Sirat Ibn Hisham 1535
The death of Arbad by lightning and what was revealed concerning him and ʿĀmir
[ شِعْرُ لَبِيَدٍ فِي بُكَاءِ أَرْبَدَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَقَالَ لَبِيدٌ يَبْكِي أَرْبَدَ: مَا إنْ تُعَدِّي الْمَنُونُ مِنْ أَحَدٍ لَا وَالِدٍ مُشْفِقٍ وَلَا وَلَدِ أَخْشَى عَلَى أَرْبَدَ الْحُتُوفَ وَلَا أَرْهَبُ نَوْءَ السِّمَاكِ وَالْأَسَدِ فَعَيْنٍ هَلَّا بَكَيْتُ أَرْبَدَ إذْ قُمْنَا وَقَامَ النِّسَاءُ فِي كَبَدِ إنْ يَشْغَبُوا لَا يُبَالِ شَغْبَهُمْ أَوْ يَقْصِدُوا فِي الْحُكُومِ يَقْتَصِدْ حُلْوٌ أَرِيَبٌ وَفِي حَلَاوَتِهِ مُرٌّ لَطِيفُ الْأَحْشَاءِ وَالْكَبِدِ وَعَيْنِ هَلَّا بَكَيْتُ أَرْبَدَ إذْ أَلْوَتْ رِيَاحُ الشِّتَاءِ بِالْعَضَدِ وَأَصْبَحَتْ لَاقِحًا مُصَرَّمَةً حَتَّى تَجَلَّتْ غَوَابِرُ الْمُدَدِ أَشْجَعُ مِنْ لَيْثِ غَابَةٍ لَحِمٍ ذُو نَهْمَةٍ فِي الْعُلَا وَمُنْتَقَدِ لَا تَبْلُغُ الْعَيْنُ كُلَّ نَهْمَتِهَا لَيْلَةَ تُمْسَى الْجِيَادُ كَالْقِدَدِ الْبَاعِثُ النَّوْحَ فِي مَآتِمِهِ مِثْلَ الظِّبَاءِ الْأَبْكَارِ بِالْجَرَدِ فَجَعَنِي الْبَرْقُ وَالصَّوَاعِقُ بِالْفَارِسِ يَوْمَ الْكَرِيهَةِ النَّجُدِ وَالْحَارِبِ الْجَابِرِ الْحَرِيبِ إذَا جَاءَ نَكِيبًا وَإِنْ يَعُدْ يَعُدْ يَعْفُو عَلَى الْجَهْدِ وَالسُّؤَالِ كَمَا يُنْبِتُ غَيْثُ الرَّبِيعِ ذُو الرَّصَدِ كُلُّ بَنِي حُرَّةٍ مَصِيرُهُمْ قُلٌّ وَإِنْ أَكْثَرَتْ مِنْ الْعَدَدِ إنْ يُغْبَطُوا يَهْبِطُوا وَإِنْ أُمِرُوا يَوْمًا فَهُمْ لِلْهَلَاكِ وَالنَّفَدِ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: بَيْتُهُ: وَالْحَارِبِ الْجَابِرِ الْحَرِيبِ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، وَبَيْتُهُ: يَعْفُو عَلَى الْجَهْدِ: عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ
Translation
✧ [The poetry of Labīd in mourning Arbad] Ibn Isḥāq said: Labīd said, mourning Arbad: Fate does not pass over anyone, neither a compassionate father nor a child. I fear death for Arbad, and I dread the rising of Simāk and Asad. O eye, why did you not weep for Arbad when we arose and the women arose in grief? If they make trouble, he cares not for their trouble; if they act justly in judgment, he is just. Sweet and wise, and in his sweetness there is bitterness, delicate of inward parts and liver. O eye, why did you not weep for Arbad when the winds of winter twisted the ʿaḍad trees? They became pregnant and cut off until the remnants of the spans were laid bare. Braver than a lion of the thicket, fleshy, possessed of ambition in high matters and blame. The eye does not attain all its ambition on a night when steeds become like strips of hide. He who stirs up wailing in his mourning assemblies, like firstborn gazelles upon the bare ground. The lightning and thunderbolts bereaved me of the horseman on the day of hardship, the noble one. And the plunderer who restores the plundered one when he comes defeated; and if he returns, he returns. He pardons despite hardship and asking, as the rain of spring with watchful clouds makes grow. All the sons of a free woman, their end is paucity, even if they are many in number. If they are envied, they fall; and if they are commanded one day, they are for destruction and exhaustion. Ibn Hishām said: His verse 'wa-l-ḥāribi l-jābiri l-ḥarībi' is from Abū ʿUbaydah, and his verse 'yaʿfū ʿalā l-jahdi' is from other than Ibn Isḥāq.
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