Tarikh (al-Tabari) 539
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
[ بَكَّةُ لُغَةً ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: أَنَّ بَكَّةَ اسْمٌ لِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ، لِأَنَّهُمْ يَتَبَاكَوْنَ فِيهَا، أَيْ يَزْدَحِمُونَ. وَأَنْشَدَنِي: : إذَا الشَّرِيبُ أَخَذَتْهُ أَكَّهُ فَخَلِّهِ حَتَّى يَبُكَّ بَكَّهُ أَيْ فَدَعْهُ حَتَّى يَبُكَّ إبِلَهُ: أَيْ يُخَلِّيهَا إلَى الْمَاءِ فَتَزْدَحِمُ عَلَيْهِ. وَهُوَ مَوْضِعُ الْبَيْتِ وَالْمَسْجِدِ. وَهَذَانِ الْبَيْتَانِ لِعَامَانَ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زَيْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ تَمِيمٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَخَرَجَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ مُضَاضٍ الْجُرْهُمِيُّ بِغَزَالِيِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَبِحَجَرِ الرُّكْنِ، فَدَفَنَهَا فِي زَمْزَمَ، وَانْطَلَقَ هُوَ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ مِنْ جُرْهُمٍ إلَى الْيَمَنِ، فَحَزِنُوا عَلَى مَا فَارَقُوا مِنْ أَمْرِ مَكَّةَ وَمُلْكِهَا حُزْنًا شَدِيدًا. فَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ ( بْنِ عَمْرِو ) بْنِ مُضَاضٍ فِي ذَلِكَ، وَلَيْسَ بِمُضَاضٍ الْأَكْبَرِ: : وَقَائِلَةٍ وَالدَّمْعُ سَكْبٌ مُبَادِرُ وَقَدْ شَرِقَتْ بِالدَّمْعِ مِنْهَا الْمَحَاجِرُ كَأَنَّ لَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَ الْحَجُونِ إلَى الصَّفَا أَنِيسٌ وَلَمْ يَسْمُرْ بِمَكَّةَ سَامِرُ فَقُلْتُ لَهَا وَالْقَلْبُ مِنِّي كَأَنَّمَا يُلَجْلِجُهُ بَيْنَ الْجَنَاحَيْنِ طَائِرُ بَلَى نَحْنُ كُنَّا أَهْلَهَا، فَأَزَالَنَا صُرُوفُ اللَّيَالِي وَالْجُدُودِ الْعَوَاثِرِ وَكُنَّا وُلَاةَ الْبَيْتِ مِنْ بَعْدِ نَابِتٍ نَطُوفُ بِذَاكَ الْبَيْتِ وَالْخَيْرُ ظَاهِرُ وَنَحْنُ وَلِينَا الْبَيْتَ مِنْ بَعْدِ نَابِتٍ بِعَزٍّ فَمَا يَحْظَى لَدَيْنَا الْمُكَاثِرُ مَلَكْنَا فَعَزَّزْنَا فَأَعْظِمْ بِمُلْكِنَا فَلَيْسَ لِحَيِّ غَيْرِنَا ثَمَّ فَاخِرُ أَلَمْ تُنْكِحُوا مِنْ خَيْرِ شَخْصٍ عَلِمْتُهُ فَأَبْنَاؤُهُ مِنَّا وَنَحْنُ الْأَصَاهِرُ فَإِنْ تَنْثَنِ الدُّنْيَا عَلَيْنَا بِحَالِهَا فَإِنَّ لَهَا حَالًا وَفِيهَا التَّشَاجُرُ فَأَخْرَجَنَا مِنْهَا الْمَلِيكُ بِقُدْرَةٍ كَذَلِكَ يَا لِلنَّاسِ تَجْرِي الْمَقَادِرُ أَقُولُ إذَا نَامَ الْخَلِيُّ وَلَمْ أَنَمْ أَذَا الْعَرْشِ: لَا يَبْعُدُ سُهَيْلٌ وَعَامِرٌ وَبُدِّلْتُ مِنْهَا أَوْجُهًا لَا أُحِبُّهَا قَبَائِلُ مِنْهَا حِمْيَرُ وَيُحَابِرُ وَصِرْنَا أَحَادِيثَا وَكُنَّا بِغِبْطَةٍ بِذَلِكَ عَضَّتْنَا السِّنُونَ الْغَوَابِرُ فَسَحَّتَ دُمُوعُ الْعَيْنِ تَبْكِي لِبَلْدَةٍ بِهَا حَرَمٌ أَمْنٌ وَفِيهَا الْمَشَاعِرُ وَتَبْكِي لِبَيْتٍ لَيْسَ يُوذَى حَمَامُهُ يَظَلُّ بِهِ أَمْنًا وَفِيهِ الْعَصَافِرُ وَفِيهِ وُحُوشٌ لَا تُرَامُ أَنِيسَةٌ إذَا خَرَجَتْ مِنْهُ فَلَيْسَتْ تُغَادِرُ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَوْلُهُ فَأَبْنَاؤُهُ منا، عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ أَيْضًا يَذْكُرُ بَكْرًا وَغُبْشَانُ، وَسَاكِنِي مَكَّةَ الَّذِينَ خَلَفُوا فِيهَا بَعْدَهُمْ: : يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ سِيرُوا إنَّ قَصْرَكُمْ أَنْ تُصْبِحُوا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ لَا تَسِيرُونَا حُثُّوا الْمَطِيَّ وَأَرْخُوا مِنْ أَزِمَّتِهَا قَبْلَ الْمَمَاتِ وَقَضُّوا مَا تُقِضُّونَا كُنَّا أُنَاسًا كَمَا كُنْتُمْ فَغَيَّرَنَا دَهْرٌ فَأَنْتُمْ كَمَا كُنَّا تَكُونُونَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: هَذَا مَا صَحَّ لَهُ مِنْهَا. وَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ: أَنَّ هَذِهِ الْأَبْيَاتَ أَوَّلُ شِعْرٍ قِيلَ فِي الْعَرَبِ، وَأَنَّهَا وُجِدَتْ مَكْتُوبَةً فِي حَجَرٍ بِالْيَمَنِ، وَلَمْ يُسَمِّ لِي قَائِلَهَا.
Translation
