Sirat Ibn Hisham 1548
The arrival of ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib with some men of Banū Zubayd
قُدُومُ عَمْرِو بْنِ مَعْدِ يَكْرِبَ فِي أُنَاسٍ مِنْ بَنِي زُبَيْدٍ وَقَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِ يَكْرِبَ فِي أُنَاسٍ مِنْ بَنِي زُبَيْدٍ، فَأَسْلَمَ، وَكَانَ عَمْرٌو قَدْ قَالَ لِقَيْسِ بْنِ مَكْشُوحٍ الْمُرَادِيَّ، حِينَ انْتَهَى إلَيْهِمْ أَمْرُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ: يَا قَيْسُ، إنَّكَ سَيِّدُ قَوْمِكَ، وَقَدْ ذُكِرَ لَنَا أَنَّ رَجُلًا مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ يُقَالُ لَهُ مُحَمَّدٌ قَدْ خَرَجَ بِالْحِجَازِ، يَقُولُ إنَّهُ نَبِيٌّ، فَانْطَلِقْ بِنَّا إلَيْهِ حَتَّى نَعْلَمَ عِلْمَهُ، فَإِنْ كَانَ نَبِيًّا كَمَا يَقُولُ، فَإِنَّهُ لَنْ يَخْفَى عَلَيْكَ، وَإِذَا لَقَيْنَاهُ اتَّبَعْنَاهُ، وَإِنْ كَانَ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ عَلِمْنَا عِلْمَهُ، فَأَبَى عَلَيْهِ قَيْسٌ ذَلِكَ، وَسَفَّهُ رَأْيَهُ، فَرَكِبَ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِ يَكْرِبَ حَتَّى قَدِمَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَأَسْلَمَ، وَصَدَّقَهُ، وَآمَنَ بِهِ. فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ ذَلِكَ قَيْسَ بْنَ مَكْشُوحٍ أَوْعَدَ عَمْرًا، وَتَحَطَّمْ عَلَيْهِ، وَقَالَ: خَالَفَنِي وَتَرَكَ رَأْيِي؛ فَقَالَ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِ يَكْرِبَ فِي ذَلِكَ: أَمَرْتُكَ يَوْمَ ذِي صَنْعَا ءَ أَمْرًا بَادِيًا رُشْدَهْ أَمَرْتُكَ بِاتِّقَاءِ اللَّهِ وَالْمَعْرُوفِ تَتَّعِدُهْ خَرَجْتُ مِنْ الْمُنَى مِثْلَ الْحُمَيِّرِ غَرَّهُ وَتِدُهْ تَمُنَّانِي عَلَى فَرَسٍ عَلَيْهِ جَالِسًا أُسْدُهْ عَلَيَّ مُفَاضَةٌ كَالنَّهْيِ أَخَلَصَ مَاءَهُ جَدَدُهْ تَرُدُّ الرُّمْحَ مُنْثَنَى السِّنَانِ عَوَائِرًا قِصَدُهْ فَلَوْ لَاقَيْتَنِي لَلَقِيتُ لَيْثًا فَوْقَهُ لِبَدُهْ تُلَاقِي شَنْبَثًا شَثْنَ الْبَرَاثِنِ نَاشِزًا كَتَدُهْ يُسَامَى الْقِرْنَ إنْ قِرْنٌ تَيَمَّمُهُ فَيَعْتَضِدُهْ فَيَأْخُذُهُ فَيَرْفَعُهُ فَيَخْفِضُهُ فَيَقْتَصِدُهْ فَيَدْمَغُهُ فَيَحْطِمُهُ فَيَخْضِمهُ فَيَزْدَرِدُهْ ظَلُومَ الشَّرَكِ فِيمَا أَحْرَزَتْ أَنْيَابُهُ وَيَدُهْ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَنْشَدَنِي أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ: أَمَرْتُكَ يَوْمَ ذِي صَنْعَا ءَ أَمْرًا بَيِّنًا رُشْدُهُ أَمَرْتُكَ بِاتِّقَاءِ اللَّهِ تَأْتِيهِ وَتَتَّعِدُهْ فَكُنْتُ كَذِي الْحُمَيِّرِ غَرْ رَهُ مِمَّا بِهِ وَتِدُهْ وَلَمْ يَعْرِفْ سَائِرَهَا. [ ارْتِدَادُهُ وَشِعْرُهُ فِي ذَلِكَ ] قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَأَقَامَ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِ يَكْرِبَ فِي قَوْمِهِ مِنْ بَنِي زُبَيْدٍ وَعَلَيْهِمْ فَرْوَةُ بْنُ مُسَيْكٍ. فَلَمَّا تَوَفَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ ارْتَدَّ عَمْرُو بْنُ مَعْدِ يَكْرِبَ، وَقَالَ حِينَ ارْتَدَّ: وَجَدْنَا مُلْكَ فَرْوَةَ شَرَّ مُلْكٍ حِمَارًا سَافَ مُنْخُرَهُ بِثَفْرِ وَكُنْتَ إذَا رَأَيْتَ أَبَا عُمَيْرٍ تَرَى الْحُوَلَاءَ مِنْ خَبَثٍ وَغَدْرٍ قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: قَوْلُهُ بِثَفْرِ عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ.
Translation
✧ The arrival of ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib among men of Banū Zubayd ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib came to the Messenger of God ﷺ among men of Banū Zubayd and became a Muslim. ʿAmr had said to Qays b. Makshūḥ al-Murādī when the affair of the Messenger of God ﷺ reached them: “O Qays, you are the chief of your people. It has been mentioned to us that a man of Quraysh called Muḥammad has come forth in the Ḥijāz, saying that he is a prophet. Come with us to him so that we may learn his knowledge. If he is a prophet as he says, it will not be hidden from you, and when we meet him we shall follow him; but if he is other than that, we shall learn his knowledge.” Qays refused that to him and deemed his opinion foolish. So ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib rode until he came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, became a Muslim, declared him true, and believed in him. When that reached Qays b. Makshūḥ, he threatened ʿAmr and was angered against him and said, “He has opposed me and abandoned my counsel.” ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib said about that: I commanded you on the day of Dhū Ṣanʿāʾ a command whose right guidance was manifest. I commanded you to fear God and the good which you promised. You went out from Munā like a little donkey beguiled by its peg. You wish me on a horse on which a lion sits; upon me is a coat of mail like a pool whose smooth surface has made its water pure, repelling the spear, the bent point of the lance, with broken shafts. If you had met me, you would have met a lion upon whose back is a saddlecloth. You would meet a strong lion with rough paws and prominent withers, who contends with the foeman; if a foeman seeks him, he overpowers him, seizes him, lifts him up, throws him down, and breaks him; he crushes his skull, shatters him, devours him, and swallows him, oppressive of the prey in what his fangs and his paw have secured. Ibn Hishām said: Abū ʿUbaydah recited to me: I commanded you on the day of Dhū Ṣanʿāʾ a command whose right guidance is clear. I commanded you to fear God; you would come to it and promise it. You were like the owner of a little donkey beguiled by what was in it from its peg. And he did not know the rest of it. [His apostasy and his poetry about that] Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib stayed among his people of Banū Zubayd, with Farwah b. Musayk over them. When the Messenger of God ﷺ died, ʿAmr b. Maʿdīkarib apostatized and said when he apostatized: We found the rule of Farwah the worst of rule, a donkey whose nostril sniffed at a clitoris. And when you saw Abū ʿUmayr, you saw the membrane from filth and treachery. Ibn Hishām said: His words “at a clitoris” are from Abū ʿUbaydah.
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