Tarikh (al-Tabari) 569
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
يَوْمٌ لِشَيْبَانَ عَلَى بَنِي تَمِيمٍ قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: خَرَجَ الْأَقْرَعُ بْنُ حَابِسٍ وَأَخُوهُ فِرَاسٌ التَّمِيمِيَّانِ، وَهُمَا الْأَقْرَعَانِ، فِي بَنِي مُجَاشِعٍ مِنْ تَمِيمٍ، وَهُمَا يُرِيدَانِ الْغَارَةَ عَلَى بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ وَمَعَهُمَا الْبَرُوكُ أَبُو جَعْلٍ، فَلَقِيَهُمْ بِسْطَامُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ الشَّيْبَانِيُّ وَعِمْرَانُ بْنُ مُرَّةَ فِي بَنِي بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ بِزُبَالَةَ، فَاقْتَتَلُوا قِتَالًا شَدِيدًا ظَفِرَتْ فِيهِ بَكْرٌ وَانْهَزَمَتْ تَمِيمٌ، وَأُسِرَ الْأَقْرَعَانِ وَأَبُو جَعْلٍ وَنَاسٌ كَثِيرٌ، وَافْتَدَى الْأَقْرَعَانِ نَفْسَيْهِمَا مِنْ بِسْطَامٍ، وَعَاهَدَاهُ عَلَى إِرْسَالِ الْفِدَاءِ، فَأَطْلَقَهُمَا، فَبَعُدَا وَلَمْ يُرْسِلَا شَيْئًا، وَكَانَ فِي الْأَسْرَى إِنْسَانٌ مِنْ يَرْبُوعٍ فَسَمِعَهُ بِسْطَامُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ فِي اللَّيْلِ يَقُولُ: فِدًى بِوَالِدَةٍ عَلَيَّ شَفِيقَةٍ فَكَأَنَّهَا حَرَضٌ عَلَى الْأَسْقَامِ لَوْ أَنَّهَا عَلِمَتْ فَيَسْكُنُ جَأْشُهَا أَنِّي سَقَطْتُ عَلَى الْفَتَى الْمِنْعَامِ إِنَّ الَّذِي تَرْجِينَ ثَمَّ إِيَابَهُ سَقَطَ الْعِشَاءُ بِهِ عَلَى بِسْطَامِ سَقَطَ الْعِشَاءُ بِهِ عَلَى مُتَنَعِّمِ سَمْحِ الْيَدَيْنِ مُعَاوِدِ الْإِقْدَامِ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ بِسْطَامُ ذَلِكَ مِنْهُ قَالَ لَهُ: وَأَبِيكَ لَا يُخْبِرُ أُمَّكَ عَنْكَ غَيْرُكَ ! وَأَطْلَقَهُ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ رُمَيْضٍ الْعَنَزِيُّ: جَاءَتْ هَدَايَا مِنَ الرَّحْمَانِ مُرْسَلَةً حَتَّى أُنِيخَتْ لَدَى أَبْيَاتِ بِسْطَامِ جَيْشُ الْهُذَيْلِ وَجَيْشُ الْأَقْرَعَيْنِ مَعًا وَكُبَّةُ الْخَيْلِ وَالْأَذْوَادِ فِي عَامِ مُسَوِّمٌ خَيْلَهُ تَعْدُو مَقَانِبُهُ عَلَى الذَّوَائِبِ مِنْ أَوْلَادِ هَمَّامِ وَقَالَ أَوْسُ بْنُ حَجَرٍ: وَصَبَّحَنَا عَارٌ طَوِيلٌ بِنَاؤُهُ نُسَبُّ بِهِ مَا لَاحَ فِي الْأُفْقِ كَوْكَبُ فَلَمْ أَرَ يَوْمًا كَانَ أَكْثَرَ بَاكِيًا وَوَجْهًا تُرَى فِيهِ الْكَآبَةُ تَجْنُبُ أَصَابُوا الْبَرُوكَ وَابْنَ حَابِسَ عَنْوَةً فَظَلَّ لَهُمْ بِالْقَاعِ يَوْمٌ عَصَبْصَبُ وَإِنَّ أَبَا الصَّهْبَاءِ فِي حَوْمَةِ الْوَغَى إِذَا ازْوَرَّتِ الْأَبْطَالُ لَيْثٌ مُجَرَّبُ وَأَبُو الصَّهْبَاءِ: هُوَ بِسْطَامُ بْنُ قَيْسٍ. وَأَكْثَرَ الشُّعَرَاءُ فِي هَذَا الْيَوْمِ فِي مَدْحِ بِسْطَامِ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، تَرَكْنَا ذِكْرَهُ اخْتِصَارًا. ( حَجَرٌ: بِفَتْحِ الْحَاءِ وَالْجِيمِ ).
Translation
✧ A Day for Shaybān against Banū Tamīm Abū ʿUbaydah said: Al-Aqraʿ b. Ḥābis and his brother Firās al-Tamīmiyyān—they are the two Aqraʿs—went out among Banū Mujāshiʿ of Tamīm, intending a raid upon Bakr b. Wāʾil, and with them was al-Barūk Abū Jaʿl. Then Bisṭām b. Qays al-Shaybānī and ʿImrān b. Murrah met them among Banū Bakr b. Wāʾil at Zubālah. They fought a fierce battle in which Bakr prevailed and Tamīm was routed. The two Aqraʿs, Abū Jaʿl, and many people were taken captive. The two Aqraʿs ransomed themselves from Bisṭām and covenanted with him to send the ransom, so he released them. But they went far off and did not send anything. Among the captives was a man of Yarbūʿ. Bisṭām b. Qays heard him at night saying: May a tender mother be my ransom; she would be as one worn out by sicknesses. If only she knew—then her heart would be stilled—that I have fallen to the generous youth. Indeed the one whose return she hopes for there has fallen; the evening has dropped him upon Bisṭām. The evening has dropped him upon one living in ease, generous of hands, one who returns again to boldness. When Bisṭām heard that from him, he said to him, “By your father, none but you shall tell your mother of you!” And he released him. Ibn Rumayḍ al-ʿAnazī said: Gifts came from the Merciful, sent forth, until they were made to kneel at the tents of Bisṭām. The army of al-Hudhayl and the army of the two Aqraʿs together, and the throng of horses and herds, in one year. He marked his horses; his squadrons ran upon the forelocks of the sons of Hammām. Aws b. Ḥajar said: And morning brought us a long-built disgrace by which we are reviled as long as a star shines in the horizon. I have not seen a day with more weepers, nor a face in which sorrow appears and travels. They took al-Barūk and Ibn Ḥābis forcibly, and there remained for them upon the open ground a scorching day. And indeed Abū al-Ṣahbāʾ in the heat of battle, when the heroes turn aside, is a tried lion. Abū al-Ṣahbāʾ is Bisṭām b. Qays. The poets said much on this day in praise of Bisṭām b. Qays; we have omitted mention of it for brevity. (Ḥajar: with fatḥah on the ḥāʾ and the jīm).
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