Sirat Ibn Hisham 1666
The trial of the Muslims after the death of the Messenger
قَالُ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَقَالَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ يَبْكِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ: نَبِّ الْمَسَاكِينَ أَنَّ الْخَيْرَ فَارَقَهُمْ مَعَ النَّبِيِّ تَوَلَّى عَنْهُمْ سَحَرَا مَنْ ذَا الَّذِي عِنْدَهُ رَحْلِي وَرَاحِلَتِي وَرِزْقُ أَهْلِي إذَا لَمْ يُؤْنِسُوا الْمَطَرَا أَمْ مَنْ نُعَاتِبَ لَا نَخْشَى جَنَادِعَهُ إذَا اللِّسَانُ عَتَا فِي الْقَوْلِ أَوْ عَثَرَا كَانَ الضِّيَاءَ وَكَانَ النُّورَ نَتْبَعُهُ بَعْدَ الْإِلَهِ وَكَانَ السَّمْعَ وَالْبَصَرَا فَلَيْتَنَا يَوْمَ وَارَوْهُ بِمُلْحِدِهِ وَغَيَّبُوهُ وَأَلْقَوْا فَوْقَهُ الْمَدَرَا لَمْ يَتْرُكِ اللَّهُ مِنَّا بَعْدَهُ أَحَدًا وَلَمْ يَعِشْ بَعْدَهُ أُنْثَى وَلَا ذَكَرَا ذَلَّتْ رِقَابُ بَنِي النَّجَّارِ كُلِّهِمْ وَكَانَ أَمْرًا مِنْ امْرِ اللَّهِ قَدْ قُدِرَا وَاقْتُسِمَ الْفَيْءُ دُونَ النَّاسِ كُلِّهِمْ وَبَدَّدُوهُ جِهَارًا بَيْنَهُمْ هَدَرًا وَقَالَ حَسَّانُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ يَبْكِي رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَيْضًا: آلَيْتُ مَا فِي جَمِيعِ النَّاسِ مُجْتَهِدًا مِنِّي أَلْيَةَ بَرَّ غَيْرَ إفْنَادِ تَاللَّهِ مَا حَمَلَتْ أُنْثَى وَلَا وَضَعَتْ مِثْلَ الرَّسُولِ نَبِيِّ الْأُمَّةِ الْهَادِي وَلَا بَرَا اللَّهُ خَلْقًا مِنْ بَرِيَّتِهِ أَوْفَى بِذِمَّةِ جَارٍ أَوْ بِمِيعَادِ مِنْ الَّذِي كَانَ فِينَا يُسْتَضَاءُ بِهِ مُبَارَكَ الْأَمْرِ ذَا عَدْلٍ وَإِرْشَادِ أَمْسَى نِسَاؤُكَ عَطَّلْنَ الْبُيُوتَ فَمَا يَضْرِبْنَ فَوْقَ قَفَا سِتْرٍ بِأَوْتَادِ مِثْلَ الرَّوَاهِبِ يَلْبَسْنَ الْمَبَاذِلَ قَدْ أَيْقَنَّ بِالْبُؤْسِ بَعْدَ النِّعْمَةِ الْبَادِي يَا أَفْضَلَ النَّاسِ إنِّي كُنْتُ فِي نَهَرٍ أَصْبَحْتُ مِنْهُ كَمِثْلِ الْمُفْرَدِ الصَّادِي قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: عَجُزُ الْبَيْتِ الْأَوَّلِ عَنْ غَيْرِ ابْنِ إسْحَاقَ. انْتَهَى الْجُزْءُ الرَّابِعُ مِنْ سِيرَةِ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَبِهِ تَمَّ الْكِتَابُ
Translation
✧ Ibn Isḥāq said: Ḥassān b. Thābit said, weeping for the Messenger of God ﷺ: Tell the poor that goodness has departed from them with the Prophet, turning away from them at dawn. Who is there who has my saddle and my mount and my family's provision if they are not cheered by rain? Or whom shall we reproach, not fearing his perversity, when the tongue grows insolent in speech or stumbles? He was the light and was the radiance we followed after God; and he was hearing and sight. Would that on the day they laid him in his grave and concealed him and cast clods upon him, God had not left one of us after him, nor had any female or male lived after him. The necks of all the Banū al-Najjār were humbled, and it was a matter of God's command that had been decreed. The spoil was divided without all the people, and they squandered it openly among themselves in waste. And Ḥassān b. Thābit also said, weeping for the Messenger of God ﷺ: I have sworn, as long as I strive among all people, the oath of one righteous, without foolishness: By God, no female has carried or given birth to the like of the Messenger, the Prophet of the community, the guide. Nor has God created a creature from His creation more faithful to the protection of a neighbor or to a tryst than he who was among us, by whom light was sought, blessed in command, possessing justice and right guidance. Your women have become idle in the houses, so they no longer strike the back of a curtain with pegs, like nuns wearing coarse garments, having become certain of misery after the manifest blessing. O best of mankind, I was in a river, and I have become from it like the solitary, thirsty one. Ibn Hishām said: The second hemistich of the first verse is from someone other than Ibn Isḥāq. Here ends the fourth part of the Sīrah of our master Muḥammad, the Messenger of God ﷺ, and with it the book is completed.
Grades by grader
No grade is recorded for this wording.