Sirat Ibn Hisham 1354
The people's fear of meeting Heraclius and b. Rawāḥa's poetry encouraging them
[ تَخَوُّفُ النَّاسِ مِنْ لِقَاءِ هِرَقْلَ وَشِعْرُ ابْنِ رَوَاحَةَ يُشَجِّعُهُمْ ] ثُمَّ مَضَوْا حَتَّى نَزَلُوا مَعَانَ، مِنْ أَرْضِ الشَّامِ، فَبَلَغَ النَّاسَ أَنَّ هِرَقْلَ قَدْ نَزَلَ مَآبَ، مِنْ أَرْضِ الْبَلْقَاءِ، فِي مِئَةِ أَلْفٍ مِنْ الرُّومِ، وَانْضَمَّ إلَيْهِمْ مِنْ لَخْمٍ وَجُذَامٍ وَالْقَيْنِ وَبَهْرَاءَ وَبَلِي مِئَةُ أَلْفٍ مِنْهُمْ، عَلَيْهِمْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَلِيٍّ ثُمَّ أَحَدُ إرَاشَةَ، يُقَالُ لَهُ: مَالِكُ بْنُ زَافِلَةَ. فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ ذَلِكَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ أَقَامُوا عَلَى مَعَانَ لَيْلَتَيْنِ يُفَكِّرُونَ فِي أَمْرِهِمْ وَقَالُوا: نَكْتُبُ إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَنُخْبِرُهُ بِعَدَدِ عَدُوِّنَا، فَإِمَّا أَنْ يُمِدَّنَا بِالرِّجَالِ، وَإِمَّا أَنْ يَأْمُرَنَا بِأَمْرِهِ، فَنَمْضِيَ لَهُ
Translation
✧ [The people's fear of encountering Heraclius, and Ibn Rawāḥah's poetry encouraging them] Then they went on until they halted at Maʿān, in the land of Syria. The people learned that Heraclius had halted at Maʾāb, in the land of al-Balqāʾ, with a hundred thousand of the Byzantines, and there joined them from Lakhm, Judhām, al-Qayn, Bahrāʾ, and Balī a hundred thousand of their number, led by a man of Balī, then one of Irāshah, called Mālik b. Zāfilah. When that reached the Muslims, they stayed at Maʿān for two nights, pondering their situation, and said: "We shall write to the Messenger of God ﷺ and inform him of the number of our enemy, so that either he may reinforce us with men, or he may command us with his order, and we shall carry it out."
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