Sirat Ibn Hisham 1475
The time of the ʿumrah
[ اسْتِرْضَاءُ كَعْبٍ الْأَنْصَارَ بِمَدْحِهِ إيَّاهُمْ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ: فَلَمَّا قَالَ كَعْبٌ: إذَا عَرَّدَ السُّودُ التَّنَابِيلُ، وَإِنَّمَا يُرِيدُنَا مَعْشَرَ الْأَنْصَارِ، لِمَا كَانَ صَاحِبُنَا صَنَعَ بَهْ مَا صَنَعَ، وَخَصَّ الْمُهَاجِرِينَ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِمِدْحَتِهِ، غَضِبَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْأَنْصَارُ؛ فَقَالَ بَعْدَ أَنْ أَسْلَمَ يَمْدَحُ الْأَنْصَارَ، وَيَذْكُرُ بَلَاءَهُمْ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، وَمَوْضِعَهُمْ مِنْ الْيَمَنِ: مَنْ سَرَّهُ كَرْمُ الْحَيَاةِ فَلَا يَزَلْ فِي مِقْنَبٍ مِنْ صَالِحِي الْأَنْصَارِ وَرِثُوا الْمَكَارِمَ كَابِرًا عَنْ كَابِرٍ إنَّ الْخِيَارَ هُمْ بَنُو الْأَخْيَارِ الْمُكْرِهِينَ السَّمْهَرِيَّ بِأَذْرُعٍ كَسَوَالِفِ الْهِنْدِيِّ غَيْرَ قِصَارِ وَالنَّاظِرِينَ بِأَعْيُنٍ مُحْمَرَّةٍ كَالْجَمْرِ غَيْرَ كَلَيْلَةِ الْأَبْصَارِ وَالْبَائِعِينَ نُفُوسَهُمْ لِنَبِيِّهِمْ لِلْمَوْتِ يَوْمَ تَعَانُقٍ وَكِرَارِ وَالْقَائِدِينَ النَّاسَ عَنْ أَدْيَانِهِمْ بِالْمَشْرَفِيِّ وَبِالْقَنَا الْخَطَّارِ يَتَطَهَّرُونَ يَرَوْنَهُ نُسْكًا لَهُمْ بِدِمَاءِ مَنْ عَلِقُوا مِنْ الْكُفَّارِ دَرِبُوا كَمَا دَرِبَتْ بِبَطْنٍ خَفِيَّةٍ غُلْبُ الرِّقَابِ مِنْ الْأَسْوَدِ ضَوَارِي وَإِذَا حَلَلْتَ لِيَمْنَعُوكَ إلَيْهِمْ أَصْبَحْتَ عِنْدَ مَعَاقِلِ الْأَعْفَارِ ضَرَبُوا عَلِيًّا يَوْمَ بَدْرٍ ضَرْبَةً دَانَتْ لِوَقْعَتِهَا جَمِيعُ نِزَارِ لَوْ يَعْلَمُ الْأَقْوَامُ عِلْمِي كُلَّهُ فِيهِمْ لَصَدَّقَنِي الَّذِينَ أُمَارِي قَوْمٌ إذَا خَوَتْ النُّجُومُ فَإِنَّهُمْ لِلطَّارِقِينَ النَّازِلِينَ مَقَارِي فِي الْغُرِّ مِنْ غَسَّانَ مِنْ جُرْثُومَةٍ أَعْيَتْ مَحَافِرُهَا عَلَى الْمِنْقَارِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ إنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ لَهُ حَيْنَ أَنْشَدَهُ: بَانَتْ سُعَادُ فَقَلْبِي الْيَوْمَ مَتْبُولُ لَوْلَا ذَكَرْتُ الْأَنْصَارَ بِخَيْرِ، فَإِنَّهُمْ لِذَلِكَ أَهْلٌ فَقَالَ كَعْبٌ هَذِهِ الْأَبْيَاتَ، وَهِيَ فِي قَصِيدَةٍ لَهُ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَذَكَرَ لِي عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ زَيْدِ بْنِ جُدْعَانَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ: أَنْشَدَ كَعْبُ بْنُ زُهَيْرٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي الْمَسْجِدِ: بَانَتْ سُعَادٌ فَقَلْبِي الْيَوْمَ مَتْبُولُ
Translation
✧ [Kaʿb's appeasing the Anṣār by praising them] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah said: When Kaʿb said, "When the black, short ones turn aside," meaning us, the Anṣār, because of what our companion had done, and singled out the Muhājirūn of Quraysh among the companions of the Messenger of God ﷺ with his praise, the Anṣār became angry with him. So after he became a Muslim he said, praising the Anṣār and mentioning their trials with the Messenger of God ﷺ and their standing among the people of Yemen: Whoever delights in the bounty of life, let him never cease to be in a troop of the righteous Anṣār, who inherited noble qualities, one great one from another; the best are the sons of the best, who forced the spear to bend with arms like the forelocks of Indian blades, not short, and who look with reddened eyes like coals, not dim of sight, and who sold their souls to their Prophet for death on the day of embracing and charge, and who led the people away from their religions with the Mashrafī sword and the quivering spear, purifying themselves, deeming it a pious act for them, with the blood of the polytheists they clung to. They were trained as were trained in the belly of Khafiyyah the thick-necked ones of the black lions, predators. And when you alight, to protect you unto them, you come to be at the strongholds of the afʿār. They struck ʿAlī on the day of Badr a blow whose impact subdued all of Nizār. If the peoples knew all my knowledge of them, those with whom I dispute would believe me. A people who, when the stars set, are for the night-comers and alighters places of hospitality. Among the bright ones of Ghassān, from a stock whose digging-places defeated the beak. Ibn Hishām said: It is said that the Messenger of God ﷺ said to him when he recited, "Suʿād has departed, and my heart today is smitten": "If only you had mentioned the Anṣār with good, for they are worthy of it." So Kaʿb recited these verses, which are in an ode of his. Ibn Hishām said: And it was mentioned to me on the authority of ʿAlī b. Zayd b. Judʿān that he said: Kaʿb b. Zuhayr recited to the Messenger of God ﷺ in the mosque: "Suʿād has departed, and my heart today is smitten."
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