✧ [ Bakkah linguistically ] Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿUbaydah informed me that Bakkah is a name for the interior of Makkah, because they crowd one another (yatabākūn) in it, that is, jostle one another. He recited to me: : When the drinker is seized by its press, let him be until he crowds his crowd — that is, leave him until he crowds his camels: that is, lets them go to the water and they jostle one another over it. And it is the site of the House and the mosque. These two verses are by ʿĀmān b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr b. Saʿd b. Zayd Manāt b. Tamīm. Ibn Isḥāq said: Then ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith b. Muḍāḍ al-Jurhumī went out with the two gazelles of the Kaʿbah and the stone of the corner, and buried them in Zamzam, and he and those with him of Jurhum departed for Yemen, grieving bitterly over what they had left behind of the affair of Makkah and its sovereignty. So ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith (b. ʿAmr) b. Muḍāḍ said concerning that — and he is not Muḍāḍ the elder: : And a sayer, while tears pour forth swiftly, and the eye-sockets from her are choked with tears: As if there had never been, between al-Ḥajūn and al-Ṣafā, any intimate companion, and no night-talker talked by night in Makkah. Then I said to her, and my heart from me is as though a bird were making it roll about between the two wings: Yes, we were its people, but the turns of the nights and of the stumbling fortunes removed us. And we were the guardians of the House after Nābit, we circumambulated that House while good was manifest. And we took charge of the House after Nābit with might, so no rival prospered in our presence. We possessed it and were mighty, so how great was our possession, for no tribe other than ours had any boasting there. Did you not give in marriage from the best person I have known, so that his sons are from us, and we are the affines? So if the world turns about upon us with its own condition, yet it has a condition, and in it is strife. So the King brought us out of it by His power; thus, O people, do the decrees run. I say when the carefree one sleeps and I do not sleep, O Lord of the Throne: may Suhayl and ʿĀmir not be far. And I was given in exchange for it faces I do not love — tribes among them Ḥimyar and Yuḥābir. And we became tales, whereas we had been in felicity; for that the bygone years have bitten us. And the tears of the eye poured forth weeping for a town in which is a secure sanctuary and in which are the ritual sites. And weeping for a House whose doves are not harmed; he remains in it secure, and in it are the sparrows. And in it are wild beasts that are not disturbed, sociable; when they go out of it, they do not depart. Ibn Hishām said: His saying, “so that his sons are from us,” is from other than Ibn Isḥāq. Ibn Isḥāq said: And ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith also said, mentioning Bakr and Ghubshān and the inhabitants of Makkah who succeeded them there: : O you people, travel on; for your utmost limit is that you will one day become such that you will not travel. Urge on the mounts and slacken some of their reins before death, and settle what you are settling. We were people as you are, then time changed us, so you are as we were, and you shall be as we are. Ibn Hishām said: This is what he verified of them. And some of the people of knowledge of poetry told me that these verses are the first poetry spoken among the Arabs, and that they were found written on a stone in Yemen, but he did not name their author to me.
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