Tarikh (al-Tabari) 599
Genealogy of Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and Some Accounts of His Forefathers and Ancestors
يَوْمُ الشَّيِّطَيْنِ قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: كَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِبَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ، فَلَمَّا ظَهَرَ الْإِسْلَامُ فِي نَجْدٍ سَارَتْ بَكْرٌ قِبَلَ السَّوَادِ، وَبَقِيَ مُقَايِسُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الْعَائِذِيُّ بْنُ عَائِذَةَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ حَلِيفُ بَنِي شَيْبَانَ بِالشَّيِّطَيْنِ. فَلَمَّا أَقَامَتْ بَكْرٌ فِي السَّوَادِ لَحِقَهُمُ الْوَبَاءُ وَالطَّاعُونُ الَّذِي كَانَ أَيَّامَ كِسْرَى شِيرَوَيْهِ، فَعَادُوا هَارِبِينَ فَنَزَلُوا لَعْلَعَ، وَهِيَ مُجْدِبَةٌ، وَقَدْ أَخْصَبَ الشَّيِّطَانُ، فَسَارَتْ تَمِيمٌ فَنَزَلُوا بِهَا. وَبَلَغَتْ أَخْبَارُ الشَّيِّطَيْنِ إِلَى بَكْرٍ فَاجْتَمَعُوا وَقَالُوا: نُغِيرُ عَلَى تَمِيمٍ، فَإِنَّ فِي دِينِ ابْنِ عَبْدِ الْمُطَّلِبِ، يَعْنُونَ النَّبِيَّ، أَنَّ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا قُتِلَ بِهَا، فَنُغِيرُ هَذِهِ الْغَارَةَ ثُمَّ نُسْلِمُ عَلَيْهَا، فَارْتَحَلُوا مِنْ لَعْلَعَ بِالذَّرَارِيِّ وَالْأَمْوَالِ وَرَئِيسُهُمْ بِشْرُ بْنُ مَسْعُودِ بْنِ قَيْسِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ، فَأَتَوُا الشَّيِّطَيْنِ فِي أَرْبَعِ لَيَالٍ، وَالَّذِي بَيْنَهُمَا مَسِيرَةُ ثَمَانِي لَيَالٍ، فَسَبَقُوا كُلَّ خَبَرٍ حَتَّى صَبَّحُوهُمْ وَهُمْ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ فَقَاتَلُوهُمْ قِتَالًا شَدِيدًا وَصَبَرَتْ تَمِيمٌ ثُمَّ انْهَزَمَتْ، فَقَالَ رَشِيدُ بْنُ رُمَيْضٍ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ يَفْخَرُ بِذَلِكَ: وَمَا كَانَ بَيْنَ الشَّيِّطَيْنِ وَلَعْلَعٍ لِنِسْوَتِنَا إِلَّا مَنَاقِلُ أَرْبَعُ فَجِئْنَا بِجَمْعٍ لَمْ يَرَ النَّاسُ مِثْلَهُ يَكَادُ لَهُ ظَهْرُ الْوَرِيعَةِ يَظْلَعُ بِأَرْعَنَ دَهْمٍ تَنْسِلُ الْبُلْقُ وَسْطَهُ لَهُ عَارِضٌ فِيهِ الْمَنِيَّةُ تَلْمَعُ صَبَحْنَا بِهِ سَعْدًا وَعَمْرًا وَمَالِكًا فَظَلَّ لَهُمْ يَوْمٌ مِنَ الشَّرِّ أَشْنَعُ وَذَا حَسَبٍ مِنْ آلِ ضَبَّةَ غَادَرُوا بِجَرْيٍ كَمَا يَجْرِي الْفَصِيلُ الْمُفَزَّعُ تَقَصَّعُ يَرْبُوعٌ بِسُرَّةِ أَرْضِنَا وَلَيْسَ لِيَرْبُوعٍ بِهَا مُتَقَصَّعُ ثُمَّ إِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ كَتَبَ إِلَى بَكْرِ بْنِ وَائِلٍ عَلَى مَا بِأَيْدِيهِمْ. ( الشَّيِّطَانُ: بِالشِّينِ الْمُعْجَمَةِ، وَالْيَاءِ الْمُشَدَّدَةِ الْمُثَنَّاةِ مِنْ تَحْتِهَا، وَبِالطَّاءِ الْمُهْمَلَةِ، آخِرُهُ نُونٌ ).
Translation
✧ The Day of al-Shayyiṭayn Abū ʿUbaydah said: al-Shayṭān belonged to Bakr b. Wāʾil. When Islam appeared in Najd, Bakr marched toward the Sawād, while Muqāyis b. ʿAmr al-ʿĀʾidhī b. ʿĀʾidhah of Quraysh, an ally of Banū Shaybān, remained at al-Shayyiṭayn. When Bakr stayed in the Sawād, the epidemic and plague that occurred in the days of Kisrā Shīrawayh overtook them, so they returned fleeing and encamped at Laʿlaʿ, which was barren, while al-Shayyiṭān had become fertile. Tamīm then marched and encamped there. News of al-Shayyiṭayn reached Bakr, so they gathered and said: We shall raid Tamīm, for in the religion of Ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib—meaning the Prophet—whoever kills a soul is killed for it. So we shall make this raid and then embrace Islam after it. They departed from Laʿlaʿ with their womenfolk and wealth, their leader being Bishr b. Masʿūd b. Qays b. Khālid, and they reached al-Shayyiṭayn in four nights, though the distance between the two places is a journey of eight nights. They outpaced every report until they fell upon them at dawn while they were unaware. They fought a fierce battle, and Tamīm held firm, then were routed. Rashīd b. Rumayḍ al-ʿAnbarī said, boasting of that: Between al-Shayyiṭayn and Laʿlaʿ for our women there were only four stages' crossings. We came with a host the like of which people had not seen, whose back the mountain-pass of al-Warīʿah nearly buckles under; with a heavy, dark mass amid which the piebald horses glide, with a flank in which death gleams. At dawn we fell upon Saʿd, ʿAmr, and Mālik, and a day of evil most hideous remained for them. And one of noble stock from the people of Ḍabbah they left in a run like the run of a startled weaned camel. Yarbūʿ shrinks into the center of our land, but for Yarbūʿ there is no place to shrink. Then the Prophet ﷺ wrote to Bakr b. Wāʾil concerning what was in their hands. (al-Shayyiṭān: with unpointed sh, doubled yāʾ with two dots below, unpointed ṭ, and ending in nūn).
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