Sirat Ibn Hisham 1107
What was said in poetry about the Banū al-Naḍīr
[ شِعْرٌ لِكَعْبِ أَوْ ابْنِ رَوَاحَةَ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى ابْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ يوم بني النضير ] فَأَجَابَهُ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ، أَوْ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ رَوَاحَةَ، فِيمَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ، فَقَالَ. لَعَمْرِي لَقَدْ حَكَّتْ رَحَى الْحَرْبِ بَعْدَمَا أَطَارَتْ لُؤَيًّا قَبْلُ شَرْقًا وَمَغْرِبَا بَقِيَّةَ آلِ الْكَاهِنَيْنِ وَعِزَّهَا فَعَادَ ذَلِيلًا بَعْدَ مَا كَانَ أَغْلَبَا فَطَاحَ سَلَامٌ وَابْنُ سَعْيَةَ عَنْوَةً وَقِيدَ ذَلِيلًا لِلْمَنَايَا ابْنُ أَخْطَبَا وَأَجْلَبَ يَبْغِي الْعِزَّ وَالذُّلَّ يَبْتَغِي خِلَافَ يَدَيْهِ مَا جَنَى حِينَ أَجْلَبَا كَتَارِكِ سَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ وَالْحَزَنُ هَمَّهُ وَقَدْ كَانَ ذَا فِي النَّاسِ أَكْدَى وَأَصْعَبَا وَشَأْسٌ وعَزُّالٌ وَقَدْ صَلَيَا بِهَا وَمَا غُيِّبَا عَنْ ذَاكَ فِيمَنْ تَغَيَّبَا وَعَوْفُ بْنُ سَلْمَى وَابْنُ عَوْفٍ كِلَاهُمَا وَكَعْبٌ رَئِيسُ الْقَوْمِ حَانَ وَخُيِّبَا فَبُعْدًا وَسُحْقًا لِلنَّضِيرِ وَمِثْلِهَا إنْ أَعْقَبَ فَتْحٌ أَوْ إنْ اللَّهُ أَعْقَبَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَالَ أَبُو عَمْرٍو الْمَدَنِيُّ: ثُمَّ غَزَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَعْدَ بَنِي النَّضِيرِ بَنِي الْمُصْطَلِقِ. وَسَأَذْكُرُ حَدِيثَهُمْ إنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ فِي الْمَوْضِعِ الَّذِي ذَكَرَهُ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ فِيهِ
Translation
✧ [Poetry by Kaʿb or Ibn Rawāḥah in reply to Ibn Mirdās on the day of Banū al-Naḍīr] Kaʿb b. Mālik, or ʿAbd Allāh b. Rawāḥah, answered him, according to what Ibn Hishām said, saying: By my life, the mill of war ground after it had flung Luʾayy previously east and west— the remnant of the family of the two priests and its might, so it returned abased after having been victorious. Salām and Ibn Saʿyah perished by force, and Ibn Akhṭab was led abased to the fates. He raised a clamor seeking glory, while seeking humiliation— the opposite of what his hands earned when he raised the clamor. Like one who abandons the level ground while the rugged terrain is his concern, and that one was, among people, most barren and most difficult. Shaʾs and ʿAzzāl—they had been scorched by it, and they were not absent from that among those who were absent. ʿAwf b. Salmā and Ibn ʿAwf, both of them, and Kaʿb, chief of the people—his time came and he was disappointed. So far off and afar be al-Naḍīr and its like, whether a victory follows or God grants a successor. Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿAmr al-Madanī said: Then the Messenger of God ﷺ raided after Banū al-Naḍīr, Banū al-Muṣṭaliq. I shall mention their account, God willing, in the place where Ibn Isḥāq mentioned it.
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