Sirat Ibn Hisham 1150
The creeping of discord among the polytheists
[ مُنَادَاةُ أَبَى سُفْيَانَ فِيهِمْ بِالرَّحِيلِ يوم الخندق ] ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ: يَا مَعْشَرَ قُرَيْشٍ، إنَّكُمْ وَاَللَّهِ مَا أَصْبَحْتُمْ بِدَارِ مُقَامٍ، لَقَدْ هَلَكَ الْكُرَاعُ وَالْخُفُّ، وَأَخْلَفَتْنَا بَنُو قُرَيْظَةَ، وَبَلَغَنَا عَنْهُمْ الَّذِي نَكْرَهُ، وَلَقِينَا مِنْ شِدَّةِ الرِّيحِ مَا تَرَوْنَ، مَا تَطْمَئِنُّ لَنَا قِدْرٌ، وَلَا تَقُومُ لَنَا نَارٌ، وَلَا يَسْتَمْسِكُ لَنَا بِنَاءٌ، فَارْتَحِلُوا فَإِنِّي مُرْتَحِلٌ؛ ثُمَّ قَامَ إلَى جَمَلِهِ وَهُوَ مَعْقُولٌ، فَجَلَسَ عَلَيْهِ، ثُمَّ ضَرَبَهُ، فَوَثَبَ بِهِ عَلَى ثَلَاثٍ، فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا أَطْلَقَ عِقَالَهُ إلَّا وَهُوَ قَائِمٌ، وَلَوْلَا عَهْدُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ إلَيَّ أَنْ لَا تُحْدِثَ شَيْئًا حَتَّى تَأْتِيَنِي، ثُمَّ شِئْتُ، لَقَتَلْتُهُ بِسَهْمِ
Translation
✧ [Abū Sufyān calling out among them to depart on the day of al-Khandaq] Then Abū Sufyān said: “O company of Quraysh, by God, you have not awakened in an abode of staying. The horses and camels have perished, the Banū Qurayẓah have broken with us, and there has reached us from them that which we dislike. We have met from the violence of the wind what you see: no cooking pot settles for us, no fire stays lit for us, and no structure holds firm for us. So depart, for I am departing.” Then he rose to his camel, which was hobbled, and sat upon it, then struck it, and it sprang up with him on three legs. By God, he did not loosen its hobble until it was standing. Had it not been for the pact of the Messenger of God ﷺ to me that I should not do anything until you come to me, then had I wished, I would have killed him with an arrow.
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