for I used to be their enemy in the Jāhiliyyah.' About him the poet says: Upon you be God's peace, Qays b. ʿĀṣim, and His mercy as long as He wills to have mercy. A greeting from one to whom you gave a favor that, when its like is mentioned, fills the mouth. Qays was not one whose loss is the loss of a single man, but rather he was the edifice of a people that has collapsed.
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