Sirat Ibn Hisham 1474
The time of the ʿumrah
فِي عُصْبَةٍ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ قَالَ قَائِلُهُمْ بِبَطْنِ مَكَّةَ لَمَّا أَسْلَمُوا زُولُوا زَالُوا فَمَا زَالَ أَنْكَاسٌ وَلَا كُشُفُ عِنْدَ اللِّقَاءِ وَلَا مِيلٌ مَعَازِيلُ شُمُّ الْعَرَانِينِ أَبْطَالُ لَبُوسُهُمْ مِنْ نَسْجِ دَاوُدَ فِي الْهَيْجَا سَرَابِيلُ بِيضٌ سَوَابِغُ قَدْ شُكَّتْ لَهَا حَلَقٌ كَأَنَّهَا حَلَقُ الْقَفْعَاءِ مَجْدُولُ لَيْسُوا مَفَارِيحَ إنْ نَالَتْ رِمَاحُهُمْ قَوْمًا وَلَيْسُوا مَجَازِيعًا إذَا نِيلُوا يَمْشُونَ مَشْيَ الْجِمَالِ الزُّهْرِ يَعْصِمُهُمْ ضَرْبٌ إذَا عَرَّدَ السُّودُ التَّنَابِيلُ لَا يَقَعَ الطَّعْنُ إلَّا فِي نُحُورِهِمْ وَمَا لَهُمْ عَنْ حِيَاضِ الْمَوْتِ تَهْلِيلُ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ قَالَ كَعْبٌ هَذِهِ الْقَصِيدَةُ بَعْدَ قُدُومِهِ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْمَدِينَةَ. وَبَيْتُهُ: حَرْفٌ أَخُوهَا أَبُوهَا وَبَيْتُهُ: يَمْشِي الْقُرَادُ، وَبَيْتُهُ: عَيْرَانَةٌ قُذِفَتْ، وَبَيْتُهُ: تُمِرُّ مِثْلَ عَسِيبِ النَّخْلِ، وَبَيْتُهُ: تَفْرِي اللَّبَانَ، وَبَيْتُهُ: إذَا يُسَاوِرُ قِرْنَا، وَبَيْتُهُ: وَلَا يَزَالُ بِوَادِيهِ: عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ.
Translation
✧ In a band of Quraysh. One of their poets said, in the belly of Makkah, when they had submitted: They removed—they passed away, and there ceased to be those who shrink back or those who expose themselves at the encounter, nor those who turn aside, without armor. High-nosed heroes, their clothing in the fray—from the weaving of David—are coats of mail, white and ample, with rings knitted for them like the rings of the qafʿāʾ, twisted. They are not exultant when their spears reach a people, nor are they despairing when they themselves are reached. They walk with the gait of shining camels; a blow protects them when the black, base ones flee. The thrust falls only in their throats, and they have no shrinking from the pools of death. Ibn Hishām said: Kaʿb composed this qaṣīdah after his arrival in Madinah to the Messenger of God ﷺ. His verses—'a letter, its sister, its father'; his verse—'the tick walks'; his verse—'a long-legged she-camel that was cast'; his verse—'she passes like the midrib of a palm branch'; his verse—'she splits the chest'; his verse—'when he clashes with an opponent'; his verse—'and he does not cease in his valley'—are from other than Ibn Isḥāq.
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