Sirat Ibn Hisham 1145
The battle cry of the Muslims on the day of the trench
[ شِعْرٌ لِأُسَامَةَ يَدُلُّ عَلَى أَنَّهُ قَاتِلُ سَعْدٍ يوم الخندق ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مَنْ لَا أَتَّهِمُ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: مَا أَصَابَ سَعْدًا يَوْمَئِذٍ إلَّا أَبُو أُسَامَةَ الجشمي، حَلِيفُ بَنِي مَخْزُومٍ. وَقَدْ قَالَ أَبُو أُسَامَةَ فِي ذَلِكَ شِعْرًا لِعِكْرِمَةَ بْنِ أَبِي جَهْلٍ: أَعِكْرِمُ هَلَّا لُمْتنِي إذْ تَقُولُ لِي فِدَاكَ بِآطَامِ الْمَدِينَةِ خَالِدُ أَلَسْتُ الَّذِي أَلْزَمْتُ سَعْدًا مُرِشَّةً لَهَا بَيْنَ أَثْنَاءِ الْمَرَافِقِ عَانِدُ قَضَى نَحْبَهُ مِنْهَا سَعِيدٌ فَأَعْوَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ مَعَ الشُّمْطِ الْعَذَارَى النَّوَاهِدُ وَأَنْتَ الَّذِي دَافَعْتَ عَنْهُ وَقَدْ دَعَا عُبَيْدَةُ جَمْعًا مِنْهُمْ إذْ يُكَابِدُ عَلَى حِينِ مَا هُمْ جَائِرٌ عَنْ طَرِيقِهِ وَآخَرُ مَرْعُوبٌ عَنْ الْقَصْدِ قَاصِدُ ( وَاَللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ أَيَّ ذَلِكَ كَانَ ). [ قَاتِلُ سَعْدٍ فِي رَأْيِ ابْنِ هَشَّامٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: إنَّ الَّذِي رَمَى سَعْدًا خَفَاجَةُ بْنُ عَاصِمِ بْنِ حِبَّانَ
Translation
✧ [Poetry by Usāmah indicating that he was the killer of Saʿd on the day of the trench] Ibn Isḥāq said: Someone I do not distrust related to me from ʿAbd Allāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik that he used to say: Nothing struck Saʿd on that day except Abū Usāmah al-Jushamī, the ally of Banū Makhzūm. Abū Usāmah said poetry about that to ʿIkrimah b. Abī Jahl: O ʿIkrimah, would you not have blamed me when you said to me, "Khālid is your ransom by the fortresses of Madinah"? Am I not the one who caused Saʿd to cling to a wound, with an arrow stuck between his elbow and upper arm? Saʿīd met his fate from it, and the young full-breasted maidens wept over him along with the gray-haired women. And you are the one who defended against him, while ʿUbaydah summoned a group of them, struggling so, at a time when they were deviating from his path, and another, terrified, turned away from the intended course. (And God knows best which of those it was.) [The killer of Saʿd in the opinion of Ibn Hishām] Ibn Hishām said: It is said that the one who shot Saʿd was Khafājah b. ʿĀṣim b. Ḥibbān.
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