Sirat Ibn Hisham 141
The Word Bakkah Linguistically
[ بَكَّةُ لُغَةً ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: أَنَّ بَكَّةَ اسْمٌ لِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ، لِأَنَّهُمْ يَتَبَاكَوْنَ فِيهَا، أَيْ يَزْدَحِمُونَ. وَأَنْشَدَنِي:: إذَا الشَّرِيبُ أَخَذَتْهُ أَكَّهُ فَخَلِّهِ حَتَّى يَبُكَّ بَكَّهُ أَيْ فَدَعْهُ حَتَّى يَبُكَّ إبِلَهُ: أَيْ يُخَلِّيهَا إلَى الْمَاءِ فَتَزْدَحِمُ عَلَيْهِ. وَهُوَ مَوْضِعُ الْبَيْتِ وَالْمَسْجِدِ. وَهَذَانِ الْبَيْتَانِ لِعَامَانَ بْنِ كَعْبِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ سَعْدِ بْنِ زَيْدِ مَنَاةَ بْنِ تَمِيمٍ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَخَرَجَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ بْنِ مُضَاضٍ الْجُرْهُمِيُّ بِغَزَالِيِّ الْكَعْبَةِ وَبِحَجَرِ الرُّكْنِ، فَدَفَنَهَا فِي زَمْزَمَ، وَانْطَلَقَ هُوَ وَمَنْ مَعَهُ مِنْ جُرْهُمٍ إلَى الْيَمَنِ، فَحَزِنُوا عَلَى مَا فَارَقُوا مِنْ أَمْرِ مَكَّةَ وَمُلْكِهَا حُزْنًا شَدِيدًا. فَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ ( بْنِ عَمْرِو ) بْنِ مُضَاضٍ فِي ذَلِكَ، وَلَيْسَ بِمُضَاضٍ الْأَكْبَرِ:: وَقَائِلَةٍ وَالدَّمْعُ سَكْبٌ مُبَادِرُ وَقَدْ شَرِقَتْ بِالدَّمْعِ مِنْهَا الْمَحَاجِرُ كَأَنَّ لَمْ يَكُنْ بَيْنَ الْحَجُونِ إلَى الصَّفَا أَنِيسٌ وَلَمْ يَسْمُرْ بِمَكَّةَ سَامِرُ فَقُلْتُ لَهَا وَالْقَلْبُ مِنِّي كَأَنَّمَا يُلَجْلِجُهُ بَيْنَ الْجَنَاحَيْنِ طَائِرُ بَلَى نَحْنُ كُنَّا أَهْلَهَا، فَأَزَالَنَا صُرُوفُ اللَّيَالِي وَالْجُدُودِ الْعَوَاثِرِ وَكُنَّا وُلَاةَ الْبَيْتِ مِنْ بَعْدِ نَابِتٍ نَطُوفُ بِذَاكَ الْبَيْتِ وَالْخَيْرُ ظَاهِرُ وَنَحْنُ وَلِينَا الْبَيْتَ مِنْ بَعْدِ نَابِتٍ بِعَزٍّ فَمَا يَحْظَى لَدَيْنَا الْمُكَاثِرُ مَلَكْنَا فَعَزَّزْنَا فَأَعْظِمْ بِمُلْكِنَا فَلَيْسَ لِحَيِّ غَيْرِنَا ثَمَّ فَاخِرُ أَلَمْ تُنْكِحُوا مِنْ خَيْرِ شَخْصٍ عَلِمْتُهُ فَأَبْنَاؤُهُ مِنَّا وَنَحْنُ الْأَصَاهِرُ فَإِنْ تَنْثَنِ الدُّنْيَا عَلَيْنَا بِحَالِهَا فَإِنَّ لَهَا حَالًا وَفِيهَا التَّشَاجُرُ فَأَخْرَجَنَا مِنْهَا الْمَلِيكُ بِقُدْرَةٍ كَذَلِكَ يَا لِلنَّاسِ تَجْرِي الْمَقَادِرُ أَقُولُ إذَا نَامَ الْخَلِيُّ وَلَمْ أَنَمْ أَذَا الْعَرْشِ: لَا يَبْعُدُ سُهَيْلٌ وَعَامِرٌ وَبُدِّلْتُ مِنْهَا أَوْجُهًا لَا أُحِبُّهَا قَبَائِلُ مِنْهَا حِمْيَرُ وَيُحَابِرُ وَصِرْنَا أَحَادِيثَا وَكُنَّا بِغِبْطَةٍ بِذَلِكَ عَضَّتْنَا السِّنُونَ الْغَوَابِرُ فَسَحَّتَ دُمُوعُ الْعَيْنِ تَبْكِي لِبَلْدَةٍ بِهَا حَرَمٌ أَمْنٌ وَفِيهَا الْمَشَاعِرُ وَتَبْكِي لِبَيْتٍ لَيْسَ يُوذَى حَمَامُهُ يَظَلُّ بِهِ أَمْنًا وَفِيهِ الْعَصَافِرُ وَفِيهِ وُحُوشٌ لَا تُرَامُ أَنِيسَةٌ إذَا خَرَجَتْ مِنْهُ فَلَيْسَتْ تُغَادِرُ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَوْلُهُ فَأَبْنَاؤُهُ منا، عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْحَارِثِ أَيْضًا يَذْكُرُ بَكْرًا وَغُبْشَانُ، وَسَاكِنِي مَكَّةَ الَّذِينَ خَلَفُوا فِيهَا بَعْدَهُمْ:: يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ سِيرُوا إنَّ قَصْرَكُمْ أَنْ تُصْبِحُوا ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ لَا تَسِيرُونَا حُثُّوا الْمَطِيَّ وَأَرْخُوا مِنْ أَزِمَّتِهَا قَبْلَ الْمَمَاتِ وَقَضُّوا مَا تُقِضُّونَا كُنَّا أُنَاسًا كَمَا كُنْتُمْ فَغَيَّرَنَا دَهْرٌ فَأَنْتُمْ كَمَا كُنَّا تَكُونُونَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: هَذَا مَا صَحَّ لَهُ مِنْهَا. وَحَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ: أَنَّ هَذِهِ الْأَبْيَاتَ أَوَّلُ شِعْرٍ قِيلَ فِي الْعَرَبِ، وَأَنَّهَا وُجِدَتْ مَكْتُوبَةً فِي حَجَرٍ بِالْيَمَنِ، وَلَمْ يُسَمِّ لِي قَائِلَهَا
Translation
