Sirat Ibn Hisham 1194
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
[ شِعْرُ هُبَيْرَةَ فِي بُكَاءِ عَمْرٍو وَالِاعْتِذَارُ مِنْ فِرَارِهِ يوم الخندق ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ هُبَيْرَةُ بْنُ أَبِي وَهْبٍ يَعْتَذِرُ مِنْ فِرَارِهِ، وَيَبْكِي عَمْرًا، وَيَذْكُرُ قَتْلَ عَلِيٍّ إيَّاهُ: لَعَمْرِي مَا وَلَّيْتُ ظَهْرِي مُحَمَّدًا وَأَصْحَابَهُ جُبْنًا وَلَا خِيفَةَ الْقَتْلِ وَلَكِنَّنِي قَلَّبْتُ أَمْرِي فَلَمْ أَجِدْ لِسَيْفِي غَنَاءً إنْ ضَرَبْتُ وَلَا نَبْلِي وَقَفْتُ فَلَمَّا لَمْ أَجِدْ لِي مُقَدَّمًا صَدَدْتُ كَضِرْغَامِ هِزَبْرٍ أَبِي شَبْلِ ثَنَى عِطْفِهِ عَنْ قِرْنِهِ حِينَ لَمْ يَجِدْ مَكَرًّا وَقِدْمًا كَانَ ذَلِكَ مِنْ فِعْلِي فَلَا تَبْعُدْنَ يَا عَمْرُو حَيًّا وَهَالِكًا وَحُقَّ لِحُسْنِ الْمَدْحِ مِثْلُكَ مِنْ مِثْلِي وَلَا تَبْعَدَنْ يَا عَمْرُو حَيًّا وَهَالِكًا فَقَدْ بِنْتَ مَحْمُودَ الثَّنَا مَاجِدَ الْأَصْلِ فَمَنْ لِطِرَادِ الْخَيْلِ تُقْدَعُ بِالْقَنَا وَلِلْفَخْرِ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ قَرْقَرَةَ الْبَزْلِ هُنَالِكَ لَوْ كَانَ ابْنُ عَبْدٍ لَزَارَهَا وَفَرَّجَهَا حَقًّا فَتًى غَيْرُ مَا وَغْلِ فَعَنْكَ عَلَيَّ لَا أَرَى مِثْلَ مَوْقِفٍ وَقَفْتُ عَلَى نَجْدِ الْمُقَدَّمِ كَالْفَحْلِ فَمَا ظَفِرَتْ كَفَّاكَ فَخْرًا بِمِثْلِهِ أَمِنْتُ بِهِ مَا عِشْتُ مِنْ زَلَّةِ النَّعْلِ
Translation
✧ [Poem of Hubayrah in weeping for ʿAmr and apologizing for his flight on the day of the Trench] Ibn Isḥāq said: Hubayrah b. Abī Wahb said, apologizing for his flight, weeping for ʿAmr, and mentioning ʿAlī's killing of him: By my life, I did not turn my back to Muḥammad and his companions out of cowardice or fear of being killed, But I turned over my affair and found no avail for my sword if I struck, nor for my arrows. I stood firm, and when I found no place to advance, I turned aside like a mighty lion, father of cubs, Who turned his flank from his adversary when he found no way to attack; and that was of old my wont. So do not perish, O ʿAmr, living or dead; for the like of you deserves fine praise from the like of me. And do not perish, O ʿAmr, living or dead; you have passed away, praiseworthy in report, glorious in origin. Who is there now for the charging of horses, driven back by spears, and for boasting on a day at the grumbling of the noble camels? There, had Ibn ʿAbd been present, he would have visited it and truly relieved it—a young man not one who intrudes uninvited. So away with you! I shall not see the like of a stance in which you stood on the high ground of the foremost, like a stallion. Your two hands did not attain glory by the like of it, by which I was made secure, as long as I live, from the slipping of the sandal.
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