Sirat Ibn Hisham 1531
The arrival of the delegation of Banū Tamīm and the revelation of Sūrat al-Ḥujurāt
[ شِعْرٌ آخَرُ لِلزِّبْرِقَانِ ] وَقَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: حَدَّثَنِي بَعْضُ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ بِالشِّعْرِ مِنْ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ: أَنَّ الزِّبْرِقَانَبْنَ بَدْرٍ لَمَّا قَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي وَفْدِ بَنِي تَمِيمٍ قَامَ فَقَالَ: أَتَيْنَاكَ كَيْمَا يَعْلَمَ النَّاسُ فَضْلَنَا إذَا احْتَفَلُوا عِنْدَ احْتِضَارِ الْمَوَاسِمِ بِأَنَّا فُرُوعُ النَّاسِ فِي كُلِّ مَوْطِنٍ وَأَنْ لَيْسَ فِي أَرْضِ الْحِجَازِ كَدَارِمِ وَأَنَّا نَذُودُ الْمُعْلِمِينَ إذَا انْتَخَوْا وَنَضْرِبُ رَأْسَ الْأَصْيَدِ الْمُتَفَاقِمِ وَأَنَّ لَنَا الْمِرْبَاعَ فِي كُلِّ غَارَةٍ نُغِيرُ بِنَجْدٍ أَوْ بِأَرْضِ الْأَعَاجِمِ [ شِعْرٌ آخَرُ لِحَسَّانَ فِي الرَّدِّ عَلَى الزِّبْرِقَانِ ] فَقَامَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ فَأَجَابَهُ، فَقَالَ: هَلْ الْمَجْدُ إلَّا السُّودَدُ الْعَوْدُ وَالنَّدَى وِجَاهُ الْمُلُوكِ وَاحْتِمَالُ الْعَظَائِمِ نَصَرْنَا وَآوَيْنَا النَّبِيَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَلَى أَنْفِ رَاضٍ مِنْ مَعَدٍّ وَرَاغِمِ بِحَيٍّ حَرِيدٍ أَصْلُهُ وَثَرَاؤُهُ بِجَابِيَةِ الْجَوْلَانِ وَسْطَ الْأَعَاجِمِ نَصَرْنَاهُ لَمَّا حَلَّ وَسْطَ دِيَارِنَا بِأَسْيَافِنَا مِنْ كُلِّ بَاغٍ وَظَالِمِ جَعَلْنَا بَنِينَا دُونَهُ وَبَنَاتَنَا وَطِبْنَا لَهُ نَفْسًا بِفَيْءِ الْمَغَانِمِ وَنَحْنُ ضَرَبْنَا النَّاسَ حَتَّى تَتَابَعُوا عَلَى دِينهِ بِالْمُرْهَفَاتِ الصَّوَارِمِ وَنَحْنُ وَلَدْنَا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ عَظِيمَهَا وَلَدْنَا نَبِيَّ الْخَيْرِ مِنْ آلِ هَاشِمِ بَنِي دَارِمٍ لَا تَفْخَرُوا إنَّ فَخْرَكُمْ يَعُودُ وَبَالًا عِنْدَ ذِكْرِ الْمَكَارِمِ هَبِلْتُمْ عَلَيْنَا تَفْخَرُونَ وَأَنْتُمْ لَنَا خَوَلٌ مَا بَيْنَ ظِئْرٍ وَخَادِمِ ؟ فَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ جِئْتُمْ لِحَقْنِ دِمَائِكُمْ وَأَمْوَالِكُمْ أَنْ تُقْسَمُوا فِي الْمَقَاسِمِ فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ نِدًّا وَأَسْلِمُوا وَلَا تَلْبَسُوا زِيًّا كَزِيِّ الْأَعَاجِمِ [ إسْلَامُهُمْ وَتَجْوِيزُ الرَّسُولِ إيَّاهُمْ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ مِنْ قَوْلِهِ، قَالَ الْأَقْرَعُ بْنُ حَابِسٍ: وَأَبِي، إنَّ هَذَا الرَّجُلَ لَمُؤَتَّى لَهُ، لَخَطِيبُهُ أَخْطَبُ مِنْ خَطِيبِنَا، وَلَشَاعِرُهُ أَشْعَرُ مِنْ شَاعِرِنَا، وَلِأَصْوَاتِهِمْ أَحْلَى مِنْ أَصْوَاتِنَا. فَلَمَّا فَرَغَ الْقَوْمُ أَسْلَمُوا، وَجَوَّزَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَحْسَنَ جَوَائِزَهُمْ. [ شِعْرُ ابْنِ الْأَهْتَمِ فِي هِجَاءِ قِيسٍ لِتَحْقِيرِهِ إيَّاهُ ] وَكَانَ عَمْرُو بْنُ الْأَهْتَمِ قَدْ خَلَّفَهُ الْقَوْمُ فِي ظَهْرِهِمْ، وَكَانَ أَصْغَرَهُمْ سِنًّا، فَقَالَ قَيْسُ بْنُ عَاصِمٍ، وَكَانَ يُبْغِضُ عَمْرَو بْنَ الْأَهْتَمِ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، إنَّهُ قَدْ كَانَ رَجُلٌ مِنَّا فِي رِحَالِنَا، وَهُوَ غُلَامٌ حَدَثٌ، وَأُزْرَى بِهِ، فَأَعْطَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِثْلَ مَا أَعْطَى الْقَوْمَ، فَقَالَ أَنَّ قَيْسًا قَالَ ذَلِكَ يَهْجُوهُ: عَمْرُو بْنُ الْأَهْتَمِ حِينَ بَلَغَهُ ظَلِلْتُ مَفْتَرِشَ الْهَلْبَاءِ تَشْتُمُنِي عِنْدَ الرَّسُولِ فَلَمْ تَصْدُقْ وَلَمْ تُصِبْ سُدْنَاكُمْ سُوْدُدًا رَهْوًا وَسُوْدُدُكُمْ بَادٍ نَوَاجِذُهُ مُقْعٍ عَلَى الذَّنَبِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: بَقِيَ بَيْتٌ وَاحِدٌ تَرَكْنَاهُ، لِأَنَّهُ أَقْذَعَ فِيهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَفِيهِمْ نَزَلَ مِنْ الْقُرْآنِ: إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُنَادُونَكَ مِنْ وَرَاءِ الْحُجُرَاتِ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ
