Sirat Ibn Hisham 1192
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
[ شِعْرُ مُسَافِعٍ فِي بُكَاءِ عَمْرٍو يوم الخندق ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ مُسَافِعُ بْنُ عَبْدِ مَنَافِ بْنِ وَهْبِ بْنِ حُذَافَةَ بْنِ جُمَحٍ، يَبْكِي عَمْرَو بْنَ عَبْدِ وُدٍّ، وَيَذْكُرُ قَتْلَ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَبِي طَالِبٍ إيَّاهُ: عَمْرُو بْنُ عَبْدٍ كَانَ أَوَّلَ فَارِسٍ جَزَعَ الْمَذَادَ وَكَانَ فَارِسَ يَلْيَلِ سَمْحُ الْخَلَائِقِ مَاجِدٌ ذُو مِرَّةٍ يَبْغِي الْقِتَالَ بِشِكَّةِ لَمْ يَنْكُلْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمْتُمْ حِينَ وَلَّوْا عَنْكُمْ أَنَّ ابْنَ عَبْدٍ فِيهِمْ لَمْ يَعْجَلْ حَتَّى تَكَنَّفَهُ الْكُمَاةُ وَكُلُّهُمْ يَبْغِي مَقَاتِلَهُ وَلَيْسَ بِمُؤْتَلِي وَلَقَدْ تَكَنَّفَتْ الْأَسِنَّةُ فَارِسًا بِجُنُوبِ سَلْعٍ غَيْرَ نَكْسٍ أَمْيَلِ تَسَلُ النِّزَالَ عَلَيَّ فَارِسَ غَالِبٍ بِجُنُوبِ سَلْعٍ، لَيْتَهُ لَمْ يَنْزِلْ فَاذْهَبْ عَلَيَّ فَمَا ظَفِرْتُ بِمِثْلِهِ فَخْرًا وَلَا لَاقَيْتَ مِثْلَ الْمُعْضِلِ نَفْسِي الْفِدَاءُ لِفَارِسٍ مِنْ غَالِبٍ لَاقَى حِمَامَ الْمَوْتِ لَمْ يَتَحَلْحَلْ أَعْنِي الَّذِي جَزَعَ الْمَذَادَ بِمُهْرِهِ طَلَبًا لِثَأْرِ مَعَاشِرٍ لَمْ يُخْذَلْ
Translation
✧ [Poem of Musāfiʿ lamenting ʿAmr on the Day of the Trench] Ibn Isḥāq said: Musāfiʿ b. ʿAbd Manāf b. Wahb b. Ḥudhāfah b. Jumaḥ said, lamenting ʿAmr b. ʿAbd Wudd and mentioning ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib's killing of him: ʿAmr b. ʿAbd was the first horseman to cross al-Madhād, and he was the horseman of Yalyal, generous in character, glorious, possessed of strength. He sought battle with full armour and did not hold back. You knew, when they turned away from you, that Ibn ʿAbd among them did not hasten, until the warriors surrounded him, each of them seeking to kill him, and he was not remiss. The spear-points surrounded a horseman on the slopes of Salʿ, not one who was cowardly or inclining to retreat. He challenged me to combat, the horseman of Ghālib, on the slopes of Salʿ — would that he had not dismounted. Go, ʿAlī, for I have not triumphed over his like in glory, nor have I met the like of this dilemma. May my soul be ransom for a horseman of Ghālib who met the fate of death and did not shift. I mean the one who crossed al-Madhād with his colt, seeking vengeance for clans who were not forsaken.
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