Sirat Ibn Hisham 1438
Naming those who were martyred on the day of Hunayn
وَقَالَ عَبَّاسُ بْنُ مِرْدَاسٍ أَيْضًا: مَا بَالُ عَيْنِكَ فِيهَا عَائِرٌ سَهِرٌ مِثْلُ الْحَمَاطَةِ أَغْضَى فَوْقَهَا الشُّفُرُ عَيْنٌ تَأَوَّبَهَا مِنْ شَجْوِهَا أَرَقٌ فَالْمَاءُ يَغْمُرُهَا طَوْرًا وَيَنْحَدِرُ كَأَنَّهُ نَظْمُ دُرٍّ عِنْدَ نَاظِمَةٍ تَقَطَّعُ السِّلْكُ مِنْهُ فَهُوَ مُئْتَثِرُ يَا بُعْدَ مَنْزِلِ مَنْ تَرْجُو مَوَدَّتَهُ وَمَنْ أَتَى دُونَهُ الصَّمَّانُ فَالْحَفَرُ دَعْ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ عَهْدِ الشَّبَابِ فَقَدْ وَلَّى الشَّبَابُ وَزَارَ الشَّيْبُ وَالزَّعَرُ وَاذْكُرْ بَلَاءَ سُلَيْمٍ فِي مَوَاطِنِهَا وَفِي سُلَيْمٍ لِأَهْلِ الْفَخْرِ مُفْتَخَرُ قَوْمٌ هُمْ نَصَرُوا الرَّحْمَنَ وَاتَّبَعُوا دِينَ الرَّسُولِ وَأَمْرُ النَّاسِ مُشْتَجِرُ لَا يَغْرِسُونَ فَسِيلَ النَّخْلِ وَسْطَهُمْ وَلَا تَخَاوَرُ فِي مَشْتَاهُمْ الْبَقَرُ إلَّا سَوَابِحَ كَالْعِقْبَانِ مَقْرَبَةً فِي دَارَةٍ حَوْلَهَا الْأَخْطَارُ وَالْعَكَرُ تُدْعَى خُفَافٌ وَعَوْفٌ فِي جَوَانِبِهَا وَحَيُّ ذَكْوَانَ لَا مِيلٌ وَلَا ضُجُرُ الضَّارِبُونَ جُنُودَ الشِّرْكِ ضَاحِيَةً بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ وَالْأَرْوَاحُ تَبْتَدِرُ حَتَّى دَفَعْنَا وَقَتْلَاهُمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ نَخْلٌ بِظَاهِرَةِ الْبَطْحَاءِ مُنْقَعِرُ وَنَحْنُ يَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ كَانَ مَشْهَدُنَا لِلدِّينِ عِزًّا وَعِنْدَ اللَّهِ مُدَّخَرُ إذْ نَرْكَبُ الْمَوْتَ مُخْضَرًّا بَطَائِنُهُ وَالْخَيْلُ يَنْجَابُ عَنْهَا سَاطِعٌ كَدِرُ تَحْتَ اللِّوَاءِ مَعَ الضَّحَّاكِ يَقْدُمُنَا كَمَا مَشَى اللَّيْثُ فِي غَابَاتِهِ الْخَدِرُ فِي مَأْزِقٍ مِنْ مَجَرِّ الْحَرْبِ كَلْكَلُهَا تَكَادُ تَأْفِلُ مِنْهُ الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ وَقَدْ صَبَرْنَا بِأَوْطَاسٍ أَسِنَّتَنَا لِلَّهِ نَنْصُرُ مَنْ شِئْنَا وَنَنْتَصِرُ حَتَّى تَأَوَّبَ أَقْوَامٌ مَنَازِلَهُمْ لَوْلَا الْمَلِيكُ وَلَوْلَا نَحْنُ مَا صَدَرُوا فَمَا تَرَى مَعْشَرًا قَلُّوا وَلَا كَثُرُوا إلَّا قَدَ اصْبَحَ مِنَّا فِيهِمْ أَثَرُ
Translation
✧ ʿAbbās b. Mirdās also said: What ails your eye, in it a speck, sleepless like the colocynth fruit that lowers over it its lids? An eye to which, from its grief, wakefulness returns; the water floods it at times and subsides, as if it were a string of pearls at a threader’s hand, the cord snapped from it, and so it is scattered. How far the abode of one whose affection you hope for, and of one before whom lie al-Ṣammān and al-Ḥafar. Leave what has passed of the covenant of youth, for youth has departed, and grey hair and scanty hair have visited. And remember the trial of Sulaym in its fields of battle, and in Sulaym, for the people of boasting, there is something to boast of. A people who aided the Merciful and followed the religion of the Messenger while the affair of the people was tangled. They do not plant palm offshoots in their midst, nor do cows low in their winter pasture; only swift horses like eagles, brought near, in an enclosure around which are the perils and the crowds. Khufāf and ʿAwf are called in its sides, and the tribe of Dhakwān—no leaning and no vexation. The strikers of the hosts of idolatry openly in the belly of Makkah while souls rush on, until we thrust, and their slain were as uprooted palm trees on the open ground of al-Baṭḥāʾ. And we, on the day of Ḥunayn, our presence was for the religion a might, and with God it is stored up, when we rode death with green linings, and the horses reveal from it a rising dust. Under the banner with al-Ḍaḥḥāk he leads us, as the lion walks in his thickets, lurking. In a narrow pass of the press of war, its weight almost makes the sun and moon set. And we endured at Awṭās with our spearheads, for God; we aid whom we will and are aided, until some people returned to their dwellings—had it not been for the King, and had it not been for us, they would not have come back. You will not see any band, whether few or many, but there has come from us, among them, a trace.
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