✧ Ibn Hisham said: Abu ʿUbaydah informed me that Bakkah is a name for the hollow of Makkah, because they crowd together in it (yatabākūna), that is, they jostle one another. He recited to me: When the drinker is seized by its pressing throng, Leave him until he presses (yabukka) his press (bakkah). That is, let him be until he presses his camels; that is, he releases them to the water and they crowd upon it. It is the site of the House and the mosque. These two verses are by ʿĀmān b. Kaʿb b. ʿAmr b. Saʿd b. Zayd Manāh b. Tamīm. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith b. Muḍāḍ al-Jurhumī departed with the two gazelles of the Kaʿbah and the stone of the corner, and he buried them in Zamzam. Then he and those with him of Jurhum departed for Yemen, and they grieved deeply over what they had left behind of the affairs of Makkah and its sovereignty. ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith b. ʿAmr b. Muḍāḍ — not Muḍāḍ the elder — said concerning that: And a woman said, with tears pouring forth at once, while her eye-sockets were choked with tears: “It is as if there had never been, between al-Ḥajūn and al-Ṣafā, any companion, nor any night-talker conversing by night in Makkah.” I said to her, while my heart within me was as if a bird were tossing it between my two sides: “Indeed, we were its people, but the vicissitudes of the nights and the stumbling fortunes have removed us. We were the guardians of the House after Nābit, circumambulating that House while goodness was manifest. We took charge of the House after Nābit with might, so no boaster could outstrip us in honor. We ruled, and we strengthened; how mighty was our dominion! No other tribe there had any pride to vaunt. Did you not marry from the best person I have known, so that his sons are from us, and we are the in-laws? If the world should turn away from us with its full state, then it has states within which there is contention. The Sovereign drove us out of it by His power; thus, O people, do destinies run. I say, when the carefree man sleeps and I do not sleep: O Lord of the Throne, may Suhayl and ʿĀmir not perish! I have been given in exchange for it faces I do not love: tribes among them Ḥimyar and Yuḥābir. We have become tales after having been in felicity; thus the passing years have bitten us. The tears of the eye poured down, weeping for a land in which there is a secure sanctuary and the sacred rites, And weeping for a House whose doves are not harmed, where they remain in safety, and within it are sparrows. And in it are wild creatures, unassailable and at home; when they leave it, they do not abandon it.” Ibn Hisham said: His saying “his sons are from us” is from other than Ibn Isḥāq. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAmr b. al-Ḥārith also said, mentioning Bakr, Ghubshān, and the inhabitants of Makkah who remained behind in it after them: O people, journey forth! The utmost of your scope is that you may one day become such that you cannot journey. Urge on the mounts and loosen their reins before death, and discharge what you are bound to discharge. We were a people as you are now, but time changed us; so you, as we were, shall become like us. Ibn Hisham said: This is what has been verified of it. Some of the people of knowledge in poetry told me that these verses are the first poetry ever uttered among the Arabs, and that they were found written on a stone in Yemen, but he did not name their author to me.
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