Sirat Ibn Hisham 1362
The Messenger's grief for Jaʿfar and his instructions regarding his family
[ شِعْرُ قَيْسٍ فِي الِاعْتِذَارِ عَنْ تَقَهْقُرِ خَالِدٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدْ قَالَ فِيمَا كَانَ مِنْ أَمْرِ النَّاسِ وَأَمْرِ خَالِدٍ وَمُخَاشَاتِهِ بِالنَّاسِ وَانْصِرَافِهِ بِهِمْ، قَيْسُ بْنُ الْمُسَحَّرِ الْيَعْمَرِيُّ، يَعْتَذِرُ مِمَّا صَنَعَ يَوْمَئِذٍ وَصَنَعَ النَّاسُ فَوَاَللَّهِ لَا تَنْفَكُّ نَفْسِي تَلُومُنِي عَلَى مَوْقِفِي وَالْخَيْلُ قَابِعَةٌ قُبْلُ وَقَفْتُ بِهَا لَا مُسْتَجِيرًا فَنَافِذًا وَلَا مَانِعًا مَنْ كَانَ حُمَّ لَهُ الْقَتْلُ عَلَى أَنَّنِي آسَيْتُ نَفْسِي بِخَالِدِ أَلَا خَالِدٌ فِي الْقَوْمِ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِثْلُ وَجَاشَتْ إلَيَّ النَّفْسُ مِنْ نَحْوِ جَعْفَرٍ بِمُؤْتَةِ إذْ لَا يَنْفَعُ النَّابِلَ النَّبْلُ وَضَمَّ إلَيْنَا حَجْزَتَيْهِمْ كِلَيْهِمَا مُهَاجِرَةٌ لَا مُشْرِكُونَ وَلَا عُزْلُ فَبَيَّنَ قَيْسٌ مَا اخْتَلَفَ فِيهِ النَّاسُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ فِي شِعْرِهِ، أَنَّ الْقَوْمَ حَاجَزُوا وَكَرِهُوا الْمَوْتَ، وَحَقَّقَ انْحِيَازَ خَالِدٍ بِمَنْ مَعَهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: فَأَمَّا الزُّهْرِيُّ فَقَالَ فِيمَا بَلَغَنَا عَنْهُ: أَمَّرَ الْمُسْلِمُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ خَالِدَ بْنَ الْوَلِيدِ، فَفَتَحَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ، وَكَانَ عَلَيْهِمْ حَتَّى قَفَلَ إلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Qays in apology for the retreat of Khālid] Ibn Isḥāq said: Concerning what happened to the people and to Khālid, his extricating the people and his withdrawal with them, Qays b. al-Musaḥḥar al-Yaʿmarī said, apologizing for what he did that day and what the people did: By God, my soul will not cease to blame me for my stance, while the horses were gathered before me. I stood there, neither seeking protection nor passing through, nor preventing anyone for whom death had been decreed. Yet I consoled myself with Khālid—surely Khālid among the people has no equal. My soul surged toward Jaʿfar at Muʾtah, when the arrow no longer availed the archer. He drew to us the two sides of both of them—emigrants, not polytheists nor unarmed. Thus Qays clarified in his poetry what the people disagreed about in that matter: that the people held back and disliked death, and he affirmed Khālid's withdrawal with those who were with him. Ibn Hishām said: As for al-Zuhrī, he said in what has reached us from him: The Muslims appointed Khālid b. al-Walīd over themselves, and God granted them victory through him, and he remained over them until he returned to the Prophet ﷺ.
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