Sirat Ibn Hisham 1442
Naming those who were martyred on the day of Hunayn
[ شِعْرُ أَبِي خِرَاشٍ فِي رِثَاءِ ابْنِ الْعَجْوَةِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ، قَالَ: أُسِرَ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ الْعَجْوَةِ الْهُذَلِيُّ يَوْمَ حُنَيْنٍ فَكُتِّفَ، فَرَآهُ جَمِيلُ بْنُ مَعْمَرٍ الْجُمَحِيُّ، فَقَالَ لَهُ: أَأَنْتَ الْمَاشِي لَنَا بِالْمَغَايِظِ ؟ فَضَرَبَ عُنُقَهُ ؟ فَقَالَ أَبُو خِرَاشٍ الْهُذَلِيُّ يَرْثِيهِ، وَكَانَ ابْنَ عَمِّهِ: عَجَّفَ أَضْيَافِي جَمِيلُ بْنُ مَعْمَرٍ بِذِي فَجَرٍ تَأْوِي إلَيْهِ الْأَرَامِلُ طَوِيلِ نِجَادِ السَّيْفِ لَيْسَ بِجَيْدَرٍ إذَا اهْتَزَّ وَاسْتَرْخَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْحَمَائِلُ تَكَادُ يَدَاهُ تُسْلِمَانِ إزَارَهُ مِنْ الْجُودِ لَمَّا أَذْلَقَتْهُ الشَّمَائِلُ إلَى بَيْتِهِ يَأْوِي الضَّرِيكُ إذَا شَتَا وَمُسْتَنْبِحٌ بَالِي الدَّرِيسَيْنِ عَائِلُ تَرَوَّحَ مَقْرُورًا وَهَبَّتْ عَشِيَّةً لَهَا حَدَبٌ تَحْتَثُّهُ فَيُوَائِلُ فَمَا بَالُ أَهْلِ الدَّارِ لَمْ يَتَصَدَّعُوا وَقَدْ بَانَ مِنْهَا اللَّوْذَعِيُّ الْحُلَاحِلُ فَأُقْسِمُ لَوْ لَاقَيْتَهُ غَيْرَ مُوثَقٍ لَآبَكَ بِالنَّعْفِ الضِّبَاعُ الْجَيَائِلُ وَإِنَّكَ لَوْ وَاجَهْتَهُ إذْ لَقِيتَهُ فَنَازَلْتُهُ أَوْ كُنْتَ مِمَّنْ يُنَازِلُ لَظَلَّ جَمِيلٌ أَفْحَشَ الْقَوْمِ صِرْعَةً وَلَكِنَّ قِرْنَ الظَّهْرِ لِلْمَرْءِ شَاغِلُ فَلَيْسَ كَعَهْدِ الدَّارِ يَا أُمَّ ثَابِتٍ وَلَكِنْ أَحَاطَتْ بِالرِّقَابِ السَّلَاسِلُ وَعَادَ الْفَتَى كَالشَّيْخِ لَيْسَ بِفَاعِلِ سِوَى الْحَقِّ شَيْئًا وَاسْتَرَاحَ الْعَوَاذِلُ وَأَصْبَحَ إخْوَانُ الصَّفَاءِ كَأَنَّمَا أَهَالَ عَلَيْهِمْ جَانِبَ التُّرْبِ هَائِلُ فَلَا تَحْسَبِي أَنِّي نَسِيتُ لَيَالِيَا بِمَكَّةَ إذْ لَمْ نَعْدُ عَمَّا نُحَاوِلُ إذْ النَّاسُ نَاسٌ وَالْبِلَادُ بِغِرَّةٍ وَإِذْ نَحْنُ لَا تُثْنِي عَلَيْنَا الْمَدَاخِلُ
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Abū Khirāsh in elegy for Ibn al-ʿAjwah] Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿUbaydah narrated to me, saying: Zuhayr b. al-ʿAjwah al-Hudhalī was taken captive on the day of Ḥunayn and his arms were bound behind him. Jamīl b. Maʿmar al-Jumaḥī saw him and said to him: "Are you the one who went about stirring up resentments against us?" Then he struck his neck. Abū Khirāsh al-Hudhalī, who was his paternal cousin, said in elegy for him: "My guests have become lean, Jamīl b. Maʿmar, at Dhī Fajar, where the widows seek shelter, long in the sword's suspensory strap, not stout; when he brandishes it, the baldrics hang loose upon him. His two hands almost surrender his waist-wrapper out of generosity, when the north winds have made him lean. To his house the destitute man repairs when winter comes, and the one who howls for aid, worn in his two tattered garments, needy. He returned chilled, and a breeze blew in the evening with a rugged wind driving it swiftly, so he sought shelter. What is the matter with the people of the abode that they have not dispersed, when the sharp-witted, steadfast one has departed from it? I swear, had you met him unbound, the hyenas of the high ground would have brought you back on the slope. And had you faced him when you encountered him and fought him—or had you been one who fights— Jamīl would have remained the most shameful of the people in his fall; but the bond of the back keeps a man preoccupied. It is not as in the time of the abode, O Umm Thābit, but chains have encompassed the necks. And the youth has become like an old man, doing nothing but the truth, and the blamers have found rest. And the brothers of pure friendship have become as though a terrifying one had poured the side of the earth upon them. Do not think that I have forgotten nights at Makkah, when we did not turn aside from what we sought, when the people were people, and the lands were in heedlessness, and when the narrow passes did not turn us back."
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