Sirat Ibn Hisham 1189
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ فِي يَوْمِ الْخَنْدَقِ: مَنْ سَرَّهُ ضَرْبٌ يُمَعْمِعُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا كَمَعْمَعَةِ الْأَبَاءِ الْمُحْرَقِ فَلْيَأْتِ مَأْسَدَةً تُسَنُّ سُيُوفُهَا بَيْنَ الْمَذَادِ وَبَيْنَ جَزْعِ الْخَنْدَقِ دَرِبُوا بِضَرْبِ الْمُعْلِمِينَ وَأَسْلَمُوا مُهُجَاتِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ لِرَبِّ الْمَشْرِقِ فِي عُصْبَةٍ نَصَرَ الْإِلَهُ نَبِيَّهُ بِهِمْ وَكَانَ بِعَبْدِهِ ذَا مَرْفِقِ فِي كُلِّ سَابِغَةٍ تَخُطُّ فُضُولُهَا كَالنَّهْيِ هَبَّتْ رِيحُهُ الْمُتَرَقْرِقِ بَيْضَاءُ مُحْكِمَةٌ كَأَنَّ قَتِيرَهَا حَدَقُ الْجَنَادِبِ ذَاتُ شَكٍّ مُوثَقِ جَدْلَاءُ يَحْفِزُهَا نِجَادُ مُهَنَّدٍ صَافِي الْحَدِيدَةِ صَارِمٌ ذِي رَوْنَقِ تِلْكُمْ مَعَ التَّقْوَى تَكُونُ لِبَاسَنَا يَوْمَ الْهِيَاجِ وَكُلَّ سَاعَةِ مَصْدَقِ نَصِلُ السُّيُوفَ إذَا قَصُرْنَ بِخَطْوِنَا قُدُمًا وَنُلْحِقُهَا إذَا لَمْ تَلْحَقْ فَتَرَى الْجَمَاجِمَ ضَاحِيًا هَامَاتُهَا بَلْهَ الْأَكُفَّ كَأَنَّهَا لَمْ تُخْلَقْ نَلْقَى الْعَدُوَّ بِفَخْمَةٍ مَلْمُومَةٍ تَنْفِي الْجُمُوعَ كَفَصْدِ رَأْسِ الْمَشْرِقِ وَنُعِدُّ لِلْأَعْدَاءِ كُلَّ مُقَلَّصٍ وَرْدٍ وَمَحْجُولِ الْقَوَائِمِ أَبْلَقِ تُرْدِى بِفُرْسَانٍ كَأَنَّ كُمَاتَهُمْ عِنْدَ الْهِيَاجِ أُسُودُ طَلٍّ مُلْثِقِ صُدَقٌ يُعَاطُونَ الْكُمَاةَ حُتُوفَهُمْ تَحْتَ الْعِمَايَةِ بِالْوَشِيجِ الْمُزْهِقِ أَمَرَ الْإِلَهُ بِرَبْطِهَا لِعَدُوِّهِ فِي الْحَرْبِ إنَّ اللَّهَ خَيْرُ مُوَفِّقِ لِتَكُونَ غَيْظًا لِلْعَدُوِّ وَحُيَّطَا لِلدَّارِ إنْ دَلَفَتْ خُيُولُ النُّزَّقِ وَيُعِينُنَا اللَّهُ الْعَزِيزُ بِقُوَّةٍ مِنْهُ وَصِدْقِ الصَّبْرِ سَاعَةَ نَلْتَقِي وَنُطِيعُ أَمْرَ نَبِيِّنَا وَنُجِيبُهُ وَإِذَا دَعَا لِكَرِيهَةٍ لَمْ نُسْبَقْ وَمَتَى يُنَادِ إلَى الشَّدَائِدِ نَأْتِهَا وَمَتَى نَرَ الْحَوْمَاتِ فِيهَا نُعْنِقْ مَنْ يَتَّبِعْ قَوْلَ النَّبِيِّ فَإِنَّهُ فِينَا مُطَاعُ الْأَمْرِ حَقُّ مُصَدَّقِ فَبِذَاكَ يَنْصُرنَا وَيُظْهِرُ عِزَّنَا وَيُصِيبُنَا مِنْ نَيْلِ ذَاكَ بِمِرْفَقِ إنَّ الَّذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ مُحَمَّدًا كَفَرُوا وَضَلُّوا عَنْ سَبِيلِ الْمُتَقِّي قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ أَنْشَدَنِي بَيْتَهُ: تِلْكُمْ مَعَ التَّقْوَى تَكُونُ لِبَاسَنَا وَبَيْتَهُ: مَنْ يَتَّبِعْ قَوْلَ النَّبِيِّ أَبُو زَيْدٍ. وَأَنْشَدَنِي: تَنْفِي الْجُمُوعَ كَرَأْسِ قُدْسِ الْمَشْرِقِ
Translation
✧ Ibn Isḥāq said: Kaʿb b. Mālik said on the Day of the Trench: Whoever delights in a smiting that makes some of it seethe upon others like the seething of burning spiny broom, let him come to a den of lions where swords are whetted between al-Madhād and the edge of the trench. They trained in smiting renowned warriors and gave up the blood of their own souls to the Lord of the East, in a band by whom God aided His prophet, for He is full of kindness to His servant. In every ample coat of mail whose flowing folds trace lines like a stream when its rippling wind stirs, white, well-wrought, whose mail rings are as the eyes of locusts, tightly riveted and firm; a polished one which the baldric of an Indian sword urges on, clear of blade, keen, of lustre. That, along with godfearing, is our raiment on the day of the fray and every hour of truth. We join the swords to our steps when they fall short, advancing, and make them follow when they do not catch up. Then you see the skulls with their crowns laid bare, to say nothing of the hands, as though they had never been created. We meet the enemy with a massed throng that drives off the hosts like the bloodletting of the head of the East. And we prepare for the enemies every high-spirited steed, tawny, and white-stockinged, piebald, which charges with horsemen whose champions at the hour of the fray are lions of dripping dew; true men who exchange with the champions their dooms beneath the blinding dust with piercing reeds. God commanded the tethering of them against His enemy in war; surely God is the best granter of success, that they might be a rage for the enemy and a hedge for the abode when the horses of the rash advance. And God the Mighty aids us with strength from Him and with truth of endurance at the hour we meet. We obey the command of our prophet and answer him; and when he calls to a thing disliked, we are not outstripped. And whenever he summons to hardships, we come to them; and whenever we see the hot melee, we press on in it. Whoever follows the word of the prophet, he is among us one whose command is obeyed, truly believed. By that He grants us victory and makes our might prevail, and brings us from the attainment of that a full share. Those who call Muḥammad a liar have disbelieved and gone astray from the path of the godfearing. Ibn Hishām said: Abū Zayd recited to me his line: 'That, along with godfearing, is our raiment' and his line: 'Whoever follows the word of the prophet.' And he recited to me: 'drives off the hosts like the head of the sanctified East.'
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