Sirat Ibn Hisham 1402
The number of Muslims who witnessed the conquest of Makkah
[ شِعْرُ ابْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ فِي فَتْحِ مَكَّةَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَقَالَ عَبَّاسُ بْنُ مِرْدَاسٍ السُّلَمِيُّ فِي فَتْحِ مَكَّةَ: مِنَّا بِمَكَّةَ يَوْمَ فَتْحِ مُحَمَّدٍ أَلْفٌ تَسِيلُ بِهِ الْبِطَاحُ مُسَوَّمُ نَصَرُوا الرَّسُولَ وَشَاهَدُوا أَيَّامَهُ وَشِعَارُهُمْ يَوْمَ اللِّقَاءِ مُقَدَّمُ فِي مَنْزِلٍ ثَبَتَتْ بِهِ أَقْدَامُهُمْ ضَنْكٍ كَأَنَّ الْهَامَ فِيهِ الْحَنْتَمُ جَرَّتْ سَنَابِكَهَا بِنَجْدٍ قَبْلَهَا حَتَّى اسْتَقَادَ لَهَا الْحِجَازُ الْأَدْهَمُ اللَّهُ مَكَّنَهُ لَهُ وَأَذَلَّهُ حُكْمُ السُّيُوفِ لَنَا وَجَدٌّ مِزْحَمُ عَوْدُ الرِّيَاسَةِ شَامِخٌ عِرْنِينُهُ مُتَطَلِّعٌ ثُغَرَ الْمَكَارِمِ خِضْرِمُ إسْلَامُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ [ سَبَبُ إِسْلَامِ ابْنِ مَرْدَاسٍ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَكَانَ إسْلَامُ عَبَّاسِ بْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ، فِيمَا حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ، وَحَدِيثُهُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ لِأَبِيهِ مِرْدَاسٍ وَثَنٌ يَعْبُدُهُ، وَهُوَ حَجَرٌ كَانَ يُقَالُ لَهُ ضِمَارِ، فَلَمَّا حَضَرَ مِرْدَاسٌ قَالَ لِعَبَّاسِ: أَيْ بُنَيَّ، اُعْبُدْ ضِمَارِ فَإِنَّهُ يَنْفَعُكَ وَيَضُرُّكَ، فَبَيْنَا عَبَّاسٌ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ ضِمَارِ، إذْ سَمِعَ مِنْ جَوْفِ ضِمَارِ مُنَادِيًا يَقُولُ: قُلْ لِلْقَبَائِلِ مِنْ سُلَيْمٍ كُلِّهَا أَوْدَى ضِمَارِ وَعَاشَ أَهْلُ الْمَسْجِدِ إنَّ الَّذِي وَرِثَ النُّبُوَّةَ وَالْهُدَى بَعْدَ ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ مُهْتَدِي أَوْدَى ضِمَارِ وَكَانَ يُعْبَدُ مَرَّةً قَبْلَ الْكِتَابِ إلَى النَّبِيِّ مُحَمَّدِ فَحَرَّقَ عَبَّاسٌ ضِمَارِ، وَلَحِقَ بِالنَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَأَسْلَمَ
Translation
✧ [Poem of Ibn Mirdās on the Conquest of Makkah] Ibn Hishām said: ʿAbbās b. Mirdās al-Sulamī said concerning the conquest of Makkah: From us at Makkah on the day of Muḥammad’s conquest a thousand marked, through whom the wide watercourses flow. They aided the Messenger and witnessed his days, and their battle-cry on the day of meeting was “Forward!” In a station where their feet stood firm, a narrow place, as though skulls in it were dark clay jars. Their hoofs had dragged in Najd before it, until the black Ḥijāz became led in submission to her. God established it for him and humbled it; the judgment of the swords is ours, and a pressing good fortune. A return to leadership, lofty its bridge of the nose, looking toward the mountain-passes of noble qualities, a great chieftain. The Islam of ʿAbbās b. Mirdās [The reason for Ibn Mirdās’s Islam] Ibn Hishām said: The Islam of ʿAbbās b. Mirdās, as one of the scholars of poetry related to me, took place as follows: His father Mirdās had an idol that he worshipped, a stone called Ḍimār. When Mirdās was dying, he said to ʿAbbās: “My dear son, worship Ḍimār, for he will benefit you and harm you.” While ʿAbbās was one day at Ḍimār, he heard from inside Ḍimār a caller saying: Say to the tribes of Sulaym, all of them: Ḍimār has perished, while the people of the mosque live on. The one who inherited prophethood and guidance after the son of Maryam, from Quraysh, is rightly guided. Ḍimār has perished, and he used to be worshipped once, before the Book came to the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ. So ʿAbbās burned Ḍimār and joined the Prophet ﷺ and became a Muslim.
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