Sirat Ibn Hisham 1546
The arrival of Farwah b. Musayk al-Murādī
قُدُومُ فَرْوَةَ بْنِ مُسَيْكٍ الْمُرَادِيَّ قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَدِمَ فَرْوَةُ بْنُ مُسَيْكٍ الْمُرَادَّيَّ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ مُفَارِقًا لِمُلُوكِ كِنْدَةَ، وَمُبَاعِدًا لَهُمْ، إلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ. [ يَوْمُ الرَّدْمِ بَيْنَ مُرَادَ وَهَمْدَانَ ] وَقَدْ كَانَ قُبَيْلَ الْإِسْلَامِ بَيْنَ مُرَادَ وَهَمْدَانَ وَقْعَةٌ، أَصَابَتْ فِيهَا هَمْدَانُ مِنْ مُرَادَ مَا أَرَادُوا، حَتَّى أَثْخَنُوهُمْ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ يُقَالُ لَهُ: يَوْمَ الرَّدْمِ، فَكَانَ الَّذِي قَادَ هَمْدَانَ إلَى مُرَادَ الْأَجْدَعُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: الَّذِي قَادَ هَمْدَانَ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ مَالِكُ بْنُ حَرِيمٍ الْهَمْدَانِيُّ. [ شِعْرُ فَرْوَةَ فِي يَوْمِ الرَّدْمِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَفِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ يَقُولُ فَرْوَةُ بْنُ مُسَيْكٍ.: مَرَرْنَا عَلَى لُفَاةَ وَهُنَّ خَوْصٌ يُنَازِعْنَ الْأَعِنَّةَ يَنْتَحِينَا فَإِنْ نَغْلِبْ فَغَلَّابُونَ قِدْمًا وَإِنْ نُغْلَبْ فَغَيْرُ مُغَلَّبِينَا وَمَا إنْ طِبُّنَا جُبْنٌ وَلَكُنَّ مَنَايَانَا وَطُعْمَةُ آخَرِينَا كَذَاكَ الدَّهْرُ دَوْلَتُهُ سِجَالٌ تَكُرُّ صُرُوفُهُ حِينًا فَحِينًا فَبَيْنَا مَا نُسَرُّ بِهِ وَنَرْضَى وَلَوْ لُبِسَتْ غَضَارَتُهُ سِنِينَا إذْ انْقَلَبَتْ بِهِ كَرَّاتُ دَهْرٍ فَأَلْفَيْتَ الْأُلَى غُبِطُوا طَحِينًا فَمَنْ يُغْبَطْ بِرَيْبِ الدَّهْرِ مِنْهُمْ يَجِدْ رَيْبَ الزَّمَانِ لَهُ خَئُونًا فَلَوْ خَلَدَ الْمُلُوكُ إذَنْ خَلَدْنَا وَلَوْ بَقِيَ الْكِرَامُ إذَنْ بَقِينَا فَأَفْنَى ذَلِكُمْ سَرَوَاتِ قَوْمِي كَمَا أَفْنَى الْقُرُونَ الْأَوَّلِينَا قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَوَّلُ بَيْتٍ مِنْهَا، وَقَوْلُهُ: فَإِنْ نَغْلِبْ عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ.
Translation
✧ The arrival of Farwah b. Musayk al-Murādī. Ibn Isḥāq said: Farwah b. Musayk al-Murādī came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, separating himself from the kings of Kindah and distancing himself from them, to the Messenger of God ﷺ. [The Day of al-Radm between Murād and Hamdān] Before Islam there had been a battle between Murād and Hamdān, in which Hamdān inflicted upon Murād what they wished, until they routed them on a day called the Day of al-Radm. The one who led Hamdān against Murād on that day was al-Ajdaʿ b. Mālik. Ibn Hishām said: The one who led Hamdān on that day was Mālik b. Ḥarīm al-Hamdānī. [The poetry of Farwah on the Day of al-Radm] Ibn Isḥāq said: On that day Farwah b. Musayk said: We passed by Lufātah while they were emaciated, contending with the reins, inclining toward us. If we prevail, we are prevailing from old; and if we are prevailed upon, we are not ones to be overcome. Our nature is not cowardice, but our fates and the portion of others among us. Thus is time: its turns are by turns, its vicissitudes recur time after time. While we were rejoicing in it and contented, even if its freshness were worn for years, when the turns of time reversed it, and you found those who were envied ground to dust. Whoever among them is envied for the vicissitudes of time will find the vicissitude of the age treacherous to him. If kings were immortal, then we would be immortal; and if the noble endured, then we would endure. That destroyed the chiefs of my people, just as it destroyed the earlier generations. Ibn Hishām said: The first verse of it, and his saying “If we prevail,” is from other than Ibn Isḥāq.
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