Sirat Ibn Hisham 17
The account of Rabi'a b. Nasr, king of Yemen
[ رَبِيعَةُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ وَشِقٌّ ] ثُمَّ قَدِمَ عَلَيْهِ شِقٌّ، فَقَالَ لَهُ كَقَوْلِهِ لِسَطِيحِ، وَكَتَمَهُ مَا قَالَ سَطِيحٌ، لِيَنْظُرَ أَيَتَّفِقَانِ أَمْ يَخْتَلِفَانِ، فَقَالَ: نَعَمْ، رَأَيْتُ حُمَمَهُ، خَرَجَتْ مِنْ ظُلُمِهِ، فَوَقَعَتْ بَيْنَ رَوْضَةٍ وَأَكَمَهْ، فَأَكَلَتْ مِنْهَا كُلَّ ذَاتِ نَسَمَهْ. قَالَ: فَلَمَّا قَالَ لَهُ ذَلِكَ، وَعَرَفَ أَنَّهُمَا قَدْ اتَّفَقَا وَأَنَّ قَوْلَهُمَا وَاحِدٌ إلَّا أَنَّ سَطِيحًا قَالَ: وَقَعَتْ بِأَرْضِ تَهَمَهْ، فَأَكَلَتْ مِنْهَا كُلَّ ذَاتِ جُمْجُمَهُ وَقَالَ شِقٌّ: وَقَعَتْ بَيْنَ رَوْضَةٍ وَأَكَمَهْ، فَأَكَلَتْ مِنْهَا كُلَّ ذَاتِ نَسَمَهْ. فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمَلِكُ: مَا أَخْطَأْتَ يَا شِقُّ مِنْهَا شَيْئًا، فَمَا عِنْدَكَ فِي تَأْوِيلِهَا ؟ قَالَ: أَحْلِفُ بِمَا بَيْنَ الْحَرَّتَيْنِ مِنْ إنْسَانٍ، لَيَنْزِلَنَّ أَرْضَكُمْ السُّودَانُ، فَلَيَغْلِبُنَّ عَلَى كُلِّ طَفْلَةِ الْبَنَانِ، وَلَيَمْلِكُنَّ مَا بَيْنَ أَبْيَنَ إلَى نَجْرَانَ. فَقَالَ لَهُ الْمَلِكُ: وَأَبِيكَ يَا شِقُّ، إنَّ هَذَا لَنَا لَغَائِظٌ مُوجِعٌ، فَمَتَى هُوَ كَائِنٌ ؟ أَفِي زَمَانِي، أَمْ بَعْدَهُ ؟ قَالَ: لَا، بَلْ بَعْدَهُ بِزَمَانِ، ثُمَّ يَسْتَنْقِذُكُمْ مِنْهُمْ عَظِيمٌ ذُو شَأْنٍ، وَيُذِيقُهُمْ أَشَدَّ الْهَوَانِ، قَالَ: وَمَنْ هَذَا الْعَظِيمُ الشَّانِ ؟ قَالَ: غُلَامٌ لَيْسَ بِدَنِيِّ، وَلَا مُدَنٍّ، يَخْرُجُ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ بَيْتِ ذِي يَزَنَ، ( فَلَا يَتْرُكُ أَحَدًا مِنْهُمْ بِالْيَمَنِ )، قَالَ: أَفَيَدُومُ سُلْطَانُهُ، أَمْ يَنْقَطِعُ ؟ قَالَ: بَلْ يَنْقَطِعُ بِرَسُولِ مُرْسَلٍ يَأْتِي بِالْحَقِّ وَالْعَدْلِ، بَيْنَ أَهْلِ الدِّينِ وَالْفَضْلِ، يَكُونُ الْمُلْكُ فِي قَوْمِهِ إلَى يَوْمِ الْفَصْلِ: قَالَ: وَمَا يَوْمُ الْفَصْلِ ؟ قَالَ: يَوْمٌ تُجْزَى فِيهِ الْوُلَاةُ، وَيُدْعَى فِيهِ مِنْ السَّمَاءِ بِدَعَوَاتِ، يَسْمَعُ مِنْهَا الْأَحْيَاءُ وَالْأَمْوَاتُ، وَيُجْمَعُ فِيهِ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ لِلْمِيقَاتِ، يَكُونُ فِيهِ لِمَنْ اتَّقَى الْفَوْزُ وَالْخَيْرَاتُ، قَالَ: أَحَقٌّ مَا تَقُولُ ؟ قَالَ: إي وَرَبِّ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ، وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا مِنْ رَفْعٍ وَخَفْضٍ، إنَّ مَا أَنْبَأْتُكَ بِهِ لَحَقٌّ مَا فِيهِ أَمْضِ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: أَمْضِ: يَعْنِي شَكَّا، هَذَا بِلُغَةِ حِمْيَرَ، وَقَالَ أَبُو عَمْرٍو: أَمْضِ أَيْ بَاطِلٌ. [ هِجْرَةُ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ نَصْرٍ إلَى الْعِرَاقِ ] فَوَقَعَ فِي نَفْسِ رَبِيعَةَ بْنِ نَصْرٍ مَا قَالَا. فَجَهَّزَ بَنِيهِ وَأَهْلَ بَيْتِهِ إلَى الْعِرَاقِ بِمَا يُصْلِحُهُمْ، وَكَتَبَ لَهُمْ إلَى مَلِكٍ مِنْ مُلُوكِ فَارِسَ يُقَالُ لَهُ سَابُورُ بْنُ خُرَّزاذَ، فَأَسْكَنَهُمْ الْحِيرَةَ
