Tarikh (al-Tabari) 690
The reports of the Jewish rabbis, Christian monks, and soothsayers and their glad tidings of the sending of the Beloved of the Most Merciful ﷺ
[ الْغَيْطَلَةُ وَمَا حَدَّثَتْ بِهِ بَنِي سَهْمٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ: إنَّ امْرَأَةً مِنْ بَنِي سَهْمٍ، يُقَالُ لَهَا الْغَيْطَلَةُ، كَانَتْ كَاهِنَةً فِي الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ، جَاءَهَا صَاحِبُهَا لَيْلَةً مِنْ اللَّيَالِي، فَانْقَضَّ تَحْتَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: أَدْرِ مَا أَدْرِ. يَوْمَ عَقْرٍ وَنَحْرٍ؛ فَقَالَتْ قُرَيْشٌ حَيْنَ بَلَغَهَا ذَلِكَ: مَا يُرِيدُ ؟ ثُمَّ جَاءَهَا لَيْلَةً أُخْرَى، فَانْقَضَّ تَحْتَهَا، ثُمَّ قَالَ: شُعُوبُ مَا شُعُوبٌ، تُصْرَعُ فِيهِ كَعْبٌ لَجُوبُ. فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ ذَلِكَ قُرَيْشًا. قَالُوا: مَاذَا يُرِيدُ، إنَّ هَذَا لِأَمْرٍ هُوَ كَائِنٌ، فَانْظُرُوا مَا هُوَ ؟ فَمَا عَرَفُوهُ حَتَّى كَانَتْ وَقْعَةُ بَدْرٍ وَأُحُدٍ بِالشِّعْبِ، فَعَرَفُوا أَنَّهُ الَّذِي كَانَ جَاءَ بِهِ إلَى صَاحِبَتِهِ. [ نَسَبُ الْغَيْطَلَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الْغَيْطَلَةُ: مِنْ بَنِي مُرَّةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ كِنَانَةَ، إخْوَةِ مُدْلِجِ بْنِ مُرَّةَ، وَهِيَ أُمُّ الْغَيَاطِلِ الَّذِينَ ذَكَرَ أَبُو طَالِبٍ فِي قَوْلِهِ: : لَقَدْ سَفُهَتْ أَحْلَامُ قَوْمٍ تَبَدَّلُوا بَنِي خَلَفٍ قَيْضًا بِنَا وَالْغَيَاطِلِ فَقِيلَ لِوَلَدِهَا: الْغَيَاطِلُ؛ وَهُمْ مِنْ بَنِي سَهْمِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ هُصَيْصٍ.
Translation
✧ [ Al-Ghayṭalah and what she related to Banū Sahm ] Ibn Isḥāq said: Some of the people of knowledge related to me that a woman of Banū Sahm called al-Ghayṭalah was a soothsayer in the Jāhiliyyah. Her familiar spirit came to her one night and swooped down beneath her, then said: “Perceive what you perceive. A day of hamstringing and slaughter.” So Quraysh said when that reached them: “What does he mean?” Then he came to her another night and swooped down beneath her, then said: “Shuʿūb, what a Shuʿūb! In it Kaʿb Lajūb will be cast down.” When that reached Quraysh, they said: “What does he mean? This is surely something that will come to pass. Consider what it might be.” They did not know what it was until the battle of Badr and Uḥud took place at the mountain pass, and then they knew that it was what he had brought to his companion. [ The lineage of al-Ghayṭalah ] Ibn Hishām said: Al-Ghayṭalah was of Banū Murrah b. ʿAbd Manāt b. Kinānah, the brothers of Mudlij b. Murrah. She is the mother of the Ghayāṭil whom Abū Ṭālib mentioned in his saying: : “The minds of a people who exchanged Banū Khalaf for us and the Ghayāṭil have surely become foolish.” Thus her offspring were called al-Ghayāṭil; they are of Banū Sahm b. ʿAmr b. Huṣayṣ.
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