Sirat Ibn Hisham 1186
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
[ شِعْرُ ابْنِ الزِّبَعْرَى ] قَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ الزِّبَعْرَى السَّهْمِيُّ، فِي يَوْمِ الْخَنْدَقِ: حَتَّى الدِّيَارَ مَحَا مَعَارِفَ رَسْمِهَا طُولُ الْبِلَى وَتَرَاوُحُ الْأَحْقَابِ كَأَنَّمَا كَتَبَ الْيَهُودُ رُسُومَهَا إلَّا الْكَنِيفَ وَمَعْقِدَ الْأَطْنَابِ قَفْرًا كَأَنَّكَ لَمْ تَكُنْ تَلْهُو بِهَا فِي نِعْمَةٍ بِأَوَانِسٍ أَتْرَابِ فَاتْرُكْ تَذَكُّرَ مَا مَضَى مِنْ عِيشَةٍ وَمَحِلَّةٍ خَلْقِ الْمَقَامِ يَبَابِ وَاذْكُرْ بَلَاءَ مَعَاشِرٍ وَاشْكُرْهُمْ سَارُوا بِأَجْمَعِهِمْ مِنْ الْأَنْصَابِ أَنْصَابِ مَكَّةَ عَامِدِينَ لِيَثْرِبِ فِي ذِي غَيَاطِلَ جَحْفَلٍ جَبْجَابِ يَدَعُ الْحُزُونَ مَنَاهِجًا مَعْلُومَةً فِي كُلِّ نَشْرٍ ظَاهِرٍ وَشِعَابِ فِيهَا الْجِيَادُ شَوَازِبٌ مَجْنُوبَةٌ قُبُّ الْبُطُونِ لَوَاحِقُ الْأَقْرَابِ مِنْ كُلِّ سَلْهَبَةٍ وَأَجْرَدَ سَلْهَبٍ كَالسِّيدِ بَادَرَ غَفْلَةَ الرُّقَّابِ جَيْشُ عُيَيْنَةَ قَاصِدٌ بِلِوَائِهِ فِيهِ وَصَخْرٌ قَائِدُ الْأَحْزَابِ قَرْمَانُ كَالْبَدْرَيْنِ أَصْبَحَ فِيهِمَا غَيْثُ الْفَقِيرِ وَمَعْقِلُ الْهُرَّابِ حَتَّى إذَا وَرَدُوا الْمَدِينَةَ وَارْتَدَوْا لِلْمَوْتِ كُلَّ مُجَرَّبٍ قَضَّابِ شَهْرًا وَعَشْرًا قَاهِرِينَ مُحَمَّدًا وَصِحَابُهُ فِي الْحَرْبِ خَيْرُ صِحَابِ نَادَوْا بِرِحْلَتِهِمْ صَبِيحَةَ قُلْتُمْ كِدْنَا نَكُونُ بِهَا مَعَ الْخُيَّابِ لَوْلَا الْخَنَادِقَ غَادَرُوا مِنْ جَمْعِهِمْ قَتْلَى لِطَيْرٍ سُغَّبٍ وَذِئَابِ
Translation
✧ [The poem of Ibn al-Zibaʿrā] ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zibaʿrā al-Sahmī said, concerning the Day of the Trench: Until the abodes—the long passage of ages and the alternation of years effaced the traces of their marks— as though the Jews had written their outlines, except the privy and the place where the tent-ropes were tied, empty, as though you had never sported there in comfort with maidens of equal age. So leave off remembering what is past of life and of a dwelling whose standing-place is worn and desolate. And remember the trial of the companies and thank them: they marched with all their forces from the standing-stones— the standing-stones of Makkah—heading for Yathrib, in a host with tangled thickets, a vast army, leaving the rugged grounds as well-known roads in every spreading plain and mountain-pass. In it were swift horses, lean and led aside, tucked-up of bellies, with flanks close-ribbed, from every long-bodied mare and every bare, long-bodied stallion, like the wolf that hastens at the heedlessness of the watchers. The army of ʿUyaynah, aiming with his standard in it, and Ṣakhr, the leader of the confederates— two masters, like the two full moons; in them there came to be the succor of the poor and the refuge of the fugitives— until, when they reached Madinah and donned for death every tried, sharp-cutting warrior, for a month and ten days, overpowering Muḥammad, while his companions were the best of companions in war. They called out for their departure on the morning when you said: “We almost were among the disappointed there.” Had it not been for the trenches, they would have left from their gathered host slain men for hungry fledgling birds and wolves.
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