Sirat Ibn Hisham 1105
What was said in poetry about the Banū al-Naḍīr
[ شِعْرُ خَوَّاتٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى ابْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ يوم بني النضير ] فَأَجَابَهُ خَوَّاتُ بْنُ جُبَيْرٍ، أَخُو بَنِي عَمْرِو بْنِ عَوْفٍ، فَقَالَ: تُبَكِّي عَلَى قَتْلَى يَهُودَ وَقَدْ تَرَى مِنْ الشَّجْوِ لَوْ تَبْكِي أَحَبَّ وَأَقْرَبَا فَهَلَّا عَلَى قَتْلَى بِبَطْنِ أُرَيْنِقٍ بَكَيْتَ وَلَمْ تُعْوِلْ مِنْ الشَّجْوِ مُسْهِبَا إذَا السِّلْمُ دَارَتْ فِي صَدِيقٍ رَدَدْتَهَا وَفِي الدِّينِ صَدَّادًا وَفِي الْحَرْبِ ثَعْلَبَا عَمَدْتَ إلَى قَدْرٍ لِقَوْمِكَ تَبْتَغِي لَهُمْ شَبَهًا كَيْمَا تَعِزَّ وَتَغْلِبَا فَإِنَّكَ لَمَّا أَنْ كَلِفْتَ تَمَدُّحًا لِمَنْ كَانَ عَيْبًا مَدْحُهُ وَتَكَذُّبَا رَحَلْتَ بِأَمْرٍ كُنْتَ أَهْلًا لِمِثْلِهِ وَلَمْ تُلْفِ فِيهِمْ قَائِلًا لَكَ مَرْحَبَا فَهَلَّا إلَى قَوْمٍ مُلُوكٍ مَدَحْتَهُمْ تَبَنَّوْا مِنْ الْعَزِّ الْمُؤَثَّلِ مَنْصِبَا إلَى مَعْشَرٍ صَارُوا مُلُوكًا وَكُرِّمُوا وَلَمْ يُلْفَ فِيهِمْ طَالِبُ الْعُرْفِ مُجْدِبَا أُولَئِكَ أَحْرَى مِنْ يَهُودَ بِمِدْحَةٍ تَرَاهُمْ وَفِيهِمْ عِزَّةُ الْمَجْدِ تُرْتُبَا
Translation
✧ Khawwāt b. Jubayr, brother of the Banū ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, answered him, saying: You weep over the slain of the Jews, though you see that if you were to weep out of grief, one more beloved and closer [would be worthier]. Would that you had wept over the slain at the bottom of Urayniq, and not wailed excessively out of grief. When the bucket of peace goes round among a friend, you push it back; in religion you are an avoider, and in war a fox. You set out to a pot of your people, seeking for them a resemblance, so that you might be mighty and prevail. When you undertook to praise one whose praise is a fault, and to lie, you departed with a matter of which you were worthy, and you did not find among them anyone to say to you, 'Welcome.' Would that you had praised a people who are kings, who built for themselves from ancient glory a rank – a band who became kings and were honored, and among whom no seeker of kindness is found disappointed. Those are worthier than the Jews of praise; you see them, and in them the might of glory is established.
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