Sirat Ibn Hisham 1188
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
[ شِعْرُ كَعْبٍ يوم الخندق ] وَأَجَابَهُ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ أَيْضًا، فَقَالَ: أَبْقَى لَنَا حَدَثُ الْحُرُوبِ بَقِيَّةً مِنْ خَيْرِ نِحْلَةِ رَبِّنَا الْوَهَّابِ بَيْضَاءَ مُشْرِفَةَ الذُّرَى وَمَعَاطِنًا حُمُّ الْجُذُوعِ غَزِيرَةُ الْأَحْلَابِ كَاللُّوبِ يُبْذَلُ جَمُّهَا وَحَفِيلُهَا لِلْجَارِ وَابْنِ الْعَمِّ وَالْمُنْتَابِ وَنَزَائِعًا مِثْلَ السَّرَاحِ نَمَى بِهَا عَلَفُ الشَّعِيرِ وَجِزَّةُ الْمِقْضَابِ عَرِيَ الشَّوَى مِنْهَا وَأَرْدَفَ نَحْضَهَا جُرْدُ الْمُتُونِ وَسَائِرُ الْآرَابِ قُودًا تَرَاحُ إلَى الصِّيَاحِ إذْ غَدَتْ فِعْلَ الضِّرَاءِ تَرَاحُ لِلْكَلَّابِ وَتَحُوطُ سَائِمَةَ الدِّيَارِ وَتَارَةً تُرْدِي الْعِدَا وَتَئُوبُ بِالْأَسْلَابِ حُوشُ الْوُحُوشِ مُطَارَةٌ عِنْدَ الْوَغَى عُبْسُ اللِّقَاءِ مُبِينَةُ الْإِنْجَابِ عُلِفَتْ عَلَى دَعَةٍ فَصَارَتْ بُدَّنًا دُخْسَ الْبَضِيعِ خَفِيفَةَ الْأَقْصَابِ يَغْدُونَ بِالزَّغْفِ الْمُضَاعَفِ شَكَّةً وَبِمُتْرَصَاتِ فِي الثِّقَافِ صِيَابِ وَصَوَارِمٌ نَزَعَ الصَّيَاقِلَ غُلْبَهَا وَبِكُلِّ أَرْوَعَ مَاجِدْ الْأَنْسَابِ يَصِلُ الْيَمِينَ بِمَارِنٍ مُتَقَارِبٍ وُكِلَتْ وَقِيعَتُهُ إلَى خَبَّابِ وَأَغَرَّ أَزْرَقَ فِي الْقَنَاةِ كَأَنَّهُ فِي طُخْيَةِ الظَّلْمَاءِ ضَوْءُ شِهَابِ وَكَتِيبَةٍ يَنْفِي الْقِرَانَ قَتِيرُهَا وَتَرُدُّ حَدَّ قَوَاحِذِ النُّشَّابِ جَأْوَى مُلَمْلَمَةً كَأَنَّ رِمَاحَهَا فِي كُلِّ مَجْمَعَةٍ ضَرِيمَةُ غَابِ يَأْوِي إلَى ظِلِّ اللِّوَاءِ كَأَنَّهُ فِي صَعْدَةِ الْخَطِّيِّ فَيْءُ عُقَّابِ أَعْيَتْ أَبَا كَرْبٍ وَأَعْيَتْ تُبَّعًا وَأَبَتْ بَسَالَتُهَا عَلَى الْأَعْرَابِ وَمَوَاعِظٌ مِنْ رَبِّنَا نُهْدَى بِهَا بِلِسَانِ أَزْهَرَ طَيِّبِ الْأَثْوَابِ عُرِضَتْ عَلَيْنَا فَاشْتَهَيْنَا ذِكْرَهَا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا عُرِضَتْ عَلَى الْأَحْزَابِ حِكَمًا يَرَاهَا الْمُجْرِمُونَ بِزَعْمِهِمْ حَرَجًا وَيَفْهَمُهَا ذَوُو الْأَلْبَابِ جَاءَتْ سَخِينَةُ كَيْ تُغَالِبَ رَبَّهَا فَلَيُغْلَبَنَّ مُغَالِبُ الْغَلَّابِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ أَثِقُ بِهِ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ يَحْيَى بْنِ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، قَالَ: لَمَّا قَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ: جَاءَتْ سَخِينَةُ كَيْ تُغَالِبَ رَبَّهَا فَلَيُغْلَبَنَّ مُغَالِبُ الْغَلَّابِ قَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: لَقَدْ شَكَرَكَ اللَّهُ يَا كَعْبُ عَلَى قَوْلِكَ هَذَا
Translation
✧ [Kaʿb's poetry on the day of the Trench] And Kaʿb b. Mālik also answered him, saying: There remained to us from the event of the wars a remnant of the best gift of our Lord, the Bestower: A white [she-camel] with lofty hump and resting-places, trunk-dark, copious in milk, like the lūb [kind of tree], whose abundance and full udder are offered to the neighbor, the cousin, and the visitor; And led horses like the sirāḥ [kind of bird], fostered by barley-fodder and the shearing of the miqḍāb [a plant], naked in the shawā [slender parts], their flesh rounded out, with smooth backs and all limbs; Led in file, they return at the call, when they go forth like beasts of prey returning to the hunter; They guard the grazing cattle of the abodes, and at times they cast down the enemy and come back with spoils; Wild of the wild beasts, swift at the battle, fierce in encounter, manifest in noble breed; Fed in ease, they have become stout, fat in the flanks, light in the loins; They go forth in doubled mail as armor, and in close-fitting [coats] in the polishing, stout; And in sharp swords whose notches the polishers removed, and with every noble one, glorious in lineage; He joins the right hand with a straight spear to whose edge the swift charger is entrusted; And a bright, blue [blade] in the spear-shaft, as if, in the darkness of the night, it were the light of a shooting star; And a squadron whose mail repels the javelin and turns back the edge of the piercing arrows; Crowded and compact, as if their spears in every gathering were the fire of a thicket; He takes refuge in the shade of the banner, as if, on the Khattī spear-shaft, he were the shadow of an eagle. They wearied Abū Karb and wearied Tubbaʿ, and their valor refused [to yield] to the Arabs; And admonitions from our Lord, by which we are guided, through the tongue of a radiant one, pure of garments; They were presented to us, and we desired their mention after they had been presented to the confederates; Wisdoms which the sinners, in their claim, see as a straitness, and which those of understanding comprehend. Sakhīnah came to contend with her Lord— so the contender with the Overcomer shall surely be overcome. Ibn Hishām said: One whom I trust related to me, saying: ʿAbd al-Malik b. Yaḥyā b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr related to me, saying: When Kaʿb b. Mālik said: 'Sakhīnah came to contend with her Lord—so the contender with the Overcomer shall surely be overcome,' the Messenger of God ﷺ said to him: 'God has indeed thanked you, O Kaʿb, for this saying of yours.'
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