Sirat Ibn Hisham 1229
Shaddād's poetry for ʿUyaynah
[ شِعْرُ شَدَّادٍ لِعُيَيْنَةَ في غزوة ذات قرد ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ شَدَّادُ بْنُ عَارِضٍ الْجُشَمِيُّ، فِي يَوْمِ ذِي قَرَدٍ: لِعُيَيْنَةَ بْنِ حِصْنٍ، وَكَانَ عُيَيْنَةُ بْنُ حِصْنٍ يُكَنَّى بِأَبِي مَالِكٍ: فَهَلَّا كَرَرْتَ أَبَا مَالِكٍ وَخَيْلُكَ مُدْبِرَةٌ تُقْتَلُ ذَكَرْتَ الْإِيَابَ إلَى عَسْجَرٍ وَهَيْهَاتَ قَدْ بَعُدَ الْمُقْفَلُ وَطَمَّنْتَ نَفْسَكَ ذَا مَيْعَةَ مِسَحِّ الْفَضَاءِ إذَا يُرْسَلُ إذَا قَبَّضَتْهُ إلَيْكَ الشَّمَا لُ جَاشَ كَمَا اضْطَرَمَ الْمِرْجَلُ فَلَمَّا عَرَفْتُمْ عِبَادَ الْإِلَهِ لَمْ يَنْظُرْ الْآخَرَ الْأَوَّلَ عَرَفْتُمْ فَوَارِسَ قَدْ عُوِّدُوا طِرَادَ الْكُمَاةِ إذَا أَسْهَلُوا إذَا طَرَدُوا الْخَيْلَ تَشْقَى بِهِمْ فِضَاحًا وَإِنْ يُطْرَدُوا يَنْزِلُوا فَيَعْتَصِمُوا فِي سَوَاءِ اُلْمُقَا مِ بِالْبِيضِ أَخْلَصَهَا الصَّيْقَلُ
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Shaddād to ʿUyaynah in the expedition of Dhū Qarad] Ibn Isḥāq said: Shaddād b. ʿĀriḍ al-Jushamī said, on the day of Dhū Qarad, to ʿUyaynah b. Ḥiṣn, and ʿUyaynah b. Ḥiṣn was given the kunyah Abū Mālik: So why did you not turn back, Abū Mālik, while your horses were in retreat, being killed? You mentioned returning to ʿAsjar, but far away—the return journey has become distant. You reassured yourself with one of quick spirit, a swift runner of the open spaces when he is let loose. When the north wind grasped him toward you, he surged like a cooking pot that has flared up. And when you recognized the servants of God, the first did not wait for the last. You recognized horsemen who had been trained in pursuing warriors when they went down to the plain. When they drive the horses, they suffer with them in open ground, but if they are driven back, they dismount, And they seek refuge in the midst of the battlefield with white swords, which the polisher has made pure.
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