Sirat Ibn Hisham 1198
The Messenger's glad tidings to the Muslims of the expedition against Quraysh
[ شِعْرُ حَسَّانَ فِي بُكَاءِ ابْنِ مُعَاذٍ وَغَيْرِهِ ] وَقَالَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ أَيْضًا، يَبْكِي سَعْدَ بْنَ مُعَاذٍ، وَرِجَالًا مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ الشُّهَدَاءِ، وَيَذْكُرُهُمْ بِمَا كَانَ فِيهِمْ مِنْ الْخَيْرِ: أَلَا يَا لَقَوْمِي هَلْ لِمَا حُمَّ دَافِعُ وَهَلْ مَا مَضَى مِنْ صَالِحِ الْعَيْشِ رَاجِعُ تَذَكَّرْتُ عَصْرًا قَدْ مَضَى فَتَهَافَتَتْ بَنَاتُ الْحَشَى وَانْهَلَّ مِنِّي الْمَدَامِعُ صَبَابَةُ وَجْدٍ ذَكَّرَتْنِي أَحِبَّةً وَقَتْلَى مَضَى فِيهَا طُفَيْلٌ وَرَافِعُ وَسَعْدٌ فَأَضْحَوْا فِي الْجِنَانِ وَأَوْحَشَتْ مَنَازِلُهُمْ فَالْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ بَلَاقِعُ وَفَوْا يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ لِلرَّسُولِ وَفَوْقَهُمْ ظِلَالُ الْمَنَايَا وَالسُّيُوفُ اللَّوَامِعُ دَعَا فَأَجَابُوهُ بِحَقٍّ وَكُلُّهُمْ مُطِيعٌ لَهُ فِي كُلِّ أَمْرٍ وَسَامِعُ فَمَا نَكَلُوا حَتَّى تَوَلَّوْا جَمَاعَةً وَلَا يَقْطَعَ الْآجَالَ إلَّا الْمَصَارِعُ لِأَنَّهُمْ يَرْجُونَ مِنْهُ شَفَاعَةً إذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ إلَّا النَّبِيُّونَ شَافِعُ فَذَلِكَ يَا خَيْرَ الْعِبَادِ بَلَاؤُنَا إجَابَتُنَا لِلَّهِ وَالْمَوْتُ نَاقِعُ لَنَا الْقَدَمُ الْأُولَى إلَيْكَ وَخَلْفُنَا لِأَوَّلِنَا فِي مِلَّةِ اللَّهِ تَابِعُ وَنَعْلَمُ أَنَّ الْمُلْكَ لِلَّهِ وَحْدَهُ وَأَنَّ قَضَاءَ اللَّهِ لَا بُدَّ وَاقِعُ
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Ḥassān lamenting Ibn Muʿādh and others] Ḥassān b. Thābit also said, weeping for Saʿd b. Muʿādh and men of the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ among the martyrs, and mentioning them for the good that was in them: Alas, O my people, is there any repeller of what has been decreed, and is what has passed of righteous living returning? I remembered an age that has passed, and the daughters of the innards fell away, and tears poured from me. An ardent passion of longing reminded me of loved ones and slain ones among whom passed Ṭufayl and Rāfiʿ, and Saʿd, so they came to be in the gardens, and their dwellings became desolate, and the earth is barren of them. They were true on the day of Badr to the Messenger, while above them were the shadows of death and the gleaming swords. He called, and they answered him in truth, each of them obedient to him in every matter and attentive. They did not hold back until they turned away as a group, nor do fates cut short except the places of slaughter. Because they hope from him an intercession when there will be no intercessors except the prophets. So that, O best of servants, is our trial: our answer to God while death is raging. Ours is the first footstep toward you, and behind us our first is a follower in the religion of God. And we know that sovereignty belongs to God alone, and that God's decree must inevitably come to pass.
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