Translation
✧ [Another poem by al-Zibriqān] Ibn Hishām said: One of the people of knowledge of poetry among Banū Tamīm related to me that al-Zibriqān b. Badr, when he came to the Messenger of God ﷺ in the delegation of Banū Tamīm, stood and said: We have come to you so that people may know our excellence, when they gather at the time of the death of the seasons, that we are the branches of the people in every place, and that there is not in the land of the Ḥijāz a tribe like Dārim, and that we drive away those who would teach us when they boast, and we strike the head of the stiff-necked arrogant one, and that we have the quarter share in every raid we make in Najd or in the land of the foreigners. [Another poem by Ḥassān in reply to al-Zibriqān] Then Ḥassān b. Thābit stood and answered him, saying: Is glory anything but ancient lordship and generosity, the reception of kings and the bearing of great affairs? We helped and sheltered the Prophet Muḥammad against the nose of every unwilling and resentful one of Maʿadd, with a noble clan whose origin and wealth are at Jābiyat al-Jawlān, in the midst of the foreigners. We helped him when he settled in the midst of our abodes with our swords against every wicked and unjust one. We placed our sons and our daughters before him, and we were content with the spoils of war. It is we who struck the people until they followed his religion with the sharp cutting swords. It is we who begot the great one of Quraysh; we begot the Prophet of goodness from the family of Hāshim. O Banū Dārim, do not boast; your boasting turns to woe when noble deeds are mentioned. Woe to you! Do you boast over us, while you are our servants, between a wet-nurse and a slave? If you have come to preserve your blood and your wealth, lest you be divided among the divisions, then set up no rival to God, and submit, and do not wear the dress of the foreigners. [Their conversion and the Messenger's gifts to them] Ibn Isḥāq said: When Ḥassān b. Thābit finished his speech, al-Aqraʿ b. Ḥābis said: By my father, this man is indeed assisted; his orator is more eloquent than our orator, and his poet is more poetical than our poet, and their voices are sweeter than our voices. When the people finished, they submitted, and the Messenger of God ﷺ gave them gifts, and made their gifts excellent. [Poem by Ibn al-Ahtam satirizing Qays for belittling him] ʿAmr b. al-Ahtam had been left behind by the people in their rear, and he was the youngest of them in age. Qays b. ʿĀṣim, who hated ʿAmr b. al-Ahtam, said: O Messenger of God, there was a man of ours in our camp, and he is a young boy, and he belittled him. So the Messenger of God ﷺ gave him the like of what he gave the people. When that reached ʿAmr b. al-Ahtam, he said, satirizing Qays for having said that: You persisted in spreading lies, abusing me in the presence of the Messenger, and you did not speak truth nor hit the mark. We gave you lordship, a quiet lordship, while your lordship shows its canine teeth, squatting on the tail. Ibn Hishām said: One verse remains which we have omitted, because it contains excessive obscenity. Ibn Isḥāq said: Concerning them was revealed in the Qurʾān: "Indeed, those who call you from behind the chambers—most of them do not understand."
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