Sirat Ibn Hisham 1408
What occurred between Quraysh and Banū Jadhīma of preparation for war and then reconciliation
[ شِعْرُ سَلْمَى فِيمَا بَيْنَ جَذِيمَةَ وَقُرَيْشٍ ] وَقَالَ قَائِلٌ مِنْ بَنِي جَذِيمَةَ، وَبَعْضُهُمْ يَقُولُ: امْرَأَةٌ يُقَالُ لَهَا سَلْمَى: وَلَوْلَا مَقَالُ الْقَوْمِ لِلْقَوْمِ أَسْلِمُوا لَلَاقَتْ سُلَيْمٌ يَوْمَ ذَلِكَ نَاطِحَا لَمَاصَعَهُمْ بُسْرٌ وَأَصْحَابُ جَحْدَمٍ وَمُرَّةُ حَتَّى يَتْرُكُوا الْبَرْكَ نَاضِحَا فَكَائِنْ تَرَى يَوْمَ الْغُمَيْصَاءِ مِنْ فَتًى أُصِيبَ وَلَمْ يَجْرَحْ وَقَدْ كَانَ جَارِحَا أَلَظَّتْ بِخُطَّابِ الْأَيَامَى وَطَلَّقَتْ غَدَاتَئِذٍ مِنْهُنَّ مَنْ كَانَ نَاكِحَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَوْلُهُ بُسْرٌ، وَأَلَظَّتْ بِخُطَّابِ عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ. [ شِعْرُ ابْنِ مِرْدَاسٍ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى سَلْمَى ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَأَجَابَهُ عَبَّاسُ بْنُ مِرْدَاسٍ، وَيُقَالُ بَلْ الْجَحَّافُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ السُّلَمِيُّ: دَعِي عَنْكِ تِقْوَالَ الضَّلَالِ كَفَى بِنَا لِكَبْشِ الْوَغَى فِي الْيَوْمِ وَالْأَمْسِ نَاطِحَا فَخَالِدُ أَوْلَى بِالتَّعَذُّرِ مِنْكُمْ غَدَاةَ عَلَا نَهْجًا مِنْ الْأَمْرِ وَاضِحَا مُعَانًا بِأَمْرِ اللَّهِ يُزْجِي إلَيْكُمْ سَوَانِحَ لَا تَكْبُو لَهُ وَبَوَارِحَا نَعَوْا مَالِكًا بِالسَّهْلِ لَمَّا هَبَطْنَهُ عَوَابِسَ فِي كَابِي الْغُبَارِ كَوَالِحَا فَإِنْ نَكُ أَثْكَلْنَاكِ سَلْمَى فَمَالِكٌ تَرَكْتُمْ عَلَيْهِ نَائِحَاتٍ وَنَائِحَا
Translation
✧ [Poem of Salmā concerning what was between Jadhīmah and Quraysh] A speaker from Banū Jadhīmah—and some of them say it was a woman called Salmā—said: Had it not been for the people’s saying to the people, “Submit,” Sulaym would have met on that day a butter. Busr and the companions of Jaḥdam and Murrah would have contended with them until they left the kneeling camels as water-carriers. How many you see on the day of al-Ghumayṣāʾ of a young man struck down though unwounded, when he had been a wounder. It clung to the suitors of the widows, and divorced on that morning those of them who had been married. Ibn Hishām said: His saying “Busr” and “it clung to the suitors” is from other than Ibn Isḥāq. [Poem of Ibn Mirdās in reply to Salmā] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAbbās b. Mirdās answered him—and it is said, rather al-Jaḥḥāf b. Ḥakīm al-Sulamī—: Leave off your talk of error; we have sufficed as a ram of battle, today and yesterday, a butter. Khālid is more entitled to the excuse than you, on the morning he mounted a clear path of the affair, Aided by God’s command, driving toward you auspicious birds that do not stumble for him, and ill-omened ones. They announced Mālik’s death on the plain when they descended it, frowning in the dust that dims, grim-faced. If we have bereaved you, Salmā, then Mālik— you left upon him wailing women and a wailing man.
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