Sirat Ibn Hisham 1213
Kaʿb's poetry on the expedition of Banū Liḥyān
[ شِعْرُ كَعْبٍ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ ] وَالْحَدِيثُ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ، عَنْ عَاصِمِ بْنِ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ، وَعَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ؛ فَقَالَ كَعْبُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ فِي غَزْوَةِ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ: لَوْ أَنَّ بَنِي لِحْيَانَ كَانُوا تَنَاظَرُوا لَقُوا عُصَبًا فِي دَارِهِمْ ذَاتَ مَصْدَقِ لَقُوا سَرَعَانًا يَمْلَأُ السَّرْبَ رَوْعُهُ أَمَامَ طَحُونٍ كَالْمَجَرَّةِ فَيْلَقِ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا وِبَارًا تَتَبَّعَتْ شِعَابَ حِجَازٍ غَيْرِ ذِي مُتَنَفَّقِ
Translation
✧ [Poetry of Kaʿb on the expedition of Banū Liḥyān] And the account of the expedition of Banū Liḥyān is from ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah, and ʿAbd Allāh b. Abī Bakr, from ʿAbd Allāh b. Kaʿb b. Mālik. Kaʿb b. Mālik said concerning the expedition of Banū Liḥyān: If Banū Liḥyān had considered one another, they would have met bands in their abode, possessing strength; they would have met a swift force whose terror fills the valley, before a grinder like the Milky Way, a mighty host. But they were like hyraxes that followed the mountain paths of Ḥijāz, with no way of escape.
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