Sirat Ibn Hisham 1069
What was revealed of the Qurʾān concerning the detachment of al-Rajīʿ
قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: قَالَ تَعَالَى: وَإِذَا تَوَلَّى أَيْ خَرَجَ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ سَعَى فِي الْأَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهْلِكَ الْحَرْثَ وَالنَّسْلَ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَسَادَ أَيْ لَا يُحِبُّ عَمَلَهُ وَلَا يَرْضَاهُ. وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُ اتَّقِ اللَّهَ أَخَذَتْهُ الْعِزَّةُ بِالْإِثْمِ فَحَسْبُهُ جَهَنَّمُ وَلَبِئْسَ الْمِهَادُ وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَشْرِي نَفْسَهُ ابْتِغَاءَ مَرْضَاةِ اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ رَءُوفٌ بِالْعِبَادِ أَيْ قَدْ شَرَوْا أَنْفُسَهُمْ مِنْ اللَّهِ بِالْجِهَادِ فِي سَبِيلِهِ، وَالْقِيَامِ بِحَقِّهِ، حَتَّى هَلَكُوا عَلَى ذَلِكَ، يَعْنِي تِلْكَ السَّرِيَّةَ. [ تَفْسِيرُ ابْنِ هِشَامٍ لِبَعْضِ الْغَرِيبِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: يَشْرِي نَفْسَهُ: يَبِيعُ نَفْسَهُ، وَشَرَوْا: بَاعُوا. قَالَ يَزِيدُ بْنُ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ مُفَرَّغٍ الْحِمْيَرِيُّ: وَشَرَيْتُ بُرْدًا لَيْتَنِي مِنْ بَعْدِ بُرْدٍ كُنْتُ هَامَهُ بُرْدٌ: غُلَامٌ لَهُ بَاعَهُ. وَهَذَا الْبَيْتُ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ. وَشَرَى أَيْضًا: اشْتَرَى. قَالَ الشَّاعِرُ فَقُلْتُ لَهَا لَا تَجْزَعِي أُمَّ مَالِكٍ عَلَى ابْنَيْكَ إنْ عَبْدٌ لَئِيمٌ شَرَاهُمَا
Translation
✧ Ibn Isḥāq said: He (God) Most High said: “And when he turns away — that is, when he leaves your presence — he hastens about the earth to corrupt it and to destroy crops and livestock; and God does not love corruption” — that is, He does not love his deed nor approve of it. “And when it is said to him, ‘Fear God,’ pride takes hold of him in sin; so Hell is enough for him — and what an evil resting-place. And among people there is one who sells his own soul seeking God’s good pleasure; and God is kind to His servants” — that is, they sold their own souls to God through striving in His path and upholding His truth, until they perished doing that, meaning that raiding party. [Ibn Hishām’s explanation of some of the rare words] Ibn Hishām said: “yashrī nafsahu”: he sells his own soul; “sharaw”: they sold. Yazīd b. Rabīʿa b. Mufarrigh al-Ḥimyarī said: “And I sold Burd — would that after Burd I had been a skull.” Burd: a slave of his whom he sold. This verse is in a poem of his. And “sharā” also means “he bought.” The poet said: “So I said to her, ‘Do not grieve, Umm Mālik, for your two sons, if a base slave bought them.’”
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