Sirat Ibn Hisham 1371
The fighting between Bakr and Khuzāʿa
[ شِعْرُ بُدَيْلٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى الْأَخْزَرِ ] فَأَجَابَهُ بُدَيْلُ بْنُ عَبْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْأَجَبِّ، وَكَانَ يُقَالُ لَهُ: بُدَيْلُ بْنُ أُمِّ أَصْرَمَ، فَقَالَ: تَفَاقَدَ قَوْمٌ يَفْخَرُونَ وَلَمْ نَدَعْ لَهُمْ سَيِّدًا يَنْدُوهُمُ غَيْرَ نَافِلِ أَمِنْ خِيفَةِ الْقَوْمِ الْأُلَى تَزْدَرِيهِمْ تُجِيزُ الْوَتِيرَ خَائِفًا غَيْرَ آئِلِ وَفِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ نَحْنُ نَحْبُو حِبَاءَنَا لِعَقْلٍ وَلَا يُحْبَى لَنَا فِي الْمَعَاقِلِ وَنَحْنُ صَبَحْنَا بِالتَّلَاعَةِ دَارَكُمْ بِأَسْيَافِنَا يَسْبِقْنَ لَوْمَ الْعَوَاذِلِ وَنَحْنُ مَنَعْنَا بَيْنَ بَيْضٍ وَعِتْوَدٍ إلَى خَيْفِ رَضْوَى مِنْ مِجَرِّ الْقَنَابِلِ وَيَوْمَ الْغَمِيمِ قَدْ تَكَفَّتَ سَاعِيًا عُبَيْسٌ فَجَعْنَاهُ بِجَلْدٍ حُلَاحِلِ أَأَنْ أَجْمَرَتْ فِي بَيْتِهَا أُمُّ بَعْضِكُمْ بِجُعْمُوسِهَا تَنْزُونَ أَنْ لَمْ نُقَاتِلْ كَذَبْتُمْ وَبَيْتِ اللَّهِ مَا إنْ قَتَلْتُمْ وَلَكِنْ تَرَكْنَا أَمْرَكُمْ فِي بَلَابِلِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَوْلُهُ غَيْرَ نَافِلِ، وَقَوْلُهُ إلَى خَيْفِ رَضْوَى عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ
Translation
✧ [POEM OF BUDAYL IN REPLY TO AL-AKHZAR] Budayl b. ʿAbd Manāh b. Salama b. ʿAmr b. al-Ajabb, who was called Budayl b. Umm Aṣram, replied to him, saying: A people have sought one another out, boasting, but we have not left them a chief to summon them other than a supernumerary. Is it from fear of the folk whom they despise that you cross al-Watīr in fear, not returning? And every day we bestow our gift upon ʿAql, but no gift is given to us among the strongholds. We, at al-Talāʿa, came upon your abode in the morning with our swords, outstripping the blame of blamers. We defended the tract between Bayḍ and ʿItwad as far as Khayf Raḍwā from the dragging of the heavy troops. And on the day of al-Ghamīm, ʿUbays ran crouching, and we stretched him out with a stout, sturdy skin. Is it because the mother of some of you burned in her tent with her dung that you leap about, saying we did not fight? You have lied, by the House of God; you did not kill, but we left your affair in confusion. Ibn Hishām said: His words 'other than a supernumerary' and his words 'as far as Khayf Raḍwā' are not from Ibn Isḥāq.
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