Sirat Ibn Hisham 1026
Account of the poetry recited on the day of Uḥud
ذِكْرُ مَا قِيلَ مِنْ الشِّعْرِ يَوْمَ أُحُدٍ [ شِعْرُ هُبَيْرَةَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِمَّا قِيلَ مِنْ الشِّعْرِ فِي يَوْمِ أُحُدٍ، قَوْلُ هُبَيْرَةَ بْنِ أَبِي وَهْبِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَائِذِ بْنِ عَبْدِ بْنِ عِمْرَانَ بْنِ مَخْزُومٍ - قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: عَائِذٌ: ابْنُ عِمْرَانَ بْنُ مَخْزُومٍ: مَا بَالُ هَمٍّ عَمِيدٍ بَاتَ يَطْرُقنِي بِالْوُدِّ مِنْ هِنْدَ إذْ تَعْدُو عَوَادِيهَا بَاتَتْ تُعَاتِبنِي هِنْدٌ وَتَعْذُلُنِي وَالْحَرْبُ قَدْ شُغِلَتْ عَنِّي مَوَالِيهَا مَهْلًا فَلَا تَعْذُلِينِي إنَّ مِنْ خُلُقِي مَا قَدْ عَلِمْتِ وَمَا إنْ لَسْتُ أُخْفِيهَا مُسَاعِفٌ لِبَنِي كَعْبٍ بِمَا كَلِفُوا حَمَّالُ عِبْءٍ وَأَثْقَالٌ أُعَانِيهَا وَقَدْ حَمَلْتُ سِلَاحِي فَوْقَ مُشْتَرَفٍ سَاطٍ سَبُوحٍ إذَا تَجْرِي يُبَارِيهَا كَأَنَّهُ إذْ جَرَى عَيْرٌ بِفَدْفَدَةٍ مُكَدَّمٌ لَاحِقٌ بِالْعُونِ يَحْمِيهَا مِنْ آلِ أَعْوَجَ يَرْتَاحُ النَّدِيُّ لَهُ كَجِذْعِ شَعْرَاءَ مُسْتَعْلٍ مَرَاقِيهَا أَعْدَدْتُهُ وَرِقَاقَ الْحَدِّ مُنْتَخَلًا وَمَارِنًا لِخُطُوبٍ قَدْ أُلَاقِيهَا هَذَا وَبَيْضَاءَ مِثْلَ النِّهْيِ مُحْكَمَةٌ نِيطَتْ عَلَيَّ فَمَا تَبْدُو مَسَاوِيهَا سُقْنَا كِنَانَةَ مِنْ أَطْرَافِ ذِي يَمَنٍ عُرْضُ الْبِلَادِ عَلَى مَا كَانَ يُزْجِيهَا قَالَتْ كِنَانَةُ: أنَّي تَذْهَبُونَ بِنَا ؟ قُلْنَا: النُّخَيْلُ، فَأَمُّوهَا وَمَنْ فِيهَا نَحْنُ الْفَوَارِسُ يَوْمَ الْجَرِّ مِنْ أُحُدٍ هَابَتْ مَعَدٌّ فَقُلْنَا نَحْنُ نَأْتِيهَا هَابُوا ضِرَابًا وَطَعْنًا صَادِقًا خَذِمًا مِمَّا يَرَوْنَ وَقَدْ ضُمَّتْ قَوَاصِيهَا ثُمَّتَ رُحْنَا كَأَنَّا عَارِضٌ بَرِدٌ وَقَامَ هَامُ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ يَبْكِيهَا كَأَنَّ هَامَهُمْ عِنْدَ الْوَغَى فِلَقٌ مِنْ قَيْضِ رُبْدٍ نَفَتْهُ عَنْ أَدَاحِيهَا أَوْ حَنْظَلُ ذَعْذَعَتْهُ الرِّيحُ فِي غُصُنٍ بَالٍ تَعَاوَرَهُ مِنْهَا سَوَافِيهَا قَدْ نَبْذُلُ الْمَالَ سَحًّا لَا حِسَابَ لَهُ وَنَطْعَنُ الْخَيْلَ شَزْرًا فِي مَآقِيُهَا وَلَيْلَةٍ يَصْطَلِي بِالْفَرْثِ جَازِرُهَا يَخْتَصُّ بِالنَّقَرَى الْمُثَرِينَ دَاعِيهَا وَلَيْلَةٍ مِنْ جُمَادَى ذَاتِ أَنْدِيَةٍ جَرْبَا جُمَادِيَّةٍ قَدْ بِتُّ أَسْرِيهَا لَا يَنْبَحُ الْكَلْبُ فِيهَا غَيْرَ وَاحِدَةٍ مِنْ الْقَرِيسِ وَلَا تَسْرَى أَفَاعِيهَا أَوْقَدْتُ فِيهَا لِذِي الضَّرَّاءِ جَاحِمَةً كَالْبَرْقِ ذَاكِيَةَ الْأَرْكَانِ أَحْمِيهَا أَوْرَثَنِي ذَاكُمْ عَمْروٌ وَوَالِدُهُ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ كَانَ بِالْمَثْنَى يُغَالِيهَا كَانُوا يُبَارُونَ أَنْوَاءَ النُّجُومِ فَمَا دَنَّتْ عَنْ السَّوْرَةِ الْعُلْيَا مَسَاعِيهَا
Translation
✧ Mention of the poetry composed on the day of Uḥud [Poetry of Hubayrah]. Ibn Isḥāq said: Among the poetry composed on the day of Uḥud was the verse of Hubayrah b. Abī Wahb b. ʿAmr b. ʿĀʾidh b. ʿAbd b. ʿImrān b. Makhzūm. Ibn Hishām said: ʿĀʾidh: son of ʿImrān b. Makhzūm: What is the matter with a grievous care that comes to me at night, with love for Hind as her misfortunes rush on? Hind spent the night reproaching me and blaming me, while war has distracted me from its masters. Gently! Do not blame me, for among my character is what you know, and I am not one to hide it: A helper to the Banū Kaʿb in what they undertake, a bearer of burdens and heavy loads I shoulder. And I have carried my weapons upon a towering, long-striding, swift horse; when it runs, it races with them. As if, when it gallops, it were a wild ass on hard ground, bitten, overtaking the mature females, protecting them, of the stock of Aʿwaj; the assembly rises for him, like the trunk of a hairy palm tree, lofty its climbing-steps. I prepared it, and thin, sharp-edged, well-chosen swords, and pliant spears for the calamities I shall meet. This, and a white coat of mail like a pool, firmly made, fastened upon me, so that its flaws do not appear. We drove Kinānah from the borders of Dhū Yaman across the breadth of the land, as it was driven on. Kinānah said: 'Where are you taking us?' We said: 'Al-Nukhayl, so make for it and whoever is in it.' We are the horsemen on the day of the charge at Uḥud; Maʿadd feared it, but we said: 'We will come to it.' They feared striking and true, sharp thrusting from what they saw, when its extremes were joined. Then we departed as if we were a cold cloud, and the skulls of the Banū al-Najjār rose lamenting them. As if their skulls in battle were fragments of speckled eggshells, which the wind had blown from their nests, or colocynth shaken by the wind on a worn branch, which the gales had buffeted from it. We pour out wealth lavishly, without reckoning, and we thrust the horses obliquely in the corners of their eyes. And a night when the slaughterer warms himself by the paunch, its caller invites the wealthy to the choice morsel. And a night of Jumādā with heavy rains, raw and cold; I passed it travelling by night. No dog barks in it except once, from the intense cold, and no snakes crawl. I kindled in it for the one in distress a great fire, like lightning, blazing in its pillars; I guarded it. That legacy was left to me by ʿAmr, and his father before him used to vie for it with double stakes. They used to compete with the rains of the stars, and my efforts never fell short of the highest peak.
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