Translation
✧ [Rabiʿah b. Nasr and Shiqq] Then Shiqq came to him, and he said to him the like of what he had said to Satiḥ, concealing from him what Satiḥ had said, to see whether they would agree or differ. He said: “Yes, I saw coals of fire, coming out of darkness, falling between a meadow and a hill, and they ate from it every creature with breath.” He said: When he said that to him, and he knew that they had agreed and that their statement was one, except that Satiḥ had said: “It fell in the land of Tihāmah, and it ate from it every creature with a skull,” while Shiqq said: “It fell between a meadow and a hill, and it ate from it every creature with breath.” The king said to him: “You have not missed anything of it, O Shiqq. What do you have concerning its interpretation?” He said: “I swear by what lies between the two ḥarrahs of any human, the blacks will surely descend upon your land, and they will surely prevail over every tender-fingered one, and they will surely possess what lies between Abyan and Najrān.” The king said to him: “By your father, O Shiqq, this is grievous and painful to us. When will it be? In my time, or after it?” He said: “No, rather after it by a time. Then a great one of importance will rescue you from them, and make them taste the severest humiliation.” He said: “And who is this great one of importance?” He said: “A boy, neither base nor mean, who will come out against them from the house of Dhū Yazan, and he will not leave any one of them in Yemen.” He said: “Will his dominion endure, or will it be cut off?” He said: “Rather it will be cut off by a sent messenger who will bring truth and justice, among the people of religion and excellence. The kingdom will be among his people until the Day of Decision.” He said: “And what is the Day of Decision?” He said: “A day in which governors are recompensed, and in which calls are made from heaven with summonses, heard by the living and the dead, and in which people are gathered together for the appointed time, in which will be for the God-fearing success and blessings.” He said: “Is what you say true?” He said: “Yes, by the Lord of the heaven and the earth, and what is between them of elevation and descension, indeed what I have told you is true; there is no falsehood in it.” Ibn Hishām said: amḍi means doubt; this is in the language of Ḥimyar. Abū ʿAmr said: amḍi means false. [The migration of Rabiʿah b. Naṣr to Iraq] Then what they had said fell into the soul of Rabiʿah b. Naṣr. So he equipped his sons and his household for Iraq with what would set them aright, and he wrote for them to a king of the kings of Persia called Sābūr b. Khurrazādh, and he settled them in al-Ḥīrah.
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