Sirat Ibn Hisham 1070
What was revealed of the Qurʾān concerning the detachment of al-Rajīʿ
[ شِعْرُ خُبَيْبٍ حِينَ أُرِيدَ صَلْبُهُ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَكَانَ مِمَّا قِيلَ فِي ذَلِكَ مِنْ الشِّعْرِ، قَوْلُ خُبَيْبِ بْنِ عَدِيٍّ، حِينَ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ الْقَوْمَ قَدْ اجْتَمَعُوا لِصَلْبِهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَبَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ يُنْكِرُهَا لَهُ. لَقَدْ جَمَّعَ الْأَحْزَابُ حَوْلِي وَأَلَّبُوا قَبَائِلَهُمْ وَاسْتَجْمَعُوا كُلَّ مَجْمَعِ وَكُلُّهُمْ مُبْدِي الْعَدَاوَةَ جَاهِدٌ عَلَيَّ لِأَنِّي فِي وِثَاقٍ بِمَصْيَعِ وَقَدْ جَمَّعُوا أَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَنِسَاءَهُمْ وَقُرِّبْتُ مِنْ جِذْعٍ طَوِيلٍ مُمَنَّعِ إلَى اللَّهِ أَشْكُو غُرْبَتِي ثُمَّ كُرْبَتِي وَمَا أَرْصَدَ الْأَحْزَابُ لِي عِنْدَ مَصْرَعِي فَذَا الْعَرْشِ، صَبِّرْنِي عَلَى مَا يُرَادُ بِي فَقَدْ بَضَّعُوا لَحْمِي وَقَدْ يَاسَ مَطْمَعِي وَذَلِكَ فِي ذَاتِ الْإِلَهِ وَإِنْ يَشَأْ يُبَارِكْ عَلَى أَوْصَالِ شِلْوٍ مُمَزَّعِ وَقَدْ خَيَّرُونِي الْكُفْرَ وَالْمَوْتُ دُونَهُ وَقَدْ هَمَلَتْ عَيْنَايَ مِنْ غَيْرِ مَجْزَعِ وَمَا بِي حِذَارُ الْمَوْتِ، إنِّي لَمَيِّتٌ وَلَكِنْ حِذَارِي جَحْمُ نَارٍ مُلَفَّعِ فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا أَرْجُو إذَا مِتُّ مُسْلِمًا عَلَى أَيِّ جَنْبٍ كَانَ فِي اللَّهِ مَصْرَعِي فَلَسْتُ بِمُبْدٍ لِلْعَدُوِّ تَخَشُّعًا وَلَا جَزَعًا إنِّي إلَى اللَّهِ مَرْجِعِي
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Khubayb when his crucifixion was intended] Ibn Isḥāq said: Among the poetry that was said about that is the saying of Khubayb b. ʿAdī, when it reached him that the people had gathered to crucify him. Ibn Hishām said: Some of the people of knowledge in poetry deny it is his. The confederate parties have gathered around me and incited their tribes, and assembled every gathering; Each of them shows enmity, striving against me, because I am in bonds in a narrow place. They have gathered their sons and their women, and I have been brought near to a tall, fortified trunk. To God I complain of my exile and then my distress, and of what the confederates have prepared for me at my falling-place. O Lord of the Throne, give me patience in what is intended for me; they have sliced my flesh, and my hope has despaired. And that is in the essence of God; and if He so wills, He will bless the joints of a torn body. They offered me unbelief, and death is without it; my two eyes have shed tears without any terror. I have no fear of death—I am one who must die—but my fear is the raging of a wrapping fire. By God, I do not hope, if I die a Muslim, on whichever side my falling-place may be in God. I will not show the enemy submissiveness or terror; to God is my return.
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