Sirat Ibn Hisham 1561
The arrival of the delegation of Hamdān
قُدُومُ وَفْدِ هَمْدَانَ [ أَسْمَاؤُهُمْ وَكَلِمَةُ ابْنِ نَمَطٍ بَيْنَ يَدِيِ الرَّسُولِ ] قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَقَدِمَ وَفْدُ هَمْدَانَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فِيمَا حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ أَثِقُ بِهِ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أُذَيْنَةَ الْعَبْدِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي إسْحَاقَ السَّبِيعِيِّ، قَالَ: قَدِمَ وَفْدُ هَمْدَانَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، مِنْهُمْ مَالِكُ بْنُ نَمَطٍ، وَأَبُو ثَوْرٍ، وَهُوَ ذُو الْمِشْعَارِ، وَمَالِكُ بْنُ أَيْفَعَ وَضِمَامُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ السَّلْمَانِيُّ وَعَمِيرَةُ بْنُ مَالِكٍ الْخَارِفِيَّ، فَلُقُوا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَرْجِعَهُ مِنْ تَبُوكَ وَعَلَيْهِمْ مُقَطَّعَاتُ الْحِبَرَاتِ، وَالْعَمَائِمُ الْعَدَنِيَّةُ، بِرِحَالِ الْمَيْسِ عَلَى الْمَهْرِيَّةِ وَالْأَرْحَبِيَّةِ وَمَالِكِ بْنِ نَمَطٍ وَرَجُلٍ آخَرَ يَرْتَجِزَانِ بِالْقَوْمِ، يَقُولُ أَحَدُهُمَا: هَمْدَانُ خَيْرٌ سُوقَةً وَأَقْيَالْ لَيْسَ لَهَا فِي الْعَالَمِينَ أَمْثَالْ مَحَلُّهَا الْهَضْبُ وَمِنْهَا الْأَبْطَالْ لَهَا إطَابَاتٌ بِهَا وَآكَالْ وَيَقُولُ الْآخَرُ: إلَيْكَ جَاوَزْنَ سَوَادَ الرِّيفِ فِي هَبَوَاتِ الصَّيْفِ وَالْخَرِيفِ مُخَطَّمَاتٍ بِحِبَالِ اللِّيفِ فَقَامَ مَالِكُ بْنُ نَمَطٍ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ، فَقَالَ: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، نَصَّيةٌ مِنْ هَمْدَانَ، مِنْ كُلِّ حَاضِرٍ وَبَادٍ، أَتَوْكَ عَلَى قُلُصٍ نَوَاجٍ، مُتَّصِلَةٌ بِحَبَائِلِ الْإِسْلَامِ لَا تَأْخُذُهُمْ فِي اللَّهِ لَوْمَةُ لَائِمٍ، مِنْ مِخْلَافِ خَارِفٍ وَيَامٍ وَشَاكِرٍ أَهْلُ السُّودِ وَالْقَوَدِ، أَجَابُوا دَعْوَةَ الرَّسُولِ، وَفَارَقُوا الْإِلَهَاتِ الْأَنْصَابَ، عَهْدُهُمْ لَا يُنْقَضُ مَا أَقَامَتْ لَعْلَعٌ، وَمَا جَرَى الْيَعْفُورُ بِصَلَعٍ.
Translation
✧ The arrival of the delegation of Hamdān [their names and the speech of Ibn Namaṭ before the Messenger] Ibn Hishām said: The delegation of Hamdān came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, according to what was narrated to me by someone I trust, from ʿAmr b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Udhaynah al-ʿAbdī, from Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī, who said: The delegation of Hamdān came to the Messenger of God ﷺ, among them Mālik b. Namaṭ, Abū Thawr—who is Dhū al-Mishʿār—Mālik b. Ayfaʿ, Ḍimām b. Mālik al-Salmānī, and ʿUmayrah b. Mālik al-Khārifī. They met the Messenger of God ﷺ on his return from Tabūk, wearing striped Yemenite garments and ʿAdanī turbans, with padded camel saddles on Mahriyyah and Arḥabiyyah camels, while Mālik b. Namaṭ and another man chanted verses to the people. One of them said: Hamdān is the best in commons and chieftains, None in the worlds has their like; Their abode is the highland, and from them are the heroes, They have fertile pastures and fruit trees. And the other said: To you we crossed the blackness of the cultivated land, In the dust-storms of summer and autumn, With camels muzzled with ropes of palm fiber. Then Mālik b. Namaṭ stood before him and said: O Messenger of God, a remnant of Hamdān, from every settled and nomadic group, have come to you on swift young camels, linked by the bonds of Islam; the blame of any blamer does not deter them in God's cause, from the districts of Khārif, Yām, and Shākir, people of black and tall stature. They answered the call of the Messenger, and they abandoned the goddesses and the idols. Their covenant will not be broken as long as Laʿlaʿ stands, and as long as the mountain goat runs through Ṣalaʿ.
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