Sirat Ibn Hisham 1357
Jaʿfar's command and his death
[ إمَارَةُ جَعْفَرٍ وَمَقْتَلُهُ ] ثُمَّ أَخَذَهَا جَعْفَرٌ فَقَاتَلَ بِهَا، حَتَّى إذَا أَلْحَمَهُ الْقِتَالُ اقْتَحَمَ عَنْ فَرَسٍ لَهُ شَقْرَاءَ، فَعَقَرَهَا، ثُمَّ قَاتَلَ الْقَوْمَ حَتَّى قُتِلَ. فَكَانَ جَعْفَرٌ أَوَّلَ رَجُلٍ مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ عَقَرَ فِي الْإِسْلَامِ. وَحَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى بْنُ عَبَّادِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الزُّبَيْرِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَبَّادٍ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي الَّذِي أَرْضَعَنِي، وَكَانَ أَحَدَ بَنِي مُرَّةَ بْنِ عَوْفٍ، وَكَانَ فِي تِلْكَ الْغَزْوَةِ غَزْوَةِ مُؤْتَةَ قَالَ: وَاَللَّهِ لَكَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إلَى جَعْفَرٍ حِينَ اقْتَحَمَ عَنْ فَرَسٍ لَهُ شَقْرَاءَ ثُمَّ عَقَرَهَا ثُمَّ قَاتَلَ حَتَّى قُتِلَ وَهُوَ يَقُولُ: يَا حَبَّذَا الْجَنَّةُ وَاقْتِرَابُهَا طَيِّبَةً وَبَارِدًا شَرَابُهَا وَالرُّومُ رُومٌ قَدْ دَنَا عَذَابُهَا كَافِرَةٌ بَعِيدَةٌ أَنْسَابُهَا عَلَيَّ إذْ لَاقَيْتُهَا ضِرَابُهَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مَنْ أَثِقُ بِهِ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ: أَنَّ جَعْفَرَ بْنَ أَبِي طَالِبٍ أَخَذَ اللِّوَاءَ بِيَمِينِهِ فَقَطِعَتْ، فَأَخَذَهُ بِشِمَالِهِ فَقُطِعَتْ، فَاحْتَضَنَهُ بِعَضُدَيْهِ حَتَّى قُتِلَ ؓ وَهُوَ ابْنُ ثَلَاثٍ وَثَلَاثِينَ سَنَةً، فَأَثَابَهُ اللَّهُ بِذَلِكَ جَنَاحَيْنِ فِي الْجَنَّةِ يَطِيرُ بِهِمَا حَيْثُ شَاءَ. وَيُقَالُ: إنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ الرُّومِ ضَرَبَهُ يَوْمَئِذٍ ضَرْبَةً، فَقَطَعَهُ بِنِصْفَيْنِ
Translation
✧ [The command of Jaʿfar and his killing] Then Jaʿfar took it and fought with it, until when the fighting beset him, he leapt from a chestnut mare of his, hamstrung her, then fought the people until he was killed. Jaʿfar was the first man among the Muslims to hamstring a horse in Islam. Yaḥyā b. ʿAbbād b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Zubayr narrated to me, from his father ʿAbbād, who said: My father, who suckled me—he was one of the Banū Murrah b. ʿAwf and was in that expedition, the expedition of Muʾtah—narrated to me: By God, it is as if I am looking at Jaʿfar when he leapt from a chestnut mare of his, then hamstrung her, then fought until he was killed, while he was saying: O how excellent is the Garden and its approach, Goodly and cool is its drink, And the Romans, Romans whose punishment has drawn near, Disbelieving, with remote lineages, Upon me, when I meet them, is their striking. Ibn Hishām said: One I trust among the people of knowledge narrated to me that Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib took the standard with his right hand and it was cut off, so he took it with his left hand and it was cut off, then he clasped it with his upper arms until he was killed ؓ at the age of thirty-three years. For that, God rewarded him with two wings in the Garden with which he flies wherever he wishes. It is said that a man of the Romans struck him that day with a blow and cut him into two halves.
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