Sirat Ibn Hisham 1542
The affair of ʿAdī b. Ḥātim
أَمْرُ عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ [ هَرَبُهُ إِلَى الشَّامِ فِرَارًا مِنَ الرَّسُولِ ] وَأَمَّا عَدِيُّ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ فَكَانَ يَقُولُ، فِيمَا بَلَغَنِي: مَا مِنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ الْعَرَبِ كَانَ أَشَدَّ كَرَاهِيَةً لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ حِينَ سَمِعَ بِهِ مِنِّي، أَمَا أَنَا فَكُنْتُ امْرَأً شَرِيفًا، وَكُنْتُ نَصْرَانِيًّا، وَكُنْتُ أَسِيرُ فِي قَوْمِي بِالْمِرْبَاعِ، فَكُنْتُ فِي نَفْسِي عَلَى دِينٍ، وَكُنْتُ مَلِكًا فِي قَوْمِي، لِمَا كَانَ يُصْنَعُ بِي. فَلَمَّا سَمِعْتُ بِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ كَرِهْتُهُ، فَقُلْتُ لِغُلَامِ كَانَ لِي عَرَبِيٍّ، وَكَانَ رَاعِيًا لِإِبِلِي: لَا أَبَا لَكَ، أَعْدِدْ لِي مِنْ إبِلِي أَجَمَالًا ذُلُلًا سِمَانًا، فَاحْتَبِسْهَا قَرِيبًا مِنِّي، فَإِذَا سَمِعْتَ بِجَيْشِ لِمُحَمَّدِ قَدْ وَطِئَ هَذِهِ الْبِلَادَ فَآذِنِّي؛ فَفَعَلَ؛ ثُمَّ إنَّهُ أَتَانِي ذَاتَ غَدَاةٍ، فَقَالَ: يَا عَدِيُّ، مَا كُنْتَ صَانِعًا إذَا غَشِيَتْكَ خَيْلُ مُحَمَّدٍ، فَاصْنَعْهُ الْآنَ، فَإِنِّي قَدْ رَأَيْتُ رَايَاتٍ، فَسَأَلْتُ عَنْهَا، فَقَالُوا: هَذِهِ جُيُوشُ مُحَمَّدٍ. قَالَ: فَقُلْتُ: فَقَرِّبْ إلَيَّ أَجْمَالِي، فَقَرَّبَهَا، فَاحْتَمَلْتُ بِأَهْلِي وَوَلَدِي، ثُمَّ قُلْتُ: أَلْحَقُ بِأَهْلِ دِينِي مِنْ النَّصَارَى بِالشَّامِ فَسَلَكْتُ الْجَوْشِيَّةَ، وَيُقَالُ: الْحَوْشِيَّةُ فِيمَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ - وَخَلَّفْتُ بِنْتًا لِحَاتِمِ فِي الْحَاضِرِ؛ فَلَمَّا قَدِمْتُ الشَّامَ أَقَمْتُ بِهَا.
Translation
✧ The matter of ʿAdī b. Ḥātim [his flight to Syria to flee from the Messenger] As for ʿAdī b. Ḥātim, he used to say, according to what has reached me: There was no man among the Arabs who was more hateful of the Messenger of God ﷺ when he heard of him than I. As for me, I was a noble man, and I was a Christian, and I used to travel among my people taking a quarter of the spoils, and I considered myself to be upon a religion, and I was a king among my people, because of what was done for me. So when I heard of the Messenger of God ﷺ I hated him. I said to a servant of mine, an Arab, who was a shepherd of my camels: May you have no father! Prepare for me from my camels some strong, fat, tractable ones, and keep them near me. If you hear of an army of Muḥammad having trodden these lands, then inform me. So he did. Then one morning he came to me and said: O ʿAdī, whatever you were going to do when Muḥammad's cavalry suddenly came upon you, do it now, for I have seen banners. I asked about them, and they said: These are the armies of Muḥammad. He said: I said: Then bring my camels near me. So he brought them near, and I loaded my family and my children, then I said: I will join the people of my religion, the Christians, in Syria. So I took the Jawshiyyah route—or it is said al-Ḥawshiyyah, according to what Ibn Hishām said—and I left behind a daughter of Ḥātim in the settled area. When I arrived in Syria, I stayed there.
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