Sirat Ibn Hisham 1369
The fighting between Bakr and Khuzāʿa
[ شِعْرُ تَمِيمٍ فِي الِاعْتِذَارِ مِنْ فِرَارِهِ عَنْ مُنَبِّهٍ ] لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ بَنِي نُفَاثَةَ أَقْبَلُوا يَغْشَوْنَ كُلَّ وَتِيرَةٍ وَحِجَابِ صَخْرًا وَرَزْنًا لَا عَرِيبَ سِوَاهُمْ يُزْجُونَ كُلَّ مُقَلَّصٍ خَنَّابِ وَذَكَرْتُ ذَحْلًا عِنْدَنَا مُتَقَادِمًا فِيمَا مَضَى مِنْ سَالِفِ الْأَحْقَابِ ونَشَيْتُ رِيحَ الْمَوْتِ مِنْ تِلْقَائِهِمْ وَرَهِبْتُ وَقْعَ مُهَنَّدٍ قَضَّابِ وَعَرَفْتُ أَنْ مَنْ يَثْقَفُوهُ يَتْرُكُوا لَحْمًا لِمُجْرِيَةٍ وَشِلْوَ غُرَابِ قَوَّمْتُ رِجْلًا لَا أَخَافُ عِثَارَهَا وَطَرَحْتُ بِالْمَتْنِ الْعَرَاءِ ثِيَابِي وَنَجَوْتُ لَا يَنْجُو نَجَائِي أحْقَبٌ عِلْجٌ أَقَبُّ مُشَمِّرُ الْأَقْرَابِ تَلْحَى وَلَوْ شَهِدَتْ لَكَانَ نَكِيرُهَا بَوْلًا يَبُلُّ مَشَافِرَ الْقَبْقَابِ الْقَوْمُ أَعْلَمُ مَا تَرَكْتُ مُنَبِّهًا عَنْ طِيبِ نَفْسٍ فَاسْأَلِي أَصْحَابِي قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَتُرْوَى لِحَبِيبِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( الْأَعْلَمِ ) الْهُذَلِيِّ وَبَيْتُهُ وَذَكَرْتُ ذَحْلًا عِنْدَنَا مُتَقَادِمًا عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، وَقَوْلُهُ خَنَّابِ وَ أَقَبُّ مُشَمِّرُ الْأَقْرَابِ عَنْهُ أَيْضًا
Translation
✧ Poem of Tamīm in apology for his flight from Munabbih When I saw the Banū Nufāthah advancing, overwhelming every rugged ridge and screen, Ṣakhr and Razn—no stranger among them—they urged on every lean, snorting steed, and I recalled an ancient blood-debt we held, from times long past in bygone ages, I scented the wind of death from their direction and dreaded the blow of a sharp, cutting sword. I knew that whomever they catch, they would leave as flesh for a swift-running beast and a corpse for a crow. So I steadied a foot whose stumbling I fear not, and cast my garments upon the bare desert plateau. And I escaped—no escape like mine, not one made by a sturdy, lean, hardened brute, girt up in the loins. She blamed me; had she been present, her denial would have been as urine wetting the lips of a wooden clapper. The people know best that I did not leave Munabbih with an easy soul; so ask my companions. Ibn Hishām said: It is also related as being by Ḥabīb b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Aʿlam al-Hudhalī, and his verse “And I recalled an ancient blood-debt we held” is from Abū ʿUbaydah, and his saying “snorting” and “a sturdy, lean, hardened brute, girt up in the loins” is also from